Miramar Parents Anguished Over Missing Daughter, 17

Two Miramar parents are worried sick about their 17-year-old daughter, who is still missing two days after they last heard from her.

Naketa Leiba last spoke with her mother Wednesday afternoon, about a mile away from home, where her bus dropped her off. She called to ask her mother Sharon Leiba to pick her up, but she couldn’t and asked her to walk home.

They haven’t seen her since, and Sharon Leiba wishes so much now that she had gone to pick her up.

"And I called at about 4:20, and she said 'Oh, mom, I'm on the way.' And when I heard 'on the way,' I heard a crackle or something and then her phone went dead,” her mother said Friday evening.

Her father, Michael Leiba, says “there is no way on Earth” that his daughter ran away, and is certain that somebody has her “against her will."

Her family and friends say it’s all baffling, because Naketa Leiba talked about her dental appointment Wednesday, about her singing lesson the day after that, the prom soon, and college this fall.

Lifelong friend Quinton Laurent said she even posted a tweet Wednesday “that she put out saying that she was on her way home."

“I can't sleep!” her father said. “Because I know she's out there and I can't sleep. And I'm trying to lie down and I hear screaming in my head. And I can hear her screaming in my head."

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