ERIK SANZENBACH / L’Observateur / December 1, 1999

LAPLACE – The St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office is asking forhelp in finding a 15-year old LaPlace girl who disappeared from her mother’s home Saturday.

Sheriff’s Office spokesman Capt. Mike Tregre said officials don’t believefoul play is involved, but the girl was supposed to have returned to a Monroe group home where she has been incarcerated for the past several months.

The girl, Dominique Roberson, got a pass from the group home to visit her mother for the Thanksgiving holidays, and she was supposed to return to Monroe on Saturday evening.Her mother, Wanda Roberson, had bought a busticket for the girl, but Dominique disappeared from the house on Belle Alliance Drive around 6 p.m.”We know that she is OK,” reported Tregre, “because she has been making phone calls to her friends here in LaPlace.”When she was last seen, Dominique was wearing a gray pullover shirt with the word “Guess” on it, blue jeans, blue tennis shoes and a light brown jacket. Dominique has black hair, brown eyes and is 5-foot-3.Anyone with any information on Dominique’s whereabouts is asked to call the St. John Sheriff’s Office at 652-9513.

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