This is any mother’s worst nightmare! A 12-year-old girl was abducted by a 31-year-old man who she “met” online… she was found safe in a car with him! Hit the jump to find out what happened.

Melissa Nash

Florida police called off an Amber Alert after they found a missing 12-year-old girl in a car with a 31-year-old man her mother says she met on the Internet.

Megan Williams was abducted late Saturday night from her family’s home in Margate, Fla., authorities said. She was found — safe — the next day in the automobile with 31-year-old Dana Broberg.

“Clearly, he was intending on meeting her and tried as hard as possible to find out her address and phone number,” Melissa Ford, the girl’s mother, told NBC Miami. “He pressured her a lot and gave her a lot of attention.”

Broberg was driving west on Interstate 10 in Walton County, and may have been driving Williams all the way back to his home in San Antonio, Texas, police said.

“I’m just so relieved that she’s home and so grateful to everyone for bringing her home,” Ford told NBC Miami.

Ford said she knew about her daughter’s chats with Broberg, and thinks he may have been posing as a teenager.

“I have her check her phone with me nightly and I noticed a string of emails and texts and I didn’t recognize that number,” Ford told NBC Miami.

She printed out the emails and saved the phone number, which police said greatly helped them track down Broberg and her daughter.

“[Ford] did all the right things,” Margate Police spokesman Efrain Suarez told NBC Miami. “She was a great asset to our investigation. It ultimately led to her daughter’s recovery.”

Ford warns parents to be aware of what their children are doing online.

“Kids are on chat sites talking with strangers,” she told NBC Miami. “You don’t think they are. I would never have thought my daughter was doing that.

“If you see any unusual phone numbers or emails, print out those emails. Get those phone numbers. Don’t disregard it.”

Broberg is in custody and faces charges at the state level of kidnapping and interfering with custody. He may also face federal charges.