[UPDATE: Kayla’s Been Found] Runaway Teen Possibly in Company of 45-Year-Old Man
According to Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office’s Public Information Officer Samantha Karges, deputies are investigating the case of runaway Kayla Ladonna Berteaux, a 15-year-old from Phillipsville.
Karges said Berteaux was reported missing on January 4, 2021, and could possibly be in the company of a 45-year-old white male in the Honeydew area.
Karges described Berteaux as a “white female, approximately 5 feet 2 inches tall, 107 pounds, with dyed-brown hair and hazel/brown eyes.” Berteaux was reportedly last seen wearing “jeans and a maroon salty crew long sleeve.” Karges added Berteaux is “believed to have her red Adidas sweats with her.”
Karges asks that anyone with information regarding Berteaux’s whereabouts call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at 707-445-7251.
UPDATE: Missing Humboldt County Kayla Berteaux has been located, as per a post on her mother’s Facebook page.
UPDATE 2: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Kayla “was located safe yesterday at a property near Honeydew and was returned to her family.”
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This child has run away multiple times this year. Anyone investigating what she is running from?
anon, privilege? I hope she is safe.
Dysfunction and neglect more like it. This is sad, more investigations should be done all around
I agree as well
That’s not the problem. It’s what she’s running to!
What a beautiful young woman. I hope her family finds her. It’s hard to see what the future may bring as a result of your actions at that age, and often harder to navigate without connection to your family for support.
I agree, she does look like a young woman and not a girl.
Is that a hoop greenhouse behind her in the top pic?
Definitely a hoop house but could be anything in there and no bearing on the situation.
She’s local there are hoops in the yard she belongs in
So they can give us an exact age for the dude she’s with but no name?
This makes me so sad. Go home, please go home. Such a hard age, so many different dynamics that may be at play.
His name is Andy Stansberry, according to the story on FB.
What? I know him. Going to see his dad today, will ask him about this.
His dad has been searching the whole time.
And i did… and i learned… and i will only say that the story is a lot more complicated than it looks. It’s not that she’s “with Andy” that’s the only important thing going on; and being “with” someone doesn’t necessarily mean all that people imagine it to mean. Just hoping it doesn’t get dramatic.
You really think that a pedophile would tell his friends and family what he is actually doing with her if it’s sexual??? Wow, you should be ashamed. It’s friends and family like you that push things under the rug & try to justify disgusting actions
Assumptions! You know what they say about when you A.S.S.U.M.E. I am ashamed of nothing and i have no idea whether anyone involved in this has reason to be ashamed– i am not them and am not privy to the details of the case. Are you?
You clearly know more…hopefully you do the right thing and let the authorities know if you find out their whereabouts. He’s not her parent, she’s 15, her parents want her home. It’s that damn simple. He can explain himself and the “more to the story” to police.
Too many projections
I’m hearing rumors abuse was reported to CPS not long ago and nothing was done. Hopefully everyone involved is looked at closely
Fyi, she has run away multiple times TO this man… not “from” anything. She wants to be with Andy… 15 yr old who believes she knows what’s best for her and who self proclaims her goals for life are to live in a 5th wheel in the mountains and sell firewood for her income… she wants this. She doesn’t want to be found. Also, CPS has been trying to help her parents with this for a while now… there really isn’t anything they can do. She desperately wants to be an adult and be free… but has no CLUE what the reality of that actually is…
If that’s the case, she can file for emancipation. There’s legal avenues to take for this and if the parents and her are both game I’d say go for it.
I’d have to assume the parents are sick of it after so long.
Then, the responsibility on “making it” is on her. She’ll wake up pretty fast.
No homeboy will use her, knock her up and throw her away. Then she’ll be stuck with her 15 year old decision for life. This scum bag should bring her home…period. Can you please tell me what a 45yr old man has in common with a 15yr old????
He’s a predator.
False witness is bad for your soul. Dont accuse without knowledge of the situation.
