Missing Girl, 17, Reunited With Her Montecito Heights Family
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Authorities said Saturday evening that a teen who went missing has been found.
The mentally- challenged 17-year-old girl disappeared in the Montecito Heights neighborhood Thursday.
Dexian Chen was last seen at 3 p.m. in the 2200 block of Parkside Street. She told her family she was going to her father's business – located in the 700 block of North Broadway in Chinatown – but never arrived.
Authorities said she was reunited with her family but details on when and how were sketchy, police said.
Dexian has the mental capacity of a 6-year-old girl, police said. She speaks limited English, her primary language is Cantonese.