Jennifer and Victor Case

Jennifer Gomez was born on the 30th of July 1995. At the time she went missing, she resided in Adelanto, CA.

Her mother had been dating Victor Cervantes for 10 years as of 2012, and by all accounts, VC lived with them for quite some time. Victor also had children with Jennifer’s Mom.

On the 3rd March 2012, Jennifer was 16. She and Victor left the house together at 7:30 am, they said their family they were going to a donut shop. They didn’t take the car and went on foot. They presumably arrived at the shop where they met a friend of VC (VC prearranged for this man to pick them up and drive them there- he might have paid him) who allegedly drove them to an airport in Tijuana, Mexico (a drive that would take about 5 and a half hours) but it is not definite the two boarded a flight that day.

Her mother (who has stayed anonymous) reported them missing after around 9 hours, and a warrant was put out for VC’s arrest. The mother hasn’t seen them since and still doesn’t know either of their whereabouts.

Detectives think they went to live in Mexico, as VC is a Mexican citizen and had family there. But they also think they could still be in (or returned to) the USA under several names/lying low.

Victor Cervantes is a strange one. He was either 29 or 30 when he took Jennifer, quite a young man to commit a crime like this. He wasn’t a passing creepy ‘mom's boyfriend’’ like related offender Henri Piette or fictional pervert Humbert Humbert. Victor was with this family for ten years. both Jennifer and her mom believed him. He was a part of their family, he was a father to Jennifer, and had children of his own with her mom. There are no reports of prior abuse (that I could find) The mom allegedly had no idea that he would do this and found herself scared and stumped.

The authorities naturally thought this case was something sexual. The Charley page claims he began thinking of her sexually as she got older and decided to take her away and make her his own, either that or he s family just to abuse the girl and began a ten-year grooming process when he was just 19. Authorities did look into if there was some kind of sexual relationship between them but it is unknown what they determined. There’s also an opportunity that VC’s motive to take Jennifer away was something different totally.

So what nobody knows is Jennifer’s side of the story. Did she want to leave? Did he trick her? Did he force her to leave? What was her relationship like with Victor? Is she hurt? Did her and VC even make it to wherever they wished to go? her mother did not know if her daughter would have gone with him freely. She didn’t know the man she loved all that well, and I guess she quickly known that her daughter was a stranger too.

Jennifers’ mother lost her family and may never get answers. The younger siblings don’t know where their sister is or what their father has done. Where did Victor Cervantes and Jennifer Gomez go?

If you find any information I missed lmk and I’ll add it to the write-up. This is an interesting case with not much info available.