Any 45 year old man who is with a 15 year old minor, allegedly in a relationship and harboring a runaway…. is a predator. PERIOD. If she wants to be an adult, get emancipated. Until then she should be removed from the adults home and he should be charged to the fullest extent of the law.
I agree. If her family needs support they should reach out to someone like me. I can help mentor her. She will continue to do this until she finds the attention she needs and desires. Kim if her family wants to reach out, I believe you can find me through my info. I’m here to help. 39 year old female.
3 kids. Moved out at 15. Decent family life. I’m holding space for this young lady, her family, and even the gentleman who may or may not be at fault. If it weren’t for some of the elder men who helped me without being creeps idk what would’ve happened to me. I am in no way condone any of this. I just have a very deep understanding that there could be another side and it deserves love and tender kindness. Be the change.
What a kind heart you have. I hope her family reaches out to you. And fir that matter, Andy to. People are so quick to accuse without knowing the facts. I don’t condone Andy’s part in this but there is a lot of blame to be shared by others.
What they have in common- He thinks what he wants is the only thing that matters. She agrees with that value. They both could care less about what anyone else wants.
At 15 she isn’t filing for anything and needs to get her head straight and his ass kicked for preying on a kid. Nobody even twice her age has any real need to be with a child except as a parent. This guy is not her parent. He’s dropped the bait for his needs and she took it.
Agreed!
Rape. She’s not old enough to legally consent, and he’s three times her age.
Any 45 year old man that would take a 16 year old in is a sick puppy and should be jailed. Pig. Period. Judge her family all you want, but teens can make dumb decisions and a 45 year old man is DISGUSTING.
Is it for rent ???
What in the fuck is wrong with you?
I cannot believe you literally posted your rape fetish for a child on a public article. I hope you get flagged and found.
You are disgusting. Even if it’s “just a joke” that’s gross to joke about
Yepwell said.
He has groomed her to believe that they are “soulmates”.
The my spidey senses tell me that he’s a pedophile.
This feels like an episode of “Law & Order: SVU”.
You know NOTHING about these people or the situation!
Facts: he is 45, she is 15. She cannot legally consent because she is a minor. Any 45 year old man trying to get with a teenager is a predatory IMO a groomer and a threat to society.
“Any 45 year old man trying to get with a teenager is a predatory IMO a groomer and a threat to society.”
In other words, half the men in Mexico.
whoa, buddy. whoa. got any remarks about black men in your knapsack of racist dumbshit?
Coincidentally, 49% of Mexico identified as white or “light-skinned” in their 2017 census.
Its not prejudice at all to assume he’s in it for sex…
Typical liberal’s, making assumptions about others.
I wonder how my grandmother survived being married at 13 to a “adult” and having 13 kids in her life with him and dyeing (before him no less) in her 70’s…. Yeh, they should have locked grandpa up for the trauma he caused with that one.
Which was very common in those years.
Sometimes we are so prejudice and sexist its just down right horrid.
But were ok with putting in a War Criminal as POTUS!
ok, my grandmother was married off at 14 to an adult as well and had a 6 year old and another toddler by the time she was 20, 13 kids all together one of whom died at birth…she couldnt have left if she wanted. where is a pregnant teen supposed to go to run away from her husband? back to her family who married her off so they can turn her back over to him? or maybe run away and be shunned? child marriage is disgusting and you are disgusting for suggesting that it was or is ok…and yes your grandfather is digusting for molesting a child, she was groomed to be with him, its not sexist to say that a very young teenage girl shouldnt be with a grown man
Wow nice try making this about politics! Best thing to do is shut your trap, and not make assumptions about people who you know nothing about. These two don’t have anything in common with your grandpappy I’m 100% sure. Most stories are way more complex than they seem. If you can’t help or say anything nice, keep it to yourself. Sending best wishes to the young runaway.
“Reality” is RHBB’s Tucker Carlson.
🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Well that is , that, If Grandpa can have sex with my Grandma when she was thirteen, we need to let this young liberated girl, run off with a 45 year old man. This is ludicrous .
