Crime & Safety
Missing Brooklyn Teen Texts Family She Was Kidnapped, Police Say
Police are asking the public for assistance in locating a missing 16-year-old girl who texted relatives, claiming she had been kidnapped.
BROOKLYN, NY — Police in Brooklyn are urgently searching for a missing teenager who sent a text message Tuesday afternoon saying she had been kidnapped.
Authorities say the 16-year-old victim was last seen at 2:57 p.m. entering the Pitkin Avenue-Van Siclen Avenue subway station in East New York. Around 3:07 p.m., she sent a text to her family stating that she had been kidnapped.
While the police did not disclose the exact contents of the message or whether she said anything else, they are treating the incident as a kidnapping.
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Police described the girl as having black hair and brown eyes, standing about 5-foot-2, and weighing around 120 pounds. She was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, white sneakers and carrying a gray purse.
News12 Brooklyn identified the victim as Helen Maila Moscoso, but an NYPD spokesperson could not confirm this with Patch on Wednesday morning.
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Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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