Public help sought to find 12-year-old Los Angeles girl missing since February Published LOS ANGELES - A 12-year-old Los Angeles girl has been missing since late February, and a school psychologist who works with students in public schools in the downtown area pleaded on Monday for help in finding her. Hazel Palacio went missing on Feb. 28, said Sarah Kim, with the Los Angeles Unified School District's Psychological Services division. She said the girl is believed to have been seen on March 31 at Slauson and Vermont avenues in the South Los Angeles area. Palacio may have been with a man in a white car.