A 14-year-old Pennsylvania woman has been lacking for greater than a month — and her mother and father concern she could have discovered herself swept up by predators she met on-line.
Aubrey Wu — who additionally goes by Enci — vanished from her Palmer Township dwelling on Jan. 10 when she slipped out a rest room window and ran off into the winter chilly with little greater than a sweatshirt and yoga pants.
Grainy safety footage filmed at a Wawa comfort retailer a city away the following day appeared to seize Enci bundled up in a coat and hat — however nothing has been seen or heard from her since, the woman’s distraught mother and father informed The Put up.
“It’s a guardian’s worst nightmare,” mentioned Enci’s stepfather, John Gehrmann. “We’re looking for our daughter earlier than we find yourself as a statistic.”
And the mother and father concern the clock is operating out, telling The Put up that Enci gave the impression to be within the throes of a psychological well being episode when she took off.
An exceptionally vibrant little one who frequently aces her schoolwork, Enci’s mother and father say she has however struggled for years with psychological well being troubles and spends a prolific period of time on-line. They referred to as {that a} harmful mixture that’s led to her being preyed upon by creeps from the world over.
“She’s lacking, and she or he could possibly be anyplace from California to Saudi Arabia primarily based on the issues we noticed on her secret social media accounts that she was utilizing just about 24 hours a day,” Gehrmann mentioned.
The day earlier than Enci ran off, she and her mother and father had a struggle over gadgets she’d hidden from them and which they are saying she’d been utilizing to speak with such folks on-line.
The household fears {that a} predator she met on-line might need satisfied Enci to flee dwelling, and that she might need run off with them and gotten herself into grave hazard.
“It’s actually, actually scary for us proper now as a result of for years that is what all people was terrified about. Her simply lastly saying ‘I’ve had sufficient and I’m going out,’ and operating out into the wind, into the arms of any person,” Gehrmann mentioned.
Enci whereabouts are unclear — few leads have turned up since she was noticed exterior the Wawa.
If Enci’s mother and father’ worst fears show true, they’d be just like the case of Emmarae Gervasi, a 14-year-old Lengthy Island woman who vanished for 25 days in December and was later discovered to have been kidnapped and compelled into intercourse by a hoop.
The woman was allegedly held prisoner, drugged and pimped out towards her will, earlier than her father lastly rescued her from a docked boat the place she was being stored after receiving an nameless tip. Twelve suspects have been arrested in that case.
Anyone with data on Enci’s whereabouts has been requested to name the Palmer Township Police, which didn’t return a request for remark.
The teenager’s mother and father have additionally employed a non-public investigator in hopes of monitoring her down.
“We want assist, this can be a dire scenario with a younger woman who has psychological well being points,” Gehrmann mentioned, describing Enci as a typical teen who loves Billie Eilish.
“We’ve simply been making an attempt to simply get folks to grasp is occurring.”
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