Dulce Maria Alavez Missing for One Week After Vanishing From Playground in Possible Kidnapping

Dulce Alavez, 5, in a file photograph on left and in a convenience store getting ice cream on Sept. 16, 2019, shortly before she was taken from a playground in Bridgeton, New Jersey. FBI

A 5-year-old who was taken by an unknown man from a playground in New Jersey is still missing one week after the incident.

The search for Dulce Maria Alavez, who was taken on the afternoon of Sept. 16 and was the subject of an Amber Alert issued the next day, entered the eighth day on Monday, Sept. 23.