No she does not, and now there are laws againts this, for very scientific reasons.
Lets start with childbirth, accoarding to Dr’s not hillbilly moonshine lawyers, teen pregnancy is not recommended.
Cool, Reality’s a pedo. Trump dropped more bombs than Obama or Bush did in their first terms, BTW.
I dunno anything about those people so and but…that’s a situation where new world knowledge could help. Unless they’re living under a rock, they’re internetting. There could be funny memes that describe to each of them what they’re respective not-funny situations will be if he gets her pregnant.
People need to shut their mouths and not comment on shit they know nothing about! I know her mother and she is definitely not a child abuser!
Thank you Kristie
Thank you Linda
My mom let several of my friends, who ran away when I was a teenager, live with us till they got things settled.
That’s the only way a 15 at old should be living with a 45 year old.. otherwise he’s a creeper pedo.
I never have understood kids who go for grown ups. When I was young I thought older people were gross And still do. Nonetheless, kids are agitate messaging me on dating apps & I’m like wtf! I will admit that it’s an ego boost to be my age, 42, and have someone message me today..16 years old & looking for a daddy.
Completely disgusting, yet I do like being attractive
Boy, Kim, you’ve cultivated some beauties by giving them a place to air their . . . “proclivities.”
It’s only the local anitifa types that soil Kym’s site that thinks this way.
What a surprise, another Trump voter who wants thr age of consent lowered.
There you go again. “Sigh.” Keep repeating it until it becomes “truth.” Personally, I’m as anti-facist as you can get. But for the life of me nobody seems able to figure out where I can go to sign up. It’s almost like the organization doesn’t exist. My great uncle was murdered by a nazi/facist POW guard in WWII. He was a belly gunner and his plane was shot down in Germany. Nobody even knows where the scum buried him. So yeah, it’s personal. Google “Elroy Wyman.”
you didn’t get your antifa membership card with your first paycheck? the return address says “george soros.” i got mine last year, used it to buy a bus.
When a child has a lot of creative/motivated energy, it is incumbent upon the parent to recognize that and cultivate it into something that the younger generation can pour their effort, passion, energy into. For many reasons, one of which is idle hands are the devils playground. Or sense of accomplishment and developing an ability to learn and practice new skills. When my sister was her age, she was selling homemade goods to pay for international student exchange programs. What I see here is a lack of parental understanding of their child’s needs. And hence she went off looking for something to put her energy into. Its to bad so many people have kids without understanding human psychology, this falls squarely on the parents and its to late now. What’s done is done
You seem to really understand the situation at hand. Shes a great kid with a lack parental guidence.
What the fuck hahah is that normal for humboldt people to marry their kids off at 14. None the less they have 13 kids 😂. Are all the people living down the street from murrish on 36 by the firewood and volleyball court….
She’s a little girl thinking she knows everything about the world and she really doesn’t know much of anything but you can’t tell her that. He’s a grown man that should know better, but obviously does not. He will tarnish his reputation the people will look down on him for the rest of his life, and he will probably die early.
The fact anyone, is trying to gaslight this, or make it a womens lib argument. Get real, no fourty-five year old man, has any business, with a woman under thirty-five. Maybe you would let your siblings, or children date grown men; subsequently, that is not staus quo, in 2021.
Old time Humboldt had a fair share of middle aged/ older gold rushers who often left their wives / families in the Midwest + South, and “took” wives (often native) locally. Usually teen or pre-teen.
That was the 1800s. This is 2021. One has to question why women his own age aren’t biting. Also, what’s his connection and how did he have access to her?
Foolish teenager without a fully developed brain. She may think she’s in love, but that passes. If it’s *meant to be* she can wait till she’s 18.
There’s more purpose in life than to be someone’s bitch on a hill. Can’t be too hard for LEO to roll up on him, but *where’s the money in that*
I guess it can’t be said too many times. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and they all stink.
