Missing 12-year-old NYC girl reunited with family after disappearing five days earlier — AirTag used to find her
A missing 12-year-old Brooklyn girl who reportedly ran away from home and was wandering about Manhattan has been found safe five days after she vanished.
Victorious “Tori” Perozo was reunited with her family Sunday after she failed to come home from her Queens school on April 9, police confirmed in an update.
Tori was reported missing by her sister Eliana Perozo after an AirTag attached to her keys showed the pre-teen heading into Manhattan instead of back home to Prospect Lefferts Gardens after she finished classes at The Baccalaureate School for Global Education.
Perozo — who is her sister’s legal guardian due to their mother’s absence in their lives — previously told The Post she last saw her little sister as she headed to school at around 6:50 a.m.
The pre-teen had gotten in trouble with her the night before.
“I think she’s a 12-year-old who survived a lot of loss and there’s so much support and mental health services and people that love her and support her — but I feel that’s not the case in her 12-year-old mind so she ran away,” Perozo said.
The older sibling said she took away her smartphone after she caught Tori texting with an older boy and replaced it with a flip phone.
But Tori wasn’t answering the phone and Perozo saw the AirTag traveling in the opposite direction of their home.
“When school let out, I was watching her on her AirTag. I can see her get on the correct train from school … then I saw her go into the city and then once she hit the city I saw her AirTag go up towards the Bronx instead of down towards Brooklyn,” the worried sister said.
“That’s when I knew that she was at least going somewhere she wasn’t supposed to be going.”
Perozo and a friend tracked down the AirTag to an apartment complex in the Bronx where a man answered and said he had picked the Apple device off the ground where it last pinged near 134th Street and St. Anne’s Avenue.
He said he never saw Tori when he found the AirTag.
The girl was later spotted on security footage in the East Village early Thursday morning, police told Perozo.
She appeared to be getting on the N/R line at the NYU-8th St. subway stop at around 5:45 a.m.
“A lot of people are working hard to find her and she’s really loved and I don’t want this moment to be a defining moment in her life. She’s a really great kid,” Perozo previously said.
Perozo did not immediately respond to The Post’s message Tuesday.
