Where is Isa Celis?

Isabel Celis, age 6, has been “gone” over 100 days now.  Precious little is heard about her in the local media the last couple of weeks.  Why?  Shouldn’t we keep her face front and center to remind everyone this little girl is still missing?

According to a 7/27/2012 newscast by KVOA TV-Com (Tucson local channel 4), the Celis family was together on 7/27/2012 at a prayer vigil, despite a previous voluntary agreement with Child Protective Services in Arizona that Sergio could not be around his family and sons.

KVOA reporters asked the Celis family about this and they refused to comment.  The news station attempted contact with CPS but were not given a response.  That seems to be the extent of the local updates.

However, national media outfits are saying or “hypothesizing” more about the hoax call on July 22 made by two local girls.  According to Jane Velez-Mitchell, who has a talk show airing weekdays on HLN, (locally this is channel 23 on Comcast) Sergio Celis has been allowed to move back into the Celis home and to have contact with his sons.

The children, aged 9 and 11, called law enforcement pretending to be Isabel.  This was reported locally.  According to TPD (Tucson Police Department), the investigation cost them $5000 in police manpower and overtime.  It always seems to boil down to money and we are generally informed of costs incurred.

The result of this big money inquiry?  The siblings, who were at home with their mom, used their cell phones to call police.  Why?  Who knows?  Nothing much more was said about it on the local news and the Police released no new information.  The girls were taken to Juvenile Detention and released pending a hearing.

Now, national media (particularly Jane Velez Mitchell on HLN) is questioning whether these girls have a link to Isabel, knew her, overheard something or knew something.  It doesn’t seem this is being looked at here…or at least it isn’t publicized by law enforcement.  Big news theory is that these girls are acting out something they knew about or were afraid of.

However, even Ms. Velez-Mitchell acknowledges that as a girl she made prank calls.  So have many others.  Most of us made a prank call as a child, but tell me, have you ever pretended to be a missing child?  Would you have done that as a youngster?  I think not.

Everything in Arizona seems to come down to money, transparency in government operations and distaste for including the public and/or employees in on things that maybe — just maybe — they could be helpful with.

In Arizona, there seems to never be enough money for education, for strategic planning, for funding child protective services — not enough for health care for poor people and the working poor and their children; not enough for police services, support/training and hiring new officers…not enough money for needed community services.

We have money for prisons.  They have a powerful lobby.  People are afraid of dangerous prisoners escaping; so we pay up.  Maybe if we put more money in the front end we wouldn’t need to spend so much to incarcerate people and to build and maintain the infrastructure that a commitment to punishment demands.

Don’t get me wrong…criminals should be held accountable and I don’t care what happened to them when they were young – many of us have had rotten childhoods but we don’t go around hurting people and taking whatever we want…without paying.

But, if we put more of our tax dollars into early childhood education, civic responsibility programs, daycare, mental health care, child protective services, basic health services for poor working people…maybe…almost certainly we have to have a different result and maybe…just maybe…less prisoners…less people resorting to crime.

If you live here you know what I am talking about.  Haven’t you wondered why and aren’t you tired of hearing that we are at the bottom of the list of states for spending on education and other important human social service issues?

Don’t most of you want more money put into those areas?   We often blame our legislators and maybe we should…certainly we should.  However, it seems a lot of people here just vote no – even if a legislator comes up with a new plan – if it means any more tax money out of their pockets.

Guess what, we only pay our state legislators about $24,000 a year to represent us and create laws.  Of course, most have other jobs because they can’t survive on this.  Who could?  Don’t you wonder if part time law makers are really able to do the job needed?  Do you wonder about what kind of people, with what kinds of skills and abilities, with what kind of agendas are attracted to this meager paying position?

So many have come out to comment on the two little girls who made the call, ranging from those who say they did prank calls as a child; these are just children, and those who say the 11 year old at least, had the ability to tell truth from fiction and both girls should be prosecuted for their action.

Nationally, psychologists, reporters and others are saying this should be investigated to the fullest as maybe the girls know or are connected somehow to Isabel and know what may have happened to her and are acting out about it because they’ve been told to be quiet.

