Another teen is missing; this time for over a week
Rosie Munoz
On Thursday we reported on Neisa Pipersburgh, a nineteen year old who disappeared from her home. Her mother, Alice Williams, came to our studios to ask the public for any information that may indicate that her daughter is safe. She has still not been located. On Thursday, Williams indicated that a bag with her daughter’s passport and identification card was missing. However, News Five spoke to Williams this afternoon and she said that she found the bag in Neisa’s room. And not only was her passport in the bag, but her asthma pills and pump were also in the bag. Williams is very alarmed because Neisa always had the bag in her possession since she needs the medication. Unfortunately, tonight, we have another report about a missing teen. Thirteen year old Rosie Munoz left home from last week Friday, that’s eight days ago. Though the matter has been reported to the police, the child has not been found and her mother Aracelli Garrido, is desperately looking for her young daughter.
Aracelli Garrido, Mother of Missing Teen
Aracelli garrido
“She is Rosie Munoz and I see she at Friday. The last time I see her at Friday when I go out because I always go out and sell. I left her home with sister-in-law. And when I come in she done gone and she seh she gone with her sister gone mind fi she cousin, but later when I notice she neva gone deh. I no know where she gone.”
Jose Sanchez
“So she’s been missing over a week?”
Aracelli Garrido
“Yes from Friday. Today she done gone out like eight days right now.”
Jose Sanchez
“Has she run away before?”
Aracelli Garrido
“Yes she gone one time for one day, but next morning she come back.”
Jose Sanchez
“Does she have friends, boyfriend, anything you know?”
Aracelli Garrido
“They tell me that always they see her with some boyfriends and friends but I don’t know. I don’t know them and I noh know if she got any girlfriend too.”
Jose Sanchez
“Did she and you have any problems? Was she upset about anything?”
Aracelli Garrido
“No. I noh got no problem with she—only that she kinda rude. Sometimes when I send ahn da shop and she take long and I have to scold her because I tell ahn I noh want nothing bad fi she. I want things straight fi she.”
Jose Sanchez
“Was she attending school?”
Aracelli Garrido
“No, she wasn’t attending school—she done stop going to school.”
Jose Sanchez
“If she’s out there and she’s watching the news what would you like to say to her? She’s only thirteen?”
Aracelli Garrido
“Yes. Tell ahn that I love ah and mek she could please come home. Everybody di wait fi she. Fi she sistas—she got two sister—they come from Guatemala from yesterday and deh say that deh want see ah too cause long time deh no see she, more than two years.”
If anyone has seen the troubled teen, please call family members at 666-8964 or 669-8964.
where is all these teen girl disappearing to . wow it just look like the girls they are going missing again .
The last serial killer that was in belize a couple years ago left Belize for now, is dead, or in jail, because the killings of young girls stopped. Lets hope he is not back on the streets again.
This case in it’s self is sad, it seem like the whole environment surrounding this teen is not so good. Kids don’t just dont run away from home if the situation at home is good, the girl is not in school either, her future doesn’t look so bright, tsk, tsk, tsk.
Anyhow, I hope when she is found, she will be ok.
I think it would be really helpful if the online news stations carried a link to information on missing persons, so that the public can better assist these families.
Channel 5, you could put up a banner on your homepage with the photographs of Neisa Pipersburgh and Rosie Munoz.
The Belize Police Department has a very visible link to its Missing Persons page. I was shocked at the number of missing person files.
Take a look at their photo gallery of missing persons: http://belizepolice.bz/index.php?option=com_phocagallery&view=category&id=4&Itemid=167
Again i will say…..Parents are to be blamed. Set rules in your home and make sure your kids abide by them. Too many children trying to be adults that is why adult situations happening to them. Mothers know how hard life is out there for a “female”, let alone with kids. Teach your daughters and sons to live by the rules of the home. Those mothers that tolerate their teenaged daughters with boyfriends and some big Men will cry for their children. A Mothers job is to nurture her children, but because she have to go out to work to maintain her children, the nurturing is lacking in the home. Mothers are the ones responsible for teaching their children respect and discipline in the home. Mothers why are you lacking? Why is a 13 year old little girl out of school in the first place? Set rules in the home and if those living in the home can not abide by them then you let them leave. Tough LOVE is what these kids today need!
YE without sin throw the first stone…. If you live in glass be very careful. Looking from the outside we love to judge … being inside is a different story. BM
Laaaaawd BM! You’ve only read an extremely condensed version of what happened. How can you infer all this stuff from what’s available in the report?!
BM obviously is a male with no children. He without sin cast the first stone….pleeeease! How could he blame the mother. Since when is a ‘mother’ a family. Where is the father isn’t he as much to blame for what happens to his daughter or he’s probably a dead beat like the majority of Belizean “sperm donors” I mean “fathers”. Please get a life before you start casting judgement on who is to blame for children running away from home.
BM, Nurturing is not lacking in all homes, i am the mother of 4 children and my eldest is 19 years and i still have control over him. he tells me where he is going each time he wants to go out and i have to give him permission. I am tired of men and others always blaming mothers for what happen to children. Have you ever taken a look and saw that mothers are the strong head of the household while is the father is absent. maybe you should send a advice for them to be a part of the “family” also. So stop casting judgement on on who is to blame. Are you a part of your family?. Mothers work hard to provide for their family because they are the ones the children can depend on.
My fellow bloggers,
Please show some level of discretion when you decide to make comments about such a sensitive matter. Try to put yourselves in the position of these families, these mothers, I think is not a time to pass judgement. Its not about censorship, but its about supporting the families. If any one have any information however little it may seem, what they should do is contact the police.
For right now we have no idea what’s happened to these young ladies. What we all hope is that these young ladies return safely.
If parents are not to be blamed half way for the way their children turns out, then who the hell should be blamed, the G.O.B?
Kids don”t need a military home Bm, (that is old school) although I get the point you are making here. kids in belize need more connection with their parents, kids do not need to be controlled, trying to controlled your kids can be quite destructive, and often parents are appalled by their illusion of control, then it’s too late.
Parents have the responsibility to be great role models for their kids, be great parents, and lead their kids on a great path to great success. Belize men continue to make babies and then run away, but it’s time to stop blaming only the no-good in men in Belize, start blaming the women as well, they are a big part of the problem.take care of their kids, don’t wait for god to do it.
this young girl is not in school, and by the look of the her and her mother they are poor, no father around, and no money. This girl has a house, but not a home.
The connection between mom and kids is lost, and this is the outcome, one that should be expected.
I hope that she will be ok when she is found.