PENN HILLS, PA (NBC) — A set of twins in Pennsylvania have not been seen for at least a decade, and authorities are trying to figure out what happened.
Police in Penn Hills are questioning Patricia Fowler, 47, who is charged with concealment of the whereabouts of a child in addition to several other charges.
The twins, Ivon and Inisha, were born in 1998 when Fowler was single and living in Braddock. The pair would be 17 years old today.
The state took the children in 2000 when one of them was burned in a bathtub, but Fowler managed to get her children back.
Last month, four of Fowler’s younger children were removed from her current home in Penn Hills. But the twins were nowhere to be found.
Police are using the old picture to help identify the teenagers.
“Right now the photo is being sent to national center for missing and exploited children,” said Penn Hills Police detective Leo Johe. “They are going to try and do an age progression and hopefully get us a better idea of what the kids may look like nowadays.”
The father of the children was incarcerated for the first few years of the children’s life. When he got out of jail, he was told by Fowler that the children were living with relatives in the South.