A 15-year-old girl who vanished from Stow, Ohio more than a month ago is the subject of an appeal for information. Nadia Moore has been missing since September 5, and authorities are asking anyone with information to come forward.
Moore was last associated with Stow, as reported by FOX 8 News, which featured her case on its missing-persons segment.
How the Case Entered National Databases
The Stow Police Department entered Moore's disappearance into the FBI's National Crime Information Center system under case number M609123748, per the missing-child poster maintained by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. That designation allows law enforcement agencies well beyond Stow to access her file and physical description as they follow up on tips.
FOX 8's coverage of the case is part of a dedicated on-air missing-persons initiative hosted by Amanda Berry, an abduction survivor and advocate who joined the station's news team in 2017, as reported by Cleveland Scene.
What Ohio Law Requires When a Child Goes Missing
A missing-child report does not automatically meet Ohio’s threshold for a statewide AMBER Alert. The state requires law enforcement to determine that a child was abducted, faces a credible and immediate threat of serious harm or death, and that enough descriptive information is available to help locate the child. Ohio also has an Endangered Missing Child Alert for qualifying cases that do not meet AMBER criteria, as outlined in the state’s alerts guidebook.
Under Ohio Revised Code Section 2901.30, state law requires police departments to take missing child reports immediately, without any waiting period, and enter the child's details into the NCIC database, according to the Ohio Revised Code. Law enforcement may also notify the missing child's school.
Those statutory safeguards exist against a backdrop of thousands of similar cases statewide. The 2025 Ohio Missing Children Clearinghouse Report, released by the state attorney general's office in May, found that 15,367 children were reported missing across Ohio last year, with 97.8 percent — 15,024 children — safely recovered by year's end. Runaway incidents accounted for nearly half of those reports, totaling 7,656 cases, the same report found.
Teenagers accounted for the large majority of Ohio’s missing-child reports in 2025. The state counted 13,990 reports involving children ages 13 to 17, out of 15,367 reports overall — about 91 percent. The age breakdown in the 2025 Ohio Missing Children Clearinghouse report places Moore’s age group at the center of the statewide figures.
Anyone with information about Nadia Moore's whereabouts is urged to call 330-689-5700.
