Police: Girl, 16, Missing After Storming Out Of Therapy Session In The Bronx
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Police were searching Wednesday night for a 16-year-old girl who stormed out of a therapy session on the Bronx a day earlier and has not been seen since.
Karla Galarza was last seen leaving her therapist's office at 358 E. 149th St. in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx around 5 p.m. Tuesday, New York State police said.
She got into an argument and stormed out of the therapist's office in the middle of the session, police said.
Galarza was described as having low cognitive function, bipolar disorder, and other psychiatric conditions, police said. She was last seen wearing faded gray jeans, black boots, a pink polar fleece, and a pink down vest, police said.
At the time she left, she had no money and no working cellphone, and also did not have her medications, police said.
Galarza had been living in temporary foster care in Putnam County for the past five weeks, police said.
She has no connections to the Bronx other than the therapist, police said.
Anyone with information was asked to call the New York State Police Cortlandt station, at (914) 737-7171, or to call 911.
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