HOW PARENTS REACT AS MISSING DAUGHTER IS FOUND

Officials: Man who held teen charged with false imprisonment, cruelty.

Five days ago, Anthony Burns was missing his daughter more than ever. It had been 394 days since 16-year-old Hailey Burns had gone missing (he was counting), and he was tired of waking up without her in the house.

“I see her room empty and pictures around me and just wish I could hug my little girl again,” he wrote in a Facebook post Thursday. “I miss her so very much.”

Over the weekend, that wish came true.

Hailey, from Charlotte, N.C., was found alive at a home in Duluth on Sunday, and the man who allegedly held her there is now being held without bond, officials said.

Michael Ren Wysolovski, 31, of Duluth appeared in court Monday and faced charges of false imprisonment, felony aggravated sodomy, cruelty to children/deprivation in the first degree and interference with custody. He was denied bond.

Meanwhile, Burns, now 17, was reunited with her family on Sunday.

“Hailey is so, so happy to be home and safe. She is happy to be in her clothes . ... In her

bed. With her family,” her mother, Shaunna Burns, said in a statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “She had scrambled eggs and fresh fruit for breakfast.”

Hailey Burns was found in the wee hours of Sunday morning at a home on Seneca Trail in Duluth after the FBI’s Charlotte field office got a tip that she was being held there. The house, located in a quiet neighborhood, appeared well-kept.

“It will be a long road for Hailey, but we cannot thank the law enforcement agencies enough,” Shaunna Burns said. “They worked tirelessly to bring our baby back to us.”

The teenager went missing on May 23, 2016, when police said she “left her home” in Charlotte between midnight and 6 a.m. The FBI offered a $15,000 reward to find her.

Hailey Burns has medical conditions and had not taken any required medications with her. She had several social media accounts, and some were not on mainstream channels, the FBI said.

Though a spokeswoman for the FBI declined to comment further, citing the ongoing investigation, local Charlotte media reported that Burns’ parents believed she left home because she met an older man online.

“(A classmate) told me that my daughter had been talking to a 30-year-old man for over six months ... saying that he would be her friend and she could come to him,” Anthony Burns told local TV station WSOC earlier this month.

The FBI will continue to work with Charlotte and Gwinnett County police as they investigate Burns’ disappearance and rescue.

Hailey Elizabeth Burns had been missing since May 23, 2016.