A 17-year-old foster child has disappeared from her Augusta home, with authorities now seeking the public’s help to locate her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udd0d The Details:<\/strong> Jamya Sowell, 17, was last seen around 2 p.m. on July 31 leaving her foster home on the 1500 block of Avalon Avenue on foot. According to the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office, she was wearing a black shirt, pink pants, and carrying a blue backpack when she disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Authorities describe Sowell as 5’6″ tall and weighing approximately 175 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udea8 Why It Matters:<\/strong> When teens go missing from foster care, they face heightened risks of exploitation, trafficking, or harm while unsupervised, making community assistance crucial for their safe return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udc6e\u200d\u2640\ufe0f How To Help:<\/strong> Anyone with information about Jamya Sowell’s whereabouts should contact the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office at 706-821-1020 or 706-821-1080.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Sources:<\/strong> Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 17-year-old foster child has disappeared from her Augusta home, with authorities now seeking the public’s help to locate her. \ud83d\udd0d The Details: Jamya Sowell, 17, was last seen around 2 p.m. on July 31 leaving her foster home on the 1500 block of Avalon Avenue on foot. According to the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":227988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6827],"tags":[16836,18685,18684,18686],"class_list":["post-227987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-missing","tag-current","tag-foster-home","tag-jamya-sowell","tag-runaway","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}