Found Safe TX - Ashlee Hatterman, 13, Harris County, 2 Dec 2017

Hatterman is [...] a white girl who is 5-feet-4-inches tall, weighs 110 pounds and has brown hair and blue eyes.



https://www.click2houston.com/news/harris-county-deputies-search-for-teenage-girl

A Texas couple is frantic this evening after they say their 13-year-old daughter left school yesterday and boarded a bus destined for the Mexico border.

They believe their daughter, Ashlee Hattermann, was on her way to meet a man whom she had been corresponding on social media, covert messaging apps and through phone calls for the past year.

Tiffany Hattermann said her daughter told her last spring the man she was communicating with is 29 years old and lives in Mexico.

Much more at link.

http://www.12news.com/mobile/articl...hter-ran-away-to-meet-man-in-mexico/496423133

"Ashlee*Hattermann seen on surveillance footage at the Greyhound bus stop in Katy on Saturday, December 2, 2017."**(Photo: HCSO)

http://www.khou.com/news/deputies-ask-public-for-help-in-finding-13-year-old-runaway/496389702

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Henry2326 said:

"Ashlee*Hattermann seen on surveillance footage at the Greyhound bus stop in Katy on Saturday, December 2, 2017."**(Photo: HCSO)

http://www.khou.com/news/deputies-ask-public-for-help-in-finding-13-year-old-runaway/496389702

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Here's a link to some info on this Greyhound location.

ETA: and a link to the station in Laredo.

Oh boy, her parents are frantic...hopefully Ashley will be safe and come home soon!

Is this man even who she thinks she is really talking to?

Mexico? Scary!

Someone needs to go down there ASAP and try to track her down.

Hopefully Mexican LE can assist.

(Paging Lilibet).

“We found a note in her room,” said Ashlee’s father Keith Hattermann. “She calls the guy ‘daddy’ and herself ‘baby girl.’ [The note read] ‘Daddy owns my body and my soul,' over and over and over again down this sheet of paper.”

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The woman says she was approached by Ashlee in Katy on Friday and was mislead into purchasing the bus ticket for the young teen.

“I asked her how old she was; she said 18,” the woman told KHOU 11. “She told me she was here all week, visiting her boyfriend. She told me that [her parents] lived in Laredo and that she had been up here to visit her boyfriend and she was trying to get back to her family.”

The woman says she bought the girl lunch and the bus ticket to Laredo.

“I’m just devastated, I’m so upset,” the woman said. "I’m devastated for this little girl. I’m devastated for her family.”

Keith and Tiffany Hattermann say they discovered their daughter was exchanging graphic sexual images and messages last May through her phone, by using the covert messaging apps.

The couple says they took away their daughter’s phone and turned it over to HCSO’s Cyber Crimes Division. They say when they tried to get updates on the status of their case, deputies would not return their phone calls or emails.

The Hattermanns say they learned yesterday from one of their daughter’s friends that Ashlee had been communicating with someone on an iPhone for months in the Thornton Middle School library.

The parents say they do not know where Ashlee may have gotten the phone.

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A Houston sex trafficking expert told KHOU 11 on Saturday, the man's behavior shows classic signs of grooming of young girls for the sex trade.

http://www.khou.com/news/parents-13-year-old-daughter-ran-away-to-meet-man-in-mexico/496403337

Hattermann Family Photo

http://www.khou.com/news/parents-13-year-old-daughter-ran-away-to-meet-man-in-mexico/496403337

Looking at the bridges for border crossing @ Laredo, it appears there is video surveillance:
http://www.ci.laredo.tx.us/bridgesys/Cameras/bridge4cam.html

Hopefully they can review footage to confirm she crossed to Mexico and possibly see her direction of travel from there or if she got in a vehicle.

Border crossing info:
http://traveltips.usatoday.com/travel-nuevo-laredo-28897.html

"U.S. citizens will need a passport to cross the border. You can cross the border into Nuevo Laredo on foot, as many people do, or you can take a car, bus or taxi."

She would be transported back if she tried to cross the border.

