Kidnapped Teen Writes Mom on Facebook Telling Her to Call Police

[Jazzy]

A missing teen girl was able to sneak her mother a Facebook message, alerting her to call authorities, before she snuck away from her captors house when he fell asleep.



The girl, age 16, is a Johnston, Colorado resident and said she had been walking through a supermarket parking lot when David Calderon, 38, asked her for a lighter and forced her into his car.



He held her at gunpoint and allegedly made her go on drug runs with him around town. Calderon faces charges of kidnapping, false imprisonment, unlawful sexual contact, felony menacing, child abuse and assault.



The girl told 7NEWS that she is paranoid he will try to find her when he gets out of jail.



He was really, really creepy, saying he wanted to be with me forever and make me his queen, she said. He said if I did leave he would find me and shoot me.



She was able to access her phone while she was being held by Calderon. Witnesses told police that she sent messages from her cellphone and Facebook account saying she was with a guy named Dave and she was scared.



In the messages, she told her mother to call police.



I just told her to call the police, that I was with this guy named Dave and I didn't really know where I was at, she said.

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Something sounds very fishy to me about this story. Why would this guy allow her to keep her cell phone if, indeed, he kidnapped her? Why when she's able to access her phone, didn't she immediately call 911? Instead she sends messages to her mothers Facebook page? Makes no sense to me.



What are your thoughts on this story?

 

[Evil Eye]

Maybe there's more to it

Maybe we'll find out at some point.

Makes no sense to me.

You're expecting a freaked out teen to behave rationally?

 

[Jazzy]

^ What mostly makes no sense to me is why this guy didn't take away her cell phone. She's also run away from home several times in the past. She's only 16 but was alone in a parking lot and lends a strange man her lighter. I more think she went willingly with him. When things got a little too much for her, she panics and accuses him of kidnapping her. I'm not saying he should get away with doing what he did. What I'm saying is she's not as innocent as she wants us to believe she is.

 

[Bluezone777]

It's quite possible that he simply didn't know she had the phone and could only write a text message because talking would have alerted him to her having the phone and he would then have taken that phone away.



Another thing I picked up on is that she sent the message to her mother's cell phone as well as her Facebook which suggests a panic and dire need for her to see the message asap. This isn't something you would think about if you were trying to make up a story as you would have just sent it to her in one place instead of two.



Either way, both versions(mine and Jazzy's) do fit but there really isn't anything concrete which I would say points to either one being more likely to be true at this point.

 

[Jazzy]

Calderon faces charges of kidnapping, false imprisonment, unlawful sexual contact, felony menacing, child abuse and assault.

And he never knew she had a phone?

 

[Sinon]

Calderon, however, is saying that the story is a bit different. According to an arrest affidavit, Calderon said the teen willingly got into his car and said she was 18.

Hmm. I too question why she was allowed to keep her phone. I don't know about anyone else here, but mine tends to be in my pocket. If I were to kidnap someone that's the first place I'd check for a phone. Granted since this guy apparently has been charged for drugs previously he may not be too intelligent...