Jacksonville family seeks help to find missing mom Kayla Bailey
A Jacksonville family is seeking help in finding Kayla Bailey, a mother of five, who has been reported missing since Monday morning.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville family is pleading for help in finding a well‑known photographer, wife and mother of five who they say vanished early Monday.
Kayla Bailey, 34, is a newborn photographer in Jacksonville and the mother of children ranging in age from 5 to 12. Her husband, Joshua Bailey, said her phone last pinged at a Sunoco gas station on U.S. 301 in Maxville around 6:39 a.m.
Since then, he said, the phone has either died or been turned off.
Kayla Bailey’s daughter told First Coast News she last saw her mother walking outside the family’s home at about 5:45 a.m. The two made eye contact briefly before the daughter went back to sleep. When she woke up later that morning, her mother was gone.
Kayla Bailey is described as 5’8 with blonde hair and glasses. Family members said she was last seen wearing a black romper and sandals.
Loved ones say her disappearance is completely out of character. According to relatives, she had recently struggled and stopped responding to clients from her longtime photography business.
Her husband said the family fears she may be in personal danger. Volunteers have organized search parties and passed out flyers in Maxville, while Bailey’s missing person post has circulated widely on social media.
Joshua Bailey urged his wife to contact family if she is able.
“We got five kids,” he said. “We got to take care of them. We don’t want, you know, definitely to be a single family home. We don’t want a situation where it’s like that. We want to be able to take care of our children together. We just hope that this can reach out to her and and and she can just, you know, give us a call, give us a text.”
Kayla Bailey’s mother, Lisa Lucas, also made an emotional plea.
“If somebody has her, please let them find it in their heart to let her go,” Lucas said. “This is not her character. She would never, ever, ever leave these kids. She wouldn’t do this to me.”
The family said a missing person report has been filed with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Authorities have not yet released new information. Anyone with information on Bailey’s whereabouts is urged to call JSO.
