When 16-year-old Asata Amun ran away from her Ga. dwelling with no footwear on, her father thought she was simply going to go to a pal after they acquired right into a heated dispute. Amun’s father, Kwabena Amun, mentioned in an interview he threatened to ship {the teenager} to army college if she saved getting in hassle at school, which prompted her to run. “So you’re simply going to run like a coward? Asata,” Kwabena mentioned that evening, in response to WSB-TV.
That was over 13 months in the past on Feb. 1. Since then, the teenager hadn’t contacted her household, which started to lift issues about her security and the connection she had along with her household, police mentioned. Because the investigation into her disappearance continued, Kids’s Protecting Companies even eliminated Amun’s two sisters from the household dwelling when Kwabena was accused of bodily abusing them, in response to WSB-TV.
The daddy has since denied the allegations in opposition to him. “I simply wish to ensure my child lady is OK. That she is alright,” Kwabena informed WSB-TV. “I simply wish to make it possible for wherever she is, she’s OK. You realize, she’s alive.”
Amun’s mom, Dominique, ultimately spoke out saying, “I really feel prefer it’s not widespread to not hear one thing in any respect.” She continued, “She is aware of my quantity. She might have despatched me a message.” Information of Amun’s disappearance flooded the Gwinnett County group, as all eyes had been targeted on finding the younger lady for months.
But it surely wasn’t till the Gwinnett County Police investigation went stale that they might catch a break. On Monday (March 17), police mentioned in a press release Amun “has been within the custody of the Tennessee Division of Kids’s Companies since February 2024 underneath an alias.” The assertion continued saying, “a Tennessee Division of Kids’s Companies case supervisor recognized inconsistencies in Asata Amun’s statements.”
Dominique informed WSB, “She was in Atlanta when she left and she or he slept on the street till somebody sort of helped her and acquired her on a bus to go the place she wanted to go to really feel secure.”
After additional analysis into the teenager’s story, the case supervisor ended up contacting the Gwinnett County Police Division, which led to her discovery. Now that she’s been discovered, police mentioned “preparations have been made to switch custody of Asata Amun to the Georgia Division of Household & Kids Companies. The investigation into her disappearance stays energetic.”
“I dropped the telephone once I heard it,” Amun’s mom continued to WSB after her daughter was discovered. “I couldn’t imagine it.”