COLUMBUS, OHIO – The parents of a 12-year-old Ohio girl who went missing slammed police for failing to recognize her during a traffic stop days after she was reported missing.
Khloe Dunbar went missing on July 16 near Columbus, leaving her mother Megan Dunn terrified for her safety and desperately launching an effort to find her.
But in the week before Khloe was found safely, a bystander filmed a suspicious traffic stop in which police found the child but allowed her to stay with a group of adults.
Dunn said that discovering the cops had come face-to-face with her missing daughter but let her go left her ‘disgusted.’
‘I’m sick to my stomach,’ she told 11Alive. ‘I have video footage of these officers, and they let that little 12-year-old that was reported missing go. It’s not OK. None of this is OK.’
Police admitted that not only did they allow Khloe to leave the traffic stop as a missing person, but they were not even aware she was in the footage until it was sent to them by the outlet.
‘It wasn’t until you sent us that cell phone video that we even knew about the traffic stop,’ conceded Sgt. Joe Albert with Columbus police.