Children and Mentally Disabled Woman Still Missing

She's not considered a danger to them, but the mentally disabled woman who was last seen at a Long Beach fast food restaurant with a neighbor's child and a visiting little girl remains missing, and police continued to seek public help in finding them.

Missing are the woman with a mild intellectual disability and the two young children -- who were last seen leaving a Long Beach fast food restaurant. Long Beach police did not name the restaurant nor its address and distance from the apartment, so it is not clear what might have taken the trio 75 minutes to walk to their destination.

KNBC News' Jason Kandel and Angie Crouch reported Sunday night that the adult considers herself the babysitter in charge of the children and, in fact, has her own 1-year-old.

Marie Williams, 25, Sarah White, 8, and Nicholas Sanders, 6, all left an apartment complex near Santa Fe Avenue and Spring Street about 4:45 p.m. Saturday to walk to a fast food restaurant, according to a police department media alert. Police said Williams and the children arrived at the restaurant at closing time, about 6 p.m., and were turned away.

The trio was last seen walking north on Santa Fe Avenue.

--Williams is a black woman, 5-feet-5 tall, weighing 170 pounds and with short brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a turquoise short sleeve shirt, jean capris and dark-colored tennis shoes.

--Sarah White is a 4-foot tall black girl, weighing 45 pounds with braided hair and brown eyes, was last seen wearing a white short sleeve shirt, jeans, and pink and black tennis shoes with heels called ``Heelies.''

--Nicholas Sanders is a 4-foot tall black boy, weighing 50 pounds with short hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a blue and green long-sleeved, button- down shirt, jeans with black tennis shoes.

According to KNBC's story, Williams has only lived about two weeks at the conplex and has a history of wandering; she's been staying with a cousin while her family searches for a group home for her. At prior group homes, Willians allegedly wandered away. Her infant child is in foster care.

Before calling Long Beach police, the family told KNBC, it searched the area, and there have since been sightings of the trio; the little girl's mother stressed that Williams is not a threat. 

"She is under the belief she's babysitting the kids or playing mommy to the kids," White's mom, Alshanika Franklin, told KNBC News.

There was no family relation between the missing three. Williams lives at the complex with a relative. White is from the Palmdale area and was in Long Beach with her mother visiting friends who live at the same complex. Sanders and his family also reside at the complex. Long Beach police asked anyone who may have seen them or knows their whereabouts to call 9-1-1 immediately.

--City News Service contributed