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SOUTH JORDAN — Parents of a missing South Jordan teen pleaded for their daughter to come home safely Sunday as they retraced some of her last-known steps.
Alisa Petrov, 15, was last seen on April 21, and South Jordan police have characterized her as a “runaway juvenile who is endangered.”
Parents Nikolai and Olga Petrov said Sunday afternoon they were concerned about several possibilities, including whether their daughter was lured away by an adult or that she was potentially trafficked.
“That’s what we are suspecting at the moment,” Olga Petrov told KSL TV. “We have no confirmation, but concerns.”
The mother said she dropped her daughter off at her school classes in American Fork on Monday, April 21, near 655 South and 500 East.
“She entered the building, she didn’t make it to the classroom,” Olga Petrov said. “The teachers said she never saw her that day.”
Instead, the parents said Alisa went to a nearby gas station where teens often go for snacks and told two boys that she planned to run away.
“They told her, ‘No, don’t do it,’ but I guess she went for it anyway,” Olga Petrov said.
From there, the parents said they learned that Alisa got someone to give her a ride to the UTA FrontRunner station at 6786 W. 7750 North, where she then boarded the train and traveled to Provo.
The parents and police said Alisa approached multiple people about helping her in her journey.
“She asked a girl to get her a ticket in exchange of cash for the bus to Las Vegas,” Olga Petrov said.
The 15-year-old was last seen at the Provo FrontRunner station at 690 S. University Ave, and her trail has gone cold since, the parents said.
The Petrovs said though their daughter was always on her phone, including during their excursion to the ski slopes the Sunday before her disappearance, she has not been active on social media over the past 13 days, and she has not responded to messages.
“If she’s in Las Vegas, it might be really dangerous,” Nikolai Petrov said. “Someone can abuse her. It’s really bad.”
The couple said they had spoken with Alisa within the past 6 months about talking online to strangers, including in places like Discord and Snapchat, and they instructed her to delete contacts she didn’t know.
They said they had checked her daughter’s phone in the days prior to her appearance, and there was nothing to suggest she was going to run away.
The family set up its own website for Alisa and they pleaded Sunday afternoon for her safe return.
“(Our) whole life is upside down right now,” Olga Petrov said. “We need her back. We miss her.”
A police spokesperson told KSL TV on Sunday that there were no updates on the case.
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