The police have put out an urgent appeal for help in locating two missing girls, 10-year-old Lily and 8-year-old Pearl.<\/p>\n
A police handout photo, taken from Facebook, shows the two missing girls 10-year-old Lily and 8-year-old Pearl. The police want to hear of any sightings of the children, who have not been seen since the night of January 2nd. <\/span>Photo:\u00a0Supplied\/NZ Police<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The children were taken in breach of a parenting order on Christmas Eve, and the last sighting of them was at 11pm on Monday night, January 2, at a South Auckland petrol station.<\/p>\n The Toyota Camry in which they were travelling was seen again on the morning of Tuesday, January 3 in New Plymouth, before a woman wanted in relation to their disappearance was found alone in Wellington that night.<\/p>\n She was arrested about 9.45pm, and has refused to tell the police where the girls are.<\/p>\n The police then spent time searching vehicles parked in central Wellington but they believe Pearl and Lily could be anywhere between Auckland and the capital.<\/p>\n Detective Senior Sergeant Kevan Verry said the woman has been meeting people through Facebook in the time that the police have been looking for her and the children.<\/p>\n “It is possible she has left Pearl and Lily with one of these people.<\/p>\n “We believe these contacts may have been misled or are unaware of the true circumstances in this case, or the serious concerns that are held for the children’s welfare.”<\/p>\n The police want to hear of any sightings of this car, a 1994 silver Toyota Camry sedan, with the licence plate CLR45. <\/span>Photo:\u00a0NZ Police<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The police are asking anyone with information to call 111.<\/p>\n They also want to hear about any sightings of a 1994 silver Toyota Camry with the licence plate CLR45.<\/p>\n Det Sen Sgt Verry said their focus was on locating Lily and Pearl safe and well.<\/p>\n The woman is due to appear in the Wellington District Court today, charged with breaching a parenting order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The police have put out an urgent appeal for help in locating two missing girls, 10-year-old Lily and 8-year-old Pearl. A police handout photo, taken from Facebook, shows the two missing girls 10-year-old Lily and 8-year-old Pearl. The police want to hear of any sightings of the children, who have not been seen since the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}