Who knows?  But don’t you think those of us who live here in this community should know all the latest information about this case?  Is Sergio really back home now with his family and what changed things?

Where is Isabel?  How come we don’t see anything about her in the news lately?  What is up here?  We don’t have volunteers combing the bushes for her because it might muck up things.  Let’s have another news conference and ask law enforcement to update the community.  Tell us what we can do aside from raising money for the family’s Isabel Celis fund (see Facebook) and having volunteers sell things to raise money and putting up pictures on our streets, storefronts, and every available crack and crevice in Tucson.

You would think news about a missing baby girl, in our midst, in our hometown of Tucson, would be up, front and center beyond a month.  Hmmm…part of our Tucson culture or what?

Tucson is suffering and wants to know what is going on.  Let’s put our money where our mouths are, too.  Don’t keep voting down tax increases for necessary services…if you do, don’t complain about the quality of life here, the dangers, whatever.  You get what you pay — or don’t pay for.

This Monsoon has exceeded all (my) expectations and then some.  It’s so nice to see and hear pouring rain and feel a cooling of the air.

I often forget about the winds that can come with our summer downpours.  I won’t forget last night’s winds though.  We hustled around the backyard trying to pile everything onto a covered porch as our lounge chair slid across the deck and into the pool.  Then, the “baby” pool, it’s actually my puppies 3’ by 3’ water bowl, went sailing across the yard like a Frisbee.

During the last big windy monsoon, we had taken the height down on the poles of our temporary sun canopy as it appeared to want to lift off entirely.  We even moved it further towards the house.

During Wednesday’s storm a line snapped and the canopy began a crazy dance.  We rushed to take off the top and lower the supporting poles again.  Alas, though we almost removed the whole weather resistant (?) top – we couldn’t figure out how to disassemble the whole thing.

A quick search of the house turned up directions, written in English, but absolutely not understandable – they might as well have been written in Farsi, or French or Gaelic for that matter.  Of course this flurry of activity was accompanied by sizzling lightening and roaring snapping thunderbolts causing me to scream, at least once.  Who could think calmly?

Then a heavy glass turntable started to slide down the length of our picnic table.  I made a grab for it before it went crashing onto the brick patio off the porch.  We did our best and hoped all would be okay.

What can you do?  Living here during Monsoon season means you really can’t put out summer loungers, umbrellas, toys or pillows because they will become projectiles.  It’s still hot and often sunny during the day; but to relax out back means committing to taking everything back in every afternoon.  The weather forecasters do their best, but, in my experience the Monsoon and its winds has a mind of its own.  And it’s blowing mine.

Are there super heroes in our world?

We’ve grown up knowing that Super Hero’s exist or hoping that they do…because we’ve seen them. Remember Superman, Batman, the Hulk, the Green Hornet…just some of the folks protecting us regular people from crime and evil in our comic books and on television?

Isn’t there a part of all of us that hopes, wishes, enjoys the flight of fantasy that suggest they exist.… or would want to be one of these good guys on the side of the angels?

Now that we’re at an age when our Super Heroes are the stuff of movie fantasy…with powers way and beyond…we realize that those special gifted ones don’t exist. Couldn’t exist…the world and the criminals are too scary.

But, do they exist…still in these days? I can remember a time, years ago, when Angels patrolled New York’s tough streets to be there as a symbol against crime.

Today I heard about some masked super heroes – people like you and me –but something pushed them over the edge and they decided not to let criminals rock the world. Phoenix Jones, Purple Rain and Fanatos are just some of the few that have committed themselves to being street saviors…to be there to stop the actions of those who would harm others.

No, they aren’t vigilantes. Sometimes, like Phoenix Jones, they go out in groups and video what is going on – and land up getting thugs prosecuted. They research where crime is likely to happen and lay in wait and catch the action. If the police did that, they’d be accused of setting criminals up…but Super Heroes aren’t real law enforcement and they can tape what they want. Just like you and me.

