ANYSSIA ESCAMILLA - 17 yo (2010)/ Convicted: Boyfriend; Jesus Francisco Avitia Jr. - Bloomington CA

Bloomington CA ---- A Bloomington teen has been missing for 10 days and
sheriff's investigators are asking for the public's help in locating
her.
Anyssia Escamilla, 17, was last seen at 1:30 p.m. May 11 when she
Bloomington High School to walk home. She does not have a car and has
not tried to contact her family or 3-year-old son, which officials say
is unusual behavior.
She was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt, blue jeans and flip flops.
Anyssia has a small scar above her right eye and has no tattoos or
piercings.
Anyone with information on Anyssia's whereabouts is asked to call
sheriff's deputies at 909-356-6767 or sheriff's dispatch at
909-387-8313.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department has issued a
missing person alert regarding a 17-year-old Bloomington High School
student.

Anyssia Escamilla did not return home after school on
May 11 and her family reported her missing. She left the school at 1:30
p.m. and has not been heard from since then.

Her family advised
deputies that she has not run away or gone missing in the past. She
does not have a car and has not attempted contact with family, friends
or her 3-year-old son. Anyssia's son was with family members while she
attended school.

Anyssia was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt,
blue jeans, and flip flops. She has a small scar above her right eye
and has no tattoos or piercings.



Anyone who contacts Anyssia or has information regarding her
whereabouts is asked to contact the San Bernardino County Sheriff's
Department West Foothill Station at (909) 356-6767 or Sheriff's dispatch
immediately at (909) 387-8313.

An 18 year old Fontana man is under arrest, accused of murdering his 17
year old girlfriend who was three months pregnant with his baby.

Jesus Francisco Avita Jr. is being held at the West Valley Detention
Center in Fontana on charges of murder, according to Fontana police
officials.



Avita is accused of killing 17 year old Anyssia Katherine Escamilla of
Bloomington. She was reported missing on May 11th by family members when
she didn't return home from school.

Although Escamilla's body has not yet been found, detectives say they
have enough evidence to charge Avita with murder and that he indicated
that he knew Escamilla was dead. The circumstances surrounding the crime
have not yet been released.

A 17-year-old Bloomington girl who had been reported missing by
her family is believed to have been murdered, and her boyfriend has been
arrested for allegedly committing the crime, according to the Fontana
Police Department.

Anyssia Katherine Escamilla, a Bloomington
High School student, had been missing since May 11, and Jesus Francisco
Avitia, Jr., 18, is being held at West Valley Detention Center in lieu
of bail on the charge of murder, said Sergeant Billy Green of the
Fontana P.D.

"Anyssia's body has not been recovered and Fontana
P.D. detectives are actively working the case," Green said on Friday.
"All current investigative leads cause investigators to believe Anyssia
has been murdered and Avitia was in fact an active participant in her
death."

Anyssia did not return home after school on May 11 and
her family reported her missing. Her family told San Bernardino County
Sheriff's Department deputies that Anyssia had not run away or gone
missing in the past. She does not have a car and did not attempt to
contact family members, friends, or her 3-year-old son.



During a follow-up investigation by the Sheriff's Department,
detectives spoke to her boyfriend Avitia. Anyssia was believed to be
about three months pregnant with Avitia's baby.

While speaking
with Sheriff detectives, Avitia claimed to know for certain that Anyssia
was deceased. Because Avitia indicated that Anyssia's apparent death
had occurred in Fontana, the Sheriff's Department notified the Fontana
P.D., and Fontana detectives assumed the investigation.

On Friday
at about 1:30 p.m., the Fontana P.D. received information from the
Sheriff's Department that a homicide had likely occurred, and so Avitia
was arrested.

A Fontana teenager allegedly
admitted to killing his pregnant girlfriend and dumping her body in a
trash can, prompting detectives to launch an extensive search Monday at
two landfills.

Jesus Francisco Avitia Jr., 18, is expected to be charged today
with the death of Anyssia Katherine Escamilla, who was three months
pregnant with his child.

