Alicia Navarro’s mother makes emotional plea over public’s ‘harmful’ fascination in missing-person case

Alicia Navarro’s mom pleaded for the general public to “transfer on” from her long-missing teen daughter’s sudden reappearance — warning that the “seek for solutions has taken a flip for the damaging.”

“Let’s focus that my daughter is alive. This can be a miracle,” mother Jessica Nuñez wrote Sunday night time alongside an emotional video plea posted to her “Discovering Alicia” Fb web page.

She expressed appreciation for everybody who has supported her since 2019, when her daughter — who walked right into a Montana police station final week — first went lacking days earlier than her fifteenth birthday.

“I might by no means have stored going with out your entire love, assist and properly needs. I can’t even put into phrases the quantity of gratitude I’ve for you all,” Nuñez says haltingly.

“However now that we all know Alicia is alive, I’ve to ask another favor of you. I do know you need solutions and I do, too. However the public’s seek for solutions has taken a flip for the damaging,” she continues.

“I’ve been harassed, my household has been attacked everywhere in the web — the general public has gone from making an attempt to assist Alicia to doing issues like making an attempt to point out as much as her home and placing her security in jeopardy,” Nuñez says.

“So I encourage you, please no extra TikToks, no extra reaching out to Alicia or to me along with your hypothesis or questions or assumptions. This isn’t a film, that is our life, that is my daughter,” she says.

“I like her greater than something on the earth, and I believe I’ve proven you that,” the disconsolate-looking mother provides. “There’s an ongoing investigation and I’m begging you to maneuver on.”

Nuñez’s plea comes after Navarro’s neighbors informed The Submit that the younger girl allegedly fought with a person she had been residing with in Havre, a metropolis about 40 miles from the Canadian border, and threatened to “return.”

Navarro, who “willfully left her dwelling” in Glendale, Arizona, in 2019, walked into the native police precinct the day earlier than the argument to request that she be taken off the lacking particular person’s checklist so she might get a driver’s license and could begin living a “normal life,” in accordance with authorities.

It was unclear how lengthy she’d been residing within the Havre residence, however neighbor Garrett Smith, 22, informed The Submit that Navarro and a person in his 20s have been residents since he moved in a couple of yr in the past.

Police confirmed {that a} man was detained and questioned Wednesday on the similar residence advanced, though it’s unclear whether or not it was the identical particular person with whom Navarro had been residing with.

Navarro, who has been described as autistic however high-functioning, left behind a be aware when she left her dwelling that learn: “I ran away. I can be again. I swear. I’m sorry.”

Navarro continues to be being thought of a sufferer, police beforehand mentioned, whereas the household’s non-public investigators exclusively told The Post final week that she had solely “spoken briefly” to her mom, whereas her intentions concerning whether or not she deliberate to return dwelling had been unclear. 

She informed police she has not been damage, was not being held in opposition to her will and will come and go as she pleases.