Mother of 5-year-old NC girl who disappeared charged...

[orangecrush]

http://www.fox40.com/news/nationworld/sns-...0,2675987.story

 

http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9086298

 

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=...&id=7119632

[Islandgal]

I'd been following this story...I hope they find the little girl

 

I have nothing-TOS proof or Pammie-proof to say about the mother..

[sirrowan]

A one night stand. He's raised her for years and then SUDDENLY sends her to her mother to live? Riiiiiiigggghhhhhtttttt.

 

This is nutty. Although, I am glad that its getting news attention. I hope the "ring" gets busted, exposed, and permanently shut down.

 

And I hope and pray this child comes out unscathed.

[jack1212]

As much as i hate to say it, i don't see a good ending on this one, as far as her being found.

[Tigz]

I hope that the woman (if she indeed did what they are saying) dies a very slow, torturous and exceedingly painful death.

 

[Nemeweh]

I've been following this story closely as well. I am hoping and praying for this sweet, pretty little baby.

 

I have words for the "mother" but Im gonna hold them in right now...

[orangecrush]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/16/north....a.missing.girl/

 

[Nemeweh]

 

That poor little baby.

 

 

I hope her mother gets the death penalty.

[Islandgal]

efffin sad..

[orangecrush]

Shaniya Davis Found Dead;

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/16/cr...ry5671683.shtml

 

[Islandgal]

POS mother needs stoning...in lieu of that, prison justice...even they have code, a line they don't cross, I suspect this is one of them..

 

/*rant off..

[sirrowan]

Am I the only one who finds it hard to believe that a parent raises a child from birth, and then suddenly says, well...your other parent has gotten their isht together, so you go live with them, mkay?

 

I just feel like we aren't getting the full story. And I don't trust dad....................................

 

The aunt? Yes. She is distraught. Dad? I just don't buy it.

 

Perhaps I'm jaded because of so many other people who've claimed innocence in the past and turned out to be part of the crime of killing their own child?

 

Oh bleh.

[orangecrush]

Am I the only one who finds it hard to believe that a parent raises a child from birth, and then suddenly says, well...your other parent has gotten their isht together, so you go live with them, mkay?

 

I just feel like we aren't getting the full story. And I don't trust dad....................................

 

The aunt? Yes. She is distraught. Dad? I just don't buy it.

 

Perhaps I'm jaded because of so many other people who've claimed innocence in the past and turned out to be part of the crime of killing their own child?

 

Oh bleh.

 

 

I don't find it hard to believe. It happens every day voluntarily and through court orders.

 

I have also seen nothing that said he had the child from birth. All I have read is that he had her for the past several years and that there have been no custody disputes. They were amicable with each other and had no problems coming to an arrangement about her care.

 

There has been absolutely nothing in the press or mentioned by the police to raise any suspicions about her father. Her father has not had to claim his innocence in any regards, because he has never been a suspect. I have seen nothing at all that would make me give her father the side-eye.

 

I don't even understand how you came to the opinion that her father has something to hide.

[sirrowan]

Am I the only one who finds it hard to believe that a parent raises a child from birth, and then suddenly says, well...your other parent has gotten their isht together, so you go live with them, mkay?

 

I just feel like we aren't getting the full story. And I don't trust dad....................................

 

The aunt? Yes. She is distraught. Dad? I just don't buy it.

 

Perhaps I'm jaded because of so many other people who've claimed innocence in the past and turned out to be part of the crime of killing their own child?

 

Oh bleh.

 

 

I don't find it hard to believe. It happens every day voluntarily and through court orders.

 

I have also seen nothing that said he had the child from birth. All I have read is that he had her for the past several years and that there have been no custody disputes. They were amicable with each other and had no problems coming to an arrangement about her care.

 

There has been absolutely nothing in the press or mentioned by the police to raise any suspicions about her father. Her father has not had to claim his innocence in any regards, because he has never been a suspect. I have seen nothing at all that would make me give her father the side-eye.

 

I don't even understand how you came to the opinion that her father has something to hide.

 

Because coming from a parent who doesn't want the other parent to ever have unsupervised visitation with my children, I find it suspect.

 

The kid has only been on this earth for several years. How long? Was she five? Was there ever mention of the child living with the mother during her 5 years on this planet?

 

It is seriously not the norm for a mother to simply agree to give the father custody. And in a one night stand? Are you kidding me? The mother didn't even really KNOW this guy.

 

Carry a parasite for 9 months, pass the "ring of fire" and then give the result to a stranger. That's what this mother did.

 

It is ......not the norm for the father to take custody of a baby after birth. While it may not have been DIRECTLY after birth, none of the articles say otherwise. They don't say WHEN he took custody of the child.

