(Update 10:45-a.m., 7/15) – The Iowa Department of Public Safety today (Wednesday), said “The five-hour window for the Amber Alert notification system has expired for Breasia Terrell – as it does for all Amber Alert cases – however the search is still underway for her as a missing person. The public is asked to call the Davenport Police Department at 563-326-6125 with any information related to her disappearance.”

Breasia Terrell

Authorities in Iowa issued an AMBER ALERT at around 12:45-a.m. today (Wednesday), with regard to a child who has been abducted and whose life is in danger. The child, 10-year old Breasia Terrell, of Davenport, was taken 3:30-a.m. Friday, July 10th. The suspect, 47-year old Henry Dinkins of Davenport, is in custody on a separate charge for violating the state’s sex offender registry law. Reports say the missing girl’s mother had a son with Dinkins and both children were visiting him together over the weekend. Dinkins was convicted of sexual abuse in 1990 is considered a “person of interest” in the girl’s disappearance.

Henry Earl Dinkins

Breasia Terrell is an African American female, 4-feet 5-inches tall, with braided hair. She weighs about 75 pounds, has black hair and brown eyes. She was last known to be wearing an oversized white t-shirt, shorts and white or pink flip-flops.