Queens Girl Reported Missing For Second Time In A Week

ARVENE, QUEENS -- The NYPD is looking for a 12-year-old Queens girl reported missing for the second time in a week after she never returned home from a visit to her birth mother, police told Patch.

Nicole Escalora-Colon, of Arvene, was last seen on Friday, Dec. 8, at around 3 p.m. leaving her foster home on 59th Street near Rockaway Beach to see her birth mother in the Bronx, police said. Her foster parents reported her missing after she never returned home, an NYPD spokeswoman said.

Escalora-Colon has been known to run away from home in the past, police said. Her latest disappearance comes just over a week after her foster parents reported Escalora-Colon missing in a similar instance on Nov. 29, when she left their home to visit her birth mother and wasn't heard from for days, the NYPD spokeswoman said. She returned home safe on Dec. 2.

Police said Escalora-Colon was last seen wearing a pink sweatshirt and sweatpants.

Anyone with information in regards to the missing person is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

Lead photo via NYPD.