MIDLAND, TEXAS—Officers found a lonely little girl heading Northbound on Rankin Highway at 6:26 a.m. last Thursday after receiving reports of a child walking along the service road. Morning traffic was building up, and it was still dark outside. The temperature was only around 50 degrees.
She told police she was walking to Pease Magnet Elementary School after her father refused to give her a ride. She couldn’t tell police where she lived, and it seemed she wasn’t sure how to get to school, given where she was discovered.
Police determined she had been walking for roughly 45 minutes from a Best Western on East Interstate 20. A Google Maps search indicated it would take one hour and 33 minutes to get to school on foot from where she was found, but only one hour and 31 minutes on foot from the hotel, indicating she was likely lost…