Police: Girl missing from Mercy First since October is found

By John Valentijohn.valenti@newsday.comMarch 20, 2017

A 15-year-old girl who went missing from a Syosset group home in October has been found safe, police said Monday.

Nassau County police said that Katelynn Rodriguez was located, but did not provide additional details.

She was last seen in October leaving the Mercy First group home on Convent Road in Syosset, becoming the subject of an alert issued by the police Missing Persons Squad.

By John Valenti

john.valenti@newsday.com

John Valenti, a reporter at Newsday since 1981, has been honored nationally by the Associated Press and Society of the Silurians for investigative, enterprise and breaking news reporting, as well as column writing, and is the author of “Swee'pea,” a book about former New York playground basketball star Lloyd Daniels. Valenti is featured in the Emmy Award-winning ESPN 30-for-30 film “Big Shot.”

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