Isabella Kalua.Photo: Honolulu Police Department
A 6-year-old girl has been missing in Hawaii for five days, prompting the FBI to join the investigation.
Isabella Kaluawas last seen on Sunday nightat her home in Waimanalo, Oahu, the Honolulu Police Department said in apress releaseMonday. The FBI joined search efforts on Wednesday,Hawaii News Nowreported.
“We hope that this will change in the near future as the investigation and search for Isabella continues,” the statement said. “At this time foul play has not been ruled out.”
Thesearchcurrently spans from Waimanalo Beach to the Olomana Golf Course, according to ABC News, and has included crews from the coast guard and volunteers in addition to police and the FBI.
Isabella was in a foster home under the care of Sonny and Lehua Kalua until they adopted her within the last year,theStar-Advertiserreported. The couple reportedly changed her legal name from Ariel Sellers to Isabella Kalua, her biological family told the outlet.
Sonny and Lehua withdrew Isabella from kindergarten at Waimanalo Elementary in June, a spokesperson for the Department of Education tells PEOPLE. Isabella attended kindergarten virtually last school year because schools were shut down due to COVID-19, the spokesperson tells PEOPLE.
When school returned to in-person learning, they opted for Isabella to continue with distance learning.
In June, her adoptive family filed paperwork with the school to withdraw her with the intent to home school, the spokesperson says.
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“I don’t want to think the worst-case scenario,” Alena Kaeo, Isabella’s other aunt, said. “But it is always is a possibility. Again, I’m trying to keep my faith as strong as possible and I pray — I pray hard that she is safe. I don’t want to think the worst but it is a possibility.”
Anyone with information about Kalua’s whereabouts is asked to call HPD’s CrimeStoppers at (808) 955-8300. The public can also send anonymous web tipshere.
source: people.com
