The girls' mother, Sandra Grazzini-Rucki, maintained that she didn't know where they were for the past two and a half years, but police arrested her on charges of deprivation of parental rights. An investigation will continue into her potential involvement with keeping the teenagers hidden.

According to KMSP, the girls said that they ran away because they did not want to live with their father, David Rucki. The girls told KMSP that their father physically and emotionally abused them, but David Rucki said their mother turned the girls against him.

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Waymo autonomous vehicles operate across 65 square miles inside I-285 and have been involved in six incidents with Atlanta Public School buses since May. Waymo issued a recall because of their cars briefly stopping or slowing down before continuing forward while a bus was stopped and flashing its lights. (Courtesy of Atlanta Public Schools)

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