BREAKING NEWS Missing Utah girl, 15, is found ALIVE six weeks after vanishing into thin air
A teenage girl missing for six weeks after running away from home to meet an alleged pedophile has been found alive.
Alisa Petrov, 15, vanished without a trace on April 21 after being dropped off at school in Utah, getting on a train out of town.
Hours later, her frantic parents Olga and Nikolai Petrov discovered their daughter had a terrifying double life when her secret iPad was found hidden in her dresser.
The teenager dug the long-forgotten device out of a dusty old box and was chatting to three accused pedophiles, all now behind bars.
Alisa was last seen at a train station in Provo, Utah, asking for help getting a bus ticket to Las Vegas, where she had arranged to meet Matthew Nicholas Menard, 35.
Nothing was heard from her until she walked into a police station in Colorado Springs on Sunday night and identified herself.
Police said the teen was 'in good health' but it is still unknown where she was or if she was being held against her will.
'Alisa's parents have been notified of her location and are working with South Jordan Police to bring her home,' police said.
Alisa skipped school and got on a train to Provo, Utah, then tried to go to Las Vegas to meet one of the alleged pedophiles. He planned to fly her to his home in Miami via Los Angeles
On April 21, Alisa was dropped off at her school, Canyon Grove Academy, in American Fork, about 32 miles south of Salt Lake City.
But instead of going to class, she bought supplies at a nearby gas station and convinced a man there to drive her to the local train station.
Alisa got off the train in Provo, about 14 miles south of American Fork, and asked multiple people there to help her get a bus ticket to Las Vegas.
Olga last week told DailyMail.com her daughter had about $1,000 saved from pocket money and birthday gifts that she didn't spend after she turned 15 on April 16, just five days before running away.
'Somebody else is either helping her and we don't know who or where... I'm not suspecting the worst,' she said.
'That means she's with somebody else and we don't know if it's a good person or a bad person.'
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