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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm Nicole

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Speaker 1: part In. The school secretary accused of months long sexual

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Speaker 1: abuse of a student is currently evading law enforcement. The

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Speaker 1: Greeley Police Department has issued a public appeal for assistance

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Speaker 1: in finding thirty four year old Brenda Mesa, who faces

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Speaker 1: several felony charges related to the alleged continuous sexual abuse

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Speaker 1: of a thirteen year old boy. According to police, Mesa

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Speaker 1: was employed at Franklin Middle School in Greeley at the

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Speaker 1: time of the alleged defenses and has been under investigation

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Speaker 1: since February. Officers responded to a report of a sexual

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Speaker 1: assault involving a school staff member and a student on

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Speaker 1: February twelve. Investigative records indicate the location of the reported

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Speaker 1: incident is just blocks away from where Mesa lived. Subsequent

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Speaker 1: inquiries led police to identify Mesa as the accused person,

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Speaker 1: and an investigation was launched. Authorities reportedly concluded that Mesa

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Speaker 1: had engaged in ongoing sexual abuse of the minor over

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Speaker 1: a period of several months. However, when the investigation concluded

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Speaker 1: and police went to arrest Mesa on multiple felony charges,

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Speaker 1: she was nowhere to be found. Masa has been on

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Speaker 1: the run since March twelve, and is now considered a

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Speaker 1: wanted fugitive. In the meantime, Doctor Susette Luster, the principal

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Speaker 1: of the school where Mesa worked, sent a letter to

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Speaker 1: parents informing them of the situation. She stated in part

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Speaker 1: that Masa's employment ended on February twenty five, and mentioned

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Speaker 1: that police indicated she might have left the state. Doctor

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Speaker 1: Luster further detailed that Mesa had been with the district

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Speaker 1: and cross country coach. She had previously worked as a

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Speaker 1: subteacher as well. Mesa was placed on administrative leave on

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Speaker 1: February twelve, the same day police received initial reports of

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Speaker 1: the alleged abuse. Authorities are urging anyone with information about

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Speaker 1: the investigation regarding Brenda Mesa to contact Detective Austin Berkeley

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Speaker 1: of the Greenley Police Department. Additionally, anyone who may have

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Speaker 1: seen Mesa or knows her whereabouts is encouraged to reach

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Speaker 1: out to their local law enforcement officials. More crime and

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Speaker 1: justice news after this and now to Florida. Just a

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Speaker 1: disgusting story. A woman is accused of directing her own

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Speaker 1: child to attack another ten year old boy and then

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Speaker 1: physically restrain the child during the confrontation that followed at

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Speaker 1: a nearby park. Ketsey Riviera, She's forty one, has been

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Speaker 1: arrested and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a

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Speaker 1: minor child, abuse without great bodily harm, and false imprisonment.

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Speaker 1: According to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to

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Speaker 1: a home on Heritage after a reported disturbance involving multiple

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Speaker 1: juveniles at a community park. Witnesses and the child told

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Speaker 1: authorities that a fight broke out among a group of

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Speaker 1: children who were playing together. Police say the situation escalated

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Speaker 1: quickly when some of the children left the area and

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Speaker 1: returned with their mothers, leading to a confrontation between adults

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Speaker 1: and children. Authorities alleged that Riviera played a central role

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Speaker 1: in the entire thing. One of the mother's forty one

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Speaker 1: year old, Ketzi and Riviera, pushed her children, who are

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Speaker 1: just eight and nine years old, toward the ten year

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Speaker 1: old victim and instructed them to hit the child. Ketzi

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Speaker 1: Rivieera then grabbed the victim by his shirt, preventing him

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Speaker 1: from leaving. Police say deputies said the alleged actions left

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Speaker 1: the child visibly injured. Responding officers observed significant swelling to

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Speaker 1: the child's eyes, his nose was bloodied, and his lip

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Speaker 1: was busted. The child's mother later arrived at the scene

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Speaker 1: and requested that charges be pursued again sainst Riviera. First

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Speaker 1: responders with the fire department also evaluated the child on

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Speaker 1: the scene, who was taken to a nearby hospital for

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Speaker 1: medical treatment. Authorities did not indicate whether any of the

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Speaker 1: individuals involved in the initial altercation between the children would

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Speaker 1: face charges. Rivieera was arrested and booked into the Osceola

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Speaker 1: County Jail. Police have not released additional details. Court records

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Speaker 1: provided additional details about the alleged altercation. According to authorities,

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Speaker 1: shortly after the children were playing at the playground, the

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Speaker 1: victim called her daughter a fat a, which provoked Riviera

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Speaker 1: to have the children fight back. Riviera was processed into

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Speaker 1: the County Detention Center and released after posting a twelve

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars bond. She will now face criminal charges and

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Speaker 1: finally to Kentucky. The Whitley City Police Department are asking

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Speaker 1: for the public's help and locating a missing team The

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Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Department announced that seventeen year old Noah Hill

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Speaker 1: was last seen around nineteen twenty March seventeen. According to

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Speaker 1: a media post from the police department, Hill has special

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Speaker 1: needs and left home with a phone that no longer

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Speaker 1: has service. Just after noon, the department announts that Hill

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Speaker 1: has not been found and police are concerned with his safety.

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Speaker 1: Noah is described as six feet tall. He was last

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Speaker 1: seen wearing gray jogging pants. He has brown eyes and

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Speaker 1: brown hair. Anyone with information is asked to immediately call

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Speaker 1: nine to one one and for the latest crime in

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Speaker 1: justice news. Follow Crime Alert hourly update on your favorite

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Speaker 1: podcasting app with this crime Alert. I'm Nicole Parton.