Missing teen, 17, discovered hidden away in registered intercourse offender’s wardrobe
A 17-year-old girl, who has been missing for several days, has been found in the home of a registered sex offender despite the man claiming he hadn’t seen the girl in ages
30-year-old Alexis Diaz-Toledo(Image: Polk County Sheriff’s Office)
A missing 17-year-old girl has been found in the bedroom closet of a registered sex offender.
Alexis Diaz-Toledo, a 30-year-old registered sex offender, was arrested after police found the missing teenager in his residence and is now facing several charges. She was discovered in a police search of the man’s home in Florida, US after she had gone missing for four days.
Polk County detectives arrested the man on Monday after they found the girl at his home. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office revealed detectives from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office contacted them yesterday with information concerning the missing teenager, as they believed the girl to be in Dundee, a town in Florida.
Before Polk County detectives found the child in the closet, Diaz-Toledo told officers he hadn’t seen the girl in a few days and initially refused them entry to his home. Diaz-Toledo has been a registered sex offender since his conviction in 2014.
Diaz-Toledo was arrested and has been hit with numerous felony charges including two counts of Failure to Comply with Sex Offender Registration Requirements and Interfering with Custody of a Minor.
Alongside this the sex offender was also hit with the two misdemeanour charges of Sheltering a Minor Without Notifying the Parent Providing and False Information to Law Enforcement in a Missing Person Investigation. The teenage girl was reported missing on April 10 and was later found in the closet of the sex offender four days later on April 14.
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