‘I am non-stop crying’: Victorian mum’s impassioned plea for missing 16yo son

The Melbourne mother raised the alarm when her 16-year-old son failed to return home from school on Monday.

A Melbourne teenager has been spotted in Sydney, several days after he was reported missing.

Krishank Karthik was expected to leave for Suzanne Cory High School in Melbourne’s west on Monday morning but never made it to class. 

The 16-year-old was last seen at 7.30am on Monday, leaving his Truganina home carrying extra clothes, a small suitcase and his backpack. 

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Teenager failed to show up to class for two weeks

When the teenager failed to come home from school on Monday afternoon, his mother, Shobara, raised the alarm. 

She called his friends, who made the shocking revelation that her son hadn’t been to school in two weeks. 

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Shobara then reported her missing son to the police. 

It’s understood the teenager was spotted at 1pm in Melbourne Central on the day he went missing before selling his phone at 1.20pm on Swanston Street in Melbourne’s CBD.  

According to reports, Krishank also switched his Myki, meaning he is untraceable. 

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However, a recent update from Victoria Police believes the boy had checked into emergency accommodation in Surry Hills, Sydney, shortly before 5am on Tuesday. 

The school believed the year 11 student was absent from school due to sickness, but his family had no clue about his absence until he was reported missing. 

“Krishank has been going from home saying that he was going to school and he hasn’t gone to school,” the teen’s aunt, Mathangi, told 7News. 

“He comes home at the same time as you come back from school.”

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“I have not slept a minute”

According to his mother, the Year 11 student is “so good at his studies, he's one of the most brilliant boys in his class”. 

She said she had no clue what her son could have been doing while he was supposed to be at school. 

According to a report from 9News, Shobara claimed he had logged into his school’s network and marked himself as absent on holiday on behalf of a parent. 

Now, the heartbroken Victorian mother has shared an impassioned plea for her teen to come home. 

“I am just non-stop crying. All I’m praying is that you are back, Krish,” she told 7News. “I have not slept a minute. He knows he’s the world, he’s our world.” 

Krishank was last seen wearing a grey hoodie, black pants and black shoes.

Originally published as ‘I am non-stop crying’: Victorian mum’s impassioned plea for missing 16yo son