AUBURN — A 15-year-old girl reported missing from her grandmother's home in early October was returned there Friday, police said.
Opal Swearingen
Opal R. Swearingen had a history of running away, police said.
Authorities issued a missing persons alert earlier in the week. Evidence had shown she had returned to her grandmother's home a short while after she went missing to retrieve personal items, police said. For that reason, they believed she was in the immediate area.
Swearingen was the subject of a missing persons police investigation earlier this year after she and 30-year-old Charles Fontenot of Lewiston refused to return home for nearly a month, police said. Fontenot is in jail.
On Friday, at roughly 5 p.m., she was found near her father's home in this city. She was then returned to her grandmother's home.
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Unfortunately, kids like this tend to fall through the cracks of the system. Basically, she's committed no crimes that we know of; Juvy would serve little purpose other than to make her worse. The foster care program is there, but who wants to take in a kid who won't stick around long enough to warrant a change of bedsheets. And then, her love interest is a 30 year old guy who happens to be behind bars.No grandmother deserves this sort of stuff. Why is she not living with her parents?
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Paul ,
Q: Why is she not living with her parents?
A : Probably in her folks' d n a . . er . .. drugs 'n alcohol , tobacco use , spousal abuse . .things of that nature . Sexual abuse , too , possibly . Who knows ? Look up the guy . Many of your male and female Maine friends , family and neighbors are listed here : http://sor.informe.org/cgi-bin/sor/step1.pl It's all too common in rural areas such as Appalachia and Hawai'i . There are many types of addictice personality behavior disorders . We just got a guy on my own street ( about five blocks up ) who was sexually abusing his own kids . h t h , /s Dr. Dosh Happy Halloween
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...a really short leash on this girl, held by someone other than an elderly grandmother, who has all ready been put through hell by this youngster.
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