Report: Homeless outreach volunteer missing after meeting parolee

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. --A California homeless outreach volunteer has gone missing after meeting with a parolee, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and CBS LA.

Santa Clarita mother Kristen Ghilardi, 29, was last seen Wednesday after saying she was going to meet the man, identified only as "Patrick," in Simi Valley, the LASD said in a press release.

Friend Ashley Bolger told CBS LA she and Ghilardi met "Patrick," a homeless parolee, through a church homeless outreach program they volunteered with. Bolger said Ghilardi wanted to help the man, and gave him a ride to his parole officer in Simi Valley a few weeks ago.

On Wednesday, Bolger said Ghilardi got a call and said she had to go to Simi Valley, northwest of Los Angeles, and would be back in time to pick her son up from school.

She never showed up, and friends and family tells the station it's unlike her to leave and be out of contact with her 10-year-old son.

"To leave her son who is the most important thing in the world to her? No. It's not like her. She wouldn't do that. Something is wrong," the missing woman's mother, Diane Ghilardi, told the station.

Family says calls to the woman's cellphone go straight to voicemail.

Ghilardi was reportedly last seen driving her 2006 charcoal grey, four-door Toyota Corolla. Authorities say the car has tinted rear windows.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Santa Clarita Sheriff's Office.