{"id":156456,"date":"2026-01-30T11:27:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156456\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:27:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:27:30","slug":"kcso-seeks-help-finding-missing-at-risk-13-year-old-girl-last-seen-in-rosamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156456\/","title":{"rendered":"KCSO seeks help finding missing at-risk 13-year-old girl last seen in Rosamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is seeking the public&#8217;s help in finding Daniela Morales-Melgar, a 13-year-old girl considered at-risk, last seen leaving school in Rosamond with an unidentified man.<\/p>\n<p>Morales-Melgar was last seen leaving school in the area of Rosamond Boulevard and Mojave Tropico Road on Jan. 28, 2026, at approximately 1:40 p.m., accompanied by an unidentified man.<\/p>\n<p>She is described as 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MISSING: Daniela Morales-Melgar, 13. Photo: Kern County Sheriff's Office.\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/56392258-23ed-4f81-92b2-ffcc6ddb6108-DANIELAMORALESMELGAR.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MISSING: Daniela Morales-Melgar, 13. Photo: Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of her disappearance, she was wearing a brown sweatshirt, blue pants, and white shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Deputies urge anyone with information on Morales-Melgar&#8217;s whereabouts to contact the Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office at (661) 861-3110 or the Secret Witness Line at (661) 322-4040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is seeking the public&#8217;s help in finding Daniela Morales-Melgar, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-156456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}