The daddy of a Lengthy Island teen who went lacking for a month took to Fb Saturday to thank the tipsters and cops that led him to his lacking daughter.
“She is in a facility proper now getting the assistance she wants and is protected,” Frank Gervasi mentioned of his daughter Emmarae, 14, in video he posted on Fb simply earlier than 1 p.m. “I’d prefer to thank the neighborhood for the entire help that you just gave us.”
It was “social media movies and (donated) flyers” that led to an nameless tip from a girl that helped him discover his daughter, Gervasi mentioned.
“The telephone name I acquired was that she was on a ship in Islip,” he mentioned, including he was initially skeptical. “The woman who gave me the tip was afraid to go within the boat.”
Gervais mentioned he “busted” onto the boat in a marina close to the White Cap Fish Market in Islip Friday and retrieved his daughter. He mentioned nobody else was on the boat on the time.
“Persistency introduced her residence,” Gervais mentioned, indicating there could also be multiple individual underneath investigation. He believes she had been with “some harmful individuals.”
Emmarae had run away from residence no less than as soon as earlier than, and had had some “struggles” in her life, Gervasi advised The Publish Saturday.
He mentioned she is now being cared for in a hospital the place she is “detoxing.”
He declined to present additional particulars.
“The truth that she’s protected and alive is superb,” Gervasi mentioned. “It was so unimaginable to carry her in my arms after I discovered her.”
Emmarae vanished Dec. 9 after stepping into a wierd automotive outdoors her Patchogue residence round 5 p.m., main her household to worry she was being held in opposition to her will.
Gervasi was final seen strolling out of her home with out a jacket or sneakers on earlier than stepping into the automotive, in line with Larger Lengthy Island.
Safety cameras captured her knocking on doorways at a Bohemia motel the subsequent day, however she disappeared once more.
Gervasi mentioned his daughter initially went off with a person she met on-line, however left him earlier than she was then picked up by a “random” 65-year-old man she didn’t know, he mentioned.
He believed Emmarae had been advised she couldn’t depart the boat.
Gervais mentioned he needs to start serving to different households on Lengthy Island who’ve lacking youngsters.
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