# @newsday on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DNA7ShDPX6o
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/38325733-newsday-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/ade8c46c6a.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-08-06T13:00:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Newsday • Long Island News (@newsday) — https://gondola.cc/newsday

## Caption

It was 6:19 a.m. on the first day of fall 2023, and the 13-year-old Long Island girl was nowhere to be found.

One night earlier, she was upset. By morning, her bedroom was empty, her cellphone abandoned among her teddy bears and makeup.

Her father, Frank Gervasi, searched his Patchogue neighborhood for clues. He asked a neighbor if his Ring doorbell camera had picked up the girl’s departure. It had not.

There had been signs for a while that something was wrong. She had been bouncing between her divorced parents’ homes — her mother, Melissa Dervay, filed for divorce when she was 4 — and was staying in a house where her father and stepmother, Alyson Gervasi, had produced amateur porn posted to Pornhub, an adult website.

The girl, who Newsday is not naming because she is a victim of both alleged and adjudicated sex crimes, drew national attention when her 25-day disappearance ended after her father found her aboard a dilapidated yacht in Islip.

Since January, when news of the girl’s rescue broke, Newsday has obtained hundreds of pages of court records, police reports, official sworn statements and investigative records related to a dozen criminal cases in which the girl is an alleged victim. Reporters have interviewed dozens of people with knowledge of the girl, her disappearances and the criminal charges that followed.

Read more about what the missing girl’s story revealed about sex trafficking hiding in plain sight at the link in our bio.
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- **Views:** 22,333
- **Likes:** 667
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- **Comments:** 78

## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vinnie Matula | @vinmatula | https://gondola.cc/vinmatula | Social Media Manager |
| Newsday • Long Island News | @newsday | https://gondola.cc/newsday | Reporter/Journalist |

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