A 14-year-old girl went missing from an advanced high school on Gavilan College's campus this morning, only to surface at noon when she called police to tell them she had been abducted.
The girl, a student at the Gilroy Early College Academy - a specialized high school run by the Gilroy Unified School District but on Gavilan's campus in the foothills west of Gilroy - went to her first class this morning, Santa Clara County Sheriff's Sgt. Rick Sung said. Staff at the school noticed she was gone, but that her books were still at the school, and reported her absence to campus security and the principal.
About 12 p.m., the girl called the sheriff's office to say she had been kidnapped at the college by three white males with a white van, Sung said. She alleged the men drove her around for a while, then dropped her off on the side of U.S. 101 near Highway 25 - a few miles from campus.
The girl said the men thought she was someone else and let her go when they discovered she wasn't the person they wanted, Sung said. Sung did not know how the men got the girl into the van, or what motives they might have had.
As of 1 p.m., sheriff's deputies were assessing the girl for injuries and further investigating the situation, Sung said.
Sara Suddes Sara Suddes covers Gilroy for South Valley Newspapers. You can email her or call (408) 847-7158.
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