Missing Des Moines teen, 14, has returned home, her family reports

Kylie Sporer, a 14-year-old Des Moines girl missing since Monday, returned home on Saturday, her family reported.

"She just came knocking on mom's door," said her aunt, Kenda Moore, shortly after 6 p.m. "Someone dropped her home safe."

The family and Des Moines police had asked the public for help in finding Sporer. She was last seen leaving her school Monday in the Union Park neighborhood.

"When she didn't come home that night, we knew something was wrong," Moore told the Register in an earlier interview Saturday afternoon. "That's not her."

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Moore had spoken on behalf of Sporer's mother, who she said was too distraught to talk to the press, and the rest of the family.

Sporer's family had been searching every day.

"I've spent Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, driving everywhere... with her best friends and our cousins," Moore said, "searching everywhere we can."

Moore said her husband searched Saturday along the Des Moines River from Union Park to the Martin Luther King Jr. Park neighborhood.

Moore had taken days off work and made posters to give to neighbors, gas stations, stores and postal workers in hopes that would increase the possibility of someone seeing her.

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"Her mom and her dad love her, and they miss her and they just want her to come home," Moore had said Saturday afternoon, stopping at times to gather herself. "They don't care what's happened. What's important is that she's safe."

Kyle Werner is a reporter for the Register. Reach him at kwerner@dmreg.com.

This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Missing Des Moines teen, 14, has returned home, her family reports

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