A Whitley County High School student was located Tuesday, the same day a Georgia man is being accused of allegedly kidnapping her from the school’s campus.
Twenty-five-year-old Ian Harold Robert Corn is being held in the Rockcastle County Detention Center in lieu of a $25,000 cash/property bond following his arrest for kidnapping a minor by Mt. Vernon Police Tuesday.
According to authorities, Corn picked up the 17-year-old girl from the Whitley County High School campus shortly after she arrived Tuesday morning. Police say she was not forced to leave with him and that she had apparently planned to abscond with Corn before she ever arrived at the school.
The girl’s parents, who live in the Pleasant View community of Whitley County, reported her missing to the Whitley County Sheriff’s Department after she did not return home from school. Notes were found which indicated she intended to run away from home.
Deputies were able to track the girl’s whereabouts to a motel in Mt. Vernon through cell phone records.
When Mt. Vernon police arrived at the motel, the girl and Corn were located in one of the rooms. Corn claims that he did not pick her up from the school campus but officials say surveillance video from the school show otherwise.
More charges against Corbin could be pending, officials say.
