Missing Child Depicted on Milk Carton Returns Home
A missing 13-year-old Lancaster girl, whose picture was displayed on milk cartons as part of a program to help find lost children, has returned home, authorities said Wednesday.
Doria Paige Yarbrough, who had been missing since last November, apparently ran away from home because of “personal problems,” but returned Tuesday night after friends she was staying with in Fresno saw her picture on a television news report last week concerning the new program, according to a statement issued by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Deputies said the friends persuaded Doria to return home. Her mother got a call from the girl Tuesday night and picked her up at a bus stop in Lancaster, officers said.
Doria is one of two children pictured on 400,000 Alta-Dena milk cartons this week after an appeal to the dairy by Sheriff Sherman Block and state Assemblyman Gray Davis (D-Los Angeles.)
The other child, Monica Judith Bonilla, 7, who disappeared from her Burbank home in September, 1982, is still missing.
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