A Canton teenager, who has been missing for two months, was found Friday afternoon in the home of a friend in Eastpointe.
Police say she was safe, well fed, and unharmed. She was turned over to the Wayne County Youth Authority.
Devon Christine Kroetsch, 15, was last seen after classes at Belleville High School on March 1. She failed to return to her Canton home after school and was reported missing by her foster mother.
At the time she was wearing an orange cast on her right foot and using crutches to get along. She wore a black and pink sneaker on her left foot and a black hooded sweatshirt.
Recently, Canton Police put out yet another call for information on the whereabouts of the teen, who had reportedly been sighted in Ypsilanti, Belleville, Sumpter, Redford, Detroit, and Waterford.
In published reports, Redford resident Michelle O’Brien said her daughter Devon spent several months in a girls’ home in Vassar before she was placed in the less-restrictive group home in Canton, which she fled.
The mother told a reporter that her daughter phoned after she left the home to report she was safe, but she refused to say where she was.
On April 30, the mother was on a Detroit TV news report asserting that she felt her daughter was in a lot of trouble and didn’t run away.
She said her daughter got into a fight at school and got charged, which put her in the system where she was verbally and emotionally abused.
Canton Community Foundation created a reward fund for information leading officials to the girl.