Missing Teen Report: 16 Year Old Phylicia Barnes Is Missing (577 hits)
Police: Missing teen might have been abducted
BALTIMORE -- Police in Baltimore are adding manpower to their investigation, hoping to find a missing Monroe teenager who they fear might have been abducted. Phylicia Barnes was visting a sister in the Baltimore area last week when police say she vanished. "She has not logged on to the Internet, Facebook, used her cell phone, this entire incident," said Baltimore Police Officer Anthony Guglielmi.
Guglielmi said investigators believe Barnes might have been abducted and taken out of state. They are still hopeful the 16-year-old honor student is alive. "We suspect foul play. She's an attractive, articulate young woman and we're not ruling out abduction," he said.
Barnes' classmates at Union Academy held a vigil Monday. "We just ask you Lord to keep her in the palm of your hand. We have faith you'll return her to us reall soon Lord," said one of Barnes' friends during the vigil. The students are also raising money to help with the family's travel expenses.
The Monroe teen's mother is now in Baltimore. Janice Sallis told us she thought Barnes' older sister would take care of her younger sister. "She knows how protective I am," said Sallis. "I went to her last week and said 'you deceived me in every aspect. You promised me it would be you and her and then I find out that you gave police a list you had of 20 different guys going in and out of that apartment,'" she said through tears and rage.
Police in Baltimore say they've interviewed everyone who had contact with Barnes, but don't have a suspect or a person of interest. They plan to keep interviewing those who saw Barnes last week, but did tell us they believe the teenager might still be alive.
Let's hope that our sister is found safe...
Thursday, January 6th 2011 at 4:47PM
Siebra Muhammad
A list of 20 men going in and out sounds suspicious.
Friday, January 7th 2011 at 8:48AM
Helen Lofton
@ Sister Helen, Something doesn't sound kosher... that's for sure!
Friday, January 7th 2011 at 4:32PM
Jen Fad
@ Sister Jacqueline, I agree with you that women have to be more aware and those blackberries, iphones, and cell phones don't help us these teens. I can't begin to count the number of times I see teenage girls walking around the neighborhood paying no attention to their surroundings because they are too, busy texting or talking. It's sad because predators are looking for easy targets. As a female, we can never be too, careful. I do pray that she's found because its really sad that so many women are going missing. I pray that it will be a happy ending for the family.
Saturday, January 8th 2011 at 5:27AM
Jen Fad