 

All of a sudden, a mother who couldn't take care of her kid for 4 1/2 years (based on the article), gets a job and a trailer and is suddenly deemed appropriate for motherhood? But she wasn't by her own actions for the first 4 1/2 years of this child's life? BS.

 

This whole situation just sickens me. Don't get me wrong. I WANT to be wrong about the father. I do I do I do I do I do.

 

I sincerely hope I am.

[orangecrush]

Because coming from a parent who doesn't want the other parent to ever have unsupervised visitation with my children, I find it suspect.

 

The kid has only been on this earth for several years. How long? Was she five? Was there ever mention of the child living with the mother during her 5 years on this planet?

 

It is seriously not the norm for a mother to simply agree to give the father custody. And in a one night stand? Are you kidding me? The mother didn't even really KNOW this guy.

 

Carry a parasite for 9 months, pass the "ring of fire" and then give the result to a stranger. That's what this mother did.

 

It is ......not the norm for the father to take custody of a baby after birth. While it may not have been DIRECTLY after birth, none of the articles say otherwise. They don't say WHEN he took custody of the child.

 

All of a sudden, a mother who couldn't take care of her kid for 4 1/2 years (based on the article), gets a job and a trailer and is suddenly deemed appropriate for motherhood? But she wasn't by her own actions for the first 4 1/2 years of this child's life? BS.

 

This whole situation just sickens me. Don't get me wrong. I WANT to be wrong about the father. I do I do I do I do I do.

 

I sincerely hope I am.

 

 

A one night stand does not make someone a stranger. The articles don't say when he took custody, so to assume it was from birth comes out of no where.

 

In fact, pretty much everything you have said is based on assumptions.

 

You are all over this woman, because she recognized the father was the best care-giver for their child and allowed him to keep her. That seems like the right thing to do and I have no problem with it, if the father is better able to care for the child. I am not one of those people who think that a mother should automatically have custody or is bad for giving up custody, when it is in the best interests of their child.

 

YOU don't want your child's father to have unsupervised visits and you have your reasons for that. Nothing has been mentioned like that with regards to this case. All that has been said is that they were amicable and agreed on the arrangements for their child's care. I have not heard the father say a bad word about the mother. All he has said is that she struggled financially (which many people do everyday). Circumstances change everyday. I have read posts from people on this board who have swapped custody as their financial or home circumstances change.

 

 

Lockhart told The Associated Press on Saturday that he and Davis never argued about him raising Shaniya, and Cumberland County courts had no record of a custody dispute. He described his relationship with Davis as a "one-night stand" and said he did not know McNeill.

Davis struggled financially over the years, but she recently obtained a job and her own place, so Lockhart said he decided to give her a chance to raise their daughter.

 

 

I have also read nothing that said the mother had a history of abuse, drug use, criminal record or anything else that would make her an unfit parent, other than her stability. If finances automatically disqualified people from parenthood, then there would be a lot less kids around.

 

You are all over the father, because he allowed his daughter to go with a mother who was now more stable. Why? He had her, because he had the resources to care for her originally. Should he have not had custody, based on his financial stability? You don't know who long he was financially stable, before he took custody. Why is he deemed appropriate for fatherhood, because of his financial stability?

 

If either of the parents had something in their histories that would indicate a problem down the road, I could understand the side-eye. With what is out there right now, I just don't see why anyone would be suspicious of him or why he would be suspicious of the mother.

 

Maybe I have missed something in the articles and stories I have seen. :dntknw:

Edited November 17, 2009 by orangecrush

[orangecrush]

I just read an article that said the child lived with her father for 3 years. Where was she the other two+ years?

 

It also said that the mother has been working double shifts for over a year. That's more than 6 months of making money.

 

 

I also don't understand why she would sell her child. Nothing has been said about drugs, a need for a money, mental illness, history of abuse...nothing. Usually by now some sort of motive has popped up.

 

Is she just a sociopath? A closet druggie? I really want to know what triggered this, if she is guilty.

 

Maybe her full background has not been reported.

 

I want answers!!!!

 

 

 

ETA:

 

Davis worked as a dietary aide at the Carolina Inn at Village Green, preparing meals for residents at the Fayetteville assisted living community, according to owner Franklin Clark. She was employed by CES Inc., a South Carolina company that provides certain workers for Carolina Inn, Clark said.

 

Davis had worked part-time for Village Green since August, according to a CES executive. CES had done a state background check on Davis before she was employed by the company, the executive said, and her record was clean.

Edited November 17, 2009 by orangecrush

[Nemeweh]

little more than a week before Shaniya Davis vanished, her mother told Carey Lockhart, the aunt who helped raise the 5-year-old, that she'd never see Shaniya again.

