mother speaks via translater: mother thanks everyone for coming and their help. wants everyone to keep looking for daughter. Knows her daughter is okay/fine (alive). Jorge, you have to tell them, if you know, where my daughter is.
Again I want to thank community who has been helping, very grateful for what you are doing for my daughter.
atty: reached out to the public defender. Want to find out if parents could be allowed to speak to JG to try to convince him to tell what he knows.
law firm has not been retained to pursue any sort of lawsuit or address a current case or problem. Hired to assist with opening the dialogue with the family, police and the public. Hard for family due to the language barrier. Our firm has a large spanish speaking clientele and staff so we are an obvious choice to assist with that aspect.
One instance of inappropriate hugging by JG to DA. Mother mentioned at that time she did not find it appropriate. She said "don't do that, I don't like you to hug my daughter like that" he said "then maybe you should go get your rent money somewhere else" Otherwise never saw anything untoward or any prior behaviors that would make her not have offered to let he and brother stay with them.
JG was the family's suspect as soon as LE confirmed that Diana was not with her bio father or had been taken by him.
The issue with the Amber Alert - sheriff did what they were supposed to do, requested it. but being treated as a runaway up until LE did an interview with the 6yr old which revealed this was not a runaway situation. (AM I HEARING THIS RIGHT?) Sunday evening the 6yr old sibling recounted a conversation where DIana spoke of running off (presumably with JG)
[paraphrasing from presser]