Bedford County Sheriff’s Office searches for multiple missing teens from same foster home

BEDFORD COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Authorities are looking for three teens who have all gone missing from the same foster home.

Investigators said the teens all left separately. The most recent to leave was 16-year-old Allizon Ventura Gomez. Bedford County deputies told News 2 that she is missing from her foster home off Haskins Chapel Road in Shelbyville.

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“There’s absolutely a lot to look into at this point,” Sergeant Chris Brown said.

Brown added that Gomez ran away on July 11.

“She took everything in the house that was hers…” Brown said. “Her clothes, items out of the bathroom, things like that. That shows me, as well as anybody, that child does not intend on coming back there.”

Brown said that he found out that three foster children at the same house have gone missing, too. Only one of them has since returned home. Ana Romas Martin, 17, has been gone since October 2023. Magdalena Alonza, 14, left in July 2023.

“So many children have ran away from that same home,” Brown said. “Same complainant, same home, foster home, so that is certainly concerning to us.”

Three other foster children are at the house as of publication.

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“Sitting down and talking to the other children is something that I certainly intend on doing,” Brown said. “That will be part of our investigation. I’m going to obviously try to figure out who was there when the newest one ran away, Allizon.”

News 2 stopped by the foster home on Friday. A man who lived there met the crew at the car door. When News 2 asked about Gomez, he said she was a teenager who just ran away. A woman he was on the phone with told News 2 to leave the property.

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