Man Allegedly Shot Mom In Head Three Situations with Crossbow Over Cat

The Austin Police Division is asking for assist from most people, or any particulars in regards to the whereabouts of a nine-year-old lady who’s been missing since December 2017, the ultimate time household and buddies recalled seeing her.

They didn’t even know regarding the child’s existence until after they’d arrested her mother, Virginia Gonzales, 33, for disturbing allegations of abuse in direction of what might be the missing girls’ youthful sister by two years.

Gonzales was arrested on prices of hurt to a toddler with extreme bodily hurt in connection to her 7-year-old daughter, found “locked in a closet and ravenous,” per police.

It was solely after her arrest in Del Valle that police realized that Gonzales had on no account reported this older daughter as missing seven-and-a-half years previously — or at any degree between then and now.

Because it has been so prolonged since Ava has been seen, police cannot estimate her peak and weight, nonetheless she is described as a Hispanic female with straight brown hair and brown eyes. The Nationwide Coronary heart for Missing and Exploited Kids did launch an age progressed {photograph} that will current what she might look like at current.

In line with ABC affiliate KVUE, police state that Virginia has given “conflicting information to many alternative relations” regarding Ava’s whereabouts, nor have authorities been able to positively set up the missing lady’s father.

“We have no idea the place she is true now, and that’s what we’re trying to find out, her current standing, the place she is, who she’s with, and if she’s safe and healthful,” said Austin Police Detective Russell Constable at a info conference on Tuesday.

Of their plea for public assist, authorities acknowledged they’re “severely concerned about Ava’s welfare given the circumstances whereby Ava’s youthful sibling was found.”

Of their investigation into Ava’s disappearance, police discovered that there isn’t a file of any of Virginia’s eight complete children attending school in Central Texas.

All of this led Michelle Locke, a former family court docket docket and CPS (Child Defending Suppliers) determine, who now works as a family lawyer, to ask KVUE, “What variety of vital reporters bought right here into this child’s life and dropped the ball?”

She said that Texas has vital kindergarten enrollment established partially to help protect monitor of the welfare of children throughout the state. So how did Virginia deal with to keep away from this requirement with all eight of her children?

The Texas Division of Family and Defending Suppliers, which contains CPS, knowledgeable the knowledge station that whereas situations are confidential and they also couldn’t comment about Virginia’s historic previous with the division, they may affirm that the seven children current in her dwelling have been eradicated and are in foster care.

It was Ava Gonzales’ grandmother who discovered her locked in a closet on April 3, the place she’d allegedly been barricaded for plenty of weeks, based mostly on KVUE. The grandmother, who immediately generally known as 911, had gone to the residence after Virginia’s arrest for marijuana possession.

The closet measured decrease than 5-feet by 2-feet, per court docket docket filings, though with totally different objects moreover in there, they think about her dwelling space was roughly 3 ft by 1 foot, 10 inches. There was no delicate or air movement. NBC Info experiences it was barricaded by 75-pound containers in entrance of it.

In line with court docket docket paperwork, the lady was soiled and weighed merely 29 kilos when she was rescued. Medical staff determined that she suffered “affordable to excessive cerebral atrophy” leading to eternal thoughts hurt as a consequence of prolonged malnutrition and starvation. “She’s going to on no account recuperate,” the affidavit states.

The six totally different children within the house, ranging in age from 2 to 14, knowledgeable their grandmother, per court docket docket paperwork, that they’d been ordered to lock their sister throughout the closet on account of she had bladder administration factors, was “on a regular basis transferring into stuff,” and consuming points she was “not alleged to.”

A ten-year-old brother said he was knowledgeable to wash the closet on account of she would defecate and urinate in there, per KVUE. He said the lady was solely allowed to eat a single scorching canine or corndog a day and half a cup of water.

The other six children “appeared bodily healthful,” based mostly on Austin Police Detective Russell Constable at a info conference on Tuesday. Investigators reported that the home’s fridge, freezer, and pantry had been all properly stocked with meals.

Virginia Gonzales is booked into the Travis County Correctional Difficult on a value of serous bodily hurt to a toddler. Her bond is about at $75,000.

Anyone with any particulars about Ava Gonzales is requested to contact the Austin Police Division by way of e-mail at ava@austintexas.gov or by the use of Crime Stoppers at 512-572-8477.