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For whatever reason you won’t see the story of this missing 12-year-old on any of the major television networks tonight. Thanks to loyal reader Kenesha for bringing this story to my attention.

Taken from the San Francisco Chronicle:

    Police are searching for a 12-year-old San Francisco girl who has been missing since Monday morning when she told her mother she was headed to school on the bus.

    Billie McGee never arrived at S.R. Martin College Preparatory School, where she is in the seventh grade and on the honor roll.

    On Tuesday, San Francisco police Sgt. Steve Mannina said investigators are treating the disappearance as a missing persons case.

    “No one’s heard from her,” he said.

    Her mother, Tina Brown, said Billie has never run away. She fears the worst.

    “Someone took her,” Brown said.

    Brown worked a graveyard shift at San Francisco General Hospital on Sunday night and said she called her daughter first thing Monday morning to let her know she would be working late and could not drive her to school.

    Billie agreed to catch a city bus on Geneva Avenue, as she has done before, and to head to her school near Candlestick Park on her own, her mother said.

    “She was like, ‘OK, Mommy, but I gotta hurry,’ ” her mother said.

    Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, Brown said. The day before, the family had gone to church and to the movies.

    Billie said goodbye to an aunt who lives with the family and left for the bus, her mother said. She carried her book bag and was wearing her school uniform: a black-and-white jacket with a white collared shirt and black pants.

    Brown said she called the school, a small, private school that reaches out to low-income children and pushes them to pursue higher education, to make sure her daughter had arrived safely. But by 9 a.m., school officials told Brown that Billie still had not shown up.

    “She’s a slow mover, like me, so I gave her another 30 minutes and called back. At 9 they said she still wasn’t there,” Brown said.

    She said police have searched Billie’s belongings and have spoken with classmates and friends, hoping to find leads. She said they also confiscated the cell phones of some of Billie’s friends to make sure the girl had not called them unbeknownst to authorities.

    “They’re checking everything, talking to her classmates, and no one knows anything,” Brown said.

    She said inspectors also have checked the neighborhood for registered sex offenders.

    In the meantime, the family covered the neighborhood with flyers Tuesday.

    Billie recently made the honor roll, her mother said. She plays volleyball, participates in drama and is active in her church.

    “She just made (honor roll) two weeks ago,” Brown said. “Her reward was to get a cell phone today.”

    Billie is 5-foot-5, African American and weighs 140 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes.

    Anyone with information should call the San Francisco Police Department Missing Persons Unit at (415) 558-5508 or the department’s operations center at (415) 553-1071. Source