Tennessee girl, 14, who went missing with convicted child molester is found ... - New York Daily News
A 14-year-old girl from Tennessee who had been living in the woods for the past 16 days with a 41-year-old convicted child molester has been found safe, authorities said. Hayleigh Wilson, of Surgoinsville, and Ben Shook, 41, were living off the land and traveling about a mile a day at night through a wooded area from Tennessee to Virginia before being apprehended 5 a. m. Tuesday morning, authorities said in a press... She then alerted police, leading to them getting caught, Smyth County Sheriff David Bradley said. Wilson was found in good condition considering she had been on the run for the past 16 days, he said. Authorities said they did not believe the two had a plan on where to go other than "not to be caught. Shook was arrested without incident and Wilson has been returned to her family. Bradley said he did not know if Shook said anything when he was arrested. But Brad Sellers, chief deputy with the U. S. Marshalls in Roanoke, Va. , said Shook, who has served 10 years in prison for child molestation, had an "extensive history" of being a sexual predator. He's been deemed a sexual predator," he said. He has been transported to the Greenville Federal Courthouse in Greenville, Tenn. Source: www.nydailynews.com
