Two 12-year-old sisters who were reported missing after leaving their middle school in west Houston on Monday, were found safe early Tuesday morning. According to KHOU, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) stated that the sisters were located by METRO police and have been returned to their parents; however, the details of where the girls had been between their last sighting and their safe return remain unclear.
The two girls had vanished after leaving Paul Revere Middle School located on Briar Forest Drive, near Beltway 8, with initial reports from the Houston Police Department indicating that they were last seen at around 4 p.m. potentially heading south toward Westheimer Road, yet the precise details of their whereabouts during the intervening hours stay shrouded in a fog of the unknown. In a release by the police department, it was noted that the sisters, originally from Africa, speak Swahili fluently but are limited in their English communication abilities.
The sisters, Anyieth Maketh Kuir who was on the cusp of her 13th birthday, and Ayak Maketh, who just turned 12 in November, the latter last seen wearing a unique 'Gaza Free' t-shirt, are part of a statistic that fortunately, saw a resolution, thanks to the authorities' work and community vigilance, while many still wait in the threshold of worry and hope, for those they love to be found. According to a FOX 26 Houston report, information on the sisters was widely disseminated.