Both Avitia and the 17-year-old victim attended Bloomington
High School, where Anyssia was last seen May 11.

"My daughter is my hero. She is a great young lady who only
wanted to keep her baby," said Priscilla Escamilla, choking back sobs as
her husband and sister squeezed her hands in support. "I loved her so
much. I want her back."

Police say they arrested Avitia on Friday after he failed a
lie detector test and admitted to wrapping Anyssia's body in garbage
bags and putting her in a trash can outside a home in South Fontana.


Priscilla
Escamilla, center, mother of slaying victim Anyssia
Katherine Escamilla,
speaks to the media at a landfill in Rialto
on Monday.
She is flanked by Amy Pruneda, left, and Jorge
Escamilla.
Officials think that Anyssia's body was dumped in the
landfill.


Using detailed records kept by sanitation workers, police have
narrowed down the likely areas where Anyssia's body could be to a 50 by
25 yard spot in Mid-Valley landfill and a Corona landfill.

While a bulldozer carefully combed the Rialto landfill Monday,
search dogs were used to sniff out any scent of Anyssia. The search is
expected to take up to three days.

"If we do not find her remains here, a similar investigation
will be done in Corona," said Sgt. Billy Green.

Police have not released a cause of death or motive for
Anyssia'sslaying.

The couple had been dating a year but apparently kept their
involvement secret from Avitia's parents, who could not be reached for
comment Monday.

"His parents didn't approve of her when they found out she had
a 3-year-old little boy," Priscilla Escamilla said, dissolving into
tears. "My grandson grabs her picture and says `Nana, where are you?' He
calls her name and he cries."

She said she was thrilled to be a grandmother and was making
plans to help Anyssia raise her unborn child.

The victim's family said Avitia was "nice and quiet" and they
never suspected that he would harm Anyssia, who had just started looking
at colleges so she could provide her children with a better life.

Anyssia's oldest brother said Avitia helped the family pass
out missing person fliers and repeatedly said how much he missed her.

"He played that off like it was a movie," said Isaiah
Escamilla, 22, who wore a T-shirt with his sister's picture on it. "But I
have to deal with this the rest of my life and I don't get to see my
sister anymore."

The family spent several hours sitting beneath a tent mere
yards away from where searchers picked through piles of trash, looking
for any sign of Anyssia's body.

Jorge Escamilla often reached down to touch a rosary hung
around his neck.

"She was the best child and my only daughter," he said.
"(Avitia) had no right to take my child."

Avitia remains jailed, held without bail at West Valley
Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga.

Investigators and volunteers continued to search a Southern
California landfill Tuesday for the body of pregnant 17-year-old Anyssia
Escamilla, as her boyfriend pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder.

Bail was set at $2 million for 18-year old
Jesus Avitia, Jr., who was arraigned in San Bernardino County Superior Court.
The search began Monday after police say
Avitia Jr. admitted that he had killed Escamilla, who was three-months
pregnant with their unborn child, and then dumped her body in a trash.
"He did indicate that he was responsible for her death and had put
her into a trash can after he killed her, which is what brought us
here," Sgt. Billy Green said at a news conference Monday at a Rialto
landfill.Escamilla hasn't been seen since May 11, when she
disappeared from Bloomington High School, where she was a junior.
Although police have not yet released a motive
for the crime or the cause of death, Escamilla's parents said Avitia's
family disapproved of the relationship because she had a 3-year-old son
from a previous relationship. "She's a brave young lady who only
wanted to keep her baby," her mother, Priscilla Escamilla, said
tearfully. Priscilla Escamilla had planned to help her daughter
raise her two children while Anyssia pursued her education. "That
was her main goal: to finish school and get a career to help her
provide for her babies," Priscilla Escamilla said.The teen's father,
Jorge Escamilla, said he was extremely grateful for everyone's help. "I
think that because they are here looking for my daughter, and they know
the pain that I have inside me, and they understand, and they're going
to get my daughter," he said.

