Wash. Dad ID's Missing Teen Found in NYC

(CBS/AP)  A woman with possible amnesia found outside a Manhattan youth shelter near Times Square may soon be reunited with her father.

KOMO-TV reports that a television viewer in Washington state identified her as his 18-year-old daughter, Kacie Aleece Peterson of Hansville.

Her father went to New York City on Sunday to pick her up. He reported her missing Oct. 1.

New York authorities began circulating a photograph of her in the media on Oct. 22, requesting help identifying her. She kept telling them she didn't know who she was.

But a viewer saw her picture and contacted authorities.

A county sheriff's office in Washington say Peterson is originally from Colville in the eastern part of the state. She's been living in Hansville and attending Kingston High School.

CBS News affiliate station KREM-TV in Spokane, Wash., reported early Monday that Peterson and her father did not get along, according to officials at the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office, which is in western Washington.

KREM-TV also reported that police learned that Peterson's bank account was emptied, causing them to believe that she was safe and left home on her own.

[lin1945-2009]

She is 18 so does not have to return with her father. The friend of the family she was living with is also involved in her reunion and this friend was a close friend of the deceased mother of the 18-year old. Someone needs to address whether she had time to grieve for her mother and find a good therapist that can see the amnesia victim and help her re-establish her life.

[toldyouso21]

Her bank account was emptied so she must have been safe? Depends on who emptied it and under what circumstances. if it was emptied through an ATM, she may not have emptied it herself or may have been mugged or forced to empty it for a robber. It is too premature to think she was willing in its emptying. As for the Dad--do DNA tests--also be leery of returning her to him--you never know why she ran away (IF she ran away) we would not want to return Red Riding hood to the wolf....

[Snowhare]

Why reunite them if the situation was so bad, the daughter went amnesic about it!?
If it is a psychological amnesia, "not getting along" appears to be a horribly euphemistic term.

[hmmIwonder]

What could possibly cause parents to not get along with the child they raised?

[toldyouso21]

Many, many things. If you have to ask that--you must be very young or have no children. for starters, if a child is going in one direction due to outside influences (like doing drugs or drinking or hanging with the wrong crowd) and the parent wants them to go another, like go to college, stop stealing the parent's credit cards, get a job--you have a difference in opinion. at that point the 2 groups would not get along.

Depending on how far or severe this rift is, it can last for years. It all has to do with (Usually) a child heading in a direction the parent determines is wrong or not what they want for their kid and their kid determined (whether old enough to decide or not) that the parent is wrong. Many kids go through this. Usually, all things considered, the parent is right--but the kid must go their own way and learn life lessons sometimes. Unfortunately it may take years before the kid realizes the parents were right or the kid may meet a tragedy and never return. They usually do. Have you not ever got along with your parents? did you ever want to just "run away"? ON the other hand, when a man claims a girl or boy as his child, it should be checked out and before sending her back like a runaway slave--find out what was going on in that home--lest we send her back to a horror house.

[missme4]

That's an ugly girl. If I was the father I would have left her.

[avigil2]

That is so wrong.

[liselle3]

You are a mean person! Shame...

[doesmyopinionmatter]

well, I think maybe they should investigate as to why they didn't get along and why she left before they release her to him.

[Cas2dy]

I think the father is the reason she left in the first place. I would not be a bit surprised that he's the one who shaved her head like that. I know a guy who did that to his young daughter, plus gave her two black eyes. He served time for it too. But he STILL came back acting like her "OWNER" instead of her father. I'd watch this father if I were the local authorities, because if she really has amnesia, he might just be trying to get her back before she remembers what went wrong in the first place. JMO...

[AxBxC]

This is news?