An American native tribe in southeast Arizona is pressing by stricter regulations in state license houses after a 14 -year -old girl was found dismembered weeks after sneaking out the window of her room.
The tribe of San Carlos Apache said Monday that he sent a resolution to Governor Katie Hobbs and other state officials who requested an investigation and legislative reform in response to the death of Emily Pike.
Pike’s dismembered remains were found in garbage bags near a remote forest road on February 14, almost 3 weeks after she left her home in the Mesa Group, the tribe said in a press release.
No arrests and the Gila County Sheriff’s office, the investigative agency, have published few details about the case have been made. In a Facebook publication on March 18, the Sheriff’s office said I was looking for public help with information.
“This crime should not remain unsolved. Emily was killed in a cruel, depraved and atrocious act and the perpetrator (s) must be responsible,” said the president of the tribe, Terry Rambler, in a March 21 letter that accompanied the resolution.
Pike was placed in the group’s house by the Department of Social Services of the tribe. His uncle, Allred Pike Jr., 50, refused to tell NBC News what he led to him there.
He said he initially believed that his niece was trying to return to the reserve where his mother lives. His remains were found about 100 miles from the group’s house, said the tribe. It is offering a $ 75,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and a conviction.
A program director for the group group, Sacred Journey Inc., said there are rules about when young people can leave.
“We definitely need to know who, what, where, when you will return. We need to meet these people with whom you are going, have conversations, realize that they are real people, not only someone you are inventing,” said the program director. “You’re not going to your friend’s house and there are no parents there, things like that.”
When a resident leaves without permission, the home warns to the home alerts the state agencies and contacts the application of the law. The local media reported that the teenager had sneaky out of the window of her room.
Pike’s uncle said his death has been very difficult for the family.
“The way they found her was incredible because you don’t listen or see anything like that,” he said in a phone call. “His deceased is one thing, but the way they found her was something else. It is difficult to understand that someone would do something like that to a 14 -year -old girl.”
He said he wants his niece to be remembered as someone who loved his mother and his brothers and that he liked to draw.
“She wanted to go to college,” he said. “Although things may have been difficult sometimes, I had goals. He had a full life ahead and his life was interrupted.”
