Hotels call in child abduction case
DETECTIVES investigating the disappearance of a 15-year-old are now treating the case as child abduction.
Maddie Thomas has been missing from her foster home in the Southmead area of Bristol since April 26 and officers believe she is likely to be with a man.
Officers had previously been treating her disappearance as a missing persons case and Avon and Somerset Police have issued multiple public appeals to find her.
In an update issued yesterday afternoon, the force says they are no longer treating her case as a missing person investigation but as a child abduction.
Police say Maddie is known to use social media to meet new people who provide her with money and a place to stay but is then exploited by the people she meets.
Detectives say there is a chance Maddie could have travelled out of Bristol and may be as far afield as Wiltshire, London, Cardiff, Bedfordshire or Birmingham.
She is known to be found in hotels with men. Call 101.