Steve Ermilio stands by the memorial for missing 2 1/2-year-old Everlyse Cabrera in front of his home in the 6500 block of Diamond Point Drive. Ermilio lives next door to Everlyse's foster parents, who are seeking a restraining order against him. Photo by Ralph Fountain. Everlyse Cabrera Protesters shout at the North Las Vegas foster home of missing 2-year-old Everlyse Cabrera earlier this month. Review-Journal file photo

The foster father of a missing 2 1/2-year-old is seeking restraining orders against the girl's biological parents and a neighbor.

Manuel Carrascal claims that since the girl disappeared from his North Las Vegas home, he and his family have been intimidated and forced to flee their home, according to court documents obtained by the Review-Journal.

Everlyse Cabrera has been missing since June 10. On June 12, North Las Vegas police said the foster family stopped cooperating with the investigation. That revelation spurred neighbors and Everlyse's relatives to picket at the foster family's home.

The Carrascals initially told police that Everlyse must have stood on a stool to reach and unlock a deadbolt on the front door in the middle of the night and then wandered away from their home in the 6500 block of Diamond Point Court, near Centennial Parkway and Clayton Street.

One of Manuel Carrascal's requests for a restraining order alleges that his next door neighbor, Steve Ermilio, performed "overt acts, obviously designed to harass, intimidate, threaten, or terrorize me and the members of my family."

The acts include banging on the Carrascals' front door demanding they come out and cooperate with police and join a candlelight vigil. Carrascal also alleges that Ermilio organized protests and placed a overturned chair near the front door with a placard with derogatory remarks.

Carrascal also complains that Ermilio told a local television news station he felt like "breaking our door, pulling us out, and" beating the truth out of the Carrascals.

A request for another restraining order seeks to order Everlyse's mother and father, Marlene Olivas and Ernest Cabrera, to end their vigil in front of the home.

"Almost every day from June 11, 2006, the defendants, their relatives or friends, make themselves visible in front of plaintiff's house, banging the front door, walking back and forth in front and side to side of plaintiff's house." And, the request notes, the child's parents have vowed to continue trying to pressure the foster family to talk to police.

The Carrascals have cooperated with police but have nothing else to add to the investigation, according to the court document they filed.

A Clark County judge is expected to consider the restraining order requests in the next few days. A temporary restraining order lasts for 30 days.

Protestors have yelled at the home demanding that the family "stop hiding" Everlyse.

"You are the foster family, and you are the only people who are not helping," one protester yelled at the home on June 15. "Don't you have feelings?"

At one point the group yelled in unison, "We want answers. We want answers."

Ermilio disputed he ever went on the foster family's property. "Number one, I would not harm their property. I have been on my property and not gone on their's," he said.

Ermilio said he knows of one instance when a relative of Everlyse's did knock on the foster family's door, but that it wasn't him.

"I had nothing to do with it. I will sue them for slander. I have not been on that property and I have 20 people to verify it."

Ermilio said the protests took place on the street ,and "they don't own the street."

He added that the statement he made on television was " 'I feel like breaking the door down, dragging them out and making them talk to the police. And I know I can't do that because it is against the law.'"

Everlyse's parents said they are only focused on their missing daughter.

The Carrascals "are trying to make themselves sound like victims and the only victim here is our daughter," Olivas said. "We don't care what they have to say. We haven't done anything wrong. Everlyse is gone and until she comes back nothing else matters."

Olivas and Cabrera spent Monday praying and mailing information about their missing daughter to television shows, including America's Most Wanted.

"We don't know what else to do," she said. "We want to keep this in the public's mind."

Police said Monday there was nothing new to report in the case. They also have repeatedly said the foster family are not suspects and are welcome to talk with authorities at any time.

A search of 12 square miles surrounding the foster home found no trace of the girl. Police have said it's unlikely Everlyse could have gotten far on her own.

Everlyse was reportedly wearing a pink T-shirt, pink shorts and no shoes when she was last seen Saturday, the foster family told police. The foster mother told police she discovered the dark-haired, brown-eyed girl was missing about 8 a.m. They contacted police four hours later.

The Carrascal's live with their two children, Melvin Balane, 34, who owns the Diamond Point Drive home, and a 14-year-old boy.

After Everlyse's disappearance, child welfare officials removed Everlyse's 11-month-old brother, who had also been living at the foster home.

Anyone with information about can contact 1-800 THE-LOST (843-5678) or Crime Stoppers at 385-5555. Urgent tips can be made to the main police line at 633-9111 or to 911.