MADISON WATSON - 13 yo - Sacramento/ Elk Grove CA

The last time Madison Watson's parents say they saw her, she was headed to bed Sunday night wearing Hello Kitty pajamas.


But by Monday morning, the 13-year-old James Rutter Middle School student had disappeared from her home in the 7900 block of Springarden Way in south Sacramento, near the Elk Grove border.


"She didn't take any clothes or shoes, she didn't leave a note," said Madison's father, Chris Watson.


The FBI and the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department have launched a
search for the girl, with family and friends—including several
relatives in Elk Grove—helping out via Facebook.


Posters describe Madison as 5'2" and about 100 pounds, with auburn
hair, blue eyes and braces. She was wearing a red feather in her hair
when last seen, and has a scar on her right ankle. A Sheriff's
Department press release said she is considered at-risk "due to her
unstable mental condition" and her father said she had recently
struggled with depression.


One possible clue to Madison's whereabouts, according to her father: a
Bakersfield phone number, the last she called from her cell phone,
which she took with her and is now turned off. Madison called the number
several times in the days before she went missing, he said, leading
family members to suspect she may have left home voluntarily.


Still, Chris Watson said he doubts his daughter planned to be away long.


"If she had planned on being away for a lengthy period, a normal person would have at least been prepared for it," he said.


Watson thanked community members for their support, and asked them to
keep up the search for his daughter, who he described as an honor
student with few disciplinary problems "besides the normal pre-teen girl
stuff."


On the Facebook group Bring Madison Home, her mother, Carrie Watson, asked friends to join her in prayer.


"It has been three days, three long agonizing days of waiting and wondering and hoping and waiting," she wrote.
http://elkgrove.patch.com/articles/search-unfolds-for-missing-teen

A 13-year-old girl who was reported missing from her Florin-area home Monday morning has been located in Fresno.



According to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, Madison Watson (pictured) was found earlier this evening. Officials said she was safe and in the custody of FBI agents, who assisted the Sheriff's Department in the investigation.

The teenager was reported missing by her mother, who awoke to find the girl gone from her home in the 7900 block of Springarden Way.

Sheriff's officials said arrangements are being made to return Watson to Sacramento and reunite her with her family.

http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/teen-missing-from-florin-area-home-found-safe-in-fresno.html