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Oregon family awaits return of missing girl
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 | No comments posted.
KEIZER (AP) - Each year, hundreds of thousands of girls and boys run away from home. Many return within a few days, but Deysi Cisneros has not.
The 12-year-old Keizer girl vanished April 6, leaving a note that said she would be fine. That assurance, of course, has done little to reassure her parents, Maria and David Cisneros.
“You don't want to think the worse, but you do,” Maria Cisneros said. “I can't eat, I can't sleep, my body shakes with fear, and I don't know what to do. I just can't believe this is happening to us, dear God. She's our baby.”
Keizer police declined to discuss details of the case. Jose Cisneros, Deysi's older brother, said his sister's note indicated she was leaving with someone she called her boyfriend.
Jose, a 10th-grader at McNary High School, said police told his family that the boyfriend was a 23-year-old man who lived nearby.
Deysi, a sixth-grader at Claggett Creek Middle School, phoned her parents three days after she left.
“We could hear a man telling her what to say, and she was repeating every word he said,” David Cisneros said. “We kept asking her where she was but all she would say was that she was OK, but we heard the man telling her to tell us that.”
On April 18, Deysi placed a second call to her parents.
When they asked where she was, a man told her to tell them she was in Colorado, the parents said.
Deysi hasn't been heard from since, and her mother refuses to leave the apartment for fear she'll miss the next call. She thinks the man forced Deysi to leave with him.
“She didn't even know him,” she said. “It's not like she went places where she could have met him, because the only time she went anywhere was with us.”
Whether she left on her own or was forced to go, the felony crime of custodial interference has been committed, Keizer police said. It's unclear if the FBI is working on the case, but the bureau recently issued a list of missing children as part of the annual observance of National Missing Children's Day. Deysi was on the list, which gave her description and said she may be in the company of an adult male.
The 12-year-old Keizer girl vanished April 6, leaving a note that said she would be fine. That assurance, of course, has done little to reassure her parents, Maria and David Cisneros.
“You don't want to think the worse, but you do,” Maria Cisneros said. “I can't eat, I can't sleep, my body shakes with fear, and I don't know what to do. I just can't believe this is happening to us, dear God. She's our baby.”
Keizer police declined to discuss details of the case. Jose Cisneros, Deysi's older brother, said his sister's note indicated she was leaving with someone she called her boyfriend.
Jose, a 10th-grader at McNary High School, said police told his family that the boyfriend was a 23-year-old man who lived nearby.
Deysi, a sixth-grader at Claggett Creek Middle School, phoned her parents three days after she left.
“We could hear a man telling her what to say, and she was repeating every word he said,” David Cisneros said. “We kept asking her where she was but all she would say was that she was OK, but we heard the man telling her to tell us that.”
On April 18, Deysi placed a second call to her parents.
When they asked where she was, a man told her to tell them she was in Colorado, the parents said.
Deysi hasn't been heard from since, and her mother refuses to leave the apartment for fear she'll miss the next call. She thinks the man forced Deysi to leave with him.
“She didn't even know him,” she said. “It's not like she went places where she could have met him, because the only time she went anywhere was with us.”
Whether she left on her own or was forced to go, the felony crime of custodial interference has been committed, Keizer police said. It's unclear if the FBI is working on the case, but the bureau recently issued a list of missing children as part of the annual observance of National Missing Children's Day. Deysi was on the list, which gave her description and said she may be in the company of an adult male.
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