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Authorities have charged a North Carolina man with abduction and statutory rape of a minor after investigating reports of a missing child two days earlier.
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Alamance County Sheriff’s Office began its investigation into reports of the missing juvenile on Aug. 6; the minor "was returned home sometime" early on the morning of Aug. 8, according to authorities.
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At that time, sheriff's detectives received additional information about the minor's captor and obtained an arrest warrant for Thomas Anthony Morales, 23, of Indian Trail, as Fox 8 Greensboro first reported.
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Morales is charged with abduction of children, second-degree kidnapping and statutory rape of a child. He is being held on a $40,000 bond.
No additional details were available at the time of publication.