In an interview with
Fox 7, Farias' cousin Michelle Rodriguez alleged that police "are covering up what they knew years ago, and they didn't want to come out."
Rodriguez said: "Prior to Rudy's disappearance, his so-called disappearance, his mother had been seen by my late grandma causing abuse to Rudy sexually, physically, mentally. This did not just start when Janie reported Rudy missing."
She added: "Janie needs to be brought in."
Farias' aunt, Pauline Sanchez Rodriguez, told reporters outside Houston police headquarters on Thursday that Santana is a "liar."
She said Santana, identified by local media outlets as her step-sister, "knows a lot of people" in the police department and "that's why her freaking *advertiser censored** has been covered up."
Police "are covering up what they knew years ago, and they didn't want to come out," Farias' cousin Michelle Rodriguez claimed.
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Rudy Farias’ mother once claimed that her son had been kidnapped by human traffickers while she was actually hiding him in her own home, according to a private investigator.
Brenda Paradise told
The Independent she devoted hundreds of hours to finding Mr Farias but grew suspicious of his mother Janie Santana.
While claiming her son was missing, Ms Paradise said that Ms Santana repeatedly asked for money on her Facebook pages to help track him down.
Once, she asked for money to pay a ransom to a suspected human trafficker in Tijuana, Mexico, who she falsely claimed had kidnapped Mr Farias. She even went to a morgue to identify a deceased body, Ms Paradise said.
Private investigator told The Independent she grew suspicious of Janie Santana after devoting hundreds of hours to finding Rudy Farias
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