Rebecca Ann Braun, 12, missing for the past 10 years Found Safe
12 year old Rebecca Ann Braun had been missing for 10 years. Rebecca’s father, Danny Arthur Moran, 57, kidnapped the girl outside her Tempe, AZ, home in 1996. Rebecca Ann Braun was found safe in the Abbeville County town of Donalds, SC.
The FBI said that Rebecca Ann Braun’s father, identified as Danny Arthur Moran, 57, kidnapped the girl outside her Tempe, Ariz., home in 1996.
Deputies found the girl Tuesday at the home of a friend of her father, Abbeville County Sheriff Marion Johnson told WYFF News 4.
The girl had been living at the home on Setters Lane in Donalds for the past three years, investigators said.
The girl is in protective custody in South Carolina. Both Moran and the woman who owns the home, Lillian Jean Pitts, are in custody.
It’s good to know that the police found Rebecca and her father but I often wonder what kind of life parentally kidnapped children have when they’re found by the searching parent? She probably won’t know exactly who she can trust because she was only two when her father took her and ran.
How is Rebecca supposed to learn to trust people when the father who supposedly “loved” her took her from her mother all those years ago?
How do kidnapped kids cope with the news that their entire life has been one big lie?
I suppose we can find out the answer when Rebecca and her mother are finally reunited and back home.
Comment by Celeste | June 20, 2006