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[Angel Who Cares]

Vigil to be held for missing boy
Monday, August 17, 2009 | 9:08 AM
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A candlelight vigil is set for Monday to mark exactly one week since a five-year-old East Bay boy vanished.

Over the weekend, about 100 volunteers searched through the high brush of Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont, and marshlands in Hayward for any sign of Hasanni Campbell.

Police say investigative leads led them to the search areas, but they would not be any more specific.

Hasanni went missing Monday afternoon after his foster parent, Louis Ross, says he left the boy standing in an Oakland parking lot for just a few minutes. Since then, the police and FBI have searched Ross's home that he shares with Hasanni's aunt. Police have also spent hours questioning the couple.

With the days ticking by, searchers know time is not on their side.

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Police offer up to $10,000 for information leading to whereabouts of missing Fremont boy

By Kristin Bender
Oakland Tribune
Posted: 08/17/2009 03:19:05 PM PDT
Updated: 08/17/2009 03:19:06 PM PDT

OAKLAND — Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland have announced a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the whereabouts of 5-year-old Hassani Campbell, a disabled Fremont boy whose family members say he was last seen one week ago.

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime/ci_13145755

 

[WhyaDuck?]

Reward Offered in Missing Child Case
By JESSICA GREENE

Updated 3:05 PM PDT, Mon, Aug 17, 2009

The family of the East Bay boy who has been missing for one week is holding a vigil tonight in Oakland.

Hassani Campbell is just five years old. His foster father said he left the little boy in his car while he walked around to the front a shoe store where the boy's foster mother worked last Monday afternoon.

Louis Ross said when he got back to the car, Hassani was gone.

This afternoon friends, family and strangers will gather in Rockridge to remember Hassani and try to bring attention to the case.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/One-Week-Later-Hasani-Still-Missing-53422342.html

 

[Angel Who Cares]

Reward Offered in Missing Child Case
Updated 3:05 PM PDT, Mon, Aug 17, 2009
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The family of the East Bay boy who has been missing for one week is holding a vigil tonight in Oakland.

Hassani Campbell is just five years old. His foster father said he left the little boy in his car while he walked around to the front a shoe store where the boy's foster mother worked last Monday afternoon.

Louis Ross said when he got back to the car, Hassani was gone.

This afternoon friends, family and strangers will gather in Rockridge to remember Hassani and try to bring attention to the case.

The vigil is scheduled to start at 4 p.m. near the Shuz shoe store where his foster mother worked.

Also Monday, Oakland police announced a $10,000 reward was being offered to anyone with information leading his whereabouts.

As in all missing child cases, the family has been questioned several times by police. Ross told NBC Bay Area that he and the boy's foster mother, Hassani's aunt, are fully cooperating with investigators. He also told NBC Bay Area by phone that he had nothing to do with Hassani's disappearance and that he and the boy's foster mother have agreed to take lie detector tests.

Ross took the polygraph test last week but the foster mother, Jennifer Campbell, is pregnant and didn't want to take the test for fear it would harm her unborn child, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Police are not commenting about the polygraph test.

Police also towed Ross' car but have not said yet whether they have found anything important to the case. FBI agents have also searched the Fremont home where Hassani lives with his foster parents.

Hassani has cerebral palsy and wears braces on his feet to help him walk. The prosthetics, adorned with Spiderman logos, would not be visible because they are fitted just for his feet. While he can walk, Hasanni's disability prevents him from running or jumping.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has also joined the search.

VIDEO: Intense Search Launched for Missing Disabled Boy
Crews are searching non stop for Hassani Campbell, a 5-year-old with creebral palsy who disappeared in Oakland Monday afternoon.
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VIDEO: FBI Searches Missing Fremont Boy's Foster Home


VIDEO: Police Fan Out in Search for Hasani

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Police offer up to $10,000 for information leading to whereabouts of missing Fremont boy
Posted: 08/17/2009 03:19:05 PM PDT
Updated: 08/17/2009 03:19:06 PM PDT
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Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland have announced a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the whereabouts of 5-year-old Hassani Campbell, a disabled Fremont boy whose family members say he was last seen one week ago.

Meanwhile, family members, including foster father Louis Ross and foster mother Jennifer Campbell, will be distributing fliers at a vigil at 4 p.m. today at Shuz of Rockridge, the shoe store at Harwood and College avenues where Hassani was last seen, a relative said. The public is welcome.

