04-06-2011, 02:18 PM
ABC7 Denver
DENVER -- An Aurora family is pleading for help in finding their missing teenage daughter, who disappeared from a downtown Denver nightclub.
Kenia Monge, 19, was last seen early Friday morning near 14th and Market Streets.
"I just worry every single minute, because I don't know what's out there, what's happening to her," said Maria Lee, Monge's mother.
Lee said Monge was partying with friends last Thursday at 24K Lounge. She left to go to the restroom and never came back, leaving behind her purse, cell phone and car keys.
"Something made her leave that bar not on her own will. I don't know if it was the date rape drug or somebody slipped her something. We don't know any of those questions," said Tony Lee, the missing teen's stepfather.
Monge is tiny, only 4 feet 11 inches tall and 90 pounds, family members said.
Police said witnesses claimed they saw Monge at a gas station near Speer Boulevard and Pennsylvania Street around 3 a.m. Friday.
Monge graduated from Cherry Creek High School and plans to attend Metro State to become a crime scene investigator.
After coming here from Honduras when she was 12, she was determined to make something of herself.
"She was of high intelligence," said Tony Lee. "She didn't make the right decisions all the time, but what teenager does?"
Denver police said they are taking the case very seriously.
They sent out a flyer to the media, checked local hospitals and interviewed Monge's friends.
They're asking anyone with information to come forward.
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DENVER -- An Aurora family is pleading for help in finding their missing teenage daughter, who disappeared from a downtown Denver nightclub.
Kenia Monge, 19, was last seen early Friday morning near 14th and Market Streets.
"I just worry every single minute, because I don't know what's out there, what's happening to her," said Maria Lee, Monge's mother.
Lee said Monge was partying with friends last Thursday at 24K Lounge. She left to go to the restroom and never came back, leaving behind her purse, cell phone and car keys.
"Something made her leave that bar not on her own will. I don't know if it was the date rape drug or somebody slipped her something. We don't know any of those questions," said Tony Lee, the missing teen's stepfather.
Monge is tiny, only 4 feet 11 inches tall and 90 pounds, family members said.
Police said witnesses claimed they saw Monge at a gas station near Speer Boulevard and Pennsylvania Street around 3 a.m. Friday.
Monge graduated from Cherry Creek High School and plans to attend Metro State to become a crime scene investigator.
After coming here from Honduras when she was 12, she was determined to make something of herself.
"She was of high intelligence," said Tony Lee. "She didn't make the right decisions all the time, but what teenager does?"
Denver police said they are taking the case very seriously.
They sent out a flyer to the media, checked local hospitals and interviewed Monge's friends.
They're asking anyone with information to come forward.