*** I did not know about the family link this has. It's not immediate family but Kayti's twin Nikki and her children are the immediate family linked to this family missing. I am posting this as support and wish the family god's peace. It's a tragic thing for family to go through something like this. Say "I love you everyday to the people that matter" its always important because you never know. May god give you peace in times of hardship.
Orlando group joins Deltona vice mayor in search for missing Deltona family
Thalia Otto, 9, and Michael Otto, 8, are missing along with their mother, Yessenia Suarez.
Provided by Felicia Perez
Provided by Felicia Perez
Published: Friday, November 8, 2013 at 1:10 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 3:35 p.m.
DELTONA — About 30 people are
expected to join Deltona vice mayor Zenaida Denizac on Friday afternoon
to discuss ways in which the community can help the family of a missing
Deltona mom and her children.
“It’s been so hard on them,” Denizac said in a telephone interview. “We have to continue searching for them.”
The
group started with a couple of people from Orange County contacting
Denizac offering help to the family and will meet at Deltona City Hall
at 2345 Providence Blvd. at 4 p.m. Friday. Anyone who wants to help is
also welcome at the meeting.
Strategies
will be discussed on how to continue looking for the bodies of Yessenia
Suarez, 28, and her two children, Thalia Otto, 9 and Michael Otto, 8,
who went missing Oct. 23, Denizac said.
Diana
Mejia, director of the nonprofit said that her organization is
supporting the family because they work with victims of domestic
violence and understand the pain they are going through.
“Finding
Yessenia and her children is a priority.” Mejia said. “We are a
faith-based organization and we believe that when there is unity, there
are better results.”
Volusia
sheriff’s investigators have said that Luis Toledo, 31, Suarez’s
husband, killed her with a martial arts blow to her throat. Toledo is
charged with second-degree murder in connection to Suarez’s death.
Although Toledo admitted killing Suarez, he is not telling what he did
with her body. Toledo denied killing the children but told investigators
someone else did kill them, his arrest report said.
Investigators said Suarez and
her children disappeared between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. Oct. 23. Toledo said
that he struck Saurez during an argument over marital problems in their
317 Covent Gardens Place home. The family said that the couple were
talking about a divorce. Toledo is not the biological father of the
children.
The Sheriff’s
Office continues to investigate the disappearance of Suarez and her
children, said sheriff’s spokesman Brandon Haught.
“Targeted investigative searches are still ongoing,” Haught said Friday afternoon. “They have been since this case started.”
Equusearch
of Orlando will search areas identified by the family Saturday and a
handful of deputies will accompany them, Haught said.
“The search will be primarily owned by them,” Haught said.
The
group coming to Deltona on Friday afternoon, known as Nuveo Sendero
(New Path), is an Orange County group campaigning against domestic
violence. But their focus in Deltona is to offer support to Suarez’s
family and brainstorm ideas on how they can help find Suarez and her
kids, Denizac said.
“Basically
these are groups from Orange County who have been reaching out to me,”
Denizac said. “The intention is to unite the community, discuss
strategies, plan a vigil.”
Part
of the group’s effort has been to open a fund called the The Yessenia
Suarez and Kids Fund which was done Friday afternoon at a TD Bank in
Deltona. All the money raised will be used in the continued search for
the bodies of the mother and her children. Donations can be made at any
TD Bank, Denizac said.
Ruben Perez, the stepfather of Suarez, could not immediately be reached Friday afternoon.
“Everybody wants to help,” Denizac said. “The goal is to unite city and make sure this is not forgotten.”
No comments:
Post a Comment