A 12-year-old girl and two teenagers are missing from a behavioral health center in Virginia, according to officials and media reports.
All three girls — Forever Scott, 12, Joseline Krofec, 14 and Darsha McAllister, 16 — vanished the morning of Sunday, January 18, when they were “seen leaving a residence” around 7:30 a.m., the Portsmouth Police Department said in a statement shared with Us Weekly.
They went missing from the Harbor Point Behavioral Health Center, where they had been staying as residents, the mental health clinic’s CEO, Freddie Anderson, confirmed to WAVY.
“We experienced a situation in which three residents left our facility without authorization,” Anderson said in a statement shared with the outlet.
Forever is considered endangered by police, because of her age.
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In a missing child alert shared by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the organization said that Forever “may be with two other juvenile females.”
She also needs medication and possibly needs medical help, according to the center.
Darsha also needs medication due to her medical conditions and might need medical help, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children said in an alert issued for her.
A similar alert was issued for Joseline by the center, which spells her name as Jocelyn Krofek.
Joseline’s grandmother, Tammy Krofek, who is her legal guardian, told WTKR that her granddaughter is from Morgantown, West Virginia, and was staying at Harbor Point Behavioral Health Center in connection with “behavioral issues.”
“They’re just out there, hopeless and scared,” Tammy told the TV station of all three missing girls.
“I just want her to be found safe,” she said of her granddaughter, adding that “She has no business being out on the streets.”
The Portsmouth Police Department is working with law enforcement in northern Virginia to find the three girls.
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Police said Forever is Black, 5-foot-2, and weighs about 129 pounds. She also has brown eyes and black hair “in two cornrows.”
She was wearing a Jordan brand shirt and Navy blue pants when she vanished, according to police.
Darsha is described by police as a Black female who is 5-foot-6, weighs about 188 pounds, and has brown eyes and orange hair. She had on pink pajama pants and a tan shirt that says California when she disappeared, according to the center.
Joseline is white, 5-foot-3, weighs about 129 pounds, has brown eyes and black hair. She had been wearing black pajamas when she disappeared, according to police.
In his statement on the girls’ disappearance, Anderson told WAVY that Harbor Point Behavioral Health Center staff “responded immediately by informing local law enforcement and the patients’ guardians, and we are cooperating fully with the Portsmouth Police Department as they work to safely locate these individuals.”
The Portsmouth Police Department asks anyone with any information on where Forever, Darsha and Joseline might be located to contact the department’s Special Victims Unit at 757-393-8536.
Anonymous tips can be called into the Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP or through the Crime Line’s “P3 Tips” app or website.
