KAYLIN FAULK - 16 yo - Leesburg GA

LEESBURG, GA -- "Families are supposed to stay
together” is written in chalk on a board in the living room of a
family’s home that has been split.It's what
the nine-year-old brother of Kayln Faulk, 16, wrote after Faulk cleared
the drawers in her bedroom and ran away on Sept. 21 with her boyfriend
of four months, 24-year-old Andy Jones.“He
actually came across as very respectful and just loving to her, treated
her pretty good, and he seemed to somewhat tell me he seen me as a
mother,” says Faulk’s mother Tana Mullis of Leesburg.Jones, who lived at Faulk’s home with her mother, signed Faulk out of school that day.“He
was authorized to do so but that particular day he didn't have
permission from the mom to do so,” says Lee County Sheriff Reggie
Rachals.Mullis gave Jones permission to
sign out Faulk from school after she had a migraine at the beginning of
the school year and needed picked up. Jones went to the school to get
her.“They called to make sure and I said
‘Yeah that's fine’. And they said ‘Do I need to put him on the list’ and
I said ‘Yeah just in case something like this happens and I can't get
her he can run up there and get her for me,’” says Mullins.Mullis
says in the days leading up to Faulk running away she didn’t suspect
anything; she says there was a prior argument but Mullins says she and
her daughter made amends.“We actually got
into a disagreement about her not going to school or work and he was
interfering with that so I said he needed to go so that she could go to
school and go to work and that he could come over on the weekend and she
didn't want him to leave,” says Mullins.When
found, Rachals says Jones faces motor vehicle theft and interfering
with custody charges. Rachals says additional molestation charges could
be added as well because of the age difference between Faulk and Jones.And
it’s not just Mullins and the Lee County Sheriff’s Office looking for
Jones; his probation officer could be looking for him as well according
to Rachals.“He's also on probation; his
probation officer has been contacted. I don't have any word on what the
probation officer is going to do,” says Rachals. He says Jones was
arrested prior to this incident but cannot release what he was arrested
for to the media.
There is an open warrant out for Jones.
Mullis says she’s not sure what she’ll do when she sees Jones: A young man she says she once respected.
“I’ve
lost all respect for him and I took him in my house and gave him water
and lights and everything, and he wanted to do something like this,” she
says.
For now, Mullis says she’s only thinking about finally hugging her daughter again.
“Please come home or call to let me know you're safe, and I love you so much and I just want you home,” Mullis says.
Faulk
and Jones are in a 1999 burgundy jeep Cherokee belonging to Mullis. If
you know of their whereabouts call the Lee County Sheriff’s Office at
229-759-6034. You can also contact Mullis at 229-449-0577 or Mullis’
parents at 229-432-5296.
Mullis says a she
and a friend created their own “Amber Alert" about Faulk, which she says
has led to information that Faulk may have been spotted in Ty-Ty and
Valdosta.
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After the story of Tana Mullis' search for her
runaway daughter aired on FOX 31 at 10 Tuesday night, Kayln Faulk, 16,
posted on Mullis' Facebook page.

"I'm relieved she's okay but with the information she and Andy
(Jones, Faulk's 23-year-old boyfriend) gave me, it made me sick because
the situation he's got her in is not good," Mullis says.
She says Faulk told her that she and Jones were willing to return but only if the
charges being made by the Lee County Sheriff's Office are dropped.
Sheriff Reggie Rachals says dropping the charges are not an option.
"The sooner he (Jones) comes back, the better off he'll be," says Rachals.
Currently, Jones faces motor vehicle theft and interfering with custody charges.
Rachals says the Lee County Sheriff's Office has not been in contact with Faulk or Jones.
Mullis says Jones did call her shortly after noon on Wednesday to say that
they were in the outskirts of New Jersey with no money and the 1999
burgundy Jeep Cherokee they drove missing. Mullis says Jones told her
that he does want to bring Faulk home safe and that he is willing to face the charges against him.
FOX 31 News will continue to update this story as information is made available.

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Sheesh...who lets their 16 year old date a 24 year old. I'm not surprised at the results.