Investigators discovered Facebook messages they used to track down a Cleveland-area teenager who police say ran away with a Missouri man only to be raped and held against her will for weeks, police said Friday.
The 15-year-old girl was in serious danger while she was held captive even though she may have left willingly, they said.
One of the messages, prosecutors said, read: “I haven’t hurt her, I don’t plan on it, but she keeps crying.”
Christopher Schroeder of Marthasville, Missouri, was charged with transporting a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity and statutory rape after he and the girl were found Tuesday at his home about 40 miles west of St. Louis.
She returned home to the Cleveland suburb of Brooklyn on Thursday night and was reunited with her family.