Emily Pike was a smiling, cheerful child. Then she was sexually assaulted. And all the tribal agencies involved were unable ...

Emily Pike, 14, a San Carlos Apache girl, was found dismembered in February 2025 nearly 100 miles from where she was living in a Mesa group home.

She reached Morales, who flew to Colorado, met the family at the hospital and booked herself and Emily on a flight back to Mesa. It was the last time Pike-Bender saw her niece. "In my head ...

Funding shortfalls and too few foster homes are straining the state's group home system, leaving tribes to seek other ...

Relatives question whether the criminal justice system failed Emily Pike in 2023 after she reported she was sexually assaulted while living on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation.

said Allred Pike, Emily’s uncle, in an interview with ABC15 ... months ago near Globe after she ran away from a group home in Mesa. Tribal social service workers removed Emily from her home ...

Pike is one of more than 5,000 Native American girls and women who are missing or murdered each year, according to the ...