The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing 4-year-old girl “abducted under suspicious circumstances.”
According to a news release, Thompson Thompson was reported missing Oct. 9 by her legal guardian after her father Peter Thompson did not bring her back from a scheduled visitation on Oct. 5.
“The father is the last known person to have seen the child,” the HCSO release states. “He is only allowed scheduled court-ordered visitation and does not have any custody rights over his child.”
Thompson Thompson, of Hoopa, is described as being 3 feet, 7 inches tall, weighing about 50 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, and was last seen wearing a black floral T-shirt, black pants and cowboy boots.
After the child was reported missing, the sheriff’s office obtained an arrest warrant for Peter Thompson and requested a Feather Alert be issued for her, the release states.
According to HCSO, Peter Thompson turned himself into the Humboldt County Jail on the evening his daughter was reported missing. He remains in custody, the release states.
“The father claimed to know about the whereabouts of the child but refused to disclose information regarding her location to law enforcement,” the sheriff’s office states.
The release states anyone with information about Thompson Thompson’s possible whereabouts should call the sheriff’s office at (707) 445-7251.
This article appears in Combating the Barred Owl Invasion.
