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When Sashana White checked the time at 4 p.m. on Thursday, July 24, and realised that her daughter, Kevona Bailey, had not returned home from summer school at Excelsior High, she instantly knew something was wrong.

Immediately, she began searching for the 13-year-old, but the teenager has not been seen since.

"It rough and is like mi can't even put it in words to explain how mi feel at dis moment," White told THE STAR. "We have searched everywhere for my daughter and the police are doing their best," she said.

White is now pleading with those responsible for her daughter's disappearance to send her home immediately.

"Mi a beg whoever have mi daughter to just make she come home. Mi just want her to come home. My daughter did not run away, somebody is responsible for her disappearance and mi just a beg dem send her home please," White said.

The teenager, who is from Tivoli Gardens in West Kingston, was last seen on Charles Street, Kingston 14. At the time of her disappearance she was wearing a navy blue and black Puma suit.

"Thursday was the last day of summer school and it normally over 1:30, so normally she reach home by like after 2 p.m. or after 3 p.m. thereabout, because a taxi she take," White said.

"When mi see 4 o'clock, and then 4:30 she still nuh reach home, mi pack up mi stall and start look fi her. When mi go a the school, no one was there, and the security seh him nuh remember if him see her. Mi go Half-Way Tree and den Town and mi still nuh see her, suh mi go to the station," the mother said.

White said she is still uncertain whether her daughter, who she described as a quiet and well-mannered girl, made it to summer school that day. She has received mixed responses from teachers and students.

"Some a seh she come and others saying they didn't see her, so I don't know," the mother said.

She told THE STAR that it would be out of character for the young teen to run away.

"Kevona is a nice little quiet girl. Dat little girl nuh give mi no type of problem. A house she grow inna, and a just recently she a tell her grandmother say she don't know her neighbours. She stay in and dat is why mi a seh if dem even have her somewhere, she probably don't even know how to escape," White lamented.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Kevona Bailey is being asked to contact the Denham Town police at 876-922-6441 or 119.