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An Amerindian tribe in the south-east of Arizona puts pressure for more stringent regulations on the group houses approved by the state after a 14-year-old girl was found dismembered for weeks after having fake out the window of her room.
The tribe of San Carlos Apache said on Monday that it had sent a resolution to Governor Katie Hobbs and other state officials requesting an investigation and a legislative reform in response to the death of Emily Pike.
Removers of Pike were found in garbage bags near an isolated forest road on February 14, almost 3 weeks after leaving its Mesa group, the tribe said in a press release.
No arrest was made and the Sheriff’s Bureau of the County of Gila, the investigation agency, published some details on the case. In a March 18 Facebook postThe sheriff’s office said he was asking for public help with information.
“This crime should not be resolved. Emily has been murdered in a cruel, depraved and odious act and the authors must be held responsible,” said the president of the Terry Rambler tribe in a letter of March 21 who accompanied the resolution.
Pike was placed at the group’s home by the tribe’s social services department. His uncle, Allred Pike Jr., 50, refused to tell NBC News what led him to be placed 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 home, said the tribe. It offers a reward of $ 75,000 for information that leads to an arrest and a conviction.
A program director for the group home, Sacred Journey Inc., said that there were rules on the moment when young people can leave.
“We must certainly know who, what, when you come back. We have to meet these people with whom you are going, have conversations, realize that these are real individuals, not just someone you invent,” said the program director. “You are not going to go to your friend and there are no parents there, things like that.”
When a resident leaves without authorization, the group group warns state agencies and contacts the application of the law. Local media reported that the teenager had fake her room window.
Pike’s uncle said his death was very difficult for the family.
“The way she was found was incredible because you don’t hear or see nothing like it from where I come from,” he said during a phone call. “Her deceased is one thing, but the way she was found was another thing. It is difficult to understand that someone would do such a 14 -year -old girl.”
He said he wanted his niece to remember him as someone who loved his mother and his brothers and sisters and liked to draw.
“She wanted to go to university,” he said. “Even if things were sometimes difficult, she had goals. She had a full life in front of her and her life was interrupted.”