Phoenix Jones said something today that I have heard before, having worked for the Department of Corrections. Most criminals do drugs, drink, smoke and/or don’t take care of their bodies. Corrections officers in prisons and jails know that a duke it out between the incarcerated ones usually lands up with the combatants exhausted and hoping for lawful intervention. So, Super Hero Jones doesn’t try to chase down and beat them up; he doesn’t have to. He runs alongside of them and calls 911…as the criminal becomes exhausted

One thing I can say I agree with…we all need to be more aware and responsive to what happens in our neighborhoods. We need to be brave, to call the proper authorities and demand that criminals not rule our streets.

If we all reported on the questionable things we see…there would be less crime. You don’t have to be a Super Hero to call a law enforcement agency. The scariest thing is to imagine a world where people are robbed, raped, murdered, assaulted…with witnesses present who are too afraid to report. Get armed with a cell phone and help the police do their job…without going beyond and hurting yourself.

Isa Celis

Sierra

It’s not so long ago that Isabel Celis disappeared from her bedroom, in her home in Tucson. She was six years old at the time.  By all accounts she was a happy, pretty little girl who loved “girly things”.

Another six year old disappeared recently; in Utah on June 26, 2012. Sierra Lynn Newbold was reported missing, in this case, by her mother. Her father had left for work. In the Celis case, mother left for work and father discovered the child missing.

On June 28, 2012, it was reported that she was found dead in a canal, about 500 yards from her home. They found her shortly after the disappearance.  She had been sexually assaulted. Sierra Lynn lived with her parents, older brother, two older sisters and one younger sister in a 5 bedroom home.

The home was surrounded by a high, maybe over 5 foot concrete block or wood fence, much like the Celis home.

Like the Celis family, there is a plethora of sex offenders in the area of the Newbold home. They have 22 living within a five mile radius. Like in the Celis case, no one has been ruled out, not even family.  Both families are regular church goers.

Utah borders Arizona. This is too close for comfort.

It’s said the family in Utah had a video system on the property, too. Police didn’t say originally if it was operative.  But, it was.

What the public also wasn’t told initially was that the mother found a sliding glass door open in the home the morning her daughter disappeared.

I don’t know about you, but I am incensed and sad.  I hope this never happens again to another little girl. Children should be cherished, loved and protected. To think there are horrible, and notice I don’t say sick, people out there who would harm children is almost beyond comprehension.

Human Monsters come in all sizes, shapes and colors and they don’t sport horns. Once someone hurts or assaults a child, they shouldn’t ever be allowed to see the light of day…my opinion. But, per our legal system, once they serve their time, they are free to live their lives and should register with local law enforcement – kind of like the honor system. And, these “honorable” persons go on to have a life…victims be damned.

When children go missing, we may learn too late doors and/or windows were open, friends and relatives knew the family’s schedule, had keys and/or their own dangerous agendas and problems, a pedophile lived two blocks away, a friendly neighbor the children often visited had a secret past, and/or people who worked for the family in the past used their knowledge to get into the home.  Sometimes the parents have skeletons in their closet of some sort that came back to haunt them.  Sometimes, not as often, a really sick total stranger saw the child, followed the caregivers and bided their time.  What a world we live in.  Children are kidnapped to use in the sex trade here and overseas and children are sold by parents who are hooked on drugs or in deep to dark things or traded for cars.

All doors and windows should be checked every night by a designated adult in the household. Little children should be checked before the parents retire for the night, during the night and first thing in the morning…by the first one up, before anyone leaves for work.  Sliding glass doors need to be reinforced, you can use something as simple as a bat or a wood stick.

Children need to be taught what to do if someone tries to take them. Teach your child to yell…LOUD…to run, to not be afraid.  Respecting elders, family members, neighbors, fellow church members, co-workers and others in your life by being polite and insisting your children are too…to everyone, no matter what, just on them being adults,  is not as important as listening to what a child is saying…or not saying – and protecting your child.

If your child doesn’t like someone, avoids them, seems scared and/or is rude to them, or becomes stressful when he/she knows a particular babysitter, friend or relative is going to visit, should be examined as a signal.  Pay attention.  Don’t scold the child and insist they be nice to all adults.  Note who is taking interest in your children…be it around the neighborhood and/or at church – do you really know them?

