A D.C. mother is asking for the public’s help to find her 13-year-old daughter, who has been missing for a week.
Katherine “Ash” Stallard was last seen outside her school in the Petworth area last Wednesday.
Stallard’s mom, Marianne Bakia, said she dropped her off at the Creative Minds International Public Charter School that morning. But when Bakia went to pick her up at the end of the day, she wasn’t there.
“It is, I think, every parent’s worst nightmare, that you go to pick up your kid somewhere and they’re not there. And what I know is that she doesn’t have any extra clothes, she doesn’t have ID, she doesn’t have money, she doesn’t have her phone. She’s somewhere and she needs help,” Bakia said.
Bakia said her daughter typically goes to an afterschool program at the school. But she didn’t go that day.
Video footage shows Stallard walking down Rock Creek Church Road outside the school with two other students, who Bakia believes are classmates. Police said the two are boys.
Stallard has not been seen since.
Her family said she has a developmental disability, which is why they’re especially worried.
“She’s incredibly friendly and very naïve, probably a little bit young for her age,” Bakia said. “She’s in a world where she’s surrounded by a lot of her friends, at least in her mind.”
Bakia and a group of loved ones gathered in Petworth Wednesday evening to put up fliers with Stallard’s photo.
“We all miss her and what we all want right now is just for everything that can be done, every resource that can be deployed,” family friend Marie Nelson said.
Stallard was last seen wearing a white furry coat, a white shirt and silver boots.
D.C. police is asking anyone who has information about her whereabouts to call 202-727-9099.
The family is urging residents in the Petworth area to check their surveillance cameras for video for any signs of the teen girl.
