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Father Uses Parental Controls to Find His Daughter Who Was Abducted at Knifepoint
The father used phone tracking to locate his daughter in a secluded area and helped her escape; the suspect faces aggravated kidnapping and indecency charges.
- On Thursday a Texas father tracked his 15-year-old daughter's phone using parental controls and rescued her, while Giovanni Rosales Espinoza, 23, was arrested and charged.
- After the teen missed her usual return time, her parents used parental controls to ping her phone nearly two miles from their home in Porter.
- He found his daughter and her dog inside a maroon pickup truck with a partially nude 23-year-old male in a secluded, partially wooded area in neighboring Harris County nearly two miles from home.
- Detectives with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Unit were still investigating Sunday, the teen and her family said she is back home and recovering, and the suspect is held without bond in Montgomery County Jail.
- The case underscores growing use of parental-tracking tools as the girl's family told KHOU-TV Friday they did not know the suspect and authorities expressed relief.
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