KYRSTEN ROTH - 15 yo - Gresham OR

http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2011/12/gresham_teen_reported_missing.html

The family of a Gresham teen is asking the public's help in finding 15-year-old Kyrsten Roth, who has been missing for one week.

Michelle Bart, spokeswoman for the Roth family, said Michelle Roth last saw her daughter around 11 p.m. Dec. 3, after the two kissed each other good night.

Kyrsten Roth was nowhere to be found the next morning.

Michelle Roth believes her daughter was lured away by a California man she met online. Bart said the family's phone bill show multiple phone calls made to a number in Susanville, Calif. The last call was made at 2:55 a.m. Dec. 4.

"Sometime between 2:55 a.m. on Dec. 4 and 6 a.m. on Dec. 4, she left the house," Bart said.



Kyrsten Roth is 5 feet 4 inches tall, 155 pounds. She was last seen wearing gray pajama bottoms, a black jacket with an Oregon Beavers patch on the front left side and an orange scarf.

Anyone with information about Kyrsten Roth's whereabouts are encouraged to call Michelle Roth at (503) 935-4260, or Gresham police at (503) 518-2318.

An Oregon mother is making a desperate plea for help to find her
15-year-old daughter, who she claims disappeared with an older man and
Internet predator.

Kyrsten Roth went missing Dec. 3 after an evening of shopping with her
mother, Michelle Roth. When the girl did not come downstairs from her
bedroom the next morning, her mother realized that she was not home.
After checking with her daughter's friends, she filed a police report
and began to look at home phone records.

It was then that she noticed phone calls to a number in California for
the past few months – the last of which took place at 2:55 a.m. on Dec.
4.

The mother contacted police in Susansville, Calif., who went to the home
associated with the phone number Kyrsten had been calling. According to
victim's advocate and family spokesperson Michelle Bart, the police
said that it looked like no one was home at the house. When the police
called the phone number Kyrsten had been calling, Bart says that the
police found the man who answered to be uncredible, as if he were hiding
something when he claimed to be in Vallejo, Calif.

Kyrsten was reportedly spotted Dec. 7 at night at a coffee shop across
the street from her high school in Gersham, Ore. According to the owner
of the cafe, a man drove by and picked her up. He has been described as
in his 20s, with receding blond hair, droving a white, two-door sedan.

"It's an Internet predator situation. This is a crime," Bart told ABC
News. "No matter if it's against her will, or he believes she swept him
off her feet or whatever she's convinced of. She's been lured by
someone."

Police have tagged it as a runaway situation and have no reason to
suspect she is in danger, according to Sgt. Claudio Grandjean of the
Gresham Police Dept.

"Our officers talked to friends of hers who saw her on that Wednesday.
They reported she was fine, she was willingly with this person. And she
had run away from home ... There's no indication she's in any danger,"
Grandjean said.

Michelle Roth told ABC News affiliate KATU that
her daughter had said that there was a boy that she liked, but that it
was someone from school. She also said that she noticed her daughter
spending more time on gaming and social networking websites. The girl's
brother said that she had been video chatting with a man online, though
she did not indicate that she was planning on meeting him.

"Kyrsten did not run away, she ran to someone," her mother said. "We don't know anything about this person."

Michelle Roth did say that four months ago her daughter ran away with
her 16-year-old half brother, who had been in trouble living in boys'
homes and he did not want to go back. She said in that instance the two
ended up at park down the block, and were gone for a couple of days.

When Kyrsten left her home she did not take her makeup or any
toiletries, and nothing is missing from the house except her jacket and
her pajamas, according to Bart. Her parents had taken her cell phone
away from her as punishment for making long-distance calls.

"Kids run away, kids do a lot of different things," Bart said. "But kids
don't leave the house unprepared unless they're taken against their
will, or they're promised the sun the moon and stars from someone who
promises to be their boyfriend."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/oregon-teen-missing-internet-predator-case/story?id=15142546#.Tud9J1ZnCEM

?? Is that the Michelle Bart that was working with the A's??

alwaysbelieve wrote:?? Is that the Michelle Bart that was working with the A's??

---Are you aware of any other? It must be...

GRESHAM, Ore. – A 15-year-old girl who
had been missing since Dec. 3 was found sleeping in the bedroom of an
apartment on Thursday morning, police said.

Kyrsten Roth was not hurt and told detectives she was at the Northeast Portland apartment under her own free will.

Roth’s parents publicly pleaded for help when they said their daughter met an older man online and was lured away by him.

Detectives took up the case and developed a lead that she was with a
20-year-old man who had recently moved into the apartment where Roth was
found.

The family said detectives considered the man a “person of interest.”
They were able to track down his apartment when they noticed he had
recently filed a burglary report.

The report was only entered into the police computer system earlier this
week. Detectives noticed it Thursday morning when they ran another
check on the man.

KATU is not naming the man because as of yet, he has not been charged with any crimes.

The man was not home when police found Roth. Detectives said they plan to interview him at a later time.

"Whether she left on her own or was taken against her will is not the
issue here, the issue is a 20-year-old man picked up my daughter in the
middle of the night and for whatever reasons did not feel compelled to
have her call home or return her home," said Michelle Roth, Kyrsten's
mother.

"We are thrilled to be able to pick up our daughter and she is safe
now, but please do not take this lightly," she added. "No adult male
should ever take a child or keep a child without her parents knowing and
we will not rest until he is picked up.”

http://www.katu.com/news/local/Teen-girl-who-ran-away-with-older-man-found-safe-135681043.html