RIKKI LYN TABBEE-17 yo-Roosevelt UT

View Poster Case Handled By: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

RIKKI LYN TABBEE
Case Type: Endangered Runaway
DOB: Nov 18, 1994	Sex: Female
Missing Date: Aug 4, 2012	Race: Biracial
Age Now: 17	Height: 5'3" (160 cm)
Missing City: ROOSEVELT	Weight: 150 lbs (68 kg)
Missing State : UT	Hair Color: Brown
Missing Country: United States	Eye Color: Brown
Case Number: NCMC1200173
Circumstances: Rikki may be in the company of an adult male. They may still be in the local area. Rikki is biracial; she is White and American Indian. Her ears are pierced and she has a small scar between her eyes.

Cuch-Esparaza (20/left). I called the Roosevelt Police

Department and verified as fact Rikki has a protective order against
Monte which expires on 5/3/2013. She is thought to be in danger and we
MUST find her immediately.

Monte has the word HONOR tattooed on one forearm and RESPECT tattooed on the other.

Rikki and Monte were spotted in the Orem - Provo, Utah area on 8/18/2012 and may still be there.

Rikki is 5'3" and 150 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. Rikki is
biracial; she is White and American Indian. Her ears are pierced and she
has a small scar between her eyes.

Facebook page set up by Rikki's family: https://facebook.com/RikkiComeHome

POSTED at the request of Rikki's mother NilaDe Tabbee: https://facebook.com/nilade.mckenna.t

NOTE: If you see Rikki and Monte, call 911 immediately and tell
dispatch you just spotted a missing girl whose with a guy she has a
protective order against.


If
you have information to help locate her please call National Center for
Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST) or
Roosevelt Police Department at 1-435-722-4558/

CASE NUMBER: Case Number: NCMC1200173

SOURCE: http://missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewChildDetail&caseNum=1200173&orgPrefix=NCMC&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_US&searchLang=en_US

Rikki, Come Home

Facebook page set up by her family:
This page is dedicated to our memories of Rikki. We all love her so
much, and we just want her to come home. Please use this page to post
your pictures and/or memories of why you miss Rikki and want her to come
home.


https://www.facebook.com/RikkiComeHome

Roosevelt parents hoping for safe return of runaway teenage daughter

10/08/2012
ROOSEVELT — It's been more than two months since NilaDe Tabbee last saw her teenage daughter.



"We miss her terribly," Tabbee said. "There is a hole in our lives."



Rikki Lynn Tabbee ran away Aug. 4, prompting her
mother to contact the Roosevelt Police Department and the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which has listed the
17-year-old girl as an endangered runaway.



Tabbee said she and her husband had tried to persuade
20-year-old Monte Cuch to leave their daughter alone for more than a
year before the teen ran away with him.



"We just basically said, 'If you can just leave her
alone, let her be a high school student, enjoy her high school time,
then we'd see what happened after he could prove he was a decent guy,'"
Tabbee said.



When that didn't happen — and their daughter was
referred to juvenile court for truancy — the parents sought and obtained
a restraining order against Cuch.



Uintah County prosecutors also charged Cuch in 8th
District Court with sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree
felony; and dealing in material harmful to a minor, a third-degree
felony. Those charges stem from Tabbee's discovery of a video on Cuch's
cellphone that showed her daughter and the man engaged in a sex act.



"I basically dropped to my knees," Tabbee said. "I
mean, I wanted to throw up. No one wants to see their daughter in that
situation."



Rikki's absence has taken its toll, not only on her mother, but also on her siblings and father, who is in kidney failure.
"One night I was talking to him on the phone, and our younger
daughter heard him crying," Tabbee said. "She said, 'Mom, that's the
first time I've ever heard Dad cry.'



"It's taking its toll on him," she said.



Both Rikki and her boyfriend, who also uses the name Monte Esparza, have written about their decision to runaway on Facebook.



In a post from just a few days ago, Tabbee wrote that she is happy where she is.



"I am very much taken care of. I have a cozy bed to sleep in every night," she wrote. "I don't feel un safe (sic) at all."



Cuch's post is more confrontational, writing that he will "handle" the consequences of his actions.



"(I'm) the one the pigs want n will b sittin' in jail but guess wut its (sic) ALL WORTH IT," he wrote.



Without being able to talk to her daughter, Tabbee said she has no way of knowing she's really safe.



The only way she'll know for sure, she said, is if Rikki comes home.



"There's nothing we can't work out together," Tabbee said, when asked if she had a message for her daughter.



"And we love her no matter what," she added.



Tabbee also had a message for Cuch.



"If he's not ready, please just encourage Rikki to come home," she said. "She deserves to be a teenager."
Detectives are seeking a warrant for Cuch's arrest on the felony
charges. He is also being sought on a warrant for failing to appear in
Uintah County Justice Court in an unrelated DUI case.



Police believe Cuch and Rikki are both living on the Wasatch Front somewhere.



Anyone with information should call the Roosevelt
Police Department at 435-722-4558 or the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865564041/Roosevelt-parents-hoping-for-safe-return-of-runaway-teenage-daughter.html?pg=all