Technology is the the double edge sword that makes all this possible.
Think about it.
It’s becomes very difficult to screen and regulate content or prevent any questionable access.
I have known Andy Stansberry for most of his life. He is not a pedophile. He is a kind hearted man that would not raise his hand to a woman much less a child. The mother of the girl kept pushing her off on Andy so she could run after Andy’s younger brother without being a responsible parent. I have been itching for a chance to blast this young girl’s ears off about not dragging Andy into this mess. CPS was contacted by Andy in an effort to get her into a different situation, not to be with him. All summer long the mother had no problem having Andy “watch her”. Not until she broke up with Andy’s younger brother.
Perhaps the malicious and hateful gossips should actually be aware of what they speak…..wait I forgot that is the trademark of malicious gossiping.
Well said
Thank you Petroliahoney. I too, have known Andy since he was a little boy. Sure, Andy has had his share of problems, but you will never meet a kinder or more giving person. This situation spiraled out of his control. I’m sure he shares some blame here, but not to the extent that all these vigilantes are spewing. I pray that all parties get the help they need, especially Kayla.
Hes the adult, he has ALL THE BLAME. Thats what it means to be an adult. Now he should be punished to the fullest extent of the law for harboring a runaway and allegedly being in a” relationship” with them
Andy is a descent human. The comments on this thread are awful.
It’s the worst thing about this small community, and probably others: the amount of pure, outright bullshit that gets spread around by people who know nothing about a situation or the people involved. It can do real harm, this mob-like mentality of “do-gooders” who care more about their own haloes than about real peace and justice.
What you just said, Petroliahoney, lines right up with the story as i heard it from “sources close to the situation.” Thank you for doing your part to settle things down.
I also might add that anyone assuming all the responsibility in such scenarios lies with the older man must never have been a teenaged girl. There’s a lot of spirit, stubbornness, and conviction of maturity at that point, and personally, i don’t believe that should be discounted or diminished.
Maybe Kayla should indeed look into that legal emancipation process a commenter mentioned above.
If I sneeze in Trinity they will say I farted in Humboldt and vice versa. Hope this young lady finds her path and she is guided properly. Blessings to all involved.
Thank you. I also have known Andy for years and I agree. He is kind and caring.
Wait… so you are saying because he was babysitting her that its ok for him to now be with her?
Amen
People change. And you are tragically misinformed.
What has the world come to when people automatically “assume” the worst…? It is possible that she thinks of him as a father figure being it sounds like she doesn’t have a father at home. And it is possible that he treats her like the child she is! Not all men are pedophiles with ill intentions just because they’ve taken in a teenage girl. Her mother obviously knows where she is so I don’t understand why this article was even posted.
Yes, there’s something wrongly perverse about the whole presentation.
She does have a father. Her parents are separated
Re, “I don’t understand why this article was even posted” …
Maybe Matt LaFever will provide his reasons.
I paid him to write it.
You paid somebody to spread unsolicited derogatory social media attention upon an unwitting 15 year old girl. It’s gonna stick to everybody mentioned forever. You’re both a couple of champions on that call. Fortunately most people are dealing with their own problems.
FWF, sometimes doing the right thing isn’t fun.
It was very respectfully written.
And professional.
To his credit.
Also, I believe, necessary information to print.
And I’m kind of a stickler.
I find nothing in his delivery inappropriate.
The comments, not so much.
Thank you, Matt LaFever.
Well done, sounds like she was located. That is the important part.
And you are correct. Thank you Kim.
Why doesn’t the mother drive out to the dude’s Honeydew homestead to talk with her daughter? There’s a direction sign right on the county road if she gets lost.
Her family has already been out there multiple times to his home. It has been empty each time
Is this guy originally from Willits?
no
This is my cousin and too those that assume there is abuse at home or anything of any other nature going on with her needs to stop. There is no abuse being done to my cousin. She’s young dumb and thinks she knows what’s best for her. Sadly she thinks that means being with a man that has no business being with a girl her age. He is a predator. Stop your ridiculous accusations on my aunt and uncle.
