Missing Teen Was to Testify in Gang Rape Case

A Harris County mother has spent the last three days searching her community for her 15-year-old daughter.

Christina Lynn Rodriguez disappeared last week after a football game in Channelview. Family members say she left her little brother, best friend, and cell phone at the stadium in Channelview.

She hasn't been seen since.

Her mother, Christie Smith, says her daughter was scheduled to testify in a criminal case-- a case where the suspect was already out on bond.

Smith believes her daughter may have been taken against her own will.

"My whole world has been turned upside down,” Smith tells FOX 26. “I just want her back to love and to hold."

However, Harris County investigators are treating the case as a run away. That's because Rodriguez left a handwritten note saying her presence at home was putting her family in danger.