A teenager in North Carolina who mysteriously went missing last year, has been found alive in Georgia and a 31-year-old suspect has been taken into custody, facing charges related to the girl’s disappearance, the FBI said.

According to the FBI, 17-year-old Hailey Burns was found at a home in Duluth. The suspect identified as Michael Wysolovski was taken into custody, investigators said.

He is now facing felony first-degree cruelty to children and felony false imprisonment, in addition to additional charges in Georgia.

The police documents show that in June 2016, Burns vanished after walking out of her home in Charlotte. Her parents said that she had Asperger's Syndrome and left her home without her medication.

At the time of her disappearance, the family said that they tried to limit their daughter’s use of computers after discovering she had been talking to strangers online.

The family said that she did not have a cellphone at the time of her disappearance, but they still believe that she was able to communicate with someone and left to meet that person.

Hailey’s’ father Tony Burns said that they tried everything to keep his daughter away from social media.

“We notified the school. We notified her therapist. We had everyone that was helping her, yet she still found ways to get around it,” her father said.

Mr. Burns in an interview to WCNC in June 2016 said that how her disappearance was the worst feeling he could have ever imagined.

"You feel completely out of control," Tony said. "You don't know what to do. You just panic."

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