Girl, 16, missing from Tequesta treatment center found
February 22nd, 2011 by TCPalm.com
Karina Guitierrez-Reyes
Karina Guitierrez-Reyes had been walking south on Federal Highway at 1:30 p.m. Monday, according to a news release. She was missing from the Sandy Pines Residential Treatment Center in Tequesta.
Guitierrez-Reyes was found by Jupiter police late Tuesday morning and is in the process of being returned to Sandy Pines, sheriff’s spokeswoman Rhonda Irons said.
No other information was immediately available.
Elliot Jones
Tags: missing person, sandy pines residential treatment center
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February 22nd, 2011 at 12:07 pm
First, I hope she is found and OK. Second, is she or mother a US Citizen? US Taxpayer dollars are paying. Our money is running out.
May 5th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
Gail, your xenophobic fears are unwarranted. Sandy Pines is not a facility that provides care for illegal immigrants. There are specific hospitals that work with Immigration to care for children like this. Sandy Pines isn’t one of those.
In case you haven’t noticed, Florida has a massive population of Hispanic people, most of whom are here legally. You clearly don’t care about her well-being; you care about your fantasy of her impact on the American financial system. If you did care about her well-being unconditionally and compassionately, you wouldn’t assume she’s an illegal immigrant based solely on her name and invalidate your first sentence with a “but”. The unadulterated greed here is astounding. She’s a child who’s obviously hurting. Are you really more concerned about her taking up a few thousand dollars of the state’s money than about, say, the huge tax cuts for the wealthy that would more than make up for her measly sum? If people in the highest tax bracket paid a mere 10% more on their taxes (and they would still be paying less than they had merely 60 years ago when the wealthy actually had the majority of their income taxed and were still perfectly satisfied and fabulously rich), they still wouldn’t be in the poor house and the U.S. government would have millions of dollars more, more than covering the few thousand dollars it takes for the state to pay for an emotionally troubled child to be in treatment. The best part is this: if she’s not a ward of the state, her parents are paying for her to be there, and either way she’s an American citizen. Your attempt at basic human compassion has failed miserably, and I urge you to reexamine your views on simple economics.
July 26th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Allen I totally Agree with you. I was there and it helped me out alot. Everyone should be able to have the same chance to have a etter life legal or not, but you are right they atre all legal immagrants.
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