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SAGINAW, Mich. — Jordanian authorities have detained a 16-year-old Michigan girl who told her parents she was going to Canada but then got on a plane to the Middle East to see a West Bank man she met on the popular Web site MySpace.com.
Katherine Lester left Monday — apparently to visit a man whose MySpace account says he is a 25-year-old from Jericho, Tuscola County Undersheriff James Jashinske said Friday. On Thursday night, her family received word from U.S. officials that she had been stopped as she arrived in Amman, Jordan, en route to Tel Aviv, Israel, said her mother, Shawn Lester.
"A woman from the U.S. government called and said they had detained her in Amman," she told The Saginaw News. "I asked if she was all right, but all the woman knew was that she was detained."
Shawn Lester, 41, said her daughter, a National Honor Society student at Akron-Fairgrove High School, persuaded her in April to help her get her a passport so she could go on a two-week vacation to Canada with a friend's family.
Shawn Lester said she drove her daughter on Sunday to a Bay City bus station, where the friend's family was to meet them. When the family didn't show, Shawn Lester called them and learned there was no trip. She brought her daughter home and was baffled.
The next day, Shawn Lester left her daughter asleep at their home in Gilford, just east of Saginaw. When she returned, Katherine Lester was gone.
Katherine Lester left Monday — apparently to visit a man whose MySpace account says he is a 25-year-old from Jericho, Tuscola County Undersheriff James Jashinske said Friday. On Thursday night, her family received word from U.S. officials that she had been stopped as she arrived in Amman, Jordan, en route to Tel Aviv, Israel, said her mother, Shawn Lester.
"A woman from the U.S. government called and said they had detained her in Amman," she told The Saginaw News. "I asked if she was all right, but all the woman knew was that she was detained."
Shawn Lester, 41, said her daughter, a National Honor Society student at Akron-Fairgrove High School, persuaded her in April to help her get her a passport so she could go on a two-week vacation to Canada with a friend's family.
Shawn Lester said she drove her daughter on Sunday to a Bay City bus station, where the friend's family was to meet them. When the family didn't show, Shawn Lester called them and learned there was no trip. She brought her daughter home and was baffled.
The next day, Shawn Lester left her daughter asleep at their home in Gilford, just east of Saginaw. When she returned, Katherine Lester was gone.
I don't know what's more disturbing. The fact that some middle eastern guy gets more action than I do, or that a 16 year old honor student doesn't think flying half way across the world to meet up with some dude she doesn't know might be a bad idea. If I were her dad, I'd beat her *** when she got back.
Then again, it is Michigan, perhaps their honor students are another State's special ed kids.
