{"id":62252,"date":"2025-12-30T19:31:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62252"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:59:32","slug":"technology-probably-saved-a-teenagers-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62252","title":{"rendered":"Technology Probably Saved A Teenager&#8217;s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday (updated Monday), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2025\/12\/27\/kidnapping-cell-phone-tracking-texas\/87927165007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today<\/a> posted an article about a father who may have saved his daughter&#8217;s life. On Christmas afternoon, a 15-year old girl took her dog out for a walk. When she did not return at the usual time, her father became concerned.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>She had <a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/2024\/07\/23\/kids-tech-that-is-safe\/74473762007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">parental controls<\/a> on her phone, allowing her parents to track her phone\u2019s location.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The father tracked the daughter\u2019s location nearly 2 miles away, in a secluded, partially wooded area, the sheriff&#8217;s office said. The father found his daughter and her dog inside a maroon-colored pickup truck, with a \u201cpartially nude\u201d man, later identified by officials as Giovanni Rosales Espinoza, 23.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The father helped his daughter escape from the truck and contacted law enforcement, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Investigators said Espinoza threatened the teenager with a knife and abducted her from the street. Witnesses nearby provided a description of the suspect\u2019s truck, and deputies found the vehicle and identified Espinoza as the driver.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank God she had her cell phone with her. Espinoza is being held without bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday (updated Monday), USA Today posted an article about a father who may have saved his daughter&#8217;s life. On Christmas afternoon, a 15-year old girl took her dog out for a walk. When she did not return at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62252\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18945,18944,18943,163,3832],"class_list":["post-62252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abducted-teenager","tag-cell-phone","tag-parental-controls","tag-texas","tag-usa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62253,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62252\/revisions\/62253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}