(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Payne County judge has dismissed a felony charge of child desertion against a Drumright woman at the request of the prosecution.
The case against Lisa Marie Enriquez-Ayala, 31, was dropped by Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler on July 2, court records showed today.
Enriquez-Ayala, who had been sought for nearly three years until she was found in El Paso last August, listed a Drumright address when she was released from the Payne County Jail on a personal recognizance bond six weeks later.
A relative of Enriquez-Ayala had reported on Sept. 13, 2010, that the defendant’s two daughters, then ages 5 and 8, disclosed they were molested by their stepfather at the family’s then-Stillwater residence, now-retired Stillwater Police Detective Les Little alleged in an affidavit.
One of the girls said that when she began crying, her stepfather “slapped her and told her not to tell anyone or he would kill her and her mother,” the affidavit alleged.
On Sept. 16, 2010, the reporting relative told Stillwater police that Enriquez-Ayala was missing “after not seeing or hearing from her since the molestation was discovered,” the affidavit alleged.
The relative feared that Enriquez-Ayala had been abducted or injured by her husband, the affidavit alleged. She was entered into NCIC as a missing person, the affidavit sid.
On Oct. 5, 2010, Enriquez-Ayala “contacted the Stillwater Police Department advising she was not missing,” the affidavit said.
She said she had left on her own accord with her husband after she learned her relative contacted police and reported the molestation, the affidavit alleged.
She was afraid that her husband would have to register as a sex offender, the affidavit alleged.
She refused to give the detective her location or contact numbers, the affidavit alleged.
When she was told she needed to return and take care of her children, Enriquez-Ayala said “she would think about it and contact me later,” the detective alleged in his affidavit.
Her statements and actions “have indicated she has abandoned her children and has not returned to take care of them,” the affidavit alleged.
In her application for a court-appointed attorney, Enriquez-Ayala wrote that her husband lives in Mexico. She said she was last employed in September 2010 at a Stillwater nursing home and left when she “was taken to Mexico.”
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