Amber Alert issued for 13-year-old Victorville girl [Updated]

San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials issued an Amber Alert on Tuesday for a 13-year-old girl who may have left with a 22-year-old man wanted for a sex crime against a minor.

  Miranda Hemphill, of Victorville, was reported missing Sunday night as a possible runaway. She was thought to have taken off with Ivan Lopez, of Lennox, who was initially believed to be 17 years old, said Jodi Miller, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

  Lopez is wanted on a 2009 felony warrant for a sex crime against a minor. He may be traveling in a gray-and-white primer-colored 1973 Chevrolet van, California license plate number 2CIW894.

Miranda is described as white, 5 feet 7 and 140 pounds. Lopez is Latino, 5 feet 7 and 165 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.

[Updated at 7:40 a.m.: Miranda's father made a plea on a YouTube video for her to return home and said Miranda had met Lopez on the Internet.]

-- Stephen Ceasar

Photo credits: San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department

Comments

[Sardonic Sartorius]

Keep your family computers in the living room where you can monitor their use. Never let your kids use a webcam unsupervised. This isn't a new story. Idiot parents just don't know how to look after their children.

[Tom, Long Beach, California]

internet facilitates another criminal to create another vitim.....

[Geo]

Insulting parents or any one will not really improve a situation or parenting skills of others. If you are not aware of it becuase your own parents were perfect, insulting children or others IS considered Abusive.

Besides which some of the best parents in the World sometimes find themselves with terrible child problems.

[LiveNLearn]

People love to comment every story, and start to criticize/blame people without know the situation.
You think you are so perfect in your own world, someday accident or something may happen to you.

[All Hallows Eve]

My heart goes out to her family - it must be terrifying.
I hope she makes it home safely.

He almost looks likes he has down syndrome.

[GingerSnaps]

"Sardonic" glad to see that perfect, anonymous you is now giving out parenting tips. Way to show compassion for a worried parent. Silly me, I thought that even the best of parents can still end up with teenagers and their assorted problems. I only hope the girl is found safe.

[ThaBeav]

He doesn't look like the brightest bulb in the marquee.

[Kalle malle]

I can't watch my teenage children 24/7. What can I do? I found the free opendns service. opendns can watch and if needed block the Internet services on my home computer. But what I can do with the cellphone. All this modern cellphones comes with Email, Internet, Camera, Video, Chat, and Apps for so many online services. Many parents will be surprise when they found pictures and videos there children have taken in front of there mirror from the bath or bed room.

[noscitur is a fool]

this kid is a complete loser... 22 and trying to pull thirteen year olds your default pic says it all buddy complete loser.