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Father tracks kidnapped daughter using phone's parental controls, authorities say
nbcnews.com ^ | December 27, 2025 | Matt Lavietes

Posted on 12/27/2025 11:19:05 AM PST by lowbridge

The father of a teenage girl who deputies say was kidnapped on Christmas Day found her using his phone’s parental controls, according to authorities in Texas.

A 15-year-old girl was reported kidnapped from the Houston suburb of Porter on Thursday after her parents said she took her dog out for a walk but did not return, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

Authorities said the girl’s father tracked her phone using parental controls, which led him to a secluded, partially wooded area in Harris County, roughly two miles from Porter.

Her father located her and her dog inside a maroon-colored pickup truck with a partially nude 23-year-old man, the sheriff’s office said. The father helped his daughter escape from the truck and contacted law enforcement, the sheriff’s office added.

Authorities did not name the father or his teenage daughter.

The man, Giovanni Rosales Espinoza, was taken into custody without incident and charged with aggravated kidnapping and indecency with a child, the sheriff’s office said, alleging he threatened the girl with a knife and abducted her off the street. He remains in the Montgomery County Jail at this time with no bond, according to authorities.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: daughterkidnapped; espinoza; giovanniespinoza; parentalcontrols; rapist; rosalesespinoza; texas
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To: DownInFlames

Instant and permanent justice.


21 posted on 12/27/2025 11:43:48 AM PST by alstewartfan (I AM Charlie Kirk. ❤️✝️)
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To: lowbridge

One of Biden’s newcomers?


22 posted on 12/27/2025 11:44:44 AM PST by alstewartfan (I AM Charlie Kirk. ❤️✝️)
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To: DownInFlames

Make sure you get him in the front. “He was charging right at me’


23 posted on 12/27/2025 11:46:33 AM PST by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: redangus

Just look at perp’s expression in that photo. He doesn’t look like he’d be registering the slightest bit of guilt or remorse or fear after having been apprehended even for having killed his own mother, much less messing with this girl. It is so incredibly unbelievable just how f’ng arrogant these South American punk thug sickos truly are. And there are thousands of them here.


24 posted on 12/27/2025 11:52:46 AM PST by 4Runner ("I gotta join a union to get paid for loafin'?" " Sure ya do!" --Abbott & Costello)
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To: lowbridge

Check her message history.


25 posted on 12/27/2025 11:53:37 AM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: lowbridge

Giovanni Rosales Espinoza is going to find out how rape works his first night in prison and often.

Justice being served


26 posted on 12/27/2025 11:57:02 AM PST by Vaduz (?.)
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To: lowbridge

In the amount of time between when the daughter was taken, when the dad realized she was late, and until he found her, I have a hard time buying the implication that she hadn’t been raped yet.


27 posted on 12/27/2025 11:59:48 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: redangus
This sounds like an online hookup where walking the dog was the way to get out of the house and meet up.

If the father was diligent enough to have parental controls on his daughter's phone that enabled him to locate her, he probably pays pretty close attention to her other online activities.

28 posted on 12/27/2025 12:00:47 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (I have nro answers. Only questions.)
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To: lowbridge

Well done!


29 posted on 12/27/2025 12:03:50 PM PST by plain talk
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To: 4Runner

Millions.


30 posted on 12/27/2025 12:04:38 PM PST by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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To: redangus

I agree. Very fishy. Dad tracks to truck with girl dog and semi nude perp Dad frees girl ans dog and then what? Lets perp drive away??
This from link
“ Witnesses at the scene provided deputies with a detailed description of the suspect vehicle, which aided in locating the truck and identifying the driver as Giovanni Rosales Espinoza of Porter, Texas.”
What? what witnesses? At the scene? The place where Dad found girl?


31 posted on 12/27/2025 12:06:21 PM PST by RWGinger
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To: redangus
This sounds like an online hookup where walking the dog was the way to get out of the house and meet up.

She is not old enough to give consent. Our mini-poodle might make some noise, or just my cower. I agree that a stranger would likely go one to a dog-free target.
32 posted on 12/27/2025 12:07:45 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Stay out’ the Bushes!


33 posted on 12/27/2025 12:08:27 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: high info voter

“As a dad I would have responded with a 12ga.”

The prison population in most major prisons do not like child molesters. I had an “acquaintance” once that was busted with a 15 year old girl in the back seat of his car against her will. He was sent to prison and found dead in the showers in less than a week when he bled out from being castrated. He was an animal so it couldn’t have happened to a better choice.

wy69


34 posted on 12/27/2025 12:08:49 PM PST by whitney69 (`)
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To: Recon Dad

Any Father worth his salt would have made it so.


35 posted on 12/27/2025 12:10:49 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Or, he has a reason not to trust his daughter.


36 posted on 12/27/2025 12:10:55 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Baby Bush still looking like a monkey. He needs to be kept in a cage. This thug Espinosa needs to be six feet under.


37 posted on 12/27/2025 12:11:40 PM PST by drypowder
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To: RWGinger

Sounds like people who saw her get into the truck.


38 posted on 12/27/2025 12:12:04 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: lowbridge
Her father located her and her dog

I think the term "kidnapped" is being loosely interpreted here.

Since when does a kidnapper agree to bring the victim's dog along for the ride?

I suspect she was a willing "victim".

39 posted on 12/27/2025 12:18:52 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: 4Runner

The jury is still out about his nationality, and the name isn’t much of a clue in Texas, where Hispanics can easily be from families as old as the Alamo. Unless there is another article that says where he was born, there is no indication here as far as we know. Odds are he hasn’t been here long but ni proof of that as yet, nor proof it was against her will. Seems odd that his face isn’t smashed in - if my Dad caught someone in the act of raping me I have no doubt there would be extreme violence and possible a dead man for the coroner. There wouldn’t be much of use in a mug shot.


40 posted on 12/27/2025 12:24:49 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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