Danielle Cramer, Connecticut Girl, Missing for One Year, is Found

Connecticut police have been searching for a missing 15-year-old girl for a year.

Police from Bloomfield went to the home of an acquaintance of her parents with search warrants and to obtain DNA, and found the girl; she was locked in a tiny, 3-foot-tall, 4- or 5-feet-deep room under a staircase, blocked by a dresser, reports the Associated Press.

Police say it did not seem that the girl, Danielle Cramer, according to Reuters, lived in the room, but she could not exit the room that was locked and barricaded on her own. According to police, there was no bedding inside the room.

Her parents had not seen or heard from her in the year in which she was gone, no one around the neighborhood had seen her; there was no indication that anyone had, anyway, and the girl was quite pale. It is probable that she'd been indoors for a long time.

The police arrested three adults who lived in the home. Adam Gault, 41, had conducted some sort of business transaction with the parents of the girl last year, so it was confirmed that he knew her. Gault had been questioned on several previous incidents, but always denied that he knew the girl.

Also arrested was Ann Murphy, 41, said to be Gault's common law wife. Kimberly Cray, 26, was arrested as well. She too lived in the home.

Charges brought against Gault were reckless endangerment, conspiracy to commit custodial interference, risk of injury to a minor and conspiracy to commit unlawful restraint. Murphy was charged with conspiracy to commit second-degree reckless endangerment, conspiracy to commit second-degree custodial interference and risk of injury to a minor. Cray too was charged with reckless endangerment, conspiracy to commit custodial interference, risk of injury to a minor and conspiracy to commit unlawful restraint, according to police.

Bloomfield Police Capt. Jeffrey Blatter said, "She is a child from troubled circumstances and found what she believed to be a friend." The authorities also stated that the girl had run away before prior to her disappearance last June. The Department of Children and Families is to determine whether the girl should be returned to her parents. They have another case to work on as well; there was a fifteen year old boy living in the house as well. It has yet to be determined whose child he is. Other people were living in the house.

Sources:

Stephanie Reitz, Associated Press, Girl assumed new identity, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/girl_found;_ylt=AkSm8CTQ8xrIfJc5DIuyZd0DW7oF

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