A young girl who appeared in a series of sexually explicit pictures taken at a Walt Disney World hotel and other locations for the past three years has been found and is now safe, authorities said Friday.
The girl was located in a foster home in the Pittsburgh area after officials found a match Thursday in one of several law enforcement databases of child pornography, state and federal officials said. The officials variously gave her age as 11 or 12.
The girl has been in foster care since 2003 when her adoptive father, the man believed to have taken the pictures, was arrested on charges related to trading child Internet porn, said Matt Irwin, a detective for the Orange County Sheriff's Office. The man began serving a 15year-sentence in a federal prison last year.
The girl, originally from Russia, was adopted by the suspect when she was 5, Irwin said.
No details on the alleged perpetrator were released, although he still faces state charges in Pennsylvania for the molestation of the girl.
