SALT LAKE CITY--MISSING 5 YEAR OLD DESTINY

Parents Say 5-Year-Old Vanished From Porch

July 19, 2006

SALT LAKE CITY -- Police scoured the neighborhood Tuesday in search of a missing 5-year-old girl whose parents said she disappeared from her front porch after arguing with them about having to go to bed.

Destiny Norton was last seen Sunday night. Her parents, Rachael and Ricky Norton, said it was unlikely she would have wandered off.

Web Site: FindDestiny.net

The case was being investigated as a missing person, not an abduction, Detective Joe Cyr said. The family is not under suspicion, he said. The family set up a search center at a nearby park. Dozens of volunteers looked for the girl and handed out fliers. Police were focusing on the block where the girl lives and the block directly west of her home, police Detective Robin Snyder said.


Officers were searching cars, sheds and abandoned buildings, Cyr said. A $15,000 reward was offered for information leading to a resolution in the case, Snyder said.


Destiny, who is 3 1/2 feet tall and about 45 pounds, with brown eyes and blonde hair, was last seen wearing a long black-and-gray adult-sized T-shirt. Her missing child Web site said that Destiny's hair is short and blonde with green streaks in it, but that it may have been cut and/or dyed another color. Also, her bottom row of teeth are all covered in silver caps. Police have questioned about 100 registered sex offenders who live in the area.


Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Salt Lake City Police Department at (801) 799-3000. A cash reward has been offered for information leading to a resolution of the case. The tips number for that is (801) 799-INFO (801-799-4636).