[size=15pt]Schoolgirl, 14, goes missing after 'converting' to Islam[/size]

A girl of 14 has gone missing after developing a 'keen interest' in Islam, police said yesterday.

Sarah Dunn - who had spoken of converting to the faith just days before her disappearance - vanished after a row with a friend.

The schoolgirl, who was last seen buying a prayer mat, had grown ' increasingly obsessed' with reading the Koran, friends claim.

       
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She told a carer: 'That's it. I've had enough', and then left, claiming she planned to visit an auntie.

Later that day, the schoolgirl was captured on CCTV in Wellington, Shropshire, buying a prayer mat - the last time she was seen.

It is believed she then travelled around 25 miles to Dudley, in the West Midlands, where she grew up, although it is unclear how she did so.

The town and surrounding area has a large Asian community.

Detective Inspector Jon Roberts, from West Mercia Police, said: 'We are particularly appealing to the Asian community who may have a white female with them.

'We know Sarah was looking at converting to Islam, was reading the Koran, had purchased a prayer mat and was praying.

'But there is no evidence that she has come to harm and is under the influence of anything apart from her own free will.

'Sarah is quite streetwise, but at 14 she should not be out there on her own. It is just a question of trying to find her and putting things right.'

Sarah had gone missing in the past and was discovered on each occasion in Dudley, he added.

Yesterday, a friend said: 'No one has heard anything from her. She was really into Islam and was really interested in the Koran.

'I think it became a bit of an obsession but whenever anyone tried to talk to her about it she would get very defensive. We're really worried about her.'

Although Sarah was in foster care in Leintwardine, Herefordshire, she regularly visited her mother Christine at her home in Dudley.

At a press conference last week, Mrs Dunn, 40, said: 'Just give me a ring or make contact in whatever way you can.

'There are lots of people out there with your best interests at heart, looking for you to make sure that you are safe and well.'

A friend of Mrs Dunn said that the teenager had been placed in care because her mother found it difficult to cope, but that the pair remained 'very close'.

The friend added Mrs Dunn was 'concerned' about her daughter's interest in Islam.

Sarah is white, 5ft 2in tall, of slim build and with dark, medium-length hair.

Although she is 14, her family said she can pass for somebody older and often changes her hairstyle and colour.

She was last seen wearing white jeans, a white short-sleeved T-shirt with a thick black-and-white jacket, which had a dice motif on it, and black ballet shoes.

She did not have any cash or her mobile phone with her when she disappeared.

A spokesman for the Dudley Muslim Association said: 'Muslims are peace loving and respect the importance of family values.

'We urge anyone who has any information about the missing girl to cooperate with the police.'

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Inshallah she should be safe and would come out i guess soon. Good the police noted it is all on her free will she reverted to islam which in fact means willing submission to God.

assuming this is true, if she is in the mist of the muslims, no one will hurt her, but be helpful to her. the question is this, are her people subtly telling us that Islam is wrong for her, the reason for their sudden great concern? if a mother at 40 cant handle a 14 year old "daughter", not even a son, then i wonder how good is her motherhood!

you can now see that the family in ohio whose daughter left to florida for christianity out of islam has all the rights to be concerned and wanted their daughter whom they have raised, mother and father altogether with other siblings?! everyone wants his/her own back! while the christians, the christian soldiers will not return the daughter to her family in ohio, the muslims will tell the young 14 years old to return to her parent, foster household. you see, because the muslims will not break the ties of blood relationship!

maybe one alhaji has asked her to marry him, hypnotized the girl and then kidnapped her or she maybe in one of those training camps e.g boko haram

it sure beat gang raping happening around "Christian" town. It sure beat lying against God; ignorance that only hurt you is better that the knowledge you use to deceive yourself and many many others to true ignorance, for knowledge that does not benefit, is ignorance that punishes!