A teenage girl who reported she was sexually battered by a man early Friday after an argument with her mother recanted her story Friday night and police are no longer investigating the incident as a sexual battery, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
The girl, in her early teens, argued with her mother about 11 p.m. Thursday, then decided to “run away from home,” assistant chief Scott Dingee said.
The girl said she went to a relative’s house three miles away near Ft. Caroline and Townsend roads and later she left about 12:30 a.m., Dingee said.