A couple of years ago a toddler girl disappeared from her bedroom. Daddy was at work and mommy was home. She hasn’t been found since. No one knows if something happened in the family or if some random stranger just showed up or had been watching the family; or just passing by and saw an opportunity.

We have to be aware to protect children.  We must report anything unusual or concerning to law enforcement agencies in our areas.  You just never know who is out there, or, what is going on. Take a minute, check it out.  It may not be your child, but as adults we are all parents to the next generation and responsible for children.  Think of your innocent child self.  Were you lucky enough to have neighbors, family members, and friends watching out for you?  People used to do that more.

Don’t rule out people you know…casually…or well…as potential perpetrators.  People assume they can trust extended family members. Be sure you know who is coming into your home, who has keys, who knows codes on alarms and what their background is.  When it comes to your children, take nobody at their word.

A 41 year old suspect was arrested in Sierra’s murder.  He lives near the family and attends the same church.  He was caught because of another crime he committed.

Let’s say a silent prayer for Isabel and hope that she comes home too, like Elizabeth Smart did…but sooner and without the horrors Elizabeth endured.

Finnegan plays with his box

Did you know you already have free fun puppy toys at home?  You can also create simple games and customize it to your puppy’s preferences. 

Finnegan’s (my puppy) current job title is Sir Master of the World of Puppy Fun.   As an active and curious five month old pup, he created many of the following (patented) featured recreational activities.  He was kind enough to share his ideas with me.

For cheap toys, nothing beats a cardboard paper towel roll.  Once you use your paper towels, be Green, and repurpose the roll.  You’ll be fashionable, reduce the carbon footprint and satisfy puppy. 

A used roll is a wobbling and chewing diversion.  Be sure to retrieve it within a reasonable time as he will soak it with puppy saliva and construct little pieces to redecorate your flooring.

Rolls can also be used in a bowling game.  Line several up at one end of the kitchen.  You toss one down “the lane”.  Puppy will run headlong into them and score a strike most times.  This will guarantee you, the puppy parent, lots of fun.

You can also use a wad of aluminum foil as the ball or an actual puppy ball.  The National Bowling league doesn’t care and doesn’t discriminate.

Empty Kleenex tissue boxes are really fun.  Toss one and watch the pup grab the opening with his teeth and tear off.  Better fun is to watch him try to take it out a door or upstairs.  Finnegan also likes to put his head into it and wear it as a hat.  He gets to sniff, snap his head around and then shake it off.  Life is good.

What do you do with used water bottles?  I heard you shouldn’t reuse these for your own drinking water.   THEY say that weird things will grow in them after repeated use and kill you.  I know you put the bottle in the recycler, as I do, but why not get another pet friendly use out of it first. 

Finnegan chases empty water bottles.  They snap and crackle.  You can put treats, gravel or ice cubes in it so it has an even more pleasing racket and shake ability. 

My dog loves ice skating.  Freeze small ice cubes in trays.  (For those of you with icemakers, you can still buy trays at the Dollar store or fancy ones at Bed, Bath and Beyond – made of soft material in eye popping colors.)

Toss a cube or two on your tile, linoleum, concrete patio or other slick floor surface.  Watch your pet skid off in search of the cube which he will put in his mouth.  He’ll suck, spit it out and watch it slide and gleefully run off after it. This sport also soothes sore puppy gums as they go through teething.

Duck hunting is a fun diversion.  If you have a little baby pool, put a couple of yellow ducks in the water (toy ducks, not real ones…).  Dogs see only a few colors, yellow being one of them.  Finnegan hops into his baby pool and captures the ducks.  He also watches them closely lest they attempt escape and stares them down.  You can put the ducks in your own bathtub and alert puppy to their invasion.

Finnegan’s pool also serves as a large water bowl.  He loves the taste of H2O flavored by his feet.  Go figure.  If you don’t have a puppy pool – I mean baby pool – Wal-Mart’s has small plastic ones starting at $11.  Don’t make the mistake I did getting one of those rubber blow up ones…duh…puppies have nails and teeth.  They can’t eat plastic pools.

Duck hunting can be varied to become ice fishing or fish fishing.  Just toss in a couple of ice cubes, a sardine or a can of tuna.