OMG I must be getting jaded from reading the horror stories every day but I'm sorry but it's just insane what this girls family are saying.
Are they mad? Has the whole world gone raving mad? I don't want to speak ill of the deceased but I'd hate to let the families comments go, as it contributes to our society becoming insensitized to what shouldn't be tolerated. Anyssia had her first baby at 14 years old. At 17 and still going to school she gets pregnant again and was going to keep the baby. Her mother calls her a hero. Her mother was excited about her having another baby. WTH???????
Anyssia was going to finish school and provide for her children. Yeah right. Obviously the boyfriend felt trapped and took drastic steps.
Too tragic all round. How did we get from being ashamed of sleeping around and getting up the duff, to being a hero for doing it?

An ongoing search for the body of a pregnant
Bloomington teen was delayed Tuesday after a large piece of pig's skin
was discovered at a Rialto landfill, police say.
While search crews excavated a section of the Mid-Valley Landfill for
any sign of 17-year-old Anyssia Escamilla, they found a piece of skin
about 4:30 p.m. and sent it to the coroner's office for examination.
By the time tests determined that the skin was from a pig, it was too
late to finish the search. The work is expected to be completed late
this afternoon. If Anyssia is not found, crews will begin looking at a
Corona landfill tomorrow morning.
Anyssia's boyfriend pleaded not guilty Tuesday to two counts of murder
in the presumed deaths of the girl and her unborn child. Jesus Avitia,
18, remains jailed on $2 million bail.
Police arrested him Friday after he allegedly confessed to killing
Anyssia and dumping her body in a trash bin near his south Fontana home.
The manner of death has not been disclosed.
Anyssia's family reported her missing May 11 after she did not return
from classes at Bloomington High School.
Although a motive is unknown, the girl's mother has said that Avitia's
parents did not approve of Anyssia because she had a 3-year-old son from
a previous relationship.

A large piece of skin found in a landfill during a search for a
pregnant girl's body turned out to be part of a pig, leading authorities
Wednesday to resume excavating tons of trash in an effort to find the
17-year-old's remains.Police, dogs and a sheriff's
search-and-rescue team have been excavating a 50-by-25-yard area of a
Rialto landfill since Monday for Anyssia Escamilla, whose boyfriend is
charged with killing her and dumping her in the garbage.The team
of about 50 diggers spotted the skin Tuesday, but the coroner's office
determined it did not belong to the Bloomington High School student,
Fontana police said."It looks like someone just skinned a pig and
put it in the trash," Sgt. Billy Green said.He said the crew is
cautiously optimistic Escamilla's body will be found, noting that the
effort would shift Thursday to a dump in Corona if needed.Escamilla,
who was three months pregnant, never returned home from school on May
11.Her boyfriend, 18-year-old Jesus Avitia Jr., of Fontana, told
police he killed the Bloomington teen and placed her body in a trash can
near his home, Green said.Avitia, who remained jailed Wednesday
on $2 million bail, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murdering
Escamilla and her fetus. He could face 40 years to life in prison if
convicted. Prosecutors have not decided whether they will seek the death
penalty.Detectives don't know how Escamilla was killed because
Avitia gave conflicting statements, Green said.Investigators also
were trying to determine a motive, though Avitia indicated he was
unhappy that his girlfriend was carrying his child, Green said.Escamilla's
family said Avitia's family didn't approve of him seeing a girl who
already had a 3-year-old son from another relationship. Her parents said
the two had been dating for about a year.