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Mica said:

“We found a note in her room,” said Ashlee’s father Keith Hattermann. “She calls the guy ‘daddy’ and herself ‘baby girl.’ [The note read] ‘Daddy owns my body and my soul,' over and over and over again down this sheet of paper.”

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Snipped by me.

This is incredibly frightening!! I can hardly believe that girls would think this is a good way to think, but I know it happens. This is not love, attention, flattery!!!!!!!!!!

Just shocked to read this, even though, I like I said, I know it happens.

I am hopeful she will be found and returned to her family.

Yikes. She needs to be found soon before she gets the chance to step on Mexican soil. Like our country, Mexico has its share of sex trafficking rings and cartels. Very scary indeed.

margarita25 said:

Oh boy, her parents are frantic...hopefully Ashley will be safe and come home soon!

Is this man even who she thinks she is really talking to?

Mexico? Scary!

Someone needs to go down there ASAP and try to track her down.

Hopefully Mexican LE can assist.

(Paging Lilibet).

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BBM

Thanks for the heads up. What a mess. Her poor parents. They did everything right and Ashley managed to circumvent their restrictions.

Regarding the need for a passport, I suspect her groomer in Mexico has somehow provided her with a fake one and met her on the other side of the border.

I hope that LE In TX has been able to figure out who this guy is with the info her parents provided a year ago. Based on our observations in the case of Jenny Chen, hiring a trustworthy PI and keeping up “good relations” (i.e. bribery) with Mexican LE could be a wise thing to do.

Lilibet said:

BBM

Thanks for the heads up. What a mess. Her poor parents. They did everything right and Ashley managed to circumvent their restrictions.

Regarding the need for a passport, I suspect her groomer in Mexico has somehow provided her with a fake one and met her on the other side of the border.

I hope that LE In TX has been able to figure out who this guy is with the info her parents provided a year ago. Based on our observations in the case of Jenny Chen, hiring a trustworthy PI and keeping up “good relations” (i.e. bribery) with Mexican LE could be a wise thing to do.

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Teens are famous for deceiving their parents even though the parents took the right steps. Heartbreaking and I do not think Ashley thought things through like most teens don't. 'Love" and the thought of one's attention is hard for any teen's brain.

I am so scared for Ashley. She has no idea what she's gotten herself into. I pray that she is able to return safely home and soon.

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Whiskers16 said:

Border crossing info:
http://traveltips.usatoday.com/travel-nuevo-laredo-28897.html

"U.S. citizens will need a passport to cross the border. You can cross the border into Nuevo Laredo on foot, as many people do, or you can take a car, bus or taxi."

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How does it work for US persons on a bus crossing the border? Ashley’s bus ticket was purchased by somebody else. When crossing the border, are all bus passengers checked?

What time would she have arrived in Laredo? It says she got on the bus yesterday afternoon - in Katy, TX, right?

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pamelado2 said:

What time would she have arrived in Laredo? It says she got on the bus yesterday afternoon - in Katy, TX, right?

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Depending on the route approximately 5 - 5 1/2 hours.

This is so frightening. Ashley, call home. You are not safe. Praying for your safe return home.

This is SOOOO scary. At 13 she has no idea of the dangers Gosh her parents have to be beside themselves!!!!!! I know in some areas you can walk right across without showing ID. It's coming back into the US when you have to produce your passport. Prayers she's found....I do have great concern if she's already in the hands of this guy (group likely) in Mexico. Terrifying.

Lilibet said:

BBM

Thanks for the heads up. What a mess. Her poor parents. They did everything right and Ashley managed to circumvent their restrictions.

Regarding the need for a passport, I suspect her groomer in Mexico has somehow provided her with a fake one and met her on the other side of the border.

I hope that LE In TX has been able to figure out who this guy is with the info her parents provided a year ago. Based on our observations in the case of Jenny Chen, hiring a trustworthy PI and keeping up “good relations” (i.e. bribery) with Mexican LE could be a wise thing to do.

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So I read she told her mom in spring about this guy, but never saw how that was handled. I would have had her phone locked down for real.

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