The father of a 14-year-old Connecticut girl filed a missing persons report with police after his daughter left the house Saturday morning and didn't come home that night. The unidentified girl wasn't answering her cellphone, but police were able to track her down using her the phone's signal, finally locating her Sunday afternoon in a room at the Belleclaire Hotel on the Upper West Side. Inside the room, police found condoms, a vibrator, and an 18-year-old Belgian man named Anthony Freson, who swears the girl told him she was 18 when they "met" in a Yahoo chat room in April.
Fresson, who flew to New York for the rendezvous, was arrested on charges of kidnapping, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child, even though the girl told police she lied to him about her age. Her father, a teacher, tells the Post, "She thinks he's the most wonderful person. She's angry with me right now because I stopped it. I was so worried. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't eat. I was calling [her cellphone] every five minutes... I want him to go to jail. She's my only child. She did something stupid." Freson is being held on $2,000 bail following his arraignment in Manhattan criminal court.
