A 17-year-old girl who went missing from the Ballantyne area more than a year ago was found alive in Georgia. 
 
 Hailey Burns vanished from her home in Ballantyne in May 2016. 
 
 According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a Charlotte special agent received information that Burns was in the Atlanta area. The FBI said Burns was found at a home on Seneca Trail in Duluth, Georgia. 
 
 Sources say Hailey contacted a woman from Romanian online and told her she was missing. The woman then contacted Hailey's parents. 
 
 Officials said 31-year-old Michael Ren Wysoloyski was taken into custody in Georgia. Wysoloyski is facing a number of state charges, a spokesperson with the FBI said. Wysoloyski made his first court appearance Monday. 
 
 Wysoloyski was charged with false imprisonment, sodomy/aggravated sodomy, interference with custody, and cruelty to children involving first-degree deprivation. 
 
 Hailey's mother, Shaunna Burns, describes the homecoming as euphoric. She tells all parents with missing children not to give up. 
 
 The mother says her husband didn't sleep much the first night. He went into Hailey's room every 15 minutes to check on her to see if she was still there. 
 
 "It's rare - it is one of those situations that I think nobody ever really wants to talk about," neighbor Brittany Hayes said. "This is usually an outcome you don't usually see, so it's absolutely amazing." 
 
 Neighbors stood by the Burns family and tied yellow ribbons on their mailboxes to show their support. 
 
 "We've done little things to try and show our support and love for them," Hayes said. "The yellow ribbon on our mailbox, and just wanting to talk if they were out and wanted to talk to us or tell us stories about Hailey." 
 
 The FBI says the investigation is far from over. 
 
 "They are going to continue to uncover the truth eventually," FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jason Kaplan said. "We'll work with our prosecuting team to determine the best way to move forward." 
 
 The agency spent several thousand hours on the case and chased several hundred leads. Kaplan says finding Hailey did something for the agency. 
 
 "It's the same thing that motivates us everyday," Kaplan said. "Even when all hope seems lost, for us to continue pushing forward with our investigations - because you just never know until you get that call." 
 
 The FBI wouldn't say if Hailey met her alleged abductor online, but agents are giving advice about the dangers of the Internet. 
 
 "Unfortunately there are many, many people out there who are targeting children," Kaplan said. "And they are using platforms online to target them. Having an awareness of what your children are involved with - who they are communicating with regularly - is very important to make sure this doesn't happen to them." 
 
 In 2016, Burns' father said she left a diary behind that detailed a plan to run away with a 32-year-old man she met online. 
 
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 “He gradually wormed his way into her good graces, he coerced her into listening to him and not following our directions and the next thing I knew my daughter wasn’t communicating with me,” the father said. 
 
 Family members said Burns has Asperger Syndrome. 
 
 Wysoloyski's next court appearance is in July. 
 
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 CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Hailey Burns, a teenager who had been missing for the past year from her Ballantyne home, was found alive over the weekend and returned from Georgia to Charlotte with her family. 
 
 An FBI special agent in Charlotte learned of information that led them to Burns, now 17, at a home in Duluth, Georgia, where she was found just after midnight Saturday. 
 
 Michael Ren Wysolovski, 31, was taken into custody in Georgia and is facing a number of state charges, the FBI said. 
 
 Wysolovski faced a judge on Monday and was denied bond after he was arrested and charged for allegedly holding Burns captive in his Duluth home, our sister station WSB-TV in Atlanta reported. 
 
 He has been charged with aggravated sodomy, cruelty to children deprivation in the 1st degree, interference with custody and false imprisonment, according to WSB-TV. 
 
 “It was a dream come true,” said Hailey's mother, Shaunna Burns. 
 
 Channel 9 reporter DaShawn Brown spoke to Hailey's parents over the phone as they drove to Charlotte from the Atlanta area with their daughter. 
 
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 Burns, a student at Myers Park High School, had been held captive at Wysolovski’s home. 
 
 Her parents said Hailey met the man online. 
 
 
 
 (Michael Ren Wysolovski) 
 
 “(He) got her in the car, brought her straight to his house and she pretty much had to stay there the whole time,” Shaunna Burns said. 
 
 Shaunna Burns said that while in Georgia, Hailey met a woman online from Romania. The two started to chat when Hailey told the woman she was missing. 
 
 After researching the case, that woman contacted Hailey's parents Friday night. 
 
 “We got the first message at 8:09 (p.m.) and then by 12:32 (a.m.), they had her,” Shaunna Burns said. 
 
 (Video from outside the home of where Hailey Burns was found in Georgia, from WSB-TV) 
 
 Hailey’s parents said a tipster reached out to Hailey to find out where she was. Hailey didn’t know, so she took a photo from the house window, and within hours she was rescued. 
 
 Former FBI assistant director Chris Swecker said the response in the case was remarkable given that Burns didn't know where she was at. 
 
 "The victim took a picture outside and all they had to go on was the neighborhood, and what it looked like from inside the house,” Swecker said. “They did enough research and gumshoe work to figure out where that young woman was being held. That's a nice piece of work." 
 
 “We know that this happy ending is not the norm, it is the exception to the rule,” Shaunna Burns said. “We want people to know that there are happy endings to this kind of a story.” 
 
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 The FBI in Charlotte and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department will continue their investigation into Burns' disappearance and will be working closely with FBI agents in Atlanta and the Gwinnett County Police Department. 
 
 A neighbor told Channel 9's sister station WSB-TV in Atlanta that he saw Hailey once unloading groceries, said hello, and didn't see any signs of distress and didn't know she was missing. 
 
