Twelve-year-old Mayra Erisuria Sandoval was last seen on January 10, 2006, in Sarasota, Florida, stepping off her school bus in front of Booker Middle School on Myrtle Street and failing to return to her home on Pelau Circle that afternoon. She was described as a good student with no history of running away. Six days later, on January 16, 2006, Mayra phoned her parents and said she was safe but would not give an exact location or state whether she planned to come home.

Her family has not heard from her since that call. Authorities believe she left of her own accord and is likely in Mexico with a Hispanic male acquaintance who was in his twenties at the time; that man has not been publicly identified or charged. The case remains unsolved, and it drew controversy when police reported Mayra’s family to immigration authorities after learning they were undocumented; the family was told to leave the United States or face deportation, and their current whereabouts are not publicly known.

If anyone knew Mayra, the man she was with, or has information about her whereabouts after January 16, 2006, please come forward.