Tuesday, November 29, 2011

A one-year-old girl was found alive after being kidnapped and abandoned by a Hispanic who was angry at being interrupted while having sex with the toddler's mother

Lupita Gonzalez of Florida was found after a intensive search involving helicopters and bloodhound tracking dogs. Dozens of police with a Child Abduction Response Team combed a farmland and wooden areas while boats were deployed to several lakes in the area. Amazingly, the toddler was discovered under a bush more than two miles from where she he had been snatched by 23-year-old Carlos Rivera. Police said that she was alone for 12 hours before being discovered. Her mother had failed to report her missing as she worried the girl's father would find out about her having sex with another man. Rivera told police that he had grabbed the toddler because he was upset that he was interrupted while having sex with her mother Leah Wiley. He told investigators that he had paid 30-year-old Wiley for sex but it ended when she was called away to another room at a party held in rural Seville, Florida. Carlos Rivera, 23, was upset that he was interrupted while having sex with Leah Wiley, 30, whom he had paid. Rivera said that he snatched the toddler and left the party, but later worried about his actions and abandoned the girl in woodland. He called 911 to report the girl missing, but did not give police any firm details. Wiley told authorities that she suspected Rivera had taken the child but did not report her missing because she didn't want the child's father to find out that she had sex with Rivera. After being arrested Rivera initially told authorities that he remembered a little girl was at the party held in Seville but didn't know what happened to her. Later during questioning he gave police a vague description of the area where he abandoned her. Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said Rivera told investigators that he had paid Wiley to have sex with her. Rivera was charged with child abuse and kidnapping. He is also being held on charges out of Putnam County for failure to appear on charges of grand theft auto, driving under the influence with property damage and driving without a valid driver's license, according to court records. He is being held at the Volusia County Branch Jail without bail. Wiley was charged with one count of an act that could result in the physical/mental injury of a child. The Florida Department of Children and Families has taken custody of the child and Wiley's two other children.

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