{"id":214868,"date":"2026-03-11T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214868\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:42:08","slug":"missing-l-a-county-girl-found-in-north-carolina-living-under-alias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214868\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing L.A. County girl found in North Carolina living under alias"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A 11-year-old girl reported missing in Los Angeles in 2020 was found safe in North Carolina living under a different name, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

On July 1, 2020, Los Angeles County\u2018s Department of Children and Family Services contacted the Sheriff\u2019s Department about a girl who disappeared from Duarte, according to a news release<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The department conducted an investigation about the child and believed that the child\u2019s mother took her after she stopped communicating with DCFS personnel, according to the release. <\/p>\n

On Mar. 6, detectives got information that the child could be in Washington County, North Carolina, officials said. The Washington County Sheriff\u2019s Office said it found the girl enrolled at a local school under an alias.<\/p>\n

The child was taken into protective custody and the investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n

\u201cThese are very rare occurrences to have such a positive outcome on such an old case as this, but it reminds us that through hard work, and dedication, and cooperation. Stories with positive outcomes like these can happen,\u201d the Sheriff\u2019s Office s<\/a>aid in a statement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 11-year-old girl reported missing in Los Angeles in 2020 was found safe in North Carolina living under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3409,2305,6246,98557,9514,1776,348,98558,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,1511,6138,346,98556,2637,13417],"class_list":{"0":"post-214868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-child","9":"tag-children","10":"tag-department","11":"tag-different-name","12":"tag-girl","13":"tag-information","14":"tag-investigation","15":"tag-l-a-county-girl","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-la-headlines","18":"tag-la-news","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","21":"tag-los-angeles-news","22":"tag-los-angeles-times","23":"tag-news-release","24":"tag-north-carolina","25":"tag-office","26":"tag-positive-outcome","27":"tag-sheriff","28":"tag-washington-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214868","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=214868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}