If you are interested in more free, cheap and easy puppy games, watch for my new book, “The Puppy Games”.  Happy Puppy Olympics.

I'm Ready for the Pool Party

Enjoy a Pool Party

Have a Patriotic Dessert: Pound cake topped with strawberries in juice, kissed with whipped cream and spirited with blueberries

§ Barbeque for your family…and if you can stand it…relatives…and for a good time, sprinkle in friends

§ Get your flag on…out…up

§ Start a parade tradition in your own neighborhood: take the kids and walk up and down your block with toy flutes, tambourines and good cheer

§ Wear red, white and blue

§ Be proud to be an American

§ Blow up red, white and blue balloons and set them free to the sky

§ Dress your pets in little star and stripe hats

§ Learn the National Anthem

§ Eat, drink, sleep…and chill

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Hurrah for the Red, White and Blue. Thanks to the men and women in the military and their families for preserving our way of life and keeping our world a safer place for all of us.

Hailey Dunn was born August 28, 1997.  She disappeared four months after her thirteenth birthday, on December 27, 2010. I don’t know why I said she was 12 in an earlier blog…but, to me, the difference between 12 and 13 is minimal and inconsequential…overall.  Fact is she is gone and under seemingly bad circumstances.

An Amber Alert was never issued because the case did not meet the criteria according to reports. Why?  Per the national guidelines as to use of the Amber Alert and as interpreted by the State of Texas, they didn’t have a suspect and a vehicle description – which is required.

However, local law enforcement themselves questioned this.  They felt her sudden disappearance wasn’t the result of her running away and it was definitely suspicious.

Isabel Celis disappeared from her family home two months ago.  She was six years old at the time.  An Amber Alert wasn’t issued.  According to press reports, there wasn’t an identified suspect and a description of the “getaway vehicle”.

Some people have very strong feelings about this – they feel that the Amber law is as it should be and if a case doesn’t meet the stringent criteria, it shouldn’t be issued.

Some people have strong feelings because I said Hailey was 12 when she disappeared…however, she was 13…by four months.  Such is life.

We will all disagree at times on things and see things in a different light…that is the human experience.  It is why witnesses aren’t always dependable and why there is conflict between people.  Humans see, discern and analyze what is presented to them based on their own unique experience.  We are all different, special…valuable and most of us are well-meaning.

Two children are missing and we still don’t know where they are and what happened.  I don’t know about you, but that freaks me out.  Arguing about little discrepancies in facts…or trying to condemn what each of us sees and feels about an event doesn’t erase the very real fact that at least two children are missing.  And, clearly, we all care.

What do we do?  What do you think?  Do you think Sergio did something to his little girl and there is blood evidence?  If that is the case…or were the case…I have no doubt that the TPD would have arrested him.  If he is/was dangerous to his children, don’t you think Child Protective Services would have filed a petition with the court rather than having him voluntarily stay away from his boys?  Think.

No one knows what happened.  But lots of people have opinions and the Police/law enforcement, I am sure, have their suspicions.  There are so many maybes here.  Maybe she was taken away, to protect her…..due to threats by other parties.  I don’t know…I’m just speculating.  If the police had concrete information that Mr. Celis was a danger to his children…he’d be in jail and the Juvenile Court would have issued orders.

That being said, there are a lot of questions about this family…their associates and relatives.  Most people feel their responses and early interactions with the media were suspect.  Perhaps so.  I myself felt Sergio was being artificial.  But, I don’t know what really happened or why they responded as they did as a family and am not willing to condemn them for not appearing as we think they should.

The important thing is Isabel is still missing…and lately nothing is said about her on the news and in the paper.  That is wrong…she is a baby girl and ought to be visible on the news and daily in our thoughts.  Let’s just all concentrate on what we can do to keep her alive in our world and in our reality.  She’s out there somewhere and deserves our care.

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Six year old still missing. How can the local public help?

If you want to hear how Sergio described how his daughter was missing…”I believe a child was abducted from my house………………”  left click on the address above and go to the link.  He called and was redirected to a Dispatcher.  Initially he says his daughter was abducted.  Once referred to an appropriate resource, he calls her “a child…”

In Tucson, we have several law enforcement agencies with different jurisdictions.  Possibly when he first called, someone asked him his address so as to refer to the appropriate local LE agency.

