Parents' worst nightmare as missing girl, Megan Williams 12, found in the car of man, 31, she met online

A 12-year-old girl who was reported missing has been found unharmed in the car of a 31-year-old man she met online.
Megan Williams was found in Dana Broberg's car in Walton County in north Florida - nearly 600 miles from her home in Margate, Florida.
Officials believe the man was taking the girl back to his home in San Antonio, Texas.
Megan's parents raised the alarm on Sunday morning after they returned home Saturday night and found the girl missing from the house.
It came after her mother, who checks her daughter's phone and email with her daily, came across messages from a number she did not recognize.
Melissa Ford told NBC Miami: 'Clearly he was intending on meeting her and tried as hard as possible to find out her address and phone number. He pressured her a lot and gave her a lot of attention.'
After her family reported her missing, an Amber Alert was issued for the girl.
Authorities in Walton County tracked the car using phone signals and stopped Broberg as he entered the county on Interstate 10.
Megan's mother added: 'I'm just so relieved and so grateful to everyone for bringing her home.'
She said she believed the man pretended he was a teenager when he was speaking to her daughter online.
After discussing the emails with Megan, the concerned mother printed them out.
She warned other parents: 'If you see any unusual phone numbers or emails, one thing I would do, and what saved my daughter's life, print out the emails. Get those phone numbers. Don't disregard it.'
Margate Police agreed Ford's actions were crucial to helping track down Broberg and her 12-year-old daughter.
'She did all the right things,' spokesman Efrain Suarez told NBC. 'It ultimately led to her daughter's recovery.'
Megan has yet to return home from Walton County but her mother assured her in the interview that she was not in trouble.
Broberg is being held by police and is expected to face kidnapping and interfering with custody charges.
Police believe he may have driven all the way from Texas to collect the girl but the incident is still under investigation.
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Megan Williams Update: Missing Child Found with Adult Man
June 25, 2012 07:55 PM EDT
Twelve-year-old Megan Williams vanished sometime over the weekend, and her parents kicked their search priorities into top-gear, which led to her safe discovery. This case has a happy ending, but that doesn't mean irreparable damage hasn't been done to the pre-teen. Come to find out, she had met a 31-year-old man over the Internet and took off with him. This is just such a disturbing story, and certainly the parents of young girls everywhere should take this case as a lesson in just how careful you must be in allowing your kids online.

Social networking and other forms of online communication is fun. It's popular among people of all ages. Nonetheless, parents need to pay better attention to their young children when they are forming online relationships. The dangers of sex predators are clear and present, always.

Megan Williams was picked up by police approximately 600 miles away from her home, meaning that this man transported her across state lines to do who-knows-what with her. Who knows if the two hadn't already engaged in whatever behavior he had in store. The 31-year-old man, Dana Broberg, may have posed as a teenager to lure her to meet him. To be honest, he doesn't look like 31 in his photos, so he could have pulled off such a feat. Kudos goes to the mother of this missing child for kicking into gear and figuring out what happened. It's because of her hard work that the girl has been found safe.
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Happy Ending!!