A 16-year-old Jack Hayward High School student vanished without a trace from a Pompano Beach, Florida Walmart store Saturday night, leaving her family frantically trying to find her.

Charencia Gay was on vacation with her family in Fort Lauderdale when she went missing, according to her mother Natasha Gay-Regis, who said the last time she saw her daughter was on footage from the store's surveillance cameras that showed her walking out the store's doors alone.

Gay-Regis said she believes somebody has convinced her daughter to leave her family and that she is in trouble.

The family, including Charencia, Gay-Regis, her husband and her 15-year-old son, arrived in Florida on the Balearia Bahamas Express ship from Grand Bahama on Friday to relax and do a little shopping, she said.

Three younger children in the family stayed in Grand Bahama.

"Everybody was excited and having fun," Gay-Regis told The Nassau Guardian from Fort Lauderdale last night.

"We went shopping that day (Saturday) and my husband wasn't feeling well so we went back to the room to sleep.

"About six o'clock, we got up and we went to the movies. We had a good time. Everybody was joking and laughing; we were having fun.

"Afterward, we decided to go to Walmart to do a little bit of shopping and then we were going to go back home and go back to bed."

Gay-Regis said the family entered the Walmart store around 9:30 p.m. to shop for school supplies.

"[Charencia] said she didn't need so much stuff because she was going into grade 12," Gay-Regis explained.

"But she asked me if she could go and look at some ballet stuff because I was going to be in the school supplies section for a while, because I'm shopping for all the kids."

That was the last time Charencia's mother saw her in person.

That night, Gay-Regis contacted police in South Florida.

She said they have since conducted extensive searches.

"We were with the police that whole night," she said. "They [searched] with helicopters, they [searched] the lakes. They searched the Walmart."

It wasn't until police reviewed surveillance footage that they discovered Charencia left the store of her own accord around 10 p.m. Saturday.

Since then, Gay-Regis has learned that her daughter's Facebook and Twitter accounts have been disabled and the history on her computer was cleared.

"I don't know who's helping her or who planned this, but I know my daughter is in a strange country and she doesn't know anybody," she said. .

"So I don't know who she would have gone to. I don't know how long she had this planned or what's going on." Gay-Regis was scheduled to return to Grand Bahama today, but she has extended her vacation to continue the search for her daughter.

Gay-Regis said her daughter is five feet tall and weighs 105 lbs.

She said anyone who has information on her daughter's whereabouts should contact law enforcement in South Florida, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, or Christine Stubbs of Operation Save Our Little Darlings (SOLD) at 1-(242)-601-0577 or 1-(242)-544-1307.

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