GUILTY MI - Mariha Smith, 5, Detroit, 24 July 2011

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This is just WRONG!!! Our justice system treats our kids like they do not even matter. If he used that little bit of gas to kill a little puppy, he would have been charged! BTW- that's wrong too!
 
hopefully - LE will be able to keep tabs on him thru' probation. If he's guilty, I'm afraid he'll run. I think the aunt is covering for him - if they even know where SHE is.
poor little baby.

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Another article on the upcoming vigil for Mariha's unsolved case.

Mariha's family will hold a candlelight vigil 3 p.m. Oct. 7, giving the family time to post fliers around the neighborhood, Smith said.
The group will march from the house where she was found to the house from which she went missing on the 3800 block of Burlingame.


From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110928...-held-for-slain-Detroit-girl--5#ixzz1ZaV893Lj​
 
Bumping for Mariha. I thought at least one media outlet would have covered the vigil which was supposed to be held last friday, but I am not seeing any coverage. :(

We haven't forgotten you, Mariha. Still praying for the justice you so deserve.
 
So glad to see Mariha's name mentioned in MSM. Praying these vigils lead to more tips and answers to solve both Mariha and Bianca's cases.
 
Smith's family is coping after the her body was found in a vacant home in Detroit last July. She had been raped, beaten and strangled. Then her body was burned in an attempt to hide the evidence.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/...ith/-/1719418/15522146/-/6wsgupz/-/index.html


Raped? Why do I not recall previously seeing/reading she had been raped? Anyone else recall other MSM indicating Mariha had been raped or is the above article inaccurate?


...And if she was raped, wouldn't the aunt Q's bf's dna have been found even if she had been burnt? And is aunt Q still with this guy? Has he abused any of her children?

If it was DC who bought the 41 cents worth of gas, how has he not been charged with anything other than the probation violation?

Lot's of questions why the POI was jailed for a violation of probation (probation violation related to marijuana) and no movement has happened on this case since.

Detroit, what is happening? Please please please tell me Mariha has not been forgotten. This beautiful little girl deserves justice.
 
Mariha has not been forgotten, not by her Daddy anyway. If only she had been given a chance to live with him.

Mariha being murdered the DAY the paternity results come in... that is one HUGE coincidence if you ask me.


http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...9/metro/Girl-he-never-knew-haunts-Detroit-dad

Curtis Miller Jr. had seen a photograph of the 5-year-old girl who was his spitting image, so when the results of a paternity test came back naming him as the father, he wasn't surprised.

But the same day Miller learned he had a daughter, July 24, 2011, the good news was overshadowed by a shocking development:
The little girl he'd never met, Mariha Smith, was missing from her west-side home.

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Miller, a car detailer, said he first found out about Mariha in early July 2011, when a Friend of the Court employee delivered the news.
"She showed me a picture and I knew right away it was my daughter, because she looked just like me," Miller said.
"They told me I had to take a blood test to be 100 percent sure. So a week or two went by, and (the results) came back that she was my daughter.
I was looking forward to seeing her, but then everything happened."
 
:bump:

This case is still unsolved, huh? No one held responsible for little Mariha's murder. :sigh:
 
Thought about Mariha today...

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Bumping for beautiful Mariha.. Wondering why there has been no justice for you baby girl.
 
Boyfriend of mother charged in 2011 assault, death of 5-year-old Mariha Smith

Charred body of Mariha Smith found in abandoned Detroit home July 24 2011

Author: Joanne Marie Hoopes, ClickOnDetroit.com writer

Published On: Oct 21 2013 01:04:27 PM EDT Updated On: Oct 21 2013 02:13:12 PM EDT

DETROIT -
A suspect has been charged in the death of a missing Detroit girl whose body was found burned in a vacant house hours before her mother noticed her missing.

Monday Wayne County Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy charged Darnell H. Cheatham, age 22, in connection to 5-year-old Mariah Smith's death. Cheatham is the boyfriend of Mariha's mother Konesha Smith...

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/...old/-/1719418/22543636/-/14xcjkn/-/index.html
 
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/2...-rape-and-killing-5-year-old-girl-found-with/

Fox News are saying he is the boyfriend of Mariha's aunt, not the mother.

It wasn't immediately known if Cheatham has a lawyer.

Prosecutors say Cheatham was the boyfriend of Mariah's aunt.
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Back in 2011 it was reported:
Dominique Poole, the child's aunt, told ABCNews.com she thought her sister's boyfriend, Darnell Cheatham was acting suspicious the day the 5-year-old vanished.

"I knew it had to be someone that was at the house that did it," Poole said.

Another one of the child's aunts and her boyfriend were already questioned by police earlier in the investigation, according to Poole. Several relatives had expressed anger with the two, Quanita Smith and Darnell Cheatham, because they claim they were not being truthful with police and allegedly failed a lie detector test administered by police.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/police-person-interest-detroit-girl-murder-case/story?id=14246402
 
October 21, 2013 at 2:19 pm

Man, 22, charged in the 2011 death of Detroit girl, 5

Oralandar Brand-Williams /The Detroit News

Detroit — A 22-year-old city man faces arraignment Monday in connection with the 2011 murder of his girlfriend’s 5-year-old girl niece. The girl’s body was found in a burned-out vacant home on Detroit’s west side.

Darnell H. Cheatham been charged by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy Monday in the July 2011 death of Mariah Smith. He faces formal arraignment Monday afternoon on the charges.

Cheatham has been charged with first-degree murder, felony murder, arson, torture, child abuse and disinterment and mutilation of a dead body...

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20131021/METRO01/310210094#ixzz2iNmh3H3a
 
I am sooo very happy someone has finally been arrested in this case.
RIP beautiful... Your justice is coming !!!!!
 
So pleased that the police have charged him, hopefully they will have a load of evidence to ensure he is found guilty. Does Michigan have the death penalty?
 
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