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Missing Sophia Cover found over 1,200 miles away from Florida home as relieved dad reveals who discovered teen

Nypost · · 408 words · By Chris Nesi
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Missing Sophia Cover found over 1,200 miles away from Florida home as relieved dad reveals who discovered teen See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Missing Sophia Cover found over 1,200 miles away from Florida home as relieved dad reveals who discovered teen See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Add The New York Post on Google A missing Florida teen was found over 1,200 miles from home after being caught on camera sneaking out in the early hours last month.

Common ground

“Sophia was found safe in New Jersey by the FBI, and tonight our family finally gets to say the words we have been praying for: Our girl is safe,” her overjoyed father, Rick Cover, shared on Facebook Monday evening.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Rick Cover shared on Facebook Monday evening [that Sophia was found]”
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Multiple sources (Wide Open Country, HypeFresh Inc) report that her father, Rick/Richard Cover, shared the news of her being found on Facebook.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hasan Doğan Piker (born July 25, 1991), known online as HasanAbi, is an American Twitch streamer, influencer, and left-wing political commentator. He began streaming on Twitch in March 2018, while wo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Piker
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The eighth season of the reality television series Love & Hip Hop: New York aired on VH1 from October 30, 2017 until March 12, 2018. The season was primarily filmed in New York City, New York. It is e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_&_Hip_Hop:_New_York_seaso…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Voice is an American singing reality competition television series that premiered on NBC on April 26, 2011. Based on the original The Voice of Holland and part of The Voice franchise, it has aired…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voice_(American_TV_series)
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Claim 2: “A missing Florida teen was found over 1,200 miles from home”
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Multiple independent web sources (AOL, Wide Open Country, HypeFresh Inc) confirm that Sophia Cover, a missing Florida teen, was found safe over 1,200 miles away in New Jersey.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brass Against is an American cover band that creates brass-inflected cover versions of rock songs. The collective chooses politically charged songs and other socially conscious music in order to raise…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (Italian: [soˈfiːa vilˈlaːni ʃʃikoˈloːne]; born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren ( lə-REN, Italian: [ˈlɔːren]), is an Italian actress, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Loren
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sophia Olivia Wilson (née Smith; born August 10, 2000) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the Unit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Wilson
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Claim 3: “Surveillance footage from the family home at Golden Gate Estates showed the 16-year-old leaving the residence in the twilight hours of July 31”
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Multiple sources (Flash News Wave, TikTok, and other web results) confirm surveillance footage from the Golden Gate Estates home showed the 16-year-old leaving on July 31 around 12:45 AM.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mass surveillance in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is the network of monitoring systems used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and government to monitor its citizens. China maintains the lar…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_China
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Mic…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Protests, including rallies, demonstrations, campaigns, and vigils, relating to the Gaza war have occurred nationwide across the United States since the conflict's start on October 7, 2023, occurring …
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Claim 4: “He said she was found staying with friends”
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AOL and HypeFresh Inc both report that Sophia was found safe at a friend's home/house in New Jersey.
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web search NEUTRAL — “She jumps up like she saw a ghost,” Cover said of his girlfriend. The couple checked their security cameras and saw Sophia had left in the early hours of that morning with a bag. Her location-sharing…
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web search NEUTRAL — Can you track the location of a caller when the only thing you have is just their cell phone number?
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web search NEUTRAL — Скачайте и слушайте back to friends - sombr в формате MP3. Полная песня с текстом доступна бесплатно на lmusic.kz![Chorus] How can we go back to being friends When we just shared a bed? How can you lo…
https://lmusic.kz/mp3/sombr-back-to-friends/219806
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Claim 5: “Sophia was found safe in New Jersey by the FBI”
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HypeFresh Inc explicitly states that Sophia was picked up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, by the FBI. Other sources confirm she was found in New Jersey.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Deception is an American prime time soap opera television series that aired on NBC. The series, created by Liz Heldens, premiered on Monday, January 7, 2013. On May 8, 2013, NBC canceled the series af…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The fourth season of the American police procedural television series FBI: Most Wanted premiered on September 20, 2022, on CBS, for the 2022–23 television season, and concluded on May 23, 2023. The se…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On August 8, 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the residence of then-former U.S. President Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida. The search warran…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_search_of_Mar-a-Lago
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Claim 6: “He told Gulf Coast News Now that he’s planning on flying to New Jersey as soon as he can to reunite after not seeing her for 11 days.”
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Wide Open Country and HypeFresh Inc both explicitly state that the teen was missing for 11 days and that Rick Cover planned to fly to New Jersey to reunite with her.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hagia Sophia, officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, is a mosque and a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. It was formerly a church (360–1453) and a museum (1935–2020). The last…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sophia is a female-presenting social humanoid robot developed in 2016 by the Hong Kong–based company Hanson Robotics. Sophia was activated on 14 February 2016, and made her first public appearance in …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(robot)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sophia Elizabeth Guevara Laforteza (born December 31, 2002) is a Filipina and American singer. In 2024, she made her debut as the leader of the girl group Katseye, formed through the 2023 reality show…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Laforteza
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