{"id":39957,"date":"2025-02-06T13:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/?p=39957"},"modified":"2025-02-06T13:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:02:25","slug":"amber-alert-issued-for-girl-16-feared-to-have-been-abducted-by-40-year-old-who-got-her-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/amber-alert-issued-for-girl-16-feared-to-have-been-abducted-by-40-year-old-who-got-her-pregnant\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Alert issued for girl, 16, feared to have been abducted by 40-year-old who got her pregnant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAn urgent hunt is underway for a Wisconsin teen feared to have been abducted by the 40-year-old man who got her pregnant when she snuck away to his home more than 700 miles away in Arkansas.<\/p>\n

Sophia Martha Franklin, 16, is believed to be with Gary Day, 40, who is \u201cknown to be the father\u201d of her unborn child and has a no-contact order, according to an Amber Alert issued Monday.<\/p>\n

The teen \u2014 who is three months pregnant \u2014 somehow secretly stayed with Day at his home in Cabot, Arkansas, for the last six months of last year while her family thought she was with a friend close to home in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, according to 12 News WISN.
\nShe was found in his home in December by officers conducting a probation check on Day, who was on probation for felony domestic battery charges, CBS News reported.
\n\u201cWhen they went to check on him, somebody ran out the back door, and that turned out to be a 16-year-old female from Wisconsin,\u201d Lonoke County Sheriff John Staley said.<\/p>\n

Franklin was brought back to Beaver Dam \u2014 only to go missing this week, when a man appearing to be Day was spotted on a doorbell camera near Franklin\u2019s home early Monday, officials said.<\/p>\n

Day was charged on Tuesday with two counts of abduction of a child and two counts of child enticement. He does not face charges for getting the teen pregnant because the age of consent in Arkansas is 16.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, we don\u2019t know where they are,\u201d Beaver Dam Police Chief John Kreuziger told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are getting tips from all over the place. Our goal is to get her back as quickly as we can and as safely as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Authorities believe Franklin left her home around 7:45 a.m. Monday with Day in a black 2014 Buick LaCrosse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An urgent hunt is underway for a Wisconsin teen feared to have been abducted by the 40-year-old man who got her pregnant when she snuck away to his home more than 700 miles away in Arkansas. Sophia Martha Franklin, 16, is believed to be with Gary Day, 40, who is \u201cknown to be the father\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[251,89],"class_list":["post-39957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wls-news","tag-251","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_5170.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39959,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39957\/revisions\/39959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}