The 12-year-old girl who disappeared from a Washington, D.C. airport with an unknown woman was found unharmed in New York City with her parents on Friday.
The girl, JinJing Ma, was listed as in “extreme danger” when police issued an AMBER alert on Thursday, but the airport authority announced Friday that she was located with her parents in Queens, New York.
Around 9 a.m. local time this morning, JinJing Ma and her two biological parents showed up at law firm in Queens, New York after seeing the story about their daughter on the news.
The law firm said that it was Jin Jing Mah’s biological parents that picked their daughter up at Washington Reagan National Airport on Thursday — a result of a misunderstanding. When the parents saw the story on the news, they called the law firm last night and arranged to come in on Friday morning.
A law enforcement source told ABC News that the girl’s parents were in the U.S. separately from the tour she was traveling with, so when she went disappeared from the tour, tour operators reported her missing.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) met with the parents and child at the law firm on Friday. No one was detained and it appears it will be treated as a misunderstanding and not an abduction. The FBI is still investigating whether any federal crimes were committed.
ABC News
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