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Missing pregnant teen Morgan Martin

11:13 AM, Aug 2, 2012

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (WTSP) -- A St. Petersburg mother is very worried; it's been a week since her pregnant teen daughter disappeared.

Leah Martin said her daughter, Morgan, walked out her home along the 2800 block of 17th Avenue South wearing pajamas to talk to the father of her unborn child.

"She was excited about it being a girl. She wrote her name in the sidewalk. And she was excited and I just think he wasn't," said Martin.

Morgan, who is four months pregnant, has not been seen or heard from since. She left behind her purse and other belongings. Her mother fears the worst.

"She's a good kid. She doesn't deserve whatever is happening," said Martin.

Her sister said it's not like the teen at all to just disappear for days. "I'm just hoping that she's doing something stupid and just ran away. But I'm telling you, it's not like her not to answer her phone or call somebody," said Sierra Cahill.

Since Thursday, the family and police detectives have posted hundreds of fliers around the area. They're hoping someone knows something.

According to police, the teen may have left the area in a white vehicle. If anyone has any information on Morgan, call St. Petersburg police at 727-893-7780.

www.ksdk.com/news/article/330959/28/Family-fears-worst-for-missing-pregnant-teen

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Pregnant 17-year-old St. Pete girl vanishes; still missing one week later

Last Updated: Thursday, August 02, 2012 @ 10:20PM

A pregnant 17-year-old St. Petersburg girl vanished more than a week go and hasn't been seen since.

Morgan Martin's family said she got a phone call just after midnight July 25th, went outside in a sweat suit and slippers, and went missing. Her mother, Leah Martin, said she and her family are very worried about the teen who is 4 months pregnant.

According to her mother, it was out of her daughter's character to have taken off and not told anyone. Knowing the circumstances of her disappearance, she was very blunt about what she thinks may have happened to her daughter: "I don't really think she's alive anymore," she said.

St. Petersburg Police have talked to Martin's friends, family and the father of her unborn baby, but they have not developed many leads to date. The family has put up fliers, as they try to spread the word, holding out faint hope Martin is still alive.

The missing teen is described as 5'2'', 175 pounds, with black hair and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing a white tank top, pink jacket with fur around the hood, gray sweat pants and the pink slippers. She went missing from her home in the 2800 block of 17th Ave. S.

She took her cell phone when she walked out of the house, but no calls have been answered since. She did not take her purse nor any money. No sign of foul play has been found and the girl's disappearance is still considered a missing persons case.

If you have information in Martin's disappearance, you are asked to contact the St Petersburg Police Department at 727-893-7780. Anonymous tipsters can call our Tip Line at 727-892-5000 or Text a Tip at 727-420-8911.

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In Print: Friday, August 3, 2012

Pregnant St. Petersburg teen's disappearance called ominous

ST. PETERSBURG — The twin bed's polka-dotted comforter is tossed haphazardly over rainbow-striped sheets. The walls are fuchsia, a child's stuffed Eeyore dolls look every which way.

This is where Leah Martin comes to talk to her daughter.

"Come on, Morgan, this has got to be the day," she says. "Today, you're going to come home. You've got to. I don't know if I can do this anymore."

Morgan Keyanna Martin, 17, has been missing for 10 days.

The pregnant teen vanished from her St. Petersburg home without anything but a cellphone. Police have declared her disappearance disconcerting and continue to investigate. So far, they haven't found much.

"We don't have any evidence of an abduction, no evidence of a homicide or an assault," said St. Petersburg police spokesman Mike Puetz. "We just have a set of circumstances that strike a very ominous tone."

So every day, Leah Martin talks to the emptiness.

"Even if she's dead, if it's come to that point, I just want to find her," said Martin, 43. "Dead or alive, I just want her home."

Morgan was last seen sitting in a brown armchair just inside the family's front door at 2808 17th Ave. S.

It was late, about 12:20 a.m. on July 25, and she was on her cellphone. As usual.

Morgan told her mother and older sister she was going outside to talk to someone. Then she walked out the front door wearing fuzzy pink slippers, pajama pants and a white tank top.

She never returned.

In the morning, friends and family began to call, text, try to reach her on Facebook. No one answered.

Martin said her phone bill shows that Morgan received more than 1,000 calls from concerned family and friends the first day she was gone.

"There's obviously some concern that this just doesn't seem right," Puetz said. "Scenarios like this usually don't have a positive outcome."

A witness told investigators he saw a white car parked in the home's driveway that night, but it is unknown whether Martin ever approached or got into that vehicle, Puetz said.

No one has heard from the teen since she walked out her front door. This, Martin said, is nothing like her daughter.

"I hear from her three, four, five times a day when I'm at work; she calls me all the time," Martin said. "She's not a runaway. I know my daughter. She won't go anywhere without letting somebody know."

She did run away from home once when she was 15. She went to a friend's house and called her sister, Sierra Cahill. Police picked her up within a day.

"She told me where she was, then said, 'Don't tell Mom,' " said Cahill, 20. "That's how she was. She could never just disappear."

Detectives with the Police Department's Crimes Against Children division have not found evidence of foul play, Puetz said. After interviewing friends, family and the father of Morgan's unborn daughter, investigators consulted with homicide detectives. But it's still a missing-person case, Puetz said.

Morgan lives with her sister, their mother and a friend of the family, Roneisha Wynn, 19.

The three have spent the past week swapping Morgan stories and trying to keep one another's spirits raised. They've also taken turns blaming themselves, each saying they should have gone after her the night she vanished.

Martin wishes she could have taught her daughter to trust less.

"I used to tell her all the time, you have got to quit thinking the best in everybody or we're going to find you dead in a ditch one day," Martin said.

Morgan is 5 feet 2, 175 pounds, and is of mixed race but appears Hispanic, police said. She has black hair, brown eyes and was last seen wearing a white tank top, a pink jacket with fur around the hood, gray bottoms and fuzzy pink slippers.

www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/pregnant-st-petersburg-teens-disappearance-called-ominous/1243803

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Statewide alert issued for missing 17-year-old girl who is pregnant

ST. PETERSBURG — The Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued a statewide alert Monday indicating there is reason to believe a missing 17-year-old's life may be in danger.

Morgan Keyanna Martin, who is four months pregnant, has been missing for nearly two weeks.

She was last seen walking out the front door of her home at 2808 17th Ave. S to meet someone to whom she had been speaking on her cellphone, family members said.

Martin, who is 5 feet 2, 175 pounds, and of mixed race but appears Hispanic, has black hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a white tank top, a pink jacket with fur around the hood, gray bottoms and fuzzy pink slippers the night of her disappearance.

St. Petersburg Police officials have called the case alarming, noting Martin had only a cellphone on her when she vanished.

"Given all the property she left behind, she didn't appear to be in a position to just leave on her own," said police spokesman Mike Puetz. "That's not typical of a person who runs away from home."

www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/statewide-alert-issued-for-missing-17-year-old-girl-who-is-pregnant/1244460