This is unreal...Ditto to Kiwi.....How could this family say this girl was a Hero...Excuse me, why is a 14 yr old pregnant? And the family is okay with that? Then pregnant again at 17....GMAFB...where were these parents when this girl was out screwing around getting herself pregnant?? Why didnt they teach her about birth control after her first child? There is no excuse for her murder, but Parents need to get real on this one...I hope they find her body and give her a decent burial....But to call her a "hero"....No Not Really...Her boyfriend deserves the ultimate punishment....cause he killed two people...JMO....

kiwimom wrote:OMG I must be getting jaded from reading the horror stories every day but I'm sorry but it's just insane what this girls family are saying.
Are they mad? Has the whole world gone raving mad? I don't want to speak ill of the deceased but I'd hate to let the families comments go, as it contributes to our society becoming insensitized to what shouldn't be tolerated. Anyssia had her first baby at 14 years old. At 17 and still going to school she gets pregnant again and was going to keep the baby. Her mother calls her a hero. Her mother was excited about her having another baby. WTH???????
Anyssia was going to finish school and provide for her children. Yeah right. Obviously the boyfriend felt trapped and took drastic steps.
Too tragic all round. How did we get from being ashamed of sleeping around and getting up the duff, to being a hero for doing it?

Exactly--is seems that not only do males make notches on their bedpost but females also anymore. Pretty sad state of affairs when a child of 17 is called a hero for having more children. People have no shame anymore, anything & everything is accepted, to be otherwise would infringing on their rights. Yes my dear, we live in a really screwed up society and the babies are the ones that pay.

The search for the body of missing 17-year-old Anyssia Escamilla
is continuing at a Corona landfill, police said.

Escamilla, who
was a student at Bloomington High School, is believed to have been
murdered by her boyfriend, 18-year-old Jesus Avitia of Fontana, who is
being held at West Valley Detention Center.

Avitia allegedly
threw Escamilla's body in the trash. A search of the Mid-Valley
Landfill in Rialto proved fruitless, and so now investigators are
looking at the Corona site.

This case is actually the way I ran across this website and around the same time I started following the Kyron Horman case. Anyssia is my mom's friends daughter. My mom has not really been able to talk to Anyssias mom because she is really a wreck and we cannot find any updates :( last my mom heard they were still looking and now just for bones. Does anyone know any more info on this case? I have not been able to find ANYTHING

tammers1212 wrote:This case is actually the way I ran across this website and around the same time I started following the Kyron Horman case. Anyssia is my mom's friends daughter. My mom has not really been able to talk to Anyssias mom because she is really a wreck and we cannot find any updates :( last my mom heard they were still looking and now just for bones. Does anyone know any more info on this case? I have not been able to find ANYTHING

---Hi tammers! Last word is, the search for a body continues.

i don't think her mother calling her a hero was really said for people to trash her. realistically speaking, shes not the only child who has gotten pregnant at age 14. kids are getting pregnant left and right and at younger and younger ages. do you know the situation that caused her to get pregnant? were you there? im guessing not. its not okay to judge people without knowing the situation they were in. would you want people to say those things about you if you were in that situation? have a heart. shes missing and they're searching for her body. there is now a mother without a child, and a child without a mother. FOCUS ON WHATS IMPORTANT.

stopchildabuse wrote:i don't think her mother calling her a hero was really said for people to trash her. realistically speaking, shes not the only child who has gotten pregnant at age 14. kids are getting pregnant left and right and at younger and younger ages. do you know the situation that caused her to get pregnant? were you there? im guessing not. its not okay to judge people without knowing the situation they were in. would you want people to say those things about you if you were in that situation? have a heart. shes missing and they're searching for her body. there is now a mother without a child, and a child without a mother. FOCUS ON WHATS IMPORTANT.

It wasnt said for trashing. I believe what Priscilla ment when she said this (and from what she told my mom) is that she WAS a young mother, everyone was aware of that, but she was an AWESOME mother. She never went out and partied, never just left and not said where she was going, and NEVER NEVER would just not come home without a phone call or anything to let someone know where she was and when she would be home. She did have a child at a young age, but at least she had it.And she took very good care of him. Not like some of the cases I have seen where someone could not care for the child so they would "dispose" or "get rid" of it. She faced the responsibilities she had and had no problem doing so. She was going to school and trying to make a future out of a difficult thing. She would even take the baby with her when she would go to a friends house, not just pawn him off on her mom. She was my youngest sisters age, and they hung out at times and it is so scary to think that she was with this guy for a year ( which my sister didnt like too much) and thought she knew him. She trusted him and loved him and only wanted to be accepted by his family. We were told that the day she went missing she was very excited before leaving for school because he told her she was finally able to meet and be part of his family. She NEVER came home. And then he throws her in the garbage like a piece of trash. She was NOT trash. She was just a young girl that God had different plans for. My heart goes out the the family who are great people , to her son who is now without a mother(he is the same age as my son), and to her and her poor baby that never even had a chance. I am disgusted by Jesse who let his family influence him so much that he could do such a thing. He also was very young and will be in prison for a LONG time.

