The 17-year-old was last seen in a stadium last Saturday after playing a match
Guatemalan National Civil Police (PNC) agents located 17-year-old professional football player Sharon Melissa Santa Cruz Huertas, who disappeared last Saturday in the country’s capital, on Thursday, various sources reported.
The PNC said Santa Cruz was located in Río Dulce, in the Caribbean department of Izabal, 260 kilometers northeast of Guatemala City.
The Public Ministry (MP, Prosecutor’s Office), the Volunteer Firefighters (CBV) and the Communications Club, to which the footballer belongs, confirmed their appearance in life, but did not reveal more details about how Santa Cruz arrived at Río Dulce.
Sharon showed up. We will soon be able to provide more information “, Comunicaciones published on social networks, while the deputy assured that the citizens’ reports” were essential for locating Sharon Melissa Santa Cruz Huertas, who is already under the protection of the authorities “.
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“The effective action of the Prosecutor’s Office for Children and Adolescents through MAINA (Child and Adolescent Care Model) with the support of the PNC has made it possible to locate Sharon Melissa Santa Cruz Huertas, who is already in the custody of the authorities,” said the investigating entity.
In turn, volunteer firefighters explained that the player was evaluated at their headquarters in Río Dulce and “is stable.”
Authorities had activated a Alba Keneth alert (an institutional response system) to locate the footballer since his disappearance on Saturday, when she was last seen at the Cementos Progreso stadium in northern Guatemala, after a match with the Comunicaciones women’s team.
Two days ago, the player’s relatives, including her father, Hugo Santa Cruz, accompanied by several dozen people, marched in different parts of the Guatemalan capital to demand her appearance in life.
Santa Cruz Huertas disappeared on Saturday after a match in the quarterfinals of the Women’s League of Guatemala.
The player, who was wearing a club uniform at the time of her disappearance and also when she was found, signed for Comunicaciones in October, after being noticed in the local football hall. On November 22, he scored his first official goal. According to official data, the most common crime in Guatemala is violence against women.