A Topeka mother is calling for the community’s help to find her daughter, who has been missing since Monday.
Kimberly Langer, 18, is a senior in the Shawnee Heights school district. According to her mother, Fran Delfs-Langer, Kimberly was last seen stepping off a bus after school Monday.
Delfs-Langer says Kimberly, who is developmentally disabled, is usually only home alone for 45 minutes before her parents return from work. When they came home Monday, Kimberly wasn’t there.
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“She turned 18 in January. She’s a special-needs kid who wants to be 18, but she’s just not developmentally there yet,” her mother said. “Since she turned 18 in January, we’ve had some serious troubles, so we’ve just been working with the police department.”
According to Delfs-Langer, Topeka police officers investigated the disappearance Monday night and Kimberly’s parents met with a detective Tuesday. Topeka police officials said the teenager’s name was entered Monday night into the national NCIC system as a missing person with disabilities, and that all Topeka police officers and reserves have received photos of Kimberly with contact information for her parents.
“Someone had to have picked her up,” Delfs-Langer says, since the teen doesn’t known how to drive. “She can’t take care of herself. She’s very vulnerable and naive and doesn’t understand boundaries.”
Word of the disappearance has spread quickly on social media websites, with Kimberly’s photo being shared thousands of times on Facebook. When strangers offer to help the family, Delfs-Langer asks them to pray.
Kimberly Langer is 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 115 pounds. She has long brown hair and green eyes.
Delfs-Langer says she fears her daughter has been abducted, but she hasn’t ruled out the possibility she left home willingly. If that is the case, her message to Kimberly is a simple one: “Please call us. Really, just come home.”
