On Monday morning, the Metropolitan Command of Lisbon’s Public Security Police (PSP), through the 5th Police Division, located a 15-year-old girl who had run away from a foster home in the São Vicente district.
In a statement sent to newsrooms on Tuesday, the security force explained that they received information about a “disoriented minor” in the area. Consequently, police officers went to the scene, where they made contact with the teenager at 3:02 AM.
Upon speaking with the girl, she revealed that she had “run away from the foster home where she resides, and that this practice is habitual”. However, she “always returns, further stating that she did not return that day because she got lost”.
As a result, the PSP took the minor back to the foster home, “where she was handed over to the educational assistant of that institution.” The teenager was “referred to the Lisbon Centro CPCJ”.
This was not the only recent case of a missing minor in Lisbon. In the same note, the PSP revealed that on the night of June 22, Sunday, they also located a 16-year-old girl, who had disappeared from home the previous day.
This minor was found by the Public Transport Security Division at the Colégio Militar station of the Lisbon Metro.
The teenager was “in good health” and was “subsequently handed over to her mother”.
