A 15-year-old girl vanished sometime overnight from her family's home in Golden Gate Estates, according to deputies, who say she was last seen by relatives around 9 p.m. Sunday and was gone by the time it was time to wake up for school the next morning. Amayah Kirven is described as 5 feet 4 inches tall and about 215 pounds, with wavy black hair featuring red highlights and brown eyes.
The Collier County Sheriff's Office shared Kirven's description in a Facebook post Monday, asking the public for any information about her whereabouts. The post was issued under Sheriff Kevin Rambosk's office, and anyone with tips is asked to call the department's non-emergency line at 239-252-9300. That number is the same channel Collier County deputies direct residents to when reporting missing juveniles aged 13 and older, reserving 911 for younger children or active emergencies, per the sheriff's office's own protocols.
A Search Area Built for Complications
Kirven was last seen in Golden Gate Estates, a semi-rural stretch of eastern Collier County that spans more than 100 square miles and is made up largely of oversized, unrestricted parcels ranging from 1.14 to 2.25 acres, according to Matt Brown Real Estate's local market data. The area's low-density layout, dense foliage, and drainage canals present a far different search environment than a typical suburban neighborhood, complicating efforts to trace a missing teen's movements.
Under Florida law, agencies like the Collier County Sheriff's Office are barred from imposing any waiting period before accepting a missing child report, per the Florida Senate's Online Sunshine statute repository, meaning investigators are required to respond immediately regardless of whether a child is suspected of having run away. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement also maintains the Missing Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse around the clock at 1-888-356-4774, which can issue a Florida Missing Child Alert when a minor is believed to be in life-threatening danger even without confirmed proof of an abduction — a lower bar than the evidence of kidnapping required for a full AMBER Alert.
Local Tools and a Recent Recovery
Collier County also runs AlertCollier, a mass notification system that can push localized public safety updates, including missing person alerts, to more than 16,000 registered residents by call, text, and email, according to Collier County Emergency Management. It is unclear whether that system has been activated in Kirven's case.
The disappearance comes just weeks after another Collier County teen's case ended safely: 15-year-old Genesis Velazquez was found safe on August 13 after a 49-day search that began when she vanished from the Collier Boulevard area, as Hoodline reported at the time. A similar case is also unfolding on Florida's Gulf Coast, where a 15-year-old girl in Sarasota County remains missing two weeks after last being seen getting into an unknown car, according to Hoodline's earlier coverage.
Why Missing Teen Reports Draw Immediate Scrutiny
Nationally, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children says it supported 32,167 missing child cases in 2025, resolving 90% of them, with endangered runaways accounting for 92% of all reported missing juvenile cases. The organization also estimates that roughly 1 in 7 runaway children reported as endangered become victims of child sex trafficking, a risk factor that drives law enforcement to treat juvenile runaway reports with urgency rather than waiting for confirmed evidence of foul play.
That urgency has borne out locally before. In November 2024, a 28-year-old Naples man was arrested in Miami on human trafficking charges after investigators looking into a missing 15-year-old girl spotted her with him on surveillance footage, uncovering an active felony warrant out of Collier County tied to the case Hoodline covered at the time. State and federal officials on Monday also announced that a separate initiative, Operation Statewide Shield, a multi-agency sweep led by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, had located and safely recovered 163 missing children statewide, underscoring the scale of coordinated recovery efforts currently active across Florida.
No further details about Kirven's disappearance have been released, and the circumstances surrounding how she left home remain unknown. Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to contact the Collier County Sheriff's Office.
