The Ohio Attorney General’s Office (OAGO) has turned to the public for help in finding a 16-year-old girl who vanished this week.
Madison Fields has been missing since Feb. 13 from Colerain Township.
“She was wearing a black Champion hoodie, camo pants, black shoes, and carrying a black backpack,” the attorney general’s office stated on their website.
Madison is described as a white female, 5-foot-4-inches in height, with brown hair, green eyes, and weighing 125 pounds.
Madison’s father, Tyler Hirn, said he is accustomed to his daughter texting him every day.
The AWARE Foundation is a national non-profit organization that advocates for the missing, endangered, and murdered.
“Family members say Madison had been communicating on an app called ‘Session’ with someone who calls himself Josh before her disappearance,” the AWARE Foundation wrote. “Her phone has been dead since Friday.”
“I believe it’s an app where anything you write is deleted immediately,” Hirn said. “From what I hear from her younger sister, she was writing on that app and left to meet a boy named Josh.”
“We’ve all thought every possibility, every possibility,” Owens said. “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. We think something has happened.”
The OAGO did not respond to requests for comment by the time of publication.
The Colerain Police Department declined to comment except to confirm that there is an open investigation for the missing teen.
“Out of respect for the family and the integrity of the case, we will not be releasing every detail as the investigation unfolds,” Colerain Township communications specialist Helen Tracey-Noren told NTD.