His voice, reporting, tone and emotionality are interesting, in that he is even spoken, not hurried, and calm.  He is asked how tall she is and responds with his wife’s height, 5 foot 2 inch.  The dispatcher tells him, no not your wife, your daughter.  Is that shock?

He states right up front, without being asked, that he heard nothing weird.  He says his oldest son, the 14 year old, went running around to look to make sure.  He says he told his wife to “get her butt home” and giggles.  He notes the 10 year old is in the garage, waiting for his wife.

He then gets distracted and says his wife is coming in.  He says she is talking to someone maybe the police and maybe she called them on her way home.  The Dispatcher pauses; then says, “oh, I think your son is calling in”.

In one of the redacted police reports, it is written that one of their sons was canvassing the neighborhood looking for his sister, when a citizen noted him crying and spoke with him.  She offered the child her phone to call the police.  Then, the child’s father (according to the citizen reportee) shows up in a truck and says that he will call the police.

Sergio tells the Dispatcher his wife just came home and is hysterical.  He is told by the Dispatcher that a collection of officers in on their way and to stay home.  He says okay and hangs up.

The mother calls Police and asks if anyone checked the Mexican border.  It seems that everyone in the home called the Police, on their own initiative, except for the 10 year old.

If you haven’t done so yet, check out some of the 500, redacted, Arizona, Tucson Police Department Reports originated since this child “disappeared”.  Pay attention to the timeframes reported early on…and then later.  When did Sergio wake up?  He says 6 a.m. and notes he “didn’t hear anything” and that his dogs would bark.  A neighbor notes her dog and his dogs were barking frantically around 6-6:30 a.m.

When did he notice his daughter missing?  When did Becky/Rebecca go to work?  When was this “abduction” reported?  Did he go to wake Isabel up at 8 a.m.as was reported…or earlier?

Did Becky leave for work at 6:30 a.m., 7:00 a.m. or 7:30 a.m.?  Hard to really say since the family reports different times.  She states she didn’t hear anything either.

How long did their oldest son search for his sister in the neighborhood?  When did someone finally call Police?

Why was their daughter sleeping in this room alone, when she normally slept with her brothers?  Why is a camera turned towards the sky this particular morning, so missing anything that might have happened on the Celis home grounds.  How is it that when Police respond, one of Becky’s family members is already there with his girlfriend?  Becky says she didn’t check on her little girl before she left for work.

Public records show that someone named Sergio D. Celis has a past criminal background involving drugs and someone named Rebecca Celis was arrested for DUI complicated by having children in the car with her.  Are these the parents…or not?  A cousin, Justin Mastriano (spelling may be differnt), stayed with the family last year….he also has a criminal background under his name.  Many people called Tucson police stating they knew the family and had suspicions either about the parents or people who visited their home.  Police say CPS was involved in December 2011.

Although the Police have  been criticized for releasing their documentation too quickly, without proper redaction and various Tucson news channels have been accused of giving the public access to such reports…at least TPD did release something.  What about CPS?  Arizona law allows for release of records if a child dies…what about a suddenly missing child?

It’s barely two months now and Isa Celis is no longer news here in Tucson…nothing whatsoever in our local papers.

Come on….we still have a missing 6 year old….let’s at least keep the news and search alive.  And tell us, what we do…the public, the people of Tucson to help?  Selling badges and ribbons may raise money but there’s a lot of free workforce here in Tucson that will gladly do whatever to find this little girl………if only someone would tell us what to do.  What say local law enforcement?  Isn’t there some real and concrete way we can help and not let her fade into old news?

In Texas, a 12 year old went missing a year and a half ago.  The community searched for her for months,  blogged, wrote, searched with police, helped and did everything to try to keep her memory alive, working with law enforcement and the media.  I know Tucson can do that and more.  Tell us what we can do and we’ll all help….

Isabel Celis...Still Missing

Was the Amber Alert inappropriate for the Isabel Celis case? You be the judge.