A Fresno County family says they are desperate for answers after a 10-year-old girl from Huron has not been seen for more than a year.<\/p>\n
Relatives say they are worried about Esther Nieblas.<\/p>\n
They believe her father may have taken her out of the country. The family says their main concern right now is simply knowing that she is safe.<\/p>\n
Esther and her father had been living with relatives in Fresno before they moved out in November of 2024. <\/p>\n
Shortly after that, family members say communication stopped.<\/p>\n
They say the last time they had contact with Esther was that November. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s like our little baby of the whole family,\u201d said Maria Herrera, a cousin of Esther. <\/p>\n
Esther\u2019s aunt, Sophia Felisciano says, the girl\u2019s absence has been especially painful for the family. <\/p>\n
They say the uncertainty about where she is has been the hardest part.<\/p>\n
At first, they believed Esther\u2019s father was simply keeping some distance. But as the months passed without contact, their concern grew into worry. <\/p>\n
Family members say they were used to seeing Esther all the time.<\/p>\n
Herrera says Esther frequently stayed in touch before contact stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe would FaceTime me all the time,\u201d Herrera said. \u201cThe last messages were in November, and I called it yesterday and the number is not in service anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
The family says they briefly heard from Esther\u2019s father, Rodolfo Nieblas Vasquez, in August 2025.<\/p>\n
Felisciano says the family had planned a barbecue and expected him to bring Esther.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were supposed to make a barbecue and he never showed up,\u201d Felisciano said. \u201cI asked to talk to her and he told me she was asleep and I\u2019m okay. That\u2019s fine. Just give her a big kiss and tell her that Tia loves her.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the family, that was the last time they were able to reach him. <\/p>\n
They say after that call, he stopped responding completely.<\/p>\n
Fresno County family seeks answers after Huron 10-year-old Esther Nieblas missing. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Felisciano also says Esther\u2019s mother went to jail in October 2025.<\/p>\n
In December, the family says they received information that Nieblas Vasquez had taken Esther to Mexico. <\/p>\n
They believe he may have left her with relatives there.<\/p>\n
Family members say Esther had never been to Mexico before and that\u2019s when Felisciano says they contacted Huron Police. <\/p>\n
According to the family, investigators told them Nieblas Vasquez said Esther was in Mexico visiting and that he was also there.<\/p>\n
Felisciano says he offered to let officers speak with Esther over the phone, but police told him they needed to see her in person. The family says he was given a certain amount of time to appear with the child.<\/p>\n
He never showed up. <\/p>\n
Felisciano says Nibelas Vasquez violated court orders.<\/p>\n
According to documents provided to FOX26 by the family, it shows that he is not allowed to take her out of Fresno County or California without parental consent from the mother. <\/p>\n
Felisciano has a message for Esther\u2019s father, \u201cHopefully, you don\u2019t get upset with me. I apologize we had to reach this point,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re just worried about her. We want to see her. We miss her. At least just to talk to her and her mom misses her a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Family members say they also discovered Esther\u2019s last recorded school attendance was in May 2025.<\/p>\n
We reached out to Huron Police for more information about the case but have not yet heard back.<\/p>\n
The family says anyone with information about Esther Nieblas\u2019 whereabouts is urged to contact authorities immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fresno County family says they are desperate for answers after a 10-year-old girl from Huron has not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-214410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}