 

Those words echoed in Lockhart's head Monday, hours before searchers pulled a body that police think was Shaniya's from a thicket of kudzu along the border of Lee and Harnett counties.

 

"If I'd only known ... ," Lockhart said Monday, her voice trailing off into sobs. She had helped rear the girl since infancy.

 

Shaniya disappeared a week ago from her home in Fayetteville, where she had been staying with her mother, Antoinette Davis, since the end of October. Police think Davis, who had reported her missing, had allowed her to be taken for "sexual servitude."

 

Davis is charged with human trafficking, felony child abuse and making a false police report. A man, Mario McNeill, was charged with kidnapping Shaniya after a surveillance video caught him carrying the girl toward an elevator at a motel in Sanford the morning she was reported missing.

 

It's not clear what arrangement police think Davis had made for Shaniya. Police have offered little explanation of Shaniya's possible abuse, although they have indicated that county social workers had been involved with Davis and her family.

 

Davis, who works at an assisted living facility, has no criminal history in North Carolina. McNeill has faced many drug charges but has no sex crimes on his record.

 

After a tip, searchers found a child's body Monday about 100 feet off a rural highway roughly six miles south of the motel where McNeill was spotted with Shaniya. Investigators were waiting for family members to positively identify Shaniya and would not comment on the condition of the body.

 

Davis, who is in police custody, could not be reached for comment. A judge appointed her a lawyer from the public defender's office, but no one had been assigned by late Monday.

 

Davis' sister, Brenda Davis, 20, told the Associated Press on Monday that she does not believe the charges.

 

"I don't believe she could hurt her children," Brenda Davis said. The sisters spoke to each other at the jail Sunday, and Brenda Davis recalled that her sibling said she would not do that to her daughter.

 

Bounced between homes

 

Shaniya has bounced between homes since birth, shared between a mother and a father who conceived her during a chance encounter one night. Carey Lockhart had been the girl's primary guardian because her father, Bradley Lockhart, worked long stretches as a building contractor at out-of-state jobs.

 

"There was no denying that she was his," Carey Lockhart said of the resemblance between Shaniya and her father.

 

Lockhart described Shaniya as a joyful girl who loved to dress up in pretty clothes and make her cousins laugh. She was a kindergartner at Morganton Road Elementary School in Fayetteville.

 

Though Bradley Lockhart and Antoinette Davis never married, they shared responsibility for Shaniya from the start. Davis' interaction with her daughter was typically limited to occasional weekend visits, Lockhart said. Their custody arrangement was never formalized by the courts.

 

But 21/2 weeks ago, Lockhart said, the informal parenting arrangement dissolved.

 

Shaniya went to visit her mother on Oct. 31. Lockhart said she packed Shaniya enough clothes for two days and expected to pick her up that Sunday.

 

But on Sunday morning, Lockhart said, Davis called and told her that she'd never see Shaniya again. Lockhart said Davis was angry that she had disciplined Shaniya for getting into a fight with her cousins.

 

"I was at a loss; I had no idea what to do," said Lockhart, who had no formal custody of Shaniya and could not demand her return.

 

"I knew when (my brother) came home, we were going to have to go to court and make some changes so we didn't have to endure this," Lockhart said.

 

That resolution never came. Bradley Lockhart had not returned from a job in Oregon when Shaniya disappeared.

 

Last Tuesday, Lockhart rang his sister with bizarre news. A neighbor called him to say that police were looking for Shaniya.

 

As they were talking on the phone, police knocked on Carey Lockhart's door. They had found her name listed as a guardian at Shaniya's elementary school.

 

A million thoughts raced through Carey Lockhart's head: Maybe her mother was hiding her? Maybe someone wanted to collect a ransom from her brother?

 

She peppered police with questions. They grilled her right back. She feared they suspected she had done something to Shaniya. She buckled in tears and remembers police relenting.

 

"I was about to die," Lockhart said. "I cannot describe the devastation. All the things I could have done different."

 

 

Basically the Aunt (Father's sister) was the primary guardian and was doing the most of the child rearing. Sounds like "Mom" got pissed off and lost her stupid, cow mind.

 

EVEN if she is 100% innocent, she STILL gave that dude her daughter, for whatever reason... I loathe her and want to punch her in her stupid, cow face.

[angeleyeskkhr]

Am I the only one who finds it hard to believe that a parent raises a child from birth, and then suddenly says, well...your other parent has gotten their isht together, so you go live with them, mkay?

 

I just feel like we aren't getting the full story. And I don't trust dad....................................

 

The aunt? Yes. She is distraught. Dad? I just don't buy it.

 

Perhaps I'm jaded because of so many other people who've claimed innocence in the past and turned out to be part of the crime of killing their own child?

 

Oh bleh.

