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Teen Girl Has Been Missing From Her Bay Ridge Home For Nearly Two Weeks — Have You Seen Her?

Hannah Frishberg

Oct 24, 2016 — 1 min read

The New York City Police Department has sent out a request for public assistance locating a teenage girl who has been missing from her Bay Ridge home since Friday, October 14 at 7 a.m.

Dareen Hefny is 15 years old and is described as an Asian female weighing 140Ibs and standing five foot, three inches tall. She lives on 76th Street, within the confines of the 68th Precinct.

This is the second time this year that Hefny has gone missing. Back in April, when she was 14 years old, her family reported her missing after she left her 76th Street home at 6 p.m. on a Thursday and wasn’t seen for days, News 12 reported at the time.

Anyone with information in regards 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). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.

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