WHO EVER SAID THERE IS NO HOPE?

Girl abducted from home as toddler
found safe ten years later

DONALDS, S.C. (AP) — A girl taken as a toddler from her mother's home in Arizona 10 years ago was found safe in South Carolina, authorities said.


Rebekah Ann Braun, 12, was found Tuesday by deputies in a home in Donalds, after a man thought to be her father was arrested in Virginia. Agents arrested Danny Arthur Moran, 57, in Roanoke, Va., on Monday, where he had been living for about six months under an assumed identity. The woman who owns the home where the girl was found is a friend of Moran's and was also taken into custody, authorities said.


The girl was taken from Tempe, AZ, on Feb. 24, 1996, the FBI said. A tip led authorities to Moran, said FBI agent Kevin Foust. The girl was in protective custody Wednesday and had not yet been reunited with her mother, who now lives in Madison, WI.


"She knew she had another mother, but they told her some nasty things about me," Helen Braun said. "It's going to be a rough trip for both of us."