10/14/2009
Adji Desir Case: Media opportunity Thursday
SUMMARY: Thursday will be Adji Desir’s seventh birthday.
Adji was last seen playing outside of his grandmother’s house in Farm Worker Village in Immokalee on Jan. 10, 2009, while his mother was at work. There has been no sign of him since.
The Collier County Sheriff’s Office is once again reaching out to the public for tips that could help in bringing the developmentally disabled boy home.
“We’re still hopeful to reunite him with his parents,” said Sgt. Ken Becker of CCSO’s Major Crimes Bureau. “But as time goes on it will depend on assistance from the public and that one person who has that little bit of information that will lead us to him.”
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10/15/2009
Search for Adji: Birthday sparks national flier plan to find 7 year old
Tips have nearly dried up.
But in the ongoing search for Adji Desir, Collier County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Ken Becker said hope remains for bringing home the missing Immokalee boy.
The breakthroughs in the Jaycee Dugard, Shawn Hornbeck and Elizabeth Smart cases in the last few years are proof.
“It’s just further evidence that there’s still hope out there that even long-term missing children can be reunited with their family,” said Becker at a press conference Thursday, which coincided with Adji’s seventh birthday. “And that’s our hope with this case.”
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Adji Desir search goes nationwide
Thursday is the seventh birthday of Adji Desir, the young boy who has been missing since January.
Adji was playing outside his grandmother's house in Farmworker's Village in Immokalee when he disappeared.
Law enforcement and volunteers searched the area for several days but never found any sign of Adji.
The Collier County Sheriff's Office is again reaching out to the public for help locating the boy.
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10/17/2009
Candlelight vigil held for Adji Desir
A candlelight vigil was held Saturday night for Adji Desir who has been missing since January 10th 2009.
The vigil was held by a group of women from 'Families United To Bring Our Children Home'.
The Florida group is known for traveling the state to hold vigils for missing children, and each woman in the group has their own missing child.
They arrived in Collier County just days after Adji Desir's seventh birthday.
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11/09/2009
Missing boy to be featured on Peoples Magazine cover
Adji Desir, the Immokalee 7-year-old who disappeared in January, will be one of six missing children appearing on the upcoming cover of People magazine.
The cover reads "Vanished Without a Trace: Heartbreak & Hope," and features the stories of young people who disappeared this year. The story was prompted by the August rescue of Jaycee Dugard, who was abducted in 1991 when she was 11 years old and held captive for 18 years in the California home of her alleged kidnappers, Phillip and Nancy Garrido.
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11/11/2009
Missing 10 months: Adji on cover of People Magazine
The picture of a missing Immokalee boy will be on news stands across the county. Six-year-old Adji Desir is being featured in People Magazine's "Vanished Edition" on Friday.
NBC2 sat down with the boy's mother Wednesday night to talk about how her life as changed since her son disappeared.
•Click the links in the "Related Stories" section at the right for more background information on Adji Desir.
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12/19/2009
Whatever happened to? Investigation into missing Adji Desir
Christmas for the family of Adji Desir will be bittersweet this year.
The family members will mourn their first holiday season without Adji and celebrate his seven-month-old sister Adjiani’s first.
“I miss my son,” said Marie Neida, 36. “My heart is very sad. I need to see him again.”
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