Amber Alert issued for Charlotte Sena, 9, who went lacking whereas driving her bike on a household tenting journey in New York as cops worry she could have been kidnapped: Mother begs ‘I simply need my daughter again’ as FBI joins search

A search is underway for a nine-year-old woman believed to have been kidnapped as she rode her bike round Moreau Lake State Park in upstate New York.

An Amber Alert was issued for Charlotte Sena on Sunday morning. She was final seen round 6.15pm the day before today whereas on a tenting journey along with her household.

The Nationwide Middle for Lacking and Exploited Kids acknowledged that Charlotte ‘was taken below circumstances that lead police to consider that (she is) in imminent hazard of significant hurt and/or demise.’

Charlotte was final seen sporting an orange tie-dye Pokémon shirt, darkish blue pants, black Crocs and a grey bike helmet. She is described as White with blonde hair, standing 5-foot-1 and weighing 90 kilos. 

‘I simply need my daughter again,’ Charlotte’s mom, Trisha Sena, informed the Albany Instances Union tearfully.

She described Charlotte as ‘a very good child’ who’s ‘trusting.’

Charlotte Sena, a fourth grade scholar from Greenfield, was final seen round 6.15pm on Saturday whereas on a tenting journey with household and buddies in Moreau State Park

The nine-year-old was reported lacking round 6.45pm the identical day when she did not return from a motorbike journey

She was final seen sporting an orange tie-dye Pokémon shirt, darkish blue pants, black Crocs and a grey bike helmet

Charlotte is believed to be susceptible to critical hurt ‘and/or demise,’ in keeping with an Amber Alert issued shortly after she disappeared

Charlotte was visiting Moreau State Park, simply quarter-hour away from Greenfield, the place she and her two sisters have been raised. Household and buddies camped out, cooked and rode bikes collectively. 

The nine-year-old and two shut buddies – so shut she thought of them cousins – went on a motorbike journey Saturday evening earlier than darkness fell.

They rode loops across the path and though her buddies determined to go again, Charlotte needed to go round one final time by herself.

When quarter-hour handed and he or she hadn’t returned to the campsite, her mother and father David and Trisha sensed that one thing was fallacious.

They known as her identify, and when there was no response, folks deserted their meals and tables to seek for the nine-year-old, together with strangers from different campgrounds.

Thirty minutes later, at 6.37pm, Trisha dialed 911. State police have been on website by 7pm.  The fourth grader’s bike was recovered, however there was no signal of Charlotte.

New York State police activated an amber alert at 9.35am on Sunday, noting that it was ‘for a kid abduction’ that occurred round 6.45pm the evening earlier than. 

A further search workforce was deployed that morning.

Over 100 folks searched tirelessly for the fourth grader, together with forest rangers and 75 regulation enforcement personnel. 

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul held a press convention Sunday morning to offer updates on the search. She was joined by members of regulation enforcement together with the FBI.

‘They have been right here to make recollections – the type that final a lifetime,’ she mentioned. ‘However as a substitute, the day changed into each guardian’s nightmare.

Hochul shared that she had met with the woman’s mother and father.

‘As a mom, as a grandmother, I can not think about the ache they are going by,’ she mentioned. ‘They shared with me how joyful their little woman is.’

Charlotte is a fourth grade scholar at Corinth Central Elementary College who was not too long ago elected to be a category officer for the coed council.

The Governor described her as ‘the type of woman that individuals needed to be buddies with,’ and one who seemed out for others – ‘the satisfaction of each guardian.’

Regulation enforcement established a command submit on the state park.

Hochul mentioned they have been utilizing two drones, an airboat, six underwater rescue groups and a ship outfitted with sonar in addition to Okay-9 groups with bloodhounds.

‘Tech consultants’ had been introduced in ‘to investigate different types of communications within the park.’

Hochul added that the Schenectady Hearth Division was helping within the search, as Charlotte was the niece of one of many members.

‘We’re leaving no stone, no department, no desk, no cabin unturned, untouched, unexamined in our search to search out Charlotte,’ she mentioned.

‘Hearts are damaged at present in New York. Hopefully there can be a reunion. Hopefully there can be a household that has been traumatized however reunited.’

Regulation enforcement nonetheless described the case as a search of the park on Sunday.

Nevertheless, ‘the exhaustive search meant it was fairly attainable an abduction happened,’ State Police Lt. Col. Richard Mazzone mentioned throughout the press convention.

Charlotte’s father David is a member of Native Union 773 Plumbers, Pipefitters, Steamfitters and Service Technicians out of Queensbury.

The union requested for assist in discovering Charlotte and added: ‘Please hold the Sena household in your ideas and prayers.’