Police are looking for a teenage girl from St Jude’s Home for Girls who ran away after a group outing to the cinema.

The 17-year-old girl went to the Imax Cinema on November 30 with a group of girls and staff members from the St Jude’s Home.

When the movie was finished, the group was standing outside the compound, waiting for a maxi to pick them up.

While they were waiting, three of the girls ran off.

Two were found shortly afterwards but the third remains missing.

The missing girl was last seen wearing a green polo jersey, pink jacket, black jeans and sneakers.

She is fair in complexion, medium build, with straight black hair, a round face, thick eyebrows, and brown eyes.

Anyone with information on the teenager’s whereabouts is urged to contact the police.

Newsday tried calling St Jude’s but the phone went straight to voicemail.

Newsday then spoke with a senior official at the home who said he was unable to comment and advised us to call the office on December 2 for any official update.

St Jude’s is more than a century old and was initially known as the Catholic Girl’s Reformatory and the Girl’s Industrial School.

It caters to the needs and care of local displaced girls.

On its website, the Statutory Authorities Service Commission, which appoints civil servants to St Jude’s says the organisation has been run by various Catholic sisterhoods over the years but is now overseen by the order of the Corpus Christi Sisters.

“This school seeks always to build the minds, hearts, body and souls of girls, teaching them everything from basic proficiencies to vocational skills, to academic preparation for CXC training.”

Last year, St Jude’s was temporarily relocated from Belmont to Diego Martin after a fire in April damaged the second floor of a building on the compound.

The ageing infrastructure on the Belmont compound was about to fall foul of the requirements outlined in the Children’s Community Residences, Foster Homes and Nurseries Act.

The last estimated population of the school was 65 girls in 2023 but the current exact population is not known.

The teenager is not the first to run away from St Jude’s.

In 2019, five girls from the home were reported missing by a social worker after attending an event at the Barataria Recreation Ground, Sixth Avenue, Barataria.

The teens, however, returned to the home at 7pm that same day.

The previous year, six girls escaped during a riot at the home which resulted in significant damage to the dormitory and library.

Officials locked themselves in a room after they were attacked by girls during the incident.

Police recaptured five of the escaped girls after the riot.

Another girl injured her leg while trying to escape during the riot and was taken to hospital for treatment.

This is the second high-profile incident of this nature in the past four months.

In August three boys, aged 13, 14 and 15, ran away from the Rainbow Rescue Home for Boys.

They disappeared sometime after 4 pm on August 3 and were reported missing to the St Clair Poli