Missing 14-Year-Old Girl Found Alive In Wisconsin

A missing 14-year-old girl from Tennessee was found alive in Wisconsin on Thursday after disappearing on Jan. 13.

Police have arrested the girl’s adoptive father, Randall Pruitt, on rape charges, Yahoo News reported. There is also a possibility of "multiple other charges coming forward" with multiple people involved in the girl’s disappearance, Monroe County Sheriff Tommy Jones said at a press conference on Thursday.

“He was arrested and charged with rape. We don't believe at this time that he had any connections to her being a runaway or missing. I have to be vague in all my statement because this is still an ongoing investigation.”

Jones did not release information on who the girl was found with due to the pending investigation, but did say that she does have family in Wisconsin. Jones also noted during the press conference that he does not believe she was related to the individuals she was found with.

"She is safe,” Jones said. “She is in custody so that's a very good ending to this as far as we're concerned. She’s had shelter, she’s been eating and, according to the information that we got back, she’s doing fine.”

The girl is believed to have been fleeing from a bad home situation, Fox News reported.

The teen girl disappeared from her home in Madisonville, Tennessee. She was last seen by her mother between 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 13 as she was going to bed. She was discovered missing at about 5 a.m. on Jan. 14. Her window was open, and clothes and sheets were found missing from her room.

Two days later her cell phone pinged about 140 miles from her Tennessee home in Corbin, Kentucky. Jones said it is unclear at this time why the teen was in Wisconsin and why her cell phone pinged in Kentucky.

Pruitt will appear in court on Feb. 5.