13-year-old girl reported missing while vacationing with family in LA has been found

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024
13-year-old girl reported missing while vacationing with family in LA
Police are asking the public's help to find a 13-year-old girl who went missing while vacationing with her family in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A 13-year-old girl who went missing while in Los Angeles on vacation with her family has been located safe, police say.

Early Wednesday, police asked the public for help locating Valentina Morales Magana. She was last seen Tuesday afternoon in the area near Los Angeles International Airport.

Valentina and her parents are from Mexico and vacationing in Los Angeles. Police say Valentina got in a verbal dispute and left after her mother noticed her putting on makeup.

The video in the player above is from an earlier report on this story.

Police say Valentina doesn't have a phone and has no relatives in the L.A. area.

By 3:14 p.m. Wednesday, the LAPD posted on X that Valentina had been found: "Update: The subject has been found safe and is being reunited with her family."

No further details were provided about the circumstances of her disappearance or her condition.