Rock Hill missing 13-year-old reported found, police say
A 13-year-old Rock Hill girl who was reported missing Wednesday night has been found, police say.
Police updated the media and public with a report that the girl, Dianna Clawson, had been found safe and unharmed just before 1:30 p.m. Thursday.
She was found hiding in her house, according to Mark Bollinger with the Rock Hill Police Department.
Dianna Clawson’s mother, Tonya Clawson, reported her missing at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to a Rock Hill Police Department report. Tonya Clawson told police she last saw her daughter at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Dianna Clawson is an eighth-grade student at Saluda Trail Middle School, according to the Rock Hill school district.
Clawson came home and found her son at home but not her daughter, according to police. Clawson told police that her son said Dianna was getting ready to board her school bus, but said she needed to get something from the apartment. Dianna did not board the bus, according to the police report.
Clawson told police that the house key her daughter uses was in her bedroom and the room “looked like someone had gone through her bedroom,” the report states.
Clawson told police that she did not get a call from her daughter’s school that she was not in class Wednesday.
Mychal Frost, spokesperson for the Rock Hill school district, said the school’s automated system sends a phone message at 6 p.m. to the child’s guardian when a child is absent. Usually the parent is aware of the absence as it is illness or vacation related, he said.
“This is a unique circumstance and we continue to assist Rock Hill Police Department in locating the student,” Frost said in a message to the The Herald.
Rock Hill school resource officers and detectives were following all leads to find the girl, Bollinger said early Thursday.
This story was originally published January 24, 2019 at 10:51 AM.
