Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenage girl missing from the Port Stephens area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sophie Fletcher, aged 13, was last seen leaving a home on Victoria Parade, Nelson Bay, about 7.20am on Monday 5 August 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When she was unable to be located or contacted, Sophie was reported missing to officers attached to Port Stephens Hunter Police District today (Wednesday 7 August 2024) and commenced inquiries into her whereabouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police and family hold serious concerns for Sophie\u2019s whereabouts due to her age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sophie is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 165cm tall, of slim build with long brown hair. She was last seen wearing blue long pants, a blue polo and carrying a black school bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sophie is known to utilise public transport and frequents the Rutherford area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyone with information into Sophie\u2019s whereabouts is urged to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenage girl missing from the Port Stephens area. Sophie Fletcher, aged 13, was last seen leaving a home on Victoria Parade, Nelson Bay, about 7.20am on Monday 5 August 2024. When she was unable to be located or contacted, Sophie was reported missing to officers attached … Continue reading “Appeal to locate missing teenage girl \u2013 Nelson Bay”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28326,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28325\/revisions\/28326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}