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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So the Dad let him drive off without calling police?
We know he had a phone plus the driver was semi nude
Poorly researched and written story
I wouldn’t too much into semi nude. It was close to 80 degrees there on Christmas day, he could have just been shirtless, this thing about knife point doesn’t sound right either.More to this story than being told.
“When I encountered the suspect, he threatened me with a deadly weapon. I was in fear of harm to me and my child. I neutralized the threat.” Would be my story, and I’m sticking to it.
Perforate the perp with several .40 sized entry wounds.
There might be a little moreto this story than reported by her dad.
😃😄😂🤣
That would have been one dead abductor. Swift justice. Also no repeating.
Men, here is another reason (there are many for many agendas) why TPTB love coddling these types of criminals and letting them back out. So they can do it again. Because with higher crime stats, it makes men out to be far more dangerous than they are. They know that criminals of this type and of the violent types, are serial criminals. A very small group is responsible for a very large percentage of the crimes. The vast majority of men aren’t rapists or murderers, but the stats because of repeat serial offenders who don’t change, give the (desired) perception to paint all men like this. And they also use it as a wedge issue between men and women.
It should be.
He’ll learn from this and next time ditch the phone. His next victim won’t be so lucky.
Don’t be dissing AI. Hee rites as gud as the code.
Did he “rescue” the girl? I did some crazy sh@& at 14.
If the dog goes home alone, the cops will be out in force immediately.
It may have well been an online hook up situation, but it’s still statutory rape and kidnapping since she was transported.
Yeah, I can see how with a different sort of father, no one would have ever heard a word of this whole thing.
“He had a knife, he was threatening me and my daughter with it, I was in fear for our lives and I shot him. I need to talk to my lawyer AND I don’t feel well, my blood pressure may be up, I need to go to an EMERGENCY ROOM.”
Name, rank, serial number when confronted by the po-po. Simple story, wait for your lawyer.
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And zero chance her story backs up father's story if he draws cold and pops the mojado.
As others have already suggested, I suspect this is what really happened. Teenage girls can be quite …. precocious.
Just doing the jobs American’s refuse to.
This sounds plausible.
Devils advocate here.. how do we know she didn’t willingly meet up with him and just got caught?
We don’t know, but it doesn’t matter because it’s still statutory.
It’s illegal to diddle young dumb girls precisely because they are young and dumb.
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