Missing teen found in Clayton County, 23-year-old charged with human trafficking

BUTTS COUNTY, Ga. - A search for a missing Butts County teenager has ended with deputies recovering the girl and taking a 23-year-old man into custody.

Officials say the 14-year-old girl had been last seen around midnight on Halloween around Highway 36 near George Tate Drive.

Investigators believed the teen was in "extreme danger."

After days of searching, officials say they were able to trace the teen to the Clayton County home of 23-year-old Thomas Bonner. 

Early Monday morning, deputies say they located the teen safe and unarmed. She's now on her way back to her parents.

Police say they took Bonner into custody. He's currently in the Butts County Jail charged with sodomy, enticing a child, aggravated child molestation, human trafficking, sexual battery, and statutory rape.

(Butts County Sheriff's Office) 

"This poor excuse of a human being sent an uber to Butts County to pick her up and brought to his residence for the purpose of sexually assaulting her," Butts County Sheriff Gary Long wrote on Facebook. "Furthermore, not only through evidence, but by his own admission, he was fully aware that this was a 14 year old CHILD and still proceeded to coach her into running away to him." 

If you have any information that could help with the case, call the Jackson Police Department at (770) 775-8232.