Police ask public’s help in finding teenage girl, reportedly abducted near subway station

August 14, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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EAST NEW YORK — Police are asking the public’s help in locating a 16-year-old girl in connection to a possible kidnapping in the 75th Precinct on Tuesday, Aug. 13. The NYPD received a report that at around 3:07 p.m., a 16-year-old female victim texted a family member that she was being kidnapped by two unknown males. She was last seen ten minutes earlier, at 2:57 p.m., entering the Pitkin Avenue-Van Siclen Avenue A/C subway station. A local news segment on News 12 Brooklyn, identifying the youth as Helen Maila Moscoso, reported that she had been forced into a vehicle at the intersection of Pitkin and Pennsylvania avenues before surveillance spotted her at the subway station. Although police stayed in touch with her via text, she has not been seen since. The victim is described as a female with a light complexion, black hair, brown eyes, approximately five feet two inches tall and approximately 120 pounds, according to a release issued from the NYPD’s Public Information Department.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Brooklyn PATCH, which also picked up the story, indicated that the NYPD could not confirm the victim’s name with them.

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