Since her disappearance, the Black Hills Children’s Home has been cited by state and federal regulators for waiting 80 minutes to call 911, for having radios that were on different channels and for lacking planning and training in runaway prevention. She was wearing a long-sleeved gray shirt with flowers, blue jeans, and black snow boots. Serenity was 9 years old when she disappeared from the Black Hills Children’s Home (BHCH), a treatment center for children with emotional and behavioral problems, in the 24100 block of Rockerville Road outside of Rapid City, South Dakota February 3, 2019. Jeffs, who mentions Seth in his memoir Lost Boy. Top right is a picture of Warren Jeffs, president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church), and (bottom right) is Seth Jeffs, Warren Jeffs brother and a high-ranking official in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who is also is the uncle of Brent W. In April 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the state Department of Social Services (DSS) found the children’s home violated protocol by waiting more than 90 minutes to call 911 after Dennard ran away.ĭespite suspending the search for Dennard, Pennington police said the missing person case remains open and they welcome new leads.įor the latest true crime and justice news, subscribe to the ‘Crime Stories with Nancy Grace’ podcast.Serenity Dennard (left) went missing from the Black Hills Children’s Home (BHCH), a treatment center for children in 2019. However, there was no sign of the 9-year-old upon their return, according to reports.
They went to the children’s home and informed the staff before heading back to South Rockerville Road. Two people in a nearby parking lot reportedly saw Dennard running north of South Rockerville Road on the day she was last seen. Instead, they were said to have dispatched additional staff for help. The second employee allegedly did not follow the 9-year-old because they were watching the two remaining children. Serenity was said to have taken off while one of the employees pursued the other child. Two employees were reportedly watching Dennard and three other children as they played in the facility’s gym when one of the children ran away. Two months after Dennard vanished, multiple dog teams reportedly detected a cadaver scent in the vicinity where the 9-year-old was last seen. Police initially classified their search as a recovery mission because of the freezing temperatures at the time Dennard disappeared. Dennard’s legal guardians said they enrolled Dennard in the inpatient program because she had behavioral issues due to being removed from her biological parents’ care and being placed with numerous foster families, according to the Journal. The children’s home reportedly provides treatment to 4- to 14-year-olds who have experienced abuse, trauma, or mental and behavioral health issues.
Sheriff Kevin Thom told the Rapid City Journal that the last search for Dennard was on January 13 of this year.ĭennard apparently ran away from the Black Hills Children’s Home in Rockerville on February 3, 2019, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Investigators reportedly fielded 275 leads in Dennard’s unsolved disappearance while more than 66 agencies logged 6,000 miles while looking for the girl. The Pennington County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that they are discontinuing the search for Serenity Dennard as they have received no new information in her case. Police in South Dakota announced Thursday that they have suspended the search for a 9-year-old girl who vanished from a children’s home nearly two years ago.
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