"We refuse to give up hope. We know he wouldn't walk away like that," Ross told The Associated Press last week. "Whoever has him, let him go. Please drop him off somewhere &#8212; the police, a hospital, a school. Somewhere. Please."

In TV interviews, the couple described Hassani as a very friendly boy who would talk to anyone.

Ross said he was dropping both children off at the shoe store Aug. 10 because he was heading to an orientation at Stanford University Medical Center in

Palo Alto and then to his twice-weekly medical assistant class in Fremont.

Dropping the children off with Campbell is a family routine, Ross said. When he opened the rear passenger door for Hassani, he said, the boy already was unbuckling his seat belt.

"I said, 'Hassani, go wait by the back door,' and he had already taken a first step out of the car," Ross said.

Ross said he carried the girl to the front of the store and told Campbell to open the back door. He then went back to the parking lot.

"When I got to back there, (Campbell) was already there. She says to me, 'Where's Hassani?'" Ross said. "I said, 'What do you mean?' I look to see if he's standing along by the car, but he's not."

Ross said he and Campbell asked her co-worker if he had seen the boy. Ross then ran back to his car and called police.

Oakland police Sgt. Ray Backman, a police spokesman, has said investigators are working with no significant clues and only about 50 tips.

Ross said his family was cooperating with authorities, although he felt police believed he and Campbell did something wrong.

Article:
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[Angel Who Cares]

Police Search for 5-year-old Disabled Boy
Aug. 17, 2009
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Police in Oakland, Calif., are still searching for a 5-year-old Black boy with cerebral palsy whose foster father said vanished from a shoe store parking lot within a two-minute period of being left alone.

Speaking to CNN&#8217;s Nancy Grace, the foster dad, Louis Ross said that he went to the front door of the store to ask his fiancée, Jennifer Campbell, who works there, to open the back door. "By the time I got there, Jennifer is already out of the store, walking toward me, asking, 'Where is Hasanni?' And I say, 'What do you mean, where is Hasanni?' And I look around to the side, and he is no longer there."

Campbell regularly took care of Hasanni and his 19-month-old sister, Ross told Grace, adding that he voluntarily took a lie-detector test.

"They would stay in the back room and play with each other until she got off work, and they would all come home together, and I would see them at 9:30, 10 at night, when I got home from class," Ross said. "Initially, it didn't hit me. He's probably standing around there. ... When Hasanni gets frustrated, he freezes. So I thought he would still be on the side. And we all thought -- even Jennifer thought he was probably just hiding and joking around."

Hasanni, 3 feet tall and weighing 30 pounds, was wearing shorts and white braces on his ankles because of his cerebral palsy, a debilitating brain disease that inhibits motor skills.

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$10,000 Reward Offered In Search For Disabled Boy
Aug 17, 2009 5:54 pm US/Pacific
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Oakland police and Crime Stoppers announced a $10,000 reward Monday for information leading to the whereabouts of Hassani Campbell, a 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who disappeared a week ago.

Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said, "We definitely need the public's help" in finding Hassani.

Thomason said police have only received about 50 tips, which he said is unusually low for a week-old missing child case.

He said police are following all the leads but haven't turned up anything so far.

Thomason said police are still treating Hassani's disappearance as a missing persons case but as time goes on the chances of finding him alive may be dwindling.

He said on Saturday law enforcement officials and volunteers searched marshland and shoreline areas at the tip of West Winton Avenue in Hayward as well as Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont but didn't find anything significant.


VIDEO: Family Hold Vigil For Missing Boy East Bay Boy 08/17/09 5:34PM PT
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Family holds vigil for missing boy
Monday, August 17, 2009 | 5:35 PM
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The grandmother of a missing disabled boy from Fremont, is holding a vigil for him in Oakland. It's near the shoe store where he was reported missing a week ago. A $10,000 crime stoppers reward is now being offered for information leading to the whereabouts of Hasanni Campbell.

Oakland's crime stoppers hope the reward, up to $10,000, will help bring new clues into the disappearance of Hasanni Campbell.

"In a high profile case we get a couple hundred, hundreds of calls, which gives us good leads that we can follow up on. In this case we've had less than 50," said Officer Jeff Thomason from Oakland Police.

Crime Stoppers of the Bay Area is also willing to add up to $2,000 for information that will help solve this case.

Burny Matthews is a former East Palo Alto police chief. He also worked in Oakland and Alameda.

"It gives a reason for somebody that may be on the edge, they may need the money really badly and he or she is willing to give some information to police to just give that one little brick that will finish the wall in that investigation," said Matthews.

FBI agents have joined the case and have helped searched the family's home in Fremont.

Police have canvassed the Rockridge area and other surrounding cities. On Saturday, volunteers searched two parks in Fremont and Hayward.

"And there are no signs of this boy and we want to try to locate him. It's been a number of days now. The more days that pass, the less likely we are to find him alive," said Officer Thomason.

Both foster parents attended the vigil and they said they are not giving up the in search for Hasanni.

"If you want to help keep our son in the news, don't let him become a picture in a milk carton box, five years after when he was never found," said Ross. "You want to help, that's what you do."

The boy's grandmother told ABC7 that she believes Ross had nothing to do with the little boy's disappearance. Police also said they are in contact with the foster father every day.

VIDEO: Family holds vigil for missing boy
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UPDATED: $10,000 Reward Offered For Missing Fremont Boy
Posted: 5:42 pm PDT August 17, 2009
Updated: 10:19 pm PDT August 17, 2009
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Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said, "We definitely need the public's help" in finding Hassani.

Thomason said police have only received about 50 tips, which he said is unusually low for a week-old missing child case.

He said police are following all the leads but haven't turned up anything so far.

A vigil for the little boy Monday afternoon brought well wishers to the Rockridge District shoe store where Hasanni's foster father said he last saw the child.

Ross has been questioned by police and given a lie detector test. On Monday, Ross angrily addressed speculation that he might be involved in the disappearance of his foster son.

"'Oh, they were foster parents. Did they really care?' Well, you go talk to social services,&#8221; said Ross. &#8220;You wanna find the record straight? You go to them and ask them why they placed them with us. Because we gave a damn! These were our children. Don't try to take that from us. This wasn't a situation where we didn't care about those children. We've fought every inch for both of them."

Hasanni's foster family is also grappling with the loss of their one year-old foster daughter who has been removed from their care.

"All we want is our children home. We want Hasanni found and Aaliyah with us," said the boy&#8217;s foster mother Campbell.

Police indicated there were no new searches Monday amid concerns that time could be running out to find the boy unharmed.

Thomason said police are still treating Hassani's disappearance as a missing persons case but as time goes on the chances of finding him alive may be dwindling.

"As time goes on, that is going to be our fear; that this will be a recovery," said Oakland police spokesman Jeff Tomason. "But right now, we are still treating it as trying to find a little five year-old boy."

VIDEO~ OAKLAND: Police Offer Reward For Info On Missing 5-Year-Old Boy
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VIDEO~ OAKLAND: Missing Boy's Father Refutes Speculation Of His Involvement
http://www.ktvu.com/video/20438552/index.html

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[Angel Who Cares]

Missing boy's parents plead for his return
Monday, August 17, 2009
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(08-17) 18:31 PDT OAKLAND -- The foster parents of a missing 5-year-old boy stood Monday at the spot in Oakland where Hasanni Campbell vanished a week ago to the minute, tearfully asking for the public's help as police announced a $10,000 reward for information on his whereabouts.

"If you have him, let him go!" Louis Ross, the boy's foster father, urged at the side entrance of the Rockridge neighborhood shoe store where Hasanni vanished at 4:18 p.m. Aug. 10. "This is our son!"

"I just want him home," added the boy's aunt and foster mother, Jennifer Campbell. "I just want him safe. I want him in our bed. Our home is empty. ... All we want is to have him home, safe, loved and cared for."

The Fremont couple wore T-shirts with photos of the youth, whose name is also spelled Hassani. The couple, along with relatives and friends, brought red candles and a balloon of the boy's beloved SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon character.

Police and the Crime Stoppers organization announced the reward Monday for help finding Hasanni, who has cerebral palsy.

Law enforcement sources say Ross reported taking the boy with him earlier that day to the Hayward Pick Your Part auto salvage yard.

The trip was unusual, authorities said, because even though Ross said he was looking for a particular part, witnesses told authorities that he had left without getting out of the car to look for it.

Ross said Monday that he went back to the yard with police last week as part of an effort to retrace his steps on the day the boy disappeared.

Police and sheriff's have searched the yard and local parks in recent days, authorities say, but found no sign of the missing boy.

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Police have received only 50 tips about missing Fremont 5-year-old
Posted: 08/17/2009 01:17:03 PM PDT
Updated: 08/17/2009 07:21:40 PM PDT
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Police have received just 50 tips about possible sightings of 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell in the week since he was reported missing.

When 8-year-old Sandra Cantu of Tracy went missing, 477 tips rolled into police in the first five days of her disappearance.

None of the tips or the searches of Oakland neighborhoods, the parklands of Coyote Hills near Fremont and the marshland area along the Hayward shoreline have turned up anything, police said.

There also is a lack of community support in the search for the missing boy with cerebral palsy. There were just a handful of people at a vigil this afternoon.

In the case of Cantu, whose body was found April 6 in a suitcase in an irrigation pond near the mobile home park where she lived, searches brought out at least 300 people. Neighbor Melissa Huckaby, 28, has been indicted on five counts of kidnapping, raping and killing her.

"I'm sick to my stomach there aren't more people out here," said Charity Edmondson, a friend of Jennifer Campbell's, the missing boy's aunt and foster mother. "It's heart wrenching. (Campbell) would go across the world to look for someone's child."

The vigil was marked by the foster parents alternately declining to speak to reporters and then pleading with them to keep the story in the limelight.

"Don't let him become a picture on a milk carton five years from now," said Ross, who has been interviewed by police and homicide investigators twice since the boy was reported missing.

Ross said his family has been cooperating with authorities, although he felt police believed he and Campbell did something wrong. Today he was emotional and crying while speaking about the boy.

"He was a damn child. ... That's why we care. If we didn't, who would?" Ross said. "He sat in foster care for two years, and his sister sat in foster care for two months."

Ross said there has been a lot of "speculation" about what happened to Hasanni. "These were our children," he said. "Don't try to take that from us. We've fought for them."

The boy's younger sister is not with the couple because she was placed in protective custody last week while the police investigation is ongoing.

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[Angel Who Cares]

Search and Vigil for Missing Boy
Posted: Monday, 17 August 2009 6:38PM
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Friends and relatives held a vigil for the missing boy on Monday and his foster mother, Jennifer Campbell said she's praying for him to come home safe and sound.

"Somebody took your child, the worst thing you can imagine happening to him," she said. "It's all playing in the back of your mind and then you hope that maybe that didn't happen and maybe he's safe. I just want him home."

A good home is what Campbell and foster father Louis Ross said they have provided for the 5-year-old and his 1-year-old sister when their biological mother couldn't care for them.

Ross said Campbell disappeared from the parking lot of the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store in the 6000 block of College Avenue in Oakland around 4:15 p.m. on August 10.

Oakland police and the FBI are following all the leads they've already received, but they haven't turned up anything so far.

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Reward offered in missing boy case
Posted: 08/17/2009 07:49:21 PM PDT
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Oakland authorities are offering a reward for information they hope will help them find a missing 5-year-old boy.
Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland announced a reward of up to $10,000 Monday for information leading to the whereabouts of 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell.

The boy has been missing since Aug. 10. when his foster father, Louis Ross, left him in a car parked outside a shoe store where his foster mother works.

Ross told authorities that he left the car to unlock the store door to give Hasanni, who wears braces on his legs, easier access. Hasanni was gone when he returned.

Oakland police say they have received less than 50 tips in the case.

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$10,000 Reward Offered for Missing 5-Year-Old with Cerebral Palsy
8/17/2009 5:23:00 PM
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Oakland police and Crime Stoppers are announcing a $10,000 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Hasanni Campbell, a 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who disappeared a week ago.

Hasanni, who lived in Fremont with his foster parents, Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell, was reported missing from the parking lot of the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store in the 6000 block of College Avenue in Oakland about 4:15 p.m. on Aug. 10.

Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said, "We definitely need the public's help" in finding Hasanni.

Thomason said police are still treating Hasanni's disappearance as a missing persons case but as time goes on the chances of finding him alive may be dwindling.

He said on Saturday law enforcement officials and volunteers searched marshland and shoreline areas at the tip of West Winton Avenue in Hayward as well as Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont but didn't find anything significant.

Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell

Hassani Campbell

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[Angel Who Cares]

Missing Boy's Dad: 'If You Have Him, Let Him Go' August 17, 2009
The tearful foster parents of a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy say they believe their son was kidnapped and pleaded for his safe return Monday outside the Oakland, CA shoe store where Hasanni Campbell was last seen one week ago.
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Jennifer Campbell, left, and her husband Louis Ross take part in a prayer circle during a vigil for foster child Hasanni Campbell on Monday, Aug. 17, 2009, in Oakland, Calif. The 5-year-old boy, who has cerebral palsy, reportedly disappeared Aug. 10 in the Rockridge neighborhood.

Louis Ross, right, holds a picture of Hasanni Campbell while his wife Jennifer Campbell stands in the background during a vigil for their foster child on Monday, Aug. 17, 2009, in Oakland, Calif. The 5-year-old boy, who has cerebral palsy, reportedly disappeared Aug. 10 in the Rockridge neighborhood.

Jennifer Campbell, left, gets a hug from Courtney Burris during a vigil for foster child Hasanni Campbell on Monday, Aug. 17, 2009, in Oakland, Calif. The 5-year-old boy, who has cerebral palsy, reportedly disappeared on Aug. 10 in the Rockridge neighborhood.

Louis Ross arrives with balloons to a vigil for foster child Hasanni Campbell on Monday, Aug. 17, 2009, in Oakland, Calif. The 5-year-old boy, who has cerebral palsy, reportedly disappeared Aug. 10 in the Rockridge neighborhood.

Grandmother Pamela Clark talks to the media before a vigil for missing Hasanni Campbell on Monday, Aug. 17, 2009, in Oakland, Calif. The 5-year-old boy, who has cerebral palsy, reportedly disappeared one week ago in the Rockridge neighborhood.

 

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RAW VIDEO: Vigil For Missing Boy East Bay Boy
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VIDEO: Marc Klass Concerened About Hassani Campbell Case
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VIDEO: Search For Hassani Campbell Continues; Not Many Leads So Far
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VIDEO~ OAKLAND: Foster Parents Hold Vigil For Missing Five-Year-Old
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VIDEO: $10K Reward , Vigil Held For Missing E. Bay Boy
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UPDATED: Family pleas for help to find missing boy
Family members of a missing disabled child hit the streets of Oakland again, asking for help. Their little one has been missing for more than a week.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 | 5:52 PM
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The family members who are leafleting in the neighborhood said they are being sustained by hope and prayer. On Tuesday morning, investigators went to the shoe store and left in an unmarked car with the child's foster father, Louis Ross.

Trinity Schwabacher is Hasanni's aunt. She says somebody in the Rockridge neighborhood must know something.

"I mean this is too crowded a street  you know, cars like every five minutes. I mean come on man, somebody has got to have seen him," said Schwabacher.

This is why Schwabacher and other family members of the missing 5-year-old mobilized a dozen young volunteers from their church to hand out leaflets.

Pamela Clark is Hasanni's grandmother.

"If I didn't have hope, I couldn't do this, you know. I have hope that he'll be found safe and sound," said Clark.

"They end up finding kids after months, sometimes years so I yes, I do have hope. I pray every day," said volunteer LaShanda Collins.

They started from the shoe store on College Avenue where the boy vanished in the late afternoon a week ago Monday.

Hassani's foster dad, Louis Ross, says he briefly left him at the store's back parking space while he went into the store.

Ross says when he came back, the boy was gone.

"I'm sure somebody just grabbed him in the car and took off," said Clark.

Although police and the FBI have searched several parks, a Hayward wrecking yard and combed the neighborhood, going door to door, Hassani's godmother, Regina Douglas says they're leafleting areas investigators may have missed.

"It was said that about 300 homes did not respond to the door knocking. So we feel that needs to continue," she said.
Mark Gavriel was one of several people we spoke with who said they had never heard of this case.

"I have a Xerox machine in my house. We have to make some flyers now and put them up in Lake Merritt where I live," said Gavriel.

VIDEO: Family pleas for help to find missing boy
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VIDEO: Hassani's Father Speaks Out
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UPDATED: $10,000 Reward Offered For Missing Fremont Boy
Updated: 12:57 pm PDT August 18, 2009
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Ross told KTVU he has been voluntarily speaking with police daily and that on Friday he retraced his steps with investigators, showing them the auto salvage yard he had driven to with Hasanni hours before the boy disappeared.

Ross said he went there to locate a part for an old vehicle he's working on and that he had Hasanni with him the entire time.

He insisted Hasanni wouldn't have wandered off and suspects someone kidnapped him.

Hasanni's foster parents said they will hold a vigil here in the Rockridge neighborhood every Monday at 4:15 p.m. -- to coincide with the time and day of the boy's disappearance -- until he is found.

Police indicated there were no new searches Monday amid concerns that time could be running out to find the boy unharmed.

Thomason said police are still treating Hassani's disappearance as a missing persons case but as time goes on the chances of finding him alive may be dwindling.

"As time goes on, that is going to be our fear; that this will be a recovery," said Oakland police spokesman Jeff Tomason. "But right now, we are still treating it as trying to find a little five year-old boy."

