A California schoolteacher is going through fees after being accused of harboring a lacking teenager in her residence for almost two years.
Holga Castillo Olivares, 61, was arrested Thursday following a monthslong investigation into the inexplicable return of the 17-year-old to his Sacramento-area residence again in March, the Rancho Cordova Police Division mentioned.
Michael Ramirez, then 15, was final seen leaving his Rancho Cordova residence on Might 18, 2020, and was formally reported missing a number of weeks later, sparking what authorities referred to as an “intensive search.”
“You suppose the worst. You suppose absolutely the worst,” Katte Smith, one of many teen’s authorized guardians, told local station KCRA of her household’s anguish.
Smith mentioned Michael fled residence after a disagreement over home guidelines. When he lastly returned this spring, she mentioned he informed her that he had gone to remain on the residence of his former childhood girlfriend, whose mom is Olivares.
“We felt so robbed of all this time with him,” Smith mentioned. “You’ll be able to’t simply disguise somebody’s child and suppose that’s OK.”
Olivares was charged final week with one felony depend of concealing a minor and one misdemeanor depend of luring a baby away from their dad and mom with out the dad and mom’ consent, in line with a duplicate of the legal grievance.
A spokesperson for the Sacramento County district lawyer’s workplace was not in a position to say whether or not Olivares has an lawyer. She was granted a pretrial launch from custody Monday and ordered to don’t have any contact with Michael or his guardians, CBS 13 reported.
The Sacramento Metropolis Unified College District confirmed her employment with the district and mentioned that she has been positioned on administrative depart pending the result of a district investigation. A district spokesperson declined to remark additional on the matter.