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Parents to be reunited with missing 14-year-old in Arkansas

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Published: April 17. 2009 10:12AM
 
Sierra Lillie's parents are hoping to fly to Arkansas today to reunite with their 14-year-old daughter.


Sierra and Donald R. Cates were found Thursday night in Clarksville, Ark.

Cates is in custody at the Johnson County Detention Center in Arkansas.

The 21-year-old was captured Thursday night while trying to hitchhike through Clarksville, Ark., with Lillie, an eighth-grader.

Sierra's parents said this morning the FBI is arranging travel for them to Arkansas to be reunited with their daughter and bring her home.

FBI, state and local officials searched for Cates and Lillie for days after the teenager disappeared from her home in the 1400 block of Buffalo Road Sunday.

She was presumed to be traveling with Cates, of Billings, Mont., who she met two years ago online. She told her parents he was 17.

The two were found after a motorist called Clarksville Police to report two young people hitchhiking.

Cates gave officers false names and birth dates and tried to run from them, Donaldson said.

"He had to be physically taken into custody," he said.

Cates is facing trial in Montana, where police say he forced five underage girls to have sex in 2005.

Michelle Lillie said she spoke with her daughter by phone late Thursday.

"She sounded confused. She sounded scared," Michelle Lillie said. "I don't think she even yet realizes the background he has."



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