Police are searching for a missing Ohio teenager whose father fears she may be in danger after reportedly arranging to meet someone she connected with through an app.
Madison Fields, 16, has been missing from her family’s temporary home in Colerain, Ohio, since Feb. 13, according to local reports.
Her father, Tyler Hirn, said she was last seen shortly after 4 p.m. on Feb. 13, when she left the InTown Suites. He said surveillance video showed her walking along nearby streets.
“I’m dad,” Hirn said. “I know the kid. She texts me every day. She’s a very good kid. Something is wrong. I was under the impression she was at her friend Lily’s house, but she didn’t go that way. That’s when we first found out something was wrong, and then we got ahold of the police.”
He added that her phone is now dead and he can no longer track it.
Madison had told her sister she’d been messaging someone on an app who claimed to be 16, according to reports. Hirn said she had been using an app called Session and left to meet someone named Josh — a person not known to her family or classmates.
“I don’t want to find my daughter dead,” Hirn said. “I want to find her alive.”
