CA ISABEL GALLEGO: Missing from Sacramento, CA - 19 April 2024 - Age 17 *Found Safe*

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Sacramento police believe teen missing for 2 months is human trafficking victim

Sacramento police believe Isabel Gallego is the victim of human trafficking and are now looking for someone in connection with her disappearance.
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Sacramento police believe teen missing for 2 months is human trafficking victim​

The Sacramento Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding 17-year-old Isabel Gallego, last seen on April 19. They believe she is the victim of human trafficking and are now looking for Kyree Jackson in connection with her disappearance.

Her family said she left without taking any personal belongings and has not contacted them in over two months.

"It's been excruciating, absolutely horrible," said Isabel's mother, Julie Gallego.

Her father, Richard, echoed his wife's shock by saying, "It seemed really out of character for her. Recently, she was talking about her future career as a social worker to help at risk kids. She had plans for the future."

Sacramento police say Jackson is wanted on unrelated felony charges out of Sacramento County and they believe the two first went to Portland, Oregon before traveling to Seattle. Isabel's parents say Jackson came to their home and shook their hands two weeks before she vanished.
 
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Sacramento teen missing since April with 25-year-old may have been sex-trafficked on West Coast
Sacramento police are seeking the public’s help in locating a 17-year-old girl who has been missing for nearly two months and is believed to be with a man in his mid-20s.

Isabel Gallego, a high school senior doing independent study, was last seen by her parents the night of April 19, and was not in her room the following morning, according to her mother, Julie Gallego. The teen left her phone in her room and had only taken a backpack with her.

The Sacramento Police Department reported Isabel is believed to be with Kyree Jackson, 25, who has two felony warrants out of Sacramento County — for illegal possession of a firearm and theft of a motor vehicle.

While the girl once ran away from home when she was 13, Julie Gallego said she believes that Isabel had not intended to leave for a long period of time. According to her mother, Isabel Gallego had ordered jewelry to take senior pictures, which arrived after she went missing. The teen was also making plans for her 18th birthday at the end of June and had a boyfriend she was excited to move forward with, Julie Gallego said in an interview.

“This was just not in her plan,” she said.

After Isabel Gallego left Sacramento, she was reportedly tracked to Portland, Oregon, before being spotted in Seattle, according to police. She was considered at-risk due to her age, and Police Department spokesperson Officer Anthony Gamble said investigators believe Isabel is a victim of human trafficking.

The teen met Jackson about two weeks before her disappearance, her mother said, and Jackson had even come to the Gallegos’ residence, introduced to Isabel’s parents as being a 19-year-old friend.

“He came into our house, he shook our hands,” Julie Gallego said. “He brought us candy, and he just gave us a weird feeling.”

Gallego said her daughter and her friends knew Jackson as “a pimp,” and that the 17-year-old is very trusting of people, which she said was “probably her downfall.”

Gamble said detectives “have been working diligently” to find Isabel, but investigators have “exhausted all of their leads.”


Julie Gallego described her daughter as “very creative,” with hobbies like painting, drawing, crocheting and making patches for clothing. She also expresses herself through piercings, clothing and hair colors, which her mother said were different every month.

She was also active in the Sacramento punk rock scene, frequently attending concerts at the Colony on Stockton Boulevard with friends, her mother said.

 
I pray she is found a safe and pray for her family that she is found safe/returned/comes home. I have no further comment other than people need to wake the HE77 up as to what kids deal with, always have, but these days far worse than ever. WAKE UP!!!!
 
Missing 18-year-old from Sacramento found in Portland; 25-year-old she was with arrested
Isabel Gallego, who went missing from Sacramento earlier this year at age 17, has been found after police in Portland, Oregon, took the man she was allegedly with into custody.

The Sacramento Police Department made the announcement Thursday night just after 8 p.m. and offered few details about Gallego’s condition or how she was found. Police in a social media post said, in part, that she was “located safely and plans are being set to reunite her with her family.”

Gallego, now 18, was reported missing in April. Police said at the time that she was believed to be with Kyree Jackson, 25.

Mike Benner, a spokesperson for the Portland Police Bureau, said in an email that Gallego was found Thursday in Southeast Portland.

The Portland Police Bureau “located Kyree and arrested him for his warrant,” the post by Sacramento police said.
 
Nothing means more than she was found alive.

Aside from that, I HOPE for better for her and that whatever happens here and the experience has her thinking twice. She's worth more than him.

And I hope he rots.
 
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