{"id":30779,"date":"2025-01-03T07:59:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T07:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=30779"},"modified":"2025-01-03T07:59:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T07:59:27","slug":"appeal-to-locate-teenage-girl-missing-from-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/appeal-to-locate-teenage-girl-missing-from-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to locate teenage girl missing from Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenage girl missing from the Newcastle area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serena-Rose Mallia, aged 15, was last seen in Blackhill about 3pm on Tuesday (31 December 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When she could not be located or contacted, officers attached to the Newcastle City Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into her whereabouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police and family hold concerns for Serena\u2019s welfare due to her age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 155cm tall, of medium build and brown hair with blonde highlights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Police believe Serena-Rose may be in the Balmain area in Sydney\u2019s inner west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with information into her whereabouts is urged to call Newcastle Police or Crime Stoppers on&nbsp;1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenage girl missing from the Newcastle area. Serena-Rose Mallia, aged 15, was last seen in Blackhill about 3pm on Tuesday (31 December 2024). When she could not be located or contacted, officers attached to the Newcastle City Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into her &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/appeal-to-locate-teenage-girl-missing-from-newcastle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appeal to locate teenage girl missing from Newcastle&#8221;<\/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-30779","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\/30779","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=30779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30780,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30779\/revisions\/30780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}