Police are seeking the public’s help in finding a missing teenage girl, Aaliyah Aubrey Botello, who was last seen on Sunday, August 30, at an address near the corner of Rasa Drive and Horal Street on the far West Side.
Anyone with information on Botello’s whereabouts is urged to call the San Antonio Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit. “The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has published statistics regarding minors who have run away from home. Of more than 20,500 missing children reports, 90 percent of those are what are considered “endangered runaways. 47 percent of minors who run away from home report a conflict between themselves and their parent or guardian. Females make up 75 percent of minors who run away from home and 80 percent of the girls report having been sexually or physically abused. 34 percent of runaway youth report being sexually abused before leaving home and 43 percent report that physical abuse occurred in the home,” it adds.
Half of all runaway minors report that their parents told them to leave or knew they were running away and did not care.
