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Missing woman found safe

A 24-year-old vulnerable woman who disappeared in August after being dropped off at a Charlottesville homeless shelter has been found and is safe. Anna Sophia Kissler, who has autism, left her family’s Middlesex farm in early August after becoming upset over a variety of stresses and was subsequently placed in Poplar Springs Hospital in Petersburg for evaluation and treatment. On Aug. 24, she was released and taken by Medicaid taxi to Charlottesville, where she was left without identification, money, or a phone. Her parents subsequently launched an intensive search to find her. Charlottesville Detective Natalia Aguilara said that Anna Sophia walked into the Charlottesville Police Department on the evening of Friday, Sept. 26, gave officers her name, and told them she was there because she saw her name on the news. An officer asked if she wanted to call anyone and she said no, then left. “An officer checked her welfare, and she was fine,” said Aguilara, who was not in the office at the ...

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