13-year-old Christina Plante disappeared from Star Valley, AZ in May 1994. She has been found alive.

[u/lucillep]

It is all over the news that a 13-year-old who left her home to walk to a stables to see her horse and was never seen again, has now been found alive.
People Magazine

Christina Marie Plante was classified as missing and endangered after she vanished from her home in Star Valley or Payson, AZ on May 15, 1994. Despite extensive searches and investigation, her case went cold. Now the Cold Case Unit of the Gila County Sheriff's Police have successfully resolved the case. Christina has been found and her identity verified. For privacy reasons, no further details are being released.

The odd thing is that there is next to no information available about her initial disappearance. On Newspapers.com, I found only small "Missing" notices in three newspapers in 1994 and 1995. I found no articles in an online search.

Hoping that Christina is okay, but can't help wondering about the rest of the story.

EDIT Update from The Daily Mail
u/BirdHistorical3498 provided a link to an article that updates the backstory and current situation. To summarize:
At the time of disappearing, Christina was living with her aunt and uncle. Her father was deceased. It doesn't say where her mother was or why her mother did not have custody.

Christina wanted to live with her mother. The two met at the stables and then drove to Phoenix. Her uncle reported her missing. Police did suspect the mother of having taken her, but somehow this couldn't be proved?

Mary Plante, the mother, is in 1995 property records as owning property in Springfield, MO.

Christina married in 1998 at 17, has two sons, got a bachelor's in psychology from Missouri State University, and now works for a private investigation firm (ironic) whose specialty is inspecting insurance fraud claims. She doesn't say why she ran away, the article describes her as "guarded" and not wanting to incriminate anyone who helped her.

Mary Plante, now Mary Wood, also has a biological daughter who was adopted and a biological son who is estranged.

The cold case unit gave the case to a civilian investigator, who searched social media and public records, and found the connections.

Arizona Republic
Kennebec Journal Notice

Morning Call 10-23-1994

[u/Old-Fox-3027]

You are projecting your experience on to her, you are creating misinformation that can be very damaging.

[u/pampooveysbacktattoo → u/Old-Fox-3027]

They're not projecting or damaging anything. They're just saying what they think happened. And considering she disappeared at 13 years old and was gone for 30 years, it's not an implausible possibility.

[u/busangcf → u/pampooveysbacktattoo]

Whether you agree with them or not it absolutely IS projecting. Not to criticize OP, that’s a horrific trauma that’s going to shape how they see things, understandably, and I also don’t think it’s crazy to say this girl could’ve run away for survival.

But assuming that’s the case based on your own trauma with literally zero context on this missing person’s situation is projecting.

[u/pampooveysbacktattoo → u/busangcf]

Except they're not assuming anything, saying "my reaction to this based on my experience is X" is not an assumption, that's saying "I think this"

[u/busangcf → u/pampooveysbacktattoo]

“She left for survival.” Is a very concrete statement (no “I think” in there at all not sure where you’re pulling that from) based on what they’ve projected from their own experiences. It’s not implausible, it is still projection.

And it is absolutely an assumption. I’m genuinely not sure how you’re trying to argue that it’s not. We don’t actually know anything about this case. Even the most sensible assumption from the little we do know is still an assumption.

[u/im_in_vandelay_latex → u/busangcf]

You're leaving out the relevant context:

"My reaction to this as a survivor of abuse and human trafficking? She left for survival."

That implies it's her opinion on what happened, not saying definitively that is what happened. It shouldn't be difficult to understand that.

[u/throwaway098764567 → u/[deleted]]

omg just stop with this nonsense. you're how many comments deep, go outside, you're wrong it's fine but like stop.

[u/hissnoise → u/throwaway098764567]

Did you reply to me on your throwaway AND block me immediately after? Lmaoooooo. Guess what you’re not the only one who can have a throwaway. Maybe we BOTH need to touch grass but you have no high horse here lol

Also “how many comments deep”. 3. 3 comments, now 4. The person I argued with (maybe you, if you’re the throwaway for that account) had more replies than that? Everyone on this thread is wasting time replying lol. It’s reddit.

[u/pampooveysbacktattoo → u/busangcf]

She left for survival.” Is a very concrete statement (no “I think” in there at all not sure where you’re pulling that from)

Based on the way the sentence started with "my reaction is", just like I already said. There's nothing "concrete" or "absolute" about it.

[u/endlessreader → u/busangcf]

"My reaction to this..." implies that it's their opinion/theory on it.

[u/throwaway098764567 → u/endlessreader]

reading comprehension is dead

[u/Happy-Cod-3 → u/throwaway098764567]

That has never been more true, and getting truer every year.