 

 

I don't find it hard to believe. It happens every day voluntarily and through court orders.

 

I have also seen nothing that said he had the child from birth. All I have read is that he had her for the past several years and that there have been no custody disputes. They were amicable with each other and had no problems coming to an arrangement about her care.

 

There has been absolutely nothing in the press or mentioned by the police to raise any suspicions about her father. Her father has not had to claim his innocence in any regards, because he has never been a suspect. I have seen nothing at all that would make me give her father the side-eye.

 

I don't even understand how you came to the opinion that her father has something to hide.

 

Because coming from a parent who doesn't want the other parent to ever have unsupervised visitation with my children, I find it suspect.

 

The kid has only been on this earth for several years. How long? Was she five? Was there ever mention of the child living with the mother during her 5 years on this planet?

 

It is seriously not the norm for a mother to simply agree to give the father custody. And in a one night stand? Are you kidding me? The mother didn't even really KNOW this guy.

 

Carry a parasite for 9 months, pass the "ring of fire" and then give the result to a stranger. That's what this mother did.

 

It is ......not the norm for the father to take custody of a baby after birth. While it may not have been DIRECTLY after birth, none of the articles say otherwise. They don't say WHEN he took custody of the child.

 

All of a sudden, a mother who couldn't take care of her kid for 4 1/2 years (based on the article), gets a job and a trailer and is suddenly deemed appropriate for motherhood? But she wasn't by her own actions for the first 4 1/2 years of this child's life? BS.

 

This whole situation just sickens me. Don't get me wrong. I WANT to be wrong about the father. I do I do I do I do I do.

 

I sincerely hope I am.

 

Wow. Just. Wow.

 

I'm so glad I don't share your view about men and fathers. I've personally known several men that took custody of their children. Some because the mother was a POS...Others because the mother just could not care for the child full-time.

 

If you so want to be "wrong" about the father, why are you even throwing out there these unfounded accusations? I mean, from everything I've read, the father is JUST AS DISTRAUGHT as the aunt.

Edited November 17, 2009 by angeleyeskkhr

[orangecrush]

Basically the Aunt (Father's sister) was the primary guardian and was doing the most of the child rearing. Sounds like "Mom" got pissed off and lost her stupid, cow mind.

 

EVEN if she is 100% innocent, she STILL gave that dude her daughter, for whatever reason... I loathe her and want to punch her in her stupid, cow face.

 

Some of what the aunt is saying contradicts what the father has said. He has said that he voluntarily let the child stay with her mother, because the mother had become more stable. There has been no mention, until now of the mother getting pissed and taking the child away from her aunt.

[Islandgal]

I do wonder why this mother is not being named..

 

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2009/...r_from_hell.php

 

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_13751004

 

A man who allegedly paid the mother of a 14-year-old girl so he could have sex with the child has been charged with sexual assault.

 

The child told investigators that her mother would use a cellphone to contact different men, telling them that "fresh meat (was) available." Detective Kenneth Klaus said in court documents that when the mother's cellphone records were reviewed, "an extensive contact list was revealed." Prosecutors said the mother was charged earlier with pimping and pandering of a child. Her bail has been set at $200,000.

[Nemeweh]

I do wonder why this mother is not being named..

 

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2009/...r_from_hell.php

 

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_13751004

 

A man who allegedly paid the mother of a 14-year-old girl so he could have sex with the child has been charged with sexual assault.

 

The child told investigators that her mother would use a cellphone to contact different men, telling them that "fresh meat (was) available." Detective Kenneth Klaus said in court documents that when the mother's cellphone records were reviewed, "an extensive contact list was revealed." Prosecutors said the mother was charged earlier with pimping and pandering of a child. Her bail has been set at $200,000.

 

 

Probably to protect the 14 yr old's identity.

 

 

Women have been pimping their children for as long as they have been prostituting themselves. Doesn't mean they aren't stupid whores who deserve to be punched repeatedly in their face.

[orangecrush]

Probably to protect the 14 yr old's identity.

 

 

Women have been pimping their children for as long as they have been prostituting themselves. Doesn't mean they aren't stupid whores who deserve to be punched repeatedly in their face.

 

 

[orangecrush]

I know more will come out, but right now it all seems bizarre.

 

 

I was reading some comments on one site and some people seem to think that the guy in custody (the one on the videotape with the girl) has been lying to the police, about the mother's actions.

 

Some said that he admitted to taking the girl and is charged with kidnapping. To me that seems like the mother did not give him to her voluntarily. If that is the case, are the charges against her actually related to her selling the child to someone else?

 

Weren't they looking for an elderly man in a blue toyota at one point?

[blackberry74]

This is a horrifying story. There's really nothing you can say.

[butterflywings]

No words can express what I'm feeling.