{"id":124498,"date":"2025-08-06T20:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124498\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T20:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:32:11","slug":"fears-grow-for-missing-girl-13-after-her-distraught-family-raised-the-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124498\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears grow for missing girl, 13, after her distraught family raised the alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-3803\/Nicholas-Wilson.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NICHOLAS WILSON, NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  10:43 EDT, 6 August 2025   |  Updated:  10:49 EDT, 6 August 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A 13-year-old girl has gone missing without a trace from the\u00a0Illawarra Region of <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/new-south-wales\/index.html\" id=\"mol-8be65780-72d3-11f0-8723-a335eea6ae97\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NSW<\/a>, prompting concerns for her welfare among family and police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Ameriah Stonham was last seen on Cleveland Road in Dapto, south-west of Wollongong,\u00a0about 8.30am on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Lake Illawarra Police District commenced inquiries into her whereabouts on Wednesday afternoon after being notified she could not be located or contacted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Her family and police are concerned for her welfare due to her age and medical conditions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Police shared an image of Ameriah, whom they described as being of Caucasian appearance, 170cm tall and of thin build with shoulder-length ash-blonde hair.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She was last seen wearing a brown jacket, light-blue denim shorts, white shoes and carrying a brown diamond-shaped purse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She is known to frequent the Dapto, Wollongong and Sydney CBD areas, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or via the website.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-c9b273d28805cf20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/100973645-14976227-image-m-42_1754488556926.jpg\" height=\"609\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Ameriah Stonham, 13, was last seen on Cleveland Road, Dapto, about 8.30am on Wednesday\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Ameriah Stonham, 13, was last seen on Cleveland Road, Dapto, about 8.30am on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Fears grow for missing girl, 13, after her distraught family raised the alarm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By NICHOLAS WILSON, NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 10:43 EDT, 6 August 2025 | Updated: 10:49 EDT, 6 August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,211,15056,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-124498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-new-south-wales","11":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114983727525182028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}