The mother of missing teen Alicia Navarro begs the public to stop speculation and theories and ‘move on’ as questions still remain after she reappeared at the Montana police station four years after her disappearance

The mother of an autistic girl who reappeared at a Montana police station four years after disappearing from her Arizona home is begging the public to stop their speculation.

In an emotional Facebook video on Sunday night, Jessica Nuñez begged people to “move on,” even as questions remain about the disappearance of her daughter, Alicia Navarro.

The distraught mother warned in the video that “the search for answers has taken a turn for the dangerous,” claiming she and her family have been harassed since Navarro, now 18, was found alive and unharmed last week.

She reportedly lived with a man in his 20s, with whom she got into a fight before walking into Havre police and asking to be removed from the missing persons list.

Navarro expressed her desire to get a driver’s license and live a “normal life.”

Nuñez addressed the audience and expressed her appreciation to everyone who has supported her since her daughter went missing in 2019.

“I could never have gone on without all your love, help and well wishes,” she said through tears. “I can’t even express in words how much gratitude I have for all of you.

“But now that we know Alicia’s alive, I have one more favor to ask you,” she continued. “I know you want answers, and so do I, but the public’s search for answers has taken a dangerous turn.

“I’ve been harassed, my family has been attacked all over the internet — the public has stopped trying to help Alicia, instead doing things like trying to come to her house and endangering her safety,” Nuñez claimed.

So I beg you, please no more TikToks, no more contacting Alicia or me with your speculations or questions or assumptions. This is not a movie, this is our life, this is my daughter.

“I love her more than anything in the world, and I think I showed you that.”

“There is an ongoing investigation and I beg you to move forward,” she added.

Nuñez captioned the video, “Let’s focus (on the fact) that my daughter is alive. This is a miracle.’

Navarro, who is said to have high-functioning autism, was just 14 when she slipped out of her home in Glendale, Arizona, in September 2019.

She left her mother a handwritten note in her bedroom that read, “I ran away. I’ll be back, I swear. I’m sorry.’

Her disappearance sparked a massive search that also involved the FBI. Police spokesman Jose Santiago said police had received thousands of tips over the years.

After hearing the news that an 18-year-old identified himself as the missing teen, Glendale police said they responded immediately to the unspecified small town in Montana.

Officers said they verified Navarro’s identity and that she was extremely cooperative with authorities.

“I can’t even begin to express the pride I personally have for the men and women here in our police force,” spokesman Jose Santiago said.

“Since her disappearance, our men and women here have worked tirelessly around the clock to not only bring this family to an end, but to make sure that Alicia has everything she needs.”

He added that the girl “appears to be in a good mood by all accounts” and “really just wants to get on with her life.”

“She apologizes deeply for what she did to her mother. And she understands that she hurt her mother a lot, and it wasn’t intentional on her behalf, and she hopes they can have a relationship.”

Over the years, Nuñez worked with several private detective agencies, posted billboards, appeared on television programs, and used social media to find her daughter.

She suspected Alicia might have been kidnapped by someone she met online while gaming.

“I’m more than 90 percent sure my daughter met this person online,” she claimed at the time.

The mother said her daughter was quite a cautious person, so it would have been unusual for her to be easily lured.

“Knowing what my daughter’s personality is like, I don’t think she would have fallen for it,” Nunez said. “This person probably took a while to gain (her) trust.”

But Glendale police never found any evidence of a kidnapping, saying at a news conference last week that Navarro could come and go as she pleased.

She will not face criminal charges, she added. “She’s not in trouble,” Santiago said.

Police are now continuing their investigation into Navarro’s disappearance, as it remains unclear how the teen traveled more than 1,000 miles alone to a small town on the border with Canada to identify himself to police.

On Monday, police told DailyMail.com that they had nothing new to say about the state of the investigation.

Footage shared by Fox10 showed Navarro chatting with Glendale officers who had scheduled an emergency meeting with her after she reappeared earlier this week.

A cop asked her, “Did someone hurt you?”

“No, nobody hurt me,” Navarro replied.

But Garrett Smith, 22, described seeing Navarro “hand in hand” with an unidentified man in his 20s, with whom she shared an apartment in Smith’s complex, over the past year.

The day before Navarro showed up at a police station close to the Canadian border, Smith said he heard her yell at the man.

“I was here the other day and I heard them screaming. She did say, “I’m going back.” But that’s all I heard,” said 22-year-old Smith New York Post.

He said he only spoke to the girl once, a few days before she turned herself in to police, claiming she was “looking for her uncle” near a post office.

‘She asked for directions. She looked scared,” Smith said, pointing out that despite being barely younger than him, Navarro called him “sir.”

“She said she was walking with her uncle and got lost and she was looking for 6th Street,” Smith added. “I later found out she referred to him as her uncle.”

Smith said Navarro’s voice was “scratchy” and she was often in bad shape.

“Her braces looked pretty bad. She had braces on when she went missing in Arizona in 2019. It looked like she was still wearing the same braces,” Smith said.

However, police in Havre said in a statement that Navarro “appeared to be fine and in good health” when she went to see them.

Navarro has since had a brief video call with her mother, said Trent Steele, president of the Anti-Predator Project and spokesperson for Navarro, but has not spoken since she resurfaced.

“They have their own healing journey to go on. They have things to do first,” Steele said.

‘She’s safe. I hope people wait for the facts of the case before making their assumptions.’