DEVELOPING: The 9-year-old Teessee girl allegedly abducted by her uncle was found safe Thursday, according to the Teessee Bureau of Investigation.

Carlie Marie Trent was found in Hawkins County, the rural part of East Teessee where she lives, Teessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Susan Niland said in an email. Her uncle, Gary Simpson, is in custody, Niland said.

Simpson is accused of taking Carlie from her school in Rogersville, Te. on May 4.

The exact circumstances behind his arrest were not immediately known.

Earlier Thursday, the TBI had added Simpson, 57, to its Top 10 Most Wanted list and waed that Carlie was in imminent danger.

On Tuesday, Trent's father said her alleged abductor was obsessed with her and wanted her all to himself.

James Trent told WVLT-TV that Gary Simpson, 57, was jealous over the girl. James Trent told the station that Simpson knew Carlie all her life and had married Trent's sister. James Trent also said that Simpson and his wife often took care of his daughter.

"He had access to her every day, he was obsessed with her, he wanted her, and he wanted her all to himself," Trent said. "That's a scary thing to think about."

James Trent said that he didn't think Simpson would hurt Carlie, but was worried what will happen if she retued home.

“It would be a great moment, but then again it'll be a scary moment because I'm just wondering how she's going to be. Is she going to be as happy as she was? [Is] she going to be scared to death of everyone?" he explained. "That's what I worry about. She just won't be the same."

On Wednesday, the TBI said the case was not a simple custody dispute and stressed that Carlie could be in grave danger.

“We realize Gary Simpson is Carlie Trent’s uncle by marriage, but we have specific – we have credible – information that Carlie Trent is in imminent danger of serious bodily harm or death,” TBI spokesperson Josh DeVine said during an afteoon press conference. “When we say this child is in danger we absolutely mean it.”

DeVine said the custody battle narrative had developed in the week since Trent was picked up from her school by Simpson, her former guardian. Simpson had recently lost custody of Trent, who was in her father’s care before her disappearance. But DeVine was emphatic that Trent’s kidnapping was not merely the product of a guardianship battle.

On Tuesday, the TBI retracted an earlier report that Simpson was seen at a store buying camping supplies. Investigators told the Knoxville News Sentinel that Simpson actually purchased a pink and purple plush throw blanket, a green men’s short-sleeve shirt, men’s black pants, girls’ khaki pants, two shades of lipstick, two shades of nail polish, a pink folding lounge chair, a purple child’s nightgown, a bikini and girls’ underwear on May 4.

Investigators also said the two stopped at a Save-A-Lot grocery store on the same day to pick up “nonperishable items.”

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