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Jessica Saji

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Jessica Saji had been missing since August 12, 2005.

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Jessica Saji missing Missing Brooklyn Girl Turns Up Unharmed

After a desperate three day search, 11-year-old Jessica Saji was found unharmed on Monday, August 15, 2005. She was interviewed by police at the 83rd Precinct stationhouse about where she has been since Friday night.

Sex:
Female
Race:
Other
Age at Disappearance:
11
Age Range:
19 - 20
Height:
4'
Weight:
60 lbs.
Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair):
  • Jessica has long black hair.
Eyes:
  • Brown
Last Seen:
  • Brooklyn , NY
  • On Friday, August 12, 2005 at about 8:00 a.m. 11-year-old Jessica left her Bushwick apartment in Brooklyn for the park just blocks away.
Other Possible Locations:
  • New York
Last Known Locations:
  • Brooklyn , NY
Last updated August 16, 2005

Jessica Saji

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Recovered; Aug 16, 2005

Missing Brooklyn Girl Turns Up


After a desperate three day search, 11-year-old Jessica Saji was found unharmed on Monday, August 15, 2005. She was interviewed by police at the 83rd Precinct stationhouse about where she has been since Friday night.

Details of what happened to Jessica were murky, but police sources said it appears she ran away on her own and was not abducted.


Police Considered All Possibilities


Initially, police were looking at all possibilities to explain the disappearance, including abduction or the seemingly unlikely event that she ran away.

"She's a really good kid. She's the 11-year-old you would want to have," a police source said after she vanished.

"We're looking at all angles. She's never done this before."

Jessica's mother said she was so baffled, she even started to wonder about a "hex" she says her ex-husband's family in India put on the girl after the couple's 2002 divorce.

"I'm so upset, I don't know what to do," she said yesterday before her daughter was found. "I'm brokenhearted."

Cops searched the area and interviewed possible witnesses.

Jessica's mom described her as a bright, happy, devoutly Catholic-school girl who was looking forward to seventh grade at St. Frances Cabrini School.

Her mother and 6-year-old brother were taken to the police station for a reunion.


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