The parents of a 14-year-old Colorado girl, who has been missing since she left a football game with two men on Sept. 30, said they’ve been sent a photo of her looking “injured and unwell.”
Chloe Campbell was last seen 10 days ago walking along the Boulder Creek Trail after the nearby high school game. Her parents told CBS News that she may have been intoxicated.
“She was described by eyewitnesses as being with two men — older men, too old to be in high school,” her dad, David Campbell, told the outlet.
Since then, they have received a series of dubious messages that claimed their daughter was hiding out in Arizona and possibly even dead, Boulder police confirmed. The teen’s parents were also sent an alarming photo from an anonymous source that only raised their concerns for their daughter’s safety.
“She looked injured and unwell,” her dad told CBS, not stating any specifics of the image.
In addition, they have been sent Snapchat messages that claim to be from their daughter but that are from an account that they “are not familiar with,” her dad said. “It could be anybody.”
Police confirmed that they “have been unable to confirm if these messages are, in fact, from Chloe or true,” but did not comment on the concerning photo.
Police said that “investigators are growing increasingly concerned about the teen’s safety as it is believed that she has no access to money or her medication,” without detailing what the medication would be needed for.
“She may be with an adult male,” police said, listing her as missing and “at risk.”
Campbell and his wife, Jessica Knape, fear their daughter may have been taken against her will and may be a victim of sex trafficking. However, they are holding out hope that messages claiming the teen had run away from home willingly were true and begged her to come home.
“Chloe, honey, we love you so much. You are not in trouble,” her mom said.
“If you can come home, boy, just please do. And if you can’t, we will not stop until we find you,” she said.
While issuing an appeal, cops stressed that the reported sightings and messages from “friends who appear to have been in contact with Chloe” meant that “this case presently does not meet the criteria for the issuance of an Amber Alert.”
Update: Chloe is safe, found at a home in Thornton, Colo., on Monday, local authorities reported.
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