The body of 13-year-old, Genelle Conway Allen, who went missing last week has been found dumped in a park near her home, in Fairfield California, according to reports in the New York Daily News.
The seventh-grader was last seen by surveillance cameras getting off a bus after a day at Green Valley Middle School on Thursday.
She was discovered by a homeless man, identified as 54-year-old Eric May, who saw her body in Fairfield, about five miles away from the bus stop.
"She looked like a mannequin. It hurts my soul to think someone could do that to a little girl. I'm haunted by the image of her laying there without a stitch of clothing," he said.
May also said he had been questioned by police but not detained.
She was a "troubled child. She had a hard life, and this is how it ends. It's tragic," Conway-Allen's aunt Natalie Paasch told the San Francisco Chronicle. "She was always the one looking out for her family, even when her family wasn't looking out for her."
The park in Fairfield is a popular hangout for vagrants and the homeless, reports said.
"That someone is capable of doing this to an innocent little girl breaks our hearts," Victor Estrada, a minister who lives near the park, told the San Francisco Chronicle. "It's an act of pure evil. It's shocking for this community, and it's up to us as parents not to let this happen again and to find the person responsible."
"It's hard because I don't know why they would do this to a nice person," her classmate John Paul Gibson told CBS Sacramento.
