Bianca Lebron - 10 - missing since 11/7/2001

[Doyle]

http://www.find-missing-children.org/Posters/poster214.htm

[Up2theminute]

Bianca Elaine Lebron
Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance


Missing Since: November 7, 2001 from Bridgeport, Connecticut
Classification: Non-Family Abduction
Date Of Birth: June 26, 1991
Age: 10 years old
Height and Weight: 4'11; 115 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown hair; hazel eyes. Lebron has a birthmark on her forehead. Some agencies may spell her last name "LeBron."
Details of Disappearance here (http://www.angelfire.com/mi3/mpccn/lebron.html)
(w/ sketch & pic of possible van)

[Up2theminute]

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[alpharee]

she's a very pretty little girl. I wish they'd find her safe but it's been so long now.
This totally scares me about schools. I can't believe they just "let" her leave without really knowing. I know here I had to fill out and sign a form when school starts to who can pick my child up. If they are not on the list, then they are not suppose to be able to pick them up. I guess this school didn't do that.

[blueclouds]

ugggggg, this article says man involved in "romantic relationship" with Bianca?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHE'S 10

[Doyle]

An attorney for a Florida man who is being questioned about the disappearance of a 10-year-old Bridgeport girl told a judge Tuesday that he will conduct an investigation in an effort to clear his client.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ct--missinggirl1202dec02,0,4011668.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

[Doyle]

A 20-year-old Florida man, who police believe may have information on missing 12-year-old Bianca LeBron, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Superior Court to a forgery charge.
http://www.connpost.com/Stories/0,1413,96~3750~1806006,00.html

[Doyle]

Jason Lara, 21, of Fort Myers, Fla., was questioned at length but never identified as a suspect in the disappearance of Bianca LeBronon Nov. 7, 2001. He maintained his innocence Friday as he left Superior Court in Bridgeport after being sentenced to a year's probation for interfering with police.
http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-lara1220.artdec20,1,5926984.story?coll=hc-headlines-local

[WasBlind]

For Bianca

[fourboys]

November 7, 2004, 4:25 PM EST

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Even after three years, Carmelito Torres still has hope that her daughter will be found unharmed.

Ten-year-old Bianca Lebron disappeared from outside Elias Howe School on Nov. 7, 2001. Police say the fifth-grader was waiting with other students to enter the school at about 8:30 a.m. when she told classmates she was leaving with an "uncle" on a shopping trip. The students saw her get into a brown-and-tan van with tinted windows.
It was the last time she was seen.

"Three years is a long time, and it's been very hard for us, but we still have hope that she will be returned to us," Torres said. "We would just appeal to the person who has her to let her go so that she can come home to us."

Police have had several sightings of a van that resembled the one she entered, but have not been able to develop solid leads. Police are still waiting for a break in the case.

"We are continuing our investigation and still interviewing people when we get leads," Sgt. Jesus Ortiz said. "As recently as a few weeks ago we were interviewing people. It never stops."

The girl's disappearance has been publicized through national media outlets, including the television program "America's Most Wanted," and People magazine. A total of $62,000 in reward money for information leading to her whereabouts remains unclaimed.

Last year, police questioned 20-year-old Jason Lara, who they believed might have had a relationship with Bianca. But they later released him after he continually denied knowing the girl's whereabouts.

"We are still awaiting her safe return as is her family," Howe Principal Lourdes Delgado said.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ct--missinggirl1107nov07,0,7414987.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

[Trino]

Don't be so quick to blame the schools, Alpha. She disappeared at 8:30 a.m. while waiting to go INTO the school. School doors have designated times to open, so kids will be supervised. It sounds like she did this on her own. Maybe she walked to school, or maybe her parents let her off. If she had been my daughter, even if I had driven her, I probably would have left her off with the other waiting students BEFORE school. Who would have thought she would have truanted at age 10?

[bugaboo]

Just wanted to make sure she is not forgotten. She's got to be somewhere...

http://www.nampn.doenetwork.us/cases/lebron_bianca.html

[Bobbisangel]

I wonder what led LE to believe that the guy they questioned in the beginning even knew this young girl much less that the two were having a RELATIONSHIP??? I wonder if LE did more than just talk to that guy? This little gal has been missing for an awful long time and someone out there has gotten away with murder....so far.

