MATA-MARTINEZ CHILDREN, 10, 9, 7 & 5 - Reno Nevada (USA)

IVAN MATA-MARTINEZ

Case Type: Family Abduction
DOB: Sep 30, 1999
Missing Date: Jul 9, 2009
Age Now: 10
Missing City: RENO
Missing State : NV
Missing Country: United States
Sex: Male
Race: White
Height: 4'0" (122 cm)
Weight: 80 lbs (36 kg)
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Case Number: NCMC1126975b

JAKELYN MATA-MARTINEZ

Case Type: Family Abduction
DOB: Nov 14, 2000
Missing Date: Jul 9, 2009
Age Now: 9
Missing City: RENO
Missing State : NV
Missing Country: United States
Sex: Female
Race: White
Height: 3'0" (91 cm)
Weight: 60 lbs (27 kg)
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Case Number: NCMC1126975b

MEGAN MATA-MARTINEZ

Case Type: Family Abduction
DOB:
Missing Date: Jul 9, 2009
Age Now: 7
Missing City: RENO
Missing State : NV
Missing Country: United States
Sex: Female
Race: White
Height: 2'10"
Weight: 55 lbs
[b]Hair Color:
Eye Color:
Case Number:

TYSON MATA-MARTINEZ

Case Type: Family Abduction
DOB: Nov 17, 2004
Missing Date: Jul 9, 2009
Age Now: 5
Missing City: RENO
Missing State : NV
Missing Country: United States
Sex: Male
Race: White
Height: 2'6" (76 cm)
Weight: 48 lbs (22 kg)
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Case Number: NCMC1126975b

All four children are believed to be in the company of their mother Claire Tourand, pictured below.



Sources of Information:

Missing Kids: http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewPoster&caseNum=1126975b&orgPrefix=NCMC&searchLang=en_US

Code amber: http://www.codeamber.org/martineznv/nv_0711_0736_amber_alert_mata-martinez.php

Las Vegas Sun

Saturday, July 11, 2009

By Kyle Hansen

Nevada Amber Alert posted for kids missing in Washoe

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jul/11/nevada-amber-alert-posted-kids-missing-washoe/

CBS News

Jul 14, 2009 10:44 am US/Pacific

Nev. Abduction Suspect Spotted In Mono County

http://cbs13.com/local/amber.alert.washoe.2.1085060.html

Reno Gazette Journal

July 16, 2009

By Jaclyn O'Malley

Whereabouts still sought for Sun Valley woman Claire Tourand, who fled with her four children

http://www.rgj.com/article/99999999/NEWS0104/91110051/1004/news01/Whereabouts+still+sought+for+Sun+Valley+woman+Claire+Tourand++who+fled+with+her+four+children+

The Reno Gazettte Journal

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Mother Fled With Children

The Sun Valley mother of six who was the focus of an Amber Alert has been involved with child welfare workers since at least 2001, court records show.

Claire Camille Tourand may be on her way to Mexico with four of her six children, authorities said. An arrest warrant has been issued, charging her with unlawful detention, concealment or removal of a child from its lawful custodian.

Social workers declared Tourand a danger to her children, and that they were in an “immediate risk” in her care.

Records show Tourand recently finished a term in the Washoe County Jail related to her 2008 guilty plea to child neglect related to squalid conditions of her home. She pleaded guilty to allowing her children to live in a home where the feces and urine of nine cats and eight dogs saturated her children’s bed and clothing, and where rotted food was scattered around the home. Two rabbits were also in the home.

When she fled the area, her children had been in foster care and social workers were trying to reunite the family, authorities said.

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http://www.rgj.com/article/20090713/NEWS/90713056/1321/NEWS

Crime Library

2nd August 2009

The Sun Valley mother of six who was the focus of an Amber Alert since Friday has been involved with child welfare workers since at least 2001, court records show.

Claire Camille Tourand, 34, may be on her way to Mexico with four of her six children, authorities said. An arrest warrant has been issued, charging her with unlawful detention, concealment or removal of a child from its lawful custodian.

Social workers declared Tourand a danger to her children, and that they were in an “immediate risk” in her care.

The Nevada alert was canceled Monday by officials who believe she is no longer in the state.

Records show Tourand recently finished a term in the Washoe County Jail related to her 2008 guilty plea to child neglect related to squalid conditions of her home. She pleaded guilty to allowing her children to live in a home where the feces and urine of nine cats and eight dogs saturated her children’s bed and clothing, and where rotted food was scattered around the home. Two rabbits were also in the home.

When she fled the area Thursday, her children had been in foster care and social workers were trying to reunite the family, authorities said.

According to a 2008 police report, she told deputies that she had been planning on sending her children to Mexico so they could live with their parents and go to school.

In 2001, Tourand filed for a restraining order against her former husband, Ivan Mata Martinez, and demanded he not have contact with the children. Social workers began monitoring the family, records show.

Martinez was booked into Washoe County Jail on suspicion of identity theft-related offenses and is not the children’s biological father, records show.

In 2002, Tourand’s mother, Catherine Tourand, was granted guardianship of her two oldest children, one suffering from mental retardation, because “(the mother) placed them in physical harm,” records show. Two years later, Catherine Tourand sued her daughter for child support.

Deputies arrived at Claire Tourand’s home Feb. 29, 2008, after a report of yelling in a backyard. They determined Tourand’s boyfriend left her mentally retarded 15-year-old daughter in charge of her four younger siblings, 4 to 9, while he went to a gas station and McDonald’s. A sixth child was not home at the time.

The deputies were nauseated the stench of urine from cats and dogs in the home. Litter boxes, next to the children’s beds, were overflowing with feces, so the animals defecated outside the box. Piles of the children’s clothing were saturated with urine. The children had not been attending school.

Tourand told deputies she believed the house was clean, and her mother said she found no problems with the home’s condition.

The home also did not have hot water. A pair of pliers were attached to the faucet to turn it on. The family heated water in a coffee pot so the children could have hot water for “sponge baths.”

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All 4 Mata Martinez children have had their details removed from Missing kids website!!

Fingers crossed that they have been found safe and well!!! I will hold of moving to recovered section until I can find some media updates.

All the missing kids links for these 4 children say the same thing. "The case no longer exists or has been removed from the site!"

I can't find any news on them being found, but missing kids doesn't usually remove listings unless they know the child(ren) have been located.

I am moving this to the recovered section until I hear otherwise (if it was bad news relating to these children, I'm sure there would be news articles confirming that fact!)