Well said!
Kayla’s Mother and Grandmother are dear Friends of mine and they are a wonderful Family who has been through so much yet stuck together through it all. Kayla is 15 yrs old with hormones raging and the world around her going crazy. At that age we all thought we were grown up enough to decide for ourselves and for some decisions we were. But most kids dont think of the future or the consequences connected to some of their choices. They need the guidence of the adults around them so they learn to make responible descions for themselves when they are older. Any decent 45 yr old man would not harbor a 15 yr old girl whos runaway from home. And I dont give a rats ass if the man was Mr. freaking Rogers A GROWN MAN HAS NO BUSINESS HANGING OUT WITH A 15 YEAR OLD GIRL PERIOD.
I think that attitude is sad. The idea that all we are is a pair of gonads, and everything we do is motivated by them or by trying to protect ourselves from someone else’s. When you say emphatically, “A grown man has no business hanging out with a 15-year-old girl, period,” you’re saying that love and companionship can only come in certain approved packages… a man can’t love a person unless that person is… what? Another adult? Or a child but only if it’s his child… or would that be off-limits, too, since many fathers and step-fathers are accused of molestation? (Maybe only women are safe to have around children. But wait… there have been cases…) A woman who is his wife– that’s the only person he can hang out with? What about other guys? Is being gay okay? Or is having same-sex friends when you’re not gay the only way a male should have friends at all?
I could go on. The point is, it seems bizarre and inhuman to me to say that, based on someone’s sex, you want to dictate who he can hang out with. What if he were a teacher? A minister? A martial arts instructor? What if he were just a person who was delighted to know other humans of all walks of life and liked to have a cup of tea once in a while with someone who happened to be NOT of his gender– how many times would that be okay before your alarms went off?
Maybe life is more exciting if you sniff sex everywhere you go. But to me it seems it would be very limiting to be so afraid of it (or so obsessed by it) that two large communities of humans– adult males and young girls– are twain that should never meet.
(Funny thing is, in general, of course, i am suspicious and observant if an older guy is taking undue interest in an underage girl. But not to the point of forbidding it; only if he were clearly up to no good. I only responded in this devil’s-advocate way because of the extreme, passionate belief you and several other posters here seem to have that we can box off types of love and companionship and say “These are okay because they don’t worry me; these are off-limits because of the possibilities.” Maybe a future where sexless robots have been trained in child care will guarantee that girls and boys are never around anyone whose risk factor does not meet your approval.)
Kayla is found alive, well, and unharmed I’m sure. Now put her ass in juvenile hall for awhile to teach her a lesson like you should of the last times she pulled this shit. Be the parents and get control of your child. And Keep her and yourselves outta Honeydew. We don’t need your wrong side of the river shit out here. Thanks
They will not put her in juvinille hall. It was requested and really the liberal california will not allow it.
Boy oh boy!!!
Prayers this situation can be resolved and life for everyone can find some sort of normalcy once again.
With no sports, no school, friends and family in critical medical situations and undergoing surgeries, there is so much happening every day, which demands the attention and our teenager slips away every given chance, to escape to a world where she can swing an ax and ride bikes off-road , her escape from a world full of fear and constant petty demands. It is easier to keep the mind occupied when you play wildly in nature, away from those whose demands you can never satisfy, or be satisfied. Either way, all are left to unsettling thoughts, hopelessness, resentment and feeling heavy in the heart.
Reflecting on my past, I see how losing trust was the breaking point, and from that moment on, no matter what, I was on my own. To this day, that never changed, 35 years later, the only thing I trust in is my conscience, my spirituality and my 6th sense.
I trust in my ability to love, no matter what, to forgive, no matter what and to have faith, no matter what. There is great comfort that comes with this trust I have in me. Convincing myself of these truths, well, it takes practice every single day!
I feel for this girl. She seems pretty grown. Where’s her daddy? I know this story as if it my own.