13-year-old reported missing
Girl's mother is putting up posters
By Bobbi Mlynar
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
The mother of a 13-year-old Emporia girl has asked for help in finding the teen, who was last seen walking near the playground at Sacred Heart School.
Lesley Draper said that she reported Candy Nevarez missing Friday evening, after the girl was dropped off at Sacred Heart.
On Tuesday, Draper was hanging posters around town, hoping that someone will see the photograph of the girl and call police, 342-1766, or her, 481-6169.
The photograph on the poster was taken Friday morning for a "What People Say" segment of The Gazette that is published regularly as a Saturday feature.
Draper said that Candy had been at the home of a friend earlier and apparently had asked the friend’s father, who is not fluent in English, to take her to the church.
“When she didn’t actually go into the Sacred Heart Church, he thought something was wrong,” Draper said, adding that he at first had thought the girl was meeting Draper at the church. “He called the mother and the mother called me.”
Candy, whose birth name is Dulce, also did not attend classes at the Emporia Christian School on Monday or Tuesday.
The girl is described as being 5-feet, 3-inches tall and weighing 128 pounds, with dark brown hair and eyes and dark skin. She was wearing a gray hoodie with light-colored blue jeans.
Draper said Candy shuffles when she walks as a result of wearing too-large tennis shoes that can be removed and put on without untying.
Candy socializes sometimes with youngsters about 18 years old and an older white couple. Draper said that the girl may be with people in an older white Lumina or with someone in an older-model box-shaped minivan.
slipandslide (anonymous) says...
i hope this girl is safe, and returns home safe
December 4, 2007 at 5:22 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
hottopics (anonymous) says...
Is there any word on her yet???
December 4, 2007 at 11:05 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
scionxb (anonymous) says...
I hope she comes home soon. I would love to think that nothing bad is going to happen to her in this town that we call home.
December 4, 2007 at 11:38 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
4Jayhawks (anonymous) says...
I heard last evening that she is home.
December 5, 2007 at 8:06 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
citizen (anonymous) says...
I hope the gazette follows up on their story. We would like to know if she has been found and is she okay.
December 6, 2007 at 9:09 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )