imamaze
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Would it be considered uncharacteristic for a predator to take a child victim to a motel room? IMO, yes, but I dunno...
:Welcome-12-june:This is my first post but I have been following this forum and trying to join since I first heard about this case.
I have read a lot about Shaniya living with her mom for the past 3 weeks and there has been a lot of speculation as to why the Dad would have allowed this etc. But i think that its possible that maybe Shaniya wasn't living with dad either....maybe she was staying with a grandparent or in foster care. Maybe it wasn't Dad who made the choice to let Shaniya go to live with mom...or maybe because Shaniya wasn't living with him and he was busy with work he was encouraged that she had a job and place to live and hopeful, so he didn't object to Mom taking her from where she was previously staying.
Maybe she wasn't really close to either parent...
Maybe it had become inconvenient as of late for her to live with her dad. I'm not bashing the poor man. People make errors in judgment. He is clearly shattered, and my heart aches for him.
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That's my thought, as well.I don't think the blanket and the poo is anything more than the sewage back up in the trailer.
I'm not trying to bait anyone - but my gut feeling is this is a family issue that is escalated by race issues.
I think your gut's been talking to mine. Unfortunately, family/racial issues might explain only why she came to live with the mother. Her departure might be the result of something far worse.
I hardly slept a wink thinking about Coe's words. This is an instance when an audio statement is so valuable. Wish we had one.
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Maybe it had become inconvenient as of late for her to live with her dad. I'm not bashing the poor man. People make errors in judgment. He is clearly shattered, and my heart aches for him.
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That's my thought, as well.
I think your gut's been talking to mine. Unfortunately, family/racial issues might explain only why she came to live with the mother. Her departure might be the result of something far worse.
I hardly slept a wink thinking about Coe's words. This is an instance when an audio statement is so valuable. Wish we had one.
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Bessie, I was wondering if you can direct me to a place where I can see what Coe has said about this? I have been following this but have missed anything from him since his release.?
(just posted at end of other thread so I'm bringing my post over here... )
The whole case seems odd. What are the chances that...
1- the blanket w/feces just happens to be thrown away the same time this child disappears
2- the mom just happens to put her down on the living room couch the night/morning she disappears when Coe said he's never seen her out there (if either one of these statements is true)
3- someone would kidnap a child and then go to a hotel in the same area
4- mcneil took her by chance b/c moment of opportunity
This was planned. More than one person is involved. Someone inside that trailer KNEW it was going to happen - mom/sister/bf --- someone. Mcneil just didn't randomly decide to take this child, imho. If he was there and was leaving and just decided to take her, then he would've been mentioned much earlier and Coe would not have been arrested. LE would've said "MAMc was in the home and we believe he is POI", etc, etc. Never said.
Either he was not in the home and Coe took the child to him then went to his stepmother's. Or, Mcneil took this child as part of a plan. I don't think Mcneil took her for himself.
Either she's with maternal extended family, or she's been sold/traded... I really hope it's the former and not the latter.
Updated
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6411942/
"In an interview with WRAL News Friday, Coe said he planned to take legal action against police, saying that officers didn't initially tell him why he was being arrested.
I didnt get due process. They didnt even have probable cause to arrest me, Coe said. They told me that they had three witnesses that could place me in the neighborhood."
Coe said he was with family members and babysitting his nephew at the time he was accused of driving away from the mobile home park.
While he never lived at the home, Coe said he is the boyfriend of Shaniya's mother. He said he doesn't know McNeill."
"Coe appealed for the return of the girl, who he said calls him daddy.
"Whoever knows where Shaniya is, just do the right thing," he said."
"Coe appealed for the return of the girl, who he said calls him daddy.
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"Every day I was there the little girl was never in the living room," Coe said. "Every night when I slept there the little girl was never in the living room, so all I can say is educated people figure it out.""
If it is true what I have read in some posts here that Shaniya has only been staying w/ her mother (and therefore knowing Coe) for 3 short weeks, after living most of her life w/ her father, who seems from the TV interviews to ADORE her....I find it VERY hard to believe that she was calling Coe 'daddy'.
It is nice, however, to see that at least the boyfriend of the mother appeals for the return of the little one....since to my knowledge we haven't seen the mother herself (or aunt or other family member) publicly doing so...?!
If they were that close (which I doubt after three weeks), then why does he refer to her as 'the little girl'.
Coe says Antionette Davis, the child's mother, was his girlfriend and he says he wasn't at the mobile home when the child disappeared.
"Every day I was there the little girl was never in the living room," Coe said. "Every night when I slept there the little girl was never in the living room, so all I can say is educated people figure it out."