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11-Year-Old Detroit Girl Believed To Be Meeting Older Man Found Safe

Kimari Mciver
Kimari Mciver was last seen around 10 p.m. Feb. 19, walking away from her mother's apartment complex in Detroit. (police handout)

DETROIT (WWJ) - An 11-year-old girl who disappeared after walking away from her home in below freezing temperatures has been found, according to Detroit police.

Kharletta McIver said her daughter Kimari was captured on security video around 10 a.m. Thursday walking away from her apartment complex, located in the 2500 block of W. Grand Boulevard, just west of the Lodge Freeway. She wasn't wearing a coat and temperatures were barely above zero.

McIver feared the worst, that her daughter might have run away with an older man she met online. It's an issue the two have been dealing with for the past several months.

"She was already in trouble prior to winter break, about having a phone. And I don't really allow her to have a phone because she gets on the social media websites and she talks to guys that are grown and I don't like that, she's 11-years-old," McIver told WWJ's Laura Bonnell.

Even though she was on punishment, Kimari apparently found another phone to use and was caught red-handed on Wednesday.

"I took the phone back and basically said 'You've just got to stop doing this,'" McIver said. "I got up Thursday morning at 7 o'clock and I saw her at 7:15, she looked up at me and I thought she had just went back to sleep. She was here with her brothers and step-dad, I had a doctor's appointment so I went to that."

McIver returned home around 2:15 p.m. and that's when she knew something wasn't right.

"Everyone said that she had been missing since, like, 11. I called her friends in the apartment building and I pretty much was missing her, they were saying 'Well she was here but she said it was OK for her to be here and that her dad was on his way to come and pick her up,'" Mciver said. "That's when I knew something really was wrong because I knew her dad wasn't coming to get her."

McIver called her daughter's father and the notified the police.

"The police questioned her friend whose house that she had been at before she left, and she said that Kimari had been in contact with some guys," McIver said. "She had told her friend that she was meeting up with this guy."

Detroit police spokesman Adam Madeira confirmed to WWJ that Kimari was back home safe before 11 a.m. Friday. However, no further details were released and it was not immediately clear if she had been with a man, or if anyone was in custody in connection with her disappearance.

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