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A Patchogue dad in a desperate search to find his missing teenage daughter is offering a “no questions asked” $10,000 cash reward for information that leads to her safe return.
Stephanie Biondi, a family friend of Frank Gervasi and his 14-year-old daughter Emmarae, contacted Greater Long Island on Wednesday with the search update, and relayed a message from the girl’s father.
“To anyone who knows anything, please help bring my daughter home,” Gervasi said in the note. “We miss her more than words can say and just want her safe in our arms again.”
Emmarae was reported missing at 9 p.m. on Monday, police said. Biondi and Gervasi added that she was last seen entering a blue Honda near their home on Terrell Street about 5 p.m. that day.
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“We have been pounding the pavement for two days [looking for her],” Biondi said. “She left the house with no no shoes and a t-shirt. She told her step-mom that she was going out to get something from the truck in the driveway.
“We looked upstairs in the house, and all of her things were there, left behind,” she added.
Family and friends have “been scouring hotels and motels all afternoon” on Wednesday looking for Emmarae out of fear that she may have been “picked up by a sex trafficker in the area.”
Vanished within five minutes of talking to her father
Emmarae vanished within five minutes of speaking with her father on the telephone while he was driving home from work, Biondi told Greater Long Island.
During what Biondi described as a pleasant conversation, the teen asked Gervasi when was he coming home and what was the family going to eat for dinner.
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Top photo: Emmarae Gervasi has been missing since Monday night (Photo provided by her family).
