Breeann Rodriquez, 3, missing in Missouri; parents deny wrongdoing
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Breeann Rodriguez -- remember that name. She’s a 3-year-old girl from Senath, Mo., who disappeared Saturday while riding her pink bike and playing outside with her 5-year-old brother. The bike’s training wheels have since been found in heavy brush several miles from her home, but there has been no other sign of her.
In a cycle that has become all-too familar, a search by state and federal law enforcement officials has been launched by land and by air, and with dogs. There have been prayers, vigils, scores of volunteers taking to the streets to search, and $45,000 in reward money. And CNN’s Nancy Grace has taken up the case.
While officials are operating under the assumption that it is an abduction -- local station KFVS reports a search for an older model white cargo van in connection with the case -- the investigation has also focused on the parents, Edgar Rodriguez and his wife, Claudia Ramos. Both were administered lie detector tests. The father openly conceded to Nancy Grace that he and his wife were told that they failed the tests.
However, ABC news reports that he thinks it might have been a ploy: ‘I don’t believe we really did fail it. It may be some kind of tool they use to squeeze every bit of information out of us....I don’t really know. But they said we did fail it,’ Rodriguez said.
The girl was riding her bike near her home with her brother, but she was left alone when her brother went inside for a drink. By the time the boy went back outside, she was gone, the parents said.
In emotional pleas to the media, Ramos said: ‘I really want to hold her and tell her she’s my princess,’ and added this message: ‘Bring her back to me.’ Breeann’s father also offered a message: ‘I realize poeple make mistakes....I don’t care where you drop her off at, just make sure somebody can get ahold of her and bring her home.’
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--Rene Lynch
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