O’Donnell’s daughter Chelsea O’Donnell went missing from her family’s Nyack, New York, home on August 11.
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Coronato’s mobile phone was analysed by High Tech Crime Unit detectives and they found “inappropriate communications over the last seven weeks” between Sheerer and Chelsea.
According to O’Donnell’s spokeswoman, Cindi Berger, the teen suffers from mental illness and had stopped taking her medication.
It is still unclear how Chelsea O’Donnell (photo above) and Steven Sheerer met, although an officer did tell Page Six early on in the investigation that the two met on Tinder. The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office has charged the 25-year-old Steven M. Sheerer with endangering the welfare of a child and distribution of obscenity, according to Patch.
It was this week when Rosie announced that her daughter Chelsea was missing.
O’Donnell, who has recently endured a break-up with her wife Michelle and a dramatic exit from The View, has not spoken about the incident any further until today.
She was discovered safe in the attic of the home with her therapy dog, Bear, after Barnegat police received information she might be in the township.
Sheerer was previously charged with child endangerment in 2012, as well as heroin possession.
He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted, authorities said. Yahoo! reported in March that the teenager was caught in a controversy between Rosie and her birth mother, who accused the actress of forcing her to give up her child.
Officials executed a search warrant at Sheerer’s home, seized a computer and other digital equipment, and took him into custody. A police spokesperson had told E!
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Sheerer is being held at Ocean County Jail on $40,000 cash bail, the prosecutor’s office said. It has, however, been widely reported that the family believed Chelsea was hanging out with friends during her weeklong disappearance; it was not until Chelsea had not called home that concerns were raised.
