WABC By Stacey Sager
(New York -WABC, Sept. 30, 2005) - She loves chocolate but told an interviewer she doesn't like pickles. She refers to her mother as Monica and a man she was last seen with as Caesar.
Police reportedly are talking to a man named Caesar but they don't know if he is Valerie's father. He does appear to know the little girl.
It has now been five days since the little girl has been found crying.
Valerie says her dad took her out of bed late one night, took her somewhere and left.
Valerie, Four-Years-Old: "I like chocolate."
She also like pizza and corn. She says her mother name is Monica, she has two daddies and she goes to daycare.
But no one know why this four-years-old - who gives her name as Valerie - was found wandering the streets of Queens alone.
Valerie was in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens when she was found in the early morning hours last Sunday. She was alone. Georgina Vasaki says she heard cries.
Georgina Vasaki, Found Valerie: "I heard crying like a quarter to one in the morning, so I looked outside my window and saw a little girl across the street. She was in her pajamas and she was barefoot."
Valerie, Four-Years-Old: "I was crying and some people find me and they give me a sweater and everything."
Valeries says she has two daddies, Felipe and Caesar. A woman says she saw Eyewitness News' reports yesterday and recognized the girl immediately.
Melissa: "I know this little girl, I used to see her sometimes when I used to do my laundry. Her father is very loving and always, you know the way he would treat her, was like he would live and die for this child."
Melissa called 9-1-1 then called crimestoppers.
Last night detectives checked the neighborhood, going to the places where Melissa says she saw the little girl frequentally.
The child say she's four-years-old she's about 37 inches tall with fair skin and brown eyes and brown shoulder length hair.
When she was found Sunday in Ridgewood, she was wearing a matching white t-shirt and shorts and a red sweater.
The super of the building where the family is believed to have once lived did not recognize Valerie's picture.
Police confirm that they have been interviewing someone all morning long at the 104th precinct. Sources say it is a man named Caesar but they're not sure if he's Valerie's father. They say no one is under arrest and that there is still no sign of the girl's mother. The girl remains safe in foster care.
If you have any information about Valerie or her parents, call Crimestoppers at 800-577-TIPS.
Oh my,
She is adorable.
I hope they find out what happened.
From today's NY Post Story....
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/28885.htm
(this is a excerpt)
October 3, 2005 -- Cops are set to search an upstate garbage dump for the body of a pretty Queens mom whose jealous boyfriend admitted strangling her and then abandoning her 4-year-old daughter on a street, sources said yesterday.
Cesar Ascarrunz, 32, told police that after choking Monica Lozada-Rivaineira, 26, on Sept. 24, he put her body in a bag and left it on the street with the trash outside their Forest Hills apartment two days later, sources said.
When he went to retrieve the bag several hours later, it had already been picked up, he said.
Authorities said trash from the area ends up at an upstate site that they plan to search.
But cops, skeptical of the suspect's trash-dump tale, continued searching various Queens parks for Lozada-Rivaineira's body yesterday without success.
Meanwhile, Ascarrunz was ordered held without bail on murder and child-abandonment charges.
The victim's little daughter, Valery Lozada, captured the city's heart after being found wandering in Middle Village on Sept. 25.