Alicia Navarro’s mother pleads to ‘move on’ after teen’s mysterious reappearance

Alicia Navarro’s mother has pleaded for the general public to “transfer on” after the lacking teenager mysteriously confirmed up at a Montana police station 4 years after disappearing from her Arizona residence.

Jessica Nuñez posted an emotional video message to her Finding Alicia Facebook page on Sunday and mentioned she and her household had been harassed and attacked on-line, and the seek for solutions about her 18-year-old daughters disappearance “has taken a flip for the damaging”.

“Let’s focus that my daughter is alive. This can be a miracle,” Ms Nuñez mentioned.

Ms Nuñez’s voice faltered as she thanked supporters who had helped to hold consideration on the lacking particular person investigation.

“I can’t even put into phrases the quantity of gratitude I’ve for you all,” Ms Nuñez mentioned.

“However now that we all know Alicia is alive, I’ve to ask yet another favour of you. I do know you need solutions and I do, too. However the public’s seek for solutions has taken a flip for the damaging,” she added.

“I’ve been harassed, my household has been attacked all around the web — the general public has gone from attempting to assist Alicia to doing issues like attempting to present up to her home and placing her security in jeopardy,” Ms Nuñez mentioned.

“So I encourage you, please no extra TikToks, no extra reaching out to Alicia or to me together with your hypothesis or questions or assumptions. This isn’t a film, that is our life, that is my daughter,” she added.

“I like her greater than something on the earth, and I feel I’ve proven you that. There’s an ongoing investigation and I’m begging you to transfer on.”

Ms Navarro disappeared from her Glendale residence in September 2019 days earlier than her fifteenth birthday, sparking an unlimited search operation involving police, the FBI and the Heart for Lacking and Exploited Kids.

On 23 July, she confirmed up alone at a police station in Havre, Montana, about 40 miles from the Canadian border.

Police have remained tight-lipped about the place they imagine Ms Navarro has been for the previous 4 years, and if they’ve recognized any suspects.

A person dwelling a couple of blocks from the Havre police station was arrested final week by officers executing a search warrant, a Glendale police spokesperson informed the Related Press. He has since been launched with out cost.

Ms Navarro informed detectives in Glendale that nobody had damage her, however it’s unclear if she has shed additional gentle on the place she’s been, or if she’s going to return to her household residence.

Ms Nuñez has beforehand mentioned that her daughter was on the autism spectrum, which made her shy in social conditions.

Final week, a personal investigator employed by the household informed the New York Post Ms Navarro had solely spoken briefly to her mother.

Trent Metal informed the Submit the household was thrilled she had been discovered secure, however that {the teenager} had “not made her intentions clear”.