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Searchers have found the body of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis

Heartbreaking news today, Fayetteville Police spokeswoman, Theresa Chance told the Associated Press that searchers have found the body of missing 5-year-old Shaniya Nicole Davis off a road southeast of Sandford in the central part of North Carolina.


(AP Photo/National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)

 

Shaniya disappeared 6 days ago from her home in Fayetteville, North Carolina.  An extensive search had been conducted for Shaniya since shortly after her disappearance was reported by her mother. 

New information had been released earlier this week after a witness called and informed police that they had seen Shaniya at a Sandford hotel,  the day she disappeared.

Security Video from the un-named hotel shows Shaniya being carried by a man identified as, Mario Andrette McNeill, McNeill turned himself into police on Friday and has been charged with first degree kidnapping.

Also charged is Shaniya's mother, Antoinette Nicole Davis was charged Saturday with allowing her daughter to be taken "with the intent that she be held in sexual servitude," according to police and arrest paperwork. Ms. Davis has also been charged with, human trafficking, felony child abuse - prostitution, filing a false police report, and resisting, delaying or obstructing justice.

Shanyia's cause of death is still unknown. It is also unknown if any additional charges are pending against Antoinette Davis, Mario McNeill or if there are any additional suspects at this time.

My heartfelt, deepest sympathy goes out to Shaniya's family during this most difficult time.

