Athena Sheetz was 1 year old when she was last seen on January 3, 2010, in Lynn, Massachusetts. She disappeared together with her sister, then 3-year-old Thanit Sheetz-Marti. Family accounts say the girls were taken by their non-custodial mother, Mireia Marti, and may have been taken to Spain.

The family had been visiting the maternal grandmother in Spain when the father, Jonathan Sheetz, was served with a restraining order and separated from the children. Jonathan was later granted sole custody in the United States, but Spanish courts have not recognized that ruling. Efforts to secure the girls’ return under the Hague Convention were pursued but were delayed by legal complications in Spain. The sisters are still believed to be in the Barcelona area and age-progressed images have been released to help locate them.

If anyone has reliable information about Athena or Thanit’s whereabouts or remembers seeing them in Spain or elsewhere after January 2010, please share details with the appropriate authorities.