Missing NJ teen Jashyah Moore found safe in NYC after national search
EAST ORANGE, N.J. — Jashyah Moore, a 14-year-old woman from East Orange who went missing nearly a month ago, was found safe in New York Metropolis, mentioned prosecutors, who didn’t elaborate in a press release launched Thursday evening.
“Jashyah is at the moment protected and is being offered all applicable providers. She will probably be returned to NJ shortly,” mentioned the Essex County Prosecutor’s Workplace.
Moore went lacking after she left her home on Oct. 15 to search for a cash card she misplaced on her approach to Poppies Deli.
After weeks of looking, East Orange police teamed with officers from Orange, the Essex County sheriff’s and prosecutor’s workplaces and the New Jersey State Police, in addition to the FBI, which took an curiosity within the case because it acquired nationwide protection, with some in the neighborhood pleading for a similar widespread consideration given to just lately disappeared 22-year-old Gabby Petito, who was discovered useless of strangulation in September.
Her mom has disagreed with regulation enforcement’s tack of treating Moore’s disappearance as a lacking individuals case, insisting her daughter didn’t run away and that she was kidnapped.
Extra info could also be launched on Friday when performing Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens holds a press convention on the case in Newark.
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