Baby-Sitter Sought in Child’s Disappearance
Police are looking for Rosa Suarez, a 26-year-old Los Angeles woman who disappeared with a 1-year-old after the boy’s father entrusted the child to her care, police said Friday.
On Nov. 17, Robert Lee Owens Jr. left his son, Robbie, with Suarez while he went to work on a construction job.
Owens returned to meet Suarez at Gladys Park at 2 p.m., but neither the baby-sitter nor the child were there, Police Det. Dennis Moeller said.
Kimberly Owens-Moss, the baby’s aunt, said Friday at LAPD headquarters that Suarez knew the boy’s father and that Owens-Moss had heard Suarez express her desire to have a baby when Owens-Moss last saw Suarez two months ago.
“[Suarez] seemed like she cared for the baby,” Owens-Moss said. “She said, ‘I want a baby so bad, because I can’t have no babies.’ I think that’s why she took him, she wanted a baby for herself.”
Moeller said that although Suarez is a native of Juarez, Mexico, and there is a possibility that she went there with Robbie, he believes that the baby-sitter most likely is still in Los Angeles.
He said Suarez is wanted for questioning and asked anyone who has seen her or the boy to call (213) 485-2671.
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