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As many of these stories have rather unpleasant endings, this is a relief. Billie McGee, a 12-year-old from San Francisco reported missing last Monday turned up safe in Oakland, California.

Police said that Wednesday night someone recognized the girl, who had apparently been staying in Oakland with a teenage friend, and told her to call her mother.

Her mother picked up Billie around midnight and the two returned to San Francisco, where the girl met with police investigators, said police spokesman Sgt. Steve Mannina. They determined that the girl had left of her own accord and that no crime had been committed, Mannina said.

Billie McGee, a 12-year-old girl from San Francisco went missing on Monday, when she told her mother she was taking the bus to school and never arrived at her destination.

On Tuesday, San Francisco police Sgt. Steve Mannina said investigators are treating the disappearance as a missing persons case.

“No one’s heard from her,” he said.

Her mother, Tina Brown, said Billie has never run away. She fears the worst.

“Someone took her,” Brown said.

Brown worked a graveyard shift at San Francisco General Hospital on Sunday night and said she called her daughter first thing Monday morning to let her know she would be working late and could not drive her to school.

Billie agreed to catch a city bus on Geneva Avenue, as she has done before, and to head to her school near Candlestick Park on her own, her mother said.

“She was like, ‘OK, Mommy, but I gotta hurry,’ ” her mother said.