Virginia high school football coach Travis Turner vanished without his essential items before being pursued on child pornography charges — as his family released a distressing message begging him to face the allegations.

Turner left his car, keys, contact lenses and glasses and medication that he takes daily at his Appalachia home before he was last seen walking into the woods on Nov. 20, the family’s attorney, Adrian Collins, said in a statement t o WCYB on Wednesday.

“Travis’ wallet, license, cash, and all its contents were left in the home. Travis is prescribed certain daily medications which he needs, those were left in the home,” Collins said.

Collins previously said that Turner, the widely-celebrated head coach of Union High School in Big Stone Gap, Va., fled into the hea

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