Sister of runaway teen, Rosie Munoz, wants her to return home

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Today makes twelve days since thirteen year old Rosie Munoz left her home on Partridge Street in Belize City. Since then, her family has heard from her only once and that was when she called last Sunday. Interestingly, she did not contact her immediate family and instead called her mother’s sister-in-law to say she is in Guatemala. The conversation was brief and the family is still not sure of Rosie’s whereabouts or if she is in any danger. News Five spoke to her older sister, Miguelita, who returned to Belize last Thursday, after spending over a year in Guatemala. Miguelita says she is devastated by Rosie’s disappearance. She gave us an update and pleaded to Rosie to return home.

Miguelita Munoz, Rosie’s Sister

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“She call but she neva talk to none us, not even to my mother. She just get in contact with my mother’s sister-in-law and told her that she is by the other side of Melchor in a village named something like the Ceiba—or I noh know—and she deh wit wah lady weh name Zaida but me noh know if dah true or if she is good or she is okay… if she is in good condition or something like dat.”

Delahnie Bain

“From what your mother’s sister-in-law told you, did she sound like she was in any kind of trouble?”

Miguelita Munoz

“She just tell we dat she want talk to wah bwai. My mother seh when she phone she tell ah like dat and she seh ih mi wah call back but ih noh call no moh. And whenever my mommy tell di gial [her sister-in-law] mek she sell ah di phone, my mommy mi wah pay but then she told di lady dat she mi wah give di phone to police and den she seh she noh wah sell it again. I noh know why, maybe she know something but she noh want seh it. People seh dat dehn si she round yah but we noh si ah yet. We just gone round searching but nothing. We noh know what fi do. We beg God and ask God mek she be okay and please mek she come back home again. I am very sad because she is not here and I want tell her if she is seeing me on the TV or anywhere where she is, mek she come back home right because my mother is sick and I noh want nothing bad happen to her and if she deh out deh and she di si dis news, please Rosie come back home because we want si you again and we noh want nothing bad happen to you. Please, we sad and you know.”

The family is once again asking the public to contact them at 669-8964 with any information on Rosie’s whereabouts.