 #BreakingNews Parents just told me that their teen daughter, Hailey Burns, who has been missing for over a year has been found SAFE! @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/tDNlMEWK2s — Erica Bryant (@EricaWSOC9) June 25, 2017 
 
 Hailey had last been seen at her home on Baldwin Drive in Charlotte at 12:30 a.m. on May 23, 2016. 
 
 Police said at the time, there was information that she may have left on her own accord, but they don’t know if she was helped by others. 
 
 
 
 (Home where Hailey Burns was found in Duluth, Georgia) 
 
 Hailey’s parents told Channel 9 that when they woke up that morning they found the door unlocked and Hailey gone. 
 
 Last month, the FBI announced a $15,000 reward in the case. Her family also put up billboards with Hailey’s picture on them in an effort to find her. 
 
 CHARGED: 31yo Michael Ren Wysolovski faces multiple charges in connection w/ case; #HaileyBurns just found after more than a year @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/dVSMxqTAJB — DaShawn Brown (@DaShawnWSOC9) June 25, 2017 
 
 Channel 9 anchor Erica Bryant had recently reported an update on the missing teenager. 
 
 “You have to let go of the hope that she will just walk through the door," Shaunna Burns said in a recent interview. “We are past that point. She is not just going to come home in the middle of the night. You have to hope that they still find her, wherever she is.” 
 
 “You have to distract yourself because you will drive yourself crazy wondering what you could have done, or could be doing,” Anthony Burns, her father, said. 
 
 A tip from one of Hailey’s classmates seemed to confirm their worst fears. 
 
 “He told me that my daughter had been talking to a 30-year-old man for over six months who was trying to convince her to talk to him, and saying that he would be her friend and she could come to him,” Anthony Burns said. 
 
 Earlier this month, Anthony Burns told Channel 9 that he hopes to publish his book of poetry, titled “5/23/16,” which is the date that Hailey disappeared. 
 
 He said he would like all of the proceeds to go to organizations that help families with missing children. 
 
 (Eyewitness News anchor Erica Bryant's June 2 story on Hailey Burns) 
 
 Anthony Burns provided Channel 9 with a copy of the forward from his book of poetry: 
 
 On May 23rd 2016 my wife and I awoke to get our 16 year old daughter up for school Monday morning. 
 
 In her bed was a pile of stuffed animals and a journal with happy thoughts and a plan to leave our home. 
 
 As the days that followed would reveal there was much more to what happened to my daughter on that day and it will forever change my life. 
 
 I am writing this for the parents of missing persons who are waiting for news of what has happened to their child. 
 
 My daughter was troubled and had psychological problems that were diagnosed and clouded her judgment. I was working very closely with her to get her on track spending evenings trying to bond with her and feeling as if I was making some progress. 
 
 But then on 05/23/2016 my life was forever changed. 
 
 I miss you Hailey and as a published poet I hope if you read this you will understand that all of this is done for you and to help others avoid the loss that our family feels now that you are gone. 
 
 I love you my perfect daughter 
 
 Your real “Daddy” 
 
 <3 <3 <3 
 
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 © 2018 Cox Media Group. ||||| CHARLOTTE, NC– A South Charlotte couple is desperate for answers about their missing 16 year old daughter. The special needs teenager hasn’t been seen or heard from since May. 
 
 Hailey Burns parents say they know their child is in danger or she would have contacted someone or posted something online by now. They say they know from Hailey’s friends she was communicating online with an older man who they believe convinced her to leave home. 
 
 ” It’s like a piece of your body is missing and you’re just trying to function but you’re missing your heart,” said father, Anthony Burns. 
 
 Anthony and Shannon Burns’ heart is 16 -year old Hailey. They woke up May 23rd and she was gone from the home where she lives with her 9 year old twin siblings. 
 
 “It’s just agony, everyday you wake up and think is my kid dead somewhere,” said mother, Shannon Burns. 
 
 The Burns say Hailey has Aspergers and struggled with other special needs so she turned to the internet to make friends. 
 
 ” She really wasn’t 16 she was like maybe 12, so naive and so impressionable and so easily manipulated,” said Shannon. 
 
 ” She wanted to be on the computer all the time, she had been bullied in Junior high and didn’t have lot of friends so decided to make her friends online,” said Anthony. 
 
 Anthony and Shannon say Hailey went on inappropriate chat sites in the past, so they restricted her computer use, took her cell phone. But friends say she used their phones and the media center at Myers Park High School where she was a freshman. 
 
 ” We tried to tell her and warn her, but she just thought she could do it, she thought it was going to be one thing it was probably something entirely different but by then it was too late,” said Shannon. 
 
 CMPD and FBI are investigating and checking all computers and phones Hailey might have used. 
 
 “It’s like we live in a lifetime movie and I don’t want to it’s a living nightmare we just want to know she’s ok and she’s safe,” said Shannon.
– The mother of North Carolina teenager Hailey Burns says it's "a dream come true:" Her daughter has been found alive more than a year after she disappeared. Shaunna Burns tells WSOC that her daughter, who was 16 when she vanished and is now 17, had been held captive by Michael Ren Wysolovski, a 31-year-old Georgia man she met online. He "got her in the car, brought her straight to his house, and she pretty much had to stay there the whole time," the mother says. The FBI says Hailey was found at a home in Duluth, around 30 miles north of Atlanta, after a special agent received a tip that she was in the area. Hailey has been reunited with her family and Wysolovski has been arrested and charged with offenses including false imprisonment, aggravated sodomy, interference with custody, and cruelty to children, WBTV reports. Hailey is believed to have left her home of her own accord last May. After her disappearance, her parents said she had Asperger's syndrome and was naive, easily manipulated by people she met online, and more like a 12-year-old than a 16-year-old, WCCB reports. They said after the disappearance, they found out from a classmate that Hailey had been talking to a 30-year-old man over the previous month who said "that he would be her friend and she could come to him."