[Rle7]

It was a disappearance that dominated headlines and led newscasts five years ago and police say it is by no means a cold case.

Bianca Lebron was just 10-years old when she went missing in Bridgeport and despite rewards, intense police work and many leads, authorities are still trying to find Bianca. As for Bianca's family members, the wait has been agonizing.

"It's hard getting up in the morning and wondering where my niece could be," said Bianca's aunt Gertrude Reboira.

The last time anybody saw Bianca was in November 2001 when she left the courtyard of Elias Howe School and got into a van with tinted windows. A man was behind the wheel and according to witnesses, Bianca acted as if she knew the man. Bianca told classmates she was going to the mall with her uncle. To this day, Bianca's mother can not make sense of that.

"I always have that in my mind. Why did she leave with that person? Why doesn't she call? A lot of things go through my mind because Bianca was a good girl," said her mother Carmelita Torres.

The FBI is working with Bridgeport Police, but time, reward money and boxes filled with tips have not led to an arrest.

Bridgeport police officers Jesus Ortiz and John Meyer head up the investigation and they remain optimistic that the case is solvable.

http://www.wtnh.com/global/story.asp?s=6146204

[missacorah]

Bianca obviously knew that what she was doing was wrong and that her family wouldnt approve, hence her decision to meet the man at school and not have him collect her from her home that day. She also had the sense to describe him as her uncle so deep down she knew that him being with her was somehow wrong.

However she was at an impressionable age and was maybe flattered by this weirdos attention, no matter how wrong it was. Maybe she left for good with him willingly and just didnt come back for whatever reasons. Could she have fallen pregnant and been ashamed?

Just long shots...

[Bobbisangel]

This girl was only 10 years old and in the fifth grade! How would she have been having a relationship with an older person? Her going with him must have been pre-arranged for him to show up at the school and her to go right over to him. Did she have a uncle that no one has thought to look at after all of this time? A friend of the family that she called "uncle?" Seems like every family has a close friend that their kids call their uncle even though he isn't.
Maybe the "uncle" had talked to her the night before and said that he wanted to take her shopping at the mall. If this girl didn't have much she would have been thrilled. He could have even borrowed a vehicle from someone or rented one so he wouldn't have been identified.

This girl was just a little girl. I can't imagine her being mature enough to plan to go away with someone or be into relationships with anyone. That doesn't make sense to me. If she had been a couple years older but not at 10 yrs.

[missacorah]

I know what you mean. My daughter is 12 and I cant imagine her having any ideas like that for a good few years to come. I guess the point I was trying to get across was that you never know what these sorts of people tell the kids to get them to go with them.

[Bobbisangel]

I wonder if this "uncle" was actually the uncle of one of Bianca's little friends or maybe someone that a little friend called "uncle?" I just find it telling that Bianca would tell her school friends that her uncle was picking her up. Ten year olds aren't old enough to think things through and come up with a cover story. I wonder if the young man that they questioned was friends with or related to anyone that Bianca's knew? Some way Bianca knew the person who picked her up.

[hoppyfrog]

http://www.connpost.com/breakingnews/ci_8652936

21 March 08

City officials have agreed to pay $750,000 to the family of Bianca Lebron, a 10-year-old whose disappearance from a city school nearly six and one-half years ago sparked controversy over local school security and an unsuccessful nationwide search.

Under the terms of the settlement agreement, which still must be approved by the City Council, the city will make six yearly payments to the girl's family of $125,000.

much, much more at link

[gaia227]

Bumping

According to the Topix forum - Biance did have a great-uncle name Jose Reboira who was dating and lived with Luz Gonzalez who just happens to be the mother of Jason Lara.

Jose Reboira died of an alleged drug overdose shortly after his sister (bianca's great aunt) called the police to tell them that Jason Lara fit the description. The only other person present when Jose died was Luz Gonzalez - Jason Lara's mother......