13-year-old Jesse Bender was going to travel to Pakistan with her stepfather Mohammad Khan but she fled over fears that she was going there for an arranged marriage. the Daily Mail reports:
“A 13-year-old girl who had been missing for more than a week ran away over fears she was to be sent to Pakistan for an arranged marriage, police have claimed.
Jessie Marie Bender has been taken into child protective custody after a relative who was protecting her led detectives to the California hotel where she was hiding yesterday.
Jessie’s family had reported her missing on February 22. They told police they feared she had been abducted by a man she met on Facebook.
But last night police slammed the Bender family for ‘misleading’ them over Jessie’s disappearance, wasting time and resources.
‘Bender family members misled detectives and withheld critical information and as a result delayed the investigation and recovery of their daughter Jessie Bender,’ Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Roxanne Walker said in a news release.
‘It was revealed that a member of the Bender family concealed Jessie in the town of Apple Valley out of fear that she would be taken to Pakistan for an arranged marriage.'”

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