RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A North Carolina teen girl who has been missing for more than a year was found alive Sunday morning, FBI officials in Charlotte said.RELATED:Family fears missing NC teen ran off with older man she met online
The 17-year-old from the Ballantyne area of south Charlotte, vanished May 22, 2016, when she was just 16-years-old, according to WBTV.
CBS North Carolina is not identifying the girl any longer because the suspect is now facing a sex charge.
The teen girl was found by the FBI at a home on Seneca Trail in Duluth, Georgia, according to a news release from the FBI Sunday afternoon.
WBTV reported in May 2016 the teen had a diary her parents found that detailed a plan to run off with an older man she met online.
“He gradually wormed his way into her good graces, he coerced her into listening to him and not following our directions and the next thing I knew my daughter wasn’t communicating with me,” her father told WBTV last year.
Michael Ren Wysolovsk, 31, was taken into custody in Georgia and was charged with false imprisonment, sodomy/aggravated sodomy, interference with custody and cruelty to children involving first-degree deprivation. , according to WBTV.
“(The victim) has been reunited with her parents. They are grateful for the outpouring of support they have received while she’s been missing,” the FBI said.
