DAVIDSON COUNTY, N.C. — A 15-year-old girl was found safely in Pennsylvania Thursday after she was abducted in Davidson County, according to the Davidson County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies said FBI agents found Shaina Trail in good condition in Bristol, PA early Thursday morning.
Deputies say said received a call around 4 p.m. on March 29 that the teen was missing.
Officials say early on in the investigation they could tell she had been abducted.
Deputies say she was supposed to be doing online school at home while her parents were at work when she was taken by a man she met online.
Investigators tracked the suspect's car and eventually found the teen over a week later in PA.
"If you don't see the drooping faces on everybody here, it's 18-hour, 20-hour days. I think everybody got off this morning around three thirty, four o'clock, and then back out doing this again, it's very taxing on our whole agency. I wouldn't call it old hat, but it's something that we have a great desire to see a good ending to this," said Davidson County Sheriff, Richie Simmons.
Leaders say the number of teenage abductions that begin with conversations over social media is increasing.
They encourage parents to talk to their children and know what social media platforms they're on because it's getting harder to track.
"The platforms that children are getting onto, the inscription abilities, the ability to disguise where you are physically at locations through VPN's and all those kinds of techniques are increasingly making it difficult for law enforcement to be able to successful recover a juvenile like in this situation," said Phillip Spainhour with the FBI.
Investigators said the teen was abducted by Elijah Kennedy, 28, of Pennsylvania.
Kennedy is in jail in Pennsylvania facing charges of child abduction and felonious restraint.
Deputies say he will be extradited to Davidson County.
The sheriff says they are using Richard Childress's plane to bring the girl home from PA.
In March, Davidson County Sheriff's Office found a missing teen girl from Texas - locked in a shed in Lexington. Deputies said that teen met the man who took her on social media too.