Atlanta police announced Monday they had located a missing 17-year-old girl who had not been seen since she left high school last week.
Police began searching Thursday for Dorothy Harden after her mother reported that she had not called when she changed buses near the Five Points MARTA station on her way home from Maynard Jackson High School.
Dorothy was found safe near Peyton Road in southwest Atlanta, police Officer Kim Jones told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Jones did not immediately release any other details Monday.
Tambereno Harden, Dorothy’s mother, told Channel 2 Action News that she had tried calling her daughter Thursday but the phone calls went straight to voicemail.
“This is not my child,” Harden told the news station. “She’s not a typical runaway.”
Harden said Dorothy rides a MARTA bus to school and, without fail, checks in each morning and afternoon when she transfers buses at the Five Points station. She said her daughter is a college-bound student who gets good grades.
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