A 16-year-old girl from Ohio is missing after she left her home to meet a mystery man that she connected with on an app.
Madison Fields went missing from her family’s temporary home in Colerain, Ohio, on February 13. Fields is described as weighing 125 pounds, and she has brown hair and green eyes.
Her father, Tyler Hirn, told WXIX that Fields was last seen just after 4 p.m. on February 13 when she was leaving the InTown Suites. He explained that she was captured by surveillance footage, which showed her walking on nearby streets.
“I’m dad,” Hirn said. “I know the kid. As I said, she texts me every day. She’s a very good kid. Something is wrong. I was under the impression she was at her friend Lily’s house, but she didn’t go that way. So, that’s when we first found out something was wrong and then we got a hold of the police.”
Fields’ phone has since died, meaning that her father is no longer able to track it in an attempt to determine her whereabouts.
It is believed that Fields may have disappeared after she met someone online. Fields’ younger sister said that she had been messaging someone on an app who claimed to be 18, according to WLWT.
Hirn told WLTW that Fields had been using an app called Session and met someone named Josh, who the family believes she left their home to meet.
“So, the app is called Session. We believe it’s an app where anything you write is deleted immediately. From what I hear from her younger sister, she was writing on that app and left to meet a boy named Josh,” Hirn told WLTW. “We don’t know any Josh.”
Hirn went on to tell the outlet, “I don’t want to find my daughter dead. I want to find her alive.”
The father explained that Colerain police have classified Fields as a missing teenager. While police have told him that every runaway last year in the area returned home, he said he has a feeling that the situation is different for his daughter.
“Something needs to happen, something more than, ‘Hey, this is a missing person, this could take a couple weeks,’” Hirn said.
Hirn filed the missing person report on Monday, February 16. He has also asked that police obtain a warrant to track his daughter’s cell phone.
The Colerain Police Department did not immediately respond to Us Weekly’s request for comment regarding the case.
Fields’ family and friends have organized a search party to look for her as the investigation continues.
“We need to find my daughter. Anything we can do. We can put her picture out there. She’s a very good kid; a lot of people know her. We just need to find my daughter,” Hirn told WXIX of the search efforts.
Meanwhile, Fields’ grandmother, Kathy Owens, told the outlet that the family has “thought every possibility” of what could have happened.
“Wherever she is at, whatever is going on, none of us think it’s because she wants to be in the position she’s in right now,” Owens said. “We think something has happened.”
