{"id":689942,"date":"2026-05-24T04:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T04:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689942\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T04:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T04:46:10","slug":"missing-toronto-teen-new-pic-website-released-as-search-for-esther-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689942\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Toronto Teen: New pic, website released as search for Esther continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say Esther, last seen on May 15, is on the autism spectrum and was last seen near Highway 401. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police have released a new image of a 14-year-old girl who went missing more than a week ago from North York and have announced a new website for people to share information about her whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779597968_272_NP7HUYGJH5EUXJTRR6VZRMQWZE.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Missing Esther, North York Esther was last seen on May 15 at around 11:30 p.m. at Earl Bales Park, near Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue West, in North York. Police say she was last seen heading in a northeasterly direction. (TPS photo) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Esther, who is affectionately known as Esti, was last seen on May 16, just after midnight near Bathurst Street and Hotspur Road, just south of Highway 401. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">About a half an hour earlier, she was seen in the Earl Bales Park area at Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue West. Police say she was headed in a northeasterly direction.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779597968_867_M7DP3NY3HBAZRI26OI2D35HQ3A.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Missing girl poster A poster of the missing Esther is seen here. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Esti is described as five foot two with a medium build and with brown hair. She wore a turquoise sweater with words on the front, grey sweatpants, and no shoes, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They added that the missing teen has previously been diagnosed as being on the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779597969_488_LV3R56A2JBHMTL6YFHRG7N5OCA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"800\"\/>Esther missing, North York, additional photos Additional photos of a missing 14-year-old girl named Esther, who was last seen on May 15 at Earl Bales Park in North York. (TPS photos) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators, along with her family, are concerned for her safety and a Level One search is underway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3XUU2KJMWVC7LIDCOPJSWZECPM.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"449\"\/>Esther Police and the family of a missing teen spoke on the search for Esther, a missing 14-year-old girl last seen Friday in Earl Bales Park. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police are urging anyone with information that could help them find Esther to contact them at 647-355-4148 or <a href=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"\">online<\/a>. People can also scan the following QR code to provide details about the missing girl.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/VGLEAEAXJFGL3NVBWYGSCG6IL4.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"800\"\/>QR code missing Esther A QR code to share information about missing Toronto teen Esther. (TPS image) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anonymous info can also be shared with Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say Esther, last seen on May 15, is on the autism spectrum and was last seen near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-689942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}