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A missing Wisconsin teen was found safe after mysteriously vanishing from home four years ago as her family had believed she was \u201clured away.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Joniah Walker, 19, was safely discovered on May 25, the Milwaukee Police Department told WISN on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Police officials didn\u2019t disclose where Walker was found or provide any further information on the case, including whether the teen was with someone else.<\/p>\n

Walker, then 15, had disappeared from her Milwaukee home on June 23, 2022. <\/p>\n

Walker\u2019s mother, Tanesha Howard, said she last saw her daughter lying in bed when she left for work the morning of her disappearance, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoniah was lying in bed because she had just finished school. I went in to give her a hug before leaving for work,\u201d Howard told the organization.<\/p>\n

The mother and daughter duo had talked on the phone several times throughout the day before Walker \u201csuddenly stopped responding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walker was supposed to meet her father to apply for a summer work permit but failed to arrive at the designated time.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe called me and said that Joniah wasn\u2019t picking up her phone,\u201d Howard said. \u201cThat is when I immediately knew something was wrong. I left work right away.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

A nearby ring camera captured Walker leaving the apartment complex at around 2:30 p.m. in the Brewer\u2019s Hill neighborhood, a mile-and-a-half north of Downtown Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

Video footage showed the teen carrying a large green backpack.<\/p>\n

It was the last known sighting of Walker until she was reportedly found last month.<\/p>\n

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Howard believed her daughter had met someone online after she deleted her digital footprint and never returned.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody stole her\u2026that was my first instinct,\u201d Howard said. \u201cBut when I saw that she left with a big backpack that I had never seen, that\u2019s when I knew. I was like, someone lured her away.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The protective mother issued multiple pleas for her daughter to come home, begging Walker to \u201ccall me,\u201d WISN reported in July 2022.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe is my youngest daughter, so I always call her by \u2018baby girl\u2019 because that is exactly who she is, my baby girl,\u201d she said. \u201cShe is what I would describe as a perfect daughter. She is angelic, soft spoken and very intelligent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walker was one of the faces of a legislative push by Wisconsin State Rep. Shelia Stubbs (D-Madison) seeking to pass a bill to create a Missing and Murdered African American Women and Girls Task Force, according to Fox6 Now.<\/p>\n

Stubbs says she believed Walker was still alive, telling Howard to hold out hope for her daughter\u2019s return.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believed Joniah was still living, and I said that to her \u2013 I don\u2019t believe Joniah is dead, it\u2019s only a matter of time,\u201d Stubbs told the outlet.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think right now, the family needs their privacy,\u201d Stubbs added. \u201cI know there are so many questions, but I think as time goes by when they are ready to tell their story, they will tell it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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