Missing East Greenbush girl contacts family
The parents of Hannah Smith, a 16-year-old from East Greenbush who disappeared January 1, have made contact with their daughter - but their two-week ordeal is not over.
"We had just gotten home," Smith says. "It wasn't an hour after the prayer vigil, which I don't think was a coincidence, that somebody called and said, 'Hannah's online with me and we're messaging."
Smith says he logged on, too, and sent Hannah a "friend request" which she accepted and then began chatting in only general terms. She would not say where she was nor whom she was with and said she was not yet ready to come home.
Police in Rutland, Vermont say Hannah Smith made a phone call from a pay phone at the Grand Union store in that city Thursday and that two officers from East Greenbush later travelled to Rutland looking for her.
East Greenbush Lt. Mark Bragg says some of the girl's friends have been calling police saying she wants to come home.
Loriann Smith thinks her daughter met someone via Facebook and went away with them. She says her daughter's judgement is not what it should be because of a brain injury she had in a car crash in 2009 - a crash that left her father near death.