stopchildabuse wrote:i don't think her mother calling her a hero was really said for people to trash her. realistically speaking, shes not the only child who has gotten pregnant at age 14. kids are getting pregnant left and right and at younger and younger ages. do you know the situation that caused her to get pregnant? were you there? im guessing not. its not okay to judge people without knowing the situation they were in. would you want people to say those things about you if you were in that situation? have a heart. shes missing and they're searching for her body. there is now a mother without a child, and a child without a mother. FOCUS ON WHATS IMPORTANT.

I'm probably wasting my breath, but I am focusing on what's important. You say we shouldn't judge her because it's common for young girls to have babies these days so I guess you mean a disaster's ok as long as everyone's doing it. And yes, I think I've got a pretty good idea how she got pregnant. Children in the care of young, single, irresponsible girls are paying a terrible price and THAT'S WHAT'S IMPORTANT AND IT NEEDS TO STOP. The last thing we need is people calling them heroes and carrying on as if that's something to be proud of.

BODY FOUND
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Authorities have found the remains of a missing pregnant teenager at a landfill in Corona, authorities said Thursday.
Investigators began looking for the remains of 17-year-old Anyssia
Katherine Escamilla in May after her boyfriend admitted that he killed
her and dumped her body in the trash.
The remains were found Wednesday afternoon, said Sgt. Billy Green, a spokesman for the Fontana Police Department.
Crews spent 70 days searching landfills in Rialto and Corona for
Escamilla's remains. Police received confirmation Thursday morning from
the coroner's office that the remains were those of Escamilla.
An autopsy was scheduled for Thursday afternoon to try to determine the exact cause of death, Green said.
Prosecutors say 18-year-old Jesus Avitia Jr. told police he killed
Anyssia and dumped her body. She was reported missing May 11 when she
failed to return home from school.
Avitia has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and is being held on $2-million bail.
Anyssia, of Bloomington, was about three months pregnant with
Avitia's child, according to police. She also had a 3-year-old son from a
previous relationship.

Family, friends and members
of the community gathered at St. Catherine of Siena Church Monday to pay
final respects to Anyssia Katherine Escamilla.

Photos of a smiling Escamilla and her 3-year-old son, Jonathan,
greeted mourners as they walked inside the church to honor the young mom
who went missing May 11.

Her body was found in a Corona landfill earlier this month and her boyfriend has been charged with her killing.

Rev. Stephen C. Porter, who led the catholic ceremony,
encouraged those in attendance to keep her memory alive by sharing
stories of the Bloomington High School student's short, but full life.

"Your memories of Anyssia will never leave. With your stories,
she will continue to live on and her story should be told," he said.

Anyssia's aunt, Raquel Flores-Popoca, told of the slain teen's focus on raising her son.

"I watched Anyssia raise that baby and she was a better Mom
than most mothers (out there)," she said. "She always took care of her
son and was always there for him.

"He will always know how much she loved him."

Police said the girl was three months pregnant at the time of
her death and was allegedly killed by Jesus Francisco Avitia Jr., 18,
after she refused to abort the baby.

Police said Avitia confessed to the killing and dumped her
remains in a trash can outside a home in South Fontana, prompting
detectives to comb through landfills for her body.

After more than two months of searching massive landfills in Bloomington and Corona, Escamilla's body was found Aug. 4.

Avitia is charged with two counts of murder and pled not guilty to
the charges May 25. He is scheduled to return to court Wednesday.

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