VIDEO~ OAKLAND: Police Hope $10,000 Reward Will Offer Leads In Missing Boy Case
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Drummond: Where is the public outcry over 5-year-old's disappearance?
Posted: 08/18/2009 04:36:04 PM PDT
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Remember when 8-year-old Sandra Cantu disappeared five months ago from the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park where she lived in Tracy?

The community's response was instant and massive. Volunteers from seven counties mobilized into search teams &#8212; slogging through fields in search of the little girl. Over and over, TV stations broadcast an eerie surveillance video: Sandra, carefree, innocent, laughing and skipping on the afternoon she disappeared.

The story tugged at our collective heartstrings.

"Nightline," the "Today" show, Fox News and even Dr. Phil came calling.

Then, a dairy farmer happened upon a suitcase containing the child's body floating in an irrigation pond. Melissa Huckaby, the mother of one of Sandra's friends, has been indicted on charges of kidnapping, raping and murdering the child &#8212; the monstrosity of which I will never get my mind around.

For the past nine days, a 5-year-old boy named Hasanni Campbell has been missing. He is three feet tall, weighs 40 pounds and suffers from cerebral palsy.

Why hasn't Hasanni's disappearance garnered even a fraction of the public attention and outcry of the Cantu case?

Why isn't Oakland up in arms? How come hundreds of organized volunteers aren't out beating the bushes in search of little Hasanni? The police have gotten just 50 tips compared with hundreds in the days after Sandra disappeared. Just a handful of people showed up at a vigil Monday near the shoe store where Hasanni was reported missing. In Tracy, hundreds held vigils to pray for Sandra's safe return.

A few days after Hasanni vanished, I drove over to Rockridge. I wanted to see if I could detect any signs of something amiss. I spotted a few "Missing" fliers of Hasanni in store windows. But other than that, people were going on about their nevermind.

I doubt that you could have gone anywhere in Tracy back in late March and early April and not known instantly that a little girl was missing.

Why has the public response in these two missing child cases been like night and day?

Sandra was from a relatively small town. She was a familiar face in the mobile home park where she lived with her mother. Neighbors knew her.

The video of Sandra skipping rope helped people to connect with her emotionally. She was everyone's little girl &#8212; a real flesh-and-blood child we could all identify with.

The case also had a relatively simple plot line. Little girl goes out to play. Little girl disappears. Mom says she would never go off without asking permission. Her parents had less than wholesome credentials, but the public didn't hold that against the little girl.

Hasanni's story is more complicated. He has been raised by his aunt and her fiance since December because mom reportedly had substance-abuse problems and couldn't care for Hasanni.

But all that should matter is that a disabled little boy has been missing for nine days.

Kari Hulac was the editor for the Bay Area News Group's coverage of the Sandra Cantu case. She now works as an online editor in Oakland.

Hulac says she has also noted a big difference in public interest between Sandra and Hasanni.

"I'm trying to figure out whether it's racial, whether it's the parents' behavior &#8212; or whether people are assigning blame," Hulac said. "I thought the public response to this disappearance was going to be bigger."

Hasanni is African-American. Sandra was white and Latina.

Ross said he left Hasanni alone for a few moments. Some have been quick to accuse Ross of involvement in Hasanni's disappearance &#8212; though there is no evidence to support that.

Adam Walsh, let us not forget, was abducted from a busy Sears parking lot in Hollywood, Fla.

Speculate all you want.

The point is, a three-foot child with a serious disability has been missing for one week and two days.

How is it that we, as a community, don't seem that bothered about that?

Article:
http://www.mercurynews.com/columns/ci_13152886

 

[Angel Who Cares]

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Posted: 08/18/2009 04:36:52 PM PDT
Updated: 08/18/2009 04:54:55 PM PDT
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What do you think of the community response to the disappearance of Fremont 5-year-old boy Hasanni Campbell, reported missing from Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood more than a week ago? Oakland Tribune columnist Tammerlin Drummond wrote recently about the difference between the meager response to Campbell's case and the public attention generated by the search for Tracy resident Sandra Cantu last March.

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Article:
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[Paulette]

Angel posted this video 'If You Have Him, Let Him Go' (post #36) in the reference thread for Hasanni. There's a long line of garbage cans lined up against the building, making it impossible for anyone from the street to notice Hasanni standing at the back door. Were these garbage cans always there? I didn't notice them before. But, where else would they live?

The KTVU 10pm news reported LE brought LWR back to the alley to go over his story. Yet again. I wonder how many times he's told that story?