Counselors available for classmates after Alaska student’s death

Counselors were available Monday at a school attended by a 10-year-old girl whose body was found more than a week after she went missing in a remote Inupiat Eskimo town on Alaska’s northwestern coast.

Ashley Johnson-Barr was found dead Friday just east of Kotzebue. Authorities say 41-year-old Peter Wilson of Kotzebue is facing charges of making false statements to a federal agent investigating the girl’s death.

No charges had been filed in federal court as of early Monday afternoon.

Terri Walker, assistant superintendent of the Northwest Arctic Borough School District, says counselors were on hand at the girl’s school for students who needed them.

The girl was last seen playing with friends at a local park Sept. 6. Her cellphone was later found a half mile from Rainbow Park.