Registered VA Sex Offender Snatches 7-Month-Old Danville Girl Now On-The-Run

Seven-month-old Danville girl, Emma Grace Kennedy, is missing, and now an AMBER Alert has been issued in the hunt for the little girl and the man who snatched her away from her mother.

Emma Kennedy was abducted by her father, Ray Kennedy, an armed, registered sex offender, after he assaulted the mother of the child at a gas station in Danville Sunday evening, say Virginia State Police.

Emma Grace Kennedy is described as a white female, 2 feet 2 inches tall and weighing 18 pounds. She has blue eyes and short blonde hair. She was last seen wearing a light blue onesie. Ray Kennedy is described as a white male, 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 170 pounds. He has short gray hair and green eyes.

Officials said Kennedy has a number of tattoos: a skull on his left forearm, a wizard on his left upper arm, a skull with a bandanna over its mouth on his right forearm and a pit bull with American bulldog written under it on his upper right arm.

He also sports an eye tattoo on the back of his right hand. He was last seen wearing a brown short sleeve shirt, gray shorts and black and white Sketchers.

Police said Kennedy, who is armed with a knife, assaulted the infant’s mother before abducting the girl at the Kwik Stop on Riverside Drive in Danville at 7:55 p.m. source

Kennedy is a registered sex offender in North Carolina who was recently released from jail on drug distribution charges on a $250,000 bond.

Troopers said Kennedy may be traveling in a four-door gold Suzuki with North Carolina tags FAA-1873.

Kennedy was last seen headed eastbound on Route 58 possibly headed to North Carolina, according to police.

Anyone who has information is urged to contact police at 911.