3 Year Old Aliayah Lunsford Missing September 24, 2011 in Weston, WV

The search continues for missing Aliayah Lunsford …

3 year old Aliayah Lunsford has been missing since  September 24, 2011 in Weston, West Virginia. The mother of the missing 3 year old, Lena Lunsford, told police she’d checked on her daughter around 6:30 AM Saturday, then discovered her missing three hours later.

Aliayah Lunsford is about 3 feet tall and 35 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. Her ears are pierced and she is missing her top four front teeth.  She was last seen in purple pajama bottoms and a pink sweatshirt.

Aliayah Lunsford disappeared from her home in Bendale, W.Va., Saturday morning, and hundreds of people have been helping local, state and federal authorities try to locate her.

FBI investigators have gone door to door. Dive teams have searched an underwater grid in the West Fork River. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which listed the missing child as “endangered missing” on its website, dispatched a member of Team Adam, retired investigators who advise local officers.

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Time line of searches for missing Aliayah Lunsford as authorities have searched on land and in the water.

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: Aliayah Lunsford

UPDATE I: The West Virginia Dept. of Health and Human Resources removed the children living in the Lunsford home on Dennison street at 9 p.m.

Lena Lunsford hired Charleston attorney Tom Smith on Friday.

If you have any information about missing  Aliayah Lunsford, please call 911 or the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office at 304-269-8251.

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