A Grand Prairie teenager has disappeared in a foreign country while her family was on vacation. Estefani Granados is believed to have been lured by a man using Facebook.
Federal authorities and police are looking for the 14-year-old, who vanished on July 21 in San Francisco, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Estefani, like many teenagers, is hooked on Facebook. That's how police and her family believe she met 20-year-old Alejandro Manuel.
"He was in Florida when they met each other on the Internet," said Estefani's dad, Trinidad Granados. "He was in Florida and she was here in Grand Prairie."
In July, Estefani and her family took a trip to Mexico to visit family members. What her parents didn't know is that Manuel was also headed to Mexico for a rendezvous.
"The fear of her family — as well as one of the fears of me being a parent — is you never know who these children may be in contact with," said Grand Prairie police Detective Aaron Martinez.
Granados said his daughter went shopping with her sister and a cousin in San Francisco, Mexico, but she met Manuel there and the two disappeared.
"She left with the guy, and that's the last day we saw her," Estefani's dad said.
Shortly after the disappearance, Manuel posted a picture of the two of them on his Facebook page.
"I'm very scared, because we don't know who this guy is, and we really don't know where she is," Granados said. "To me it looks like they are moving from one place to another."
Estefani recently sent a text message to her mother saying she would leave Manuel, but she has yet to show up anywhere.
Now she is an American citizen missing in a foreign country. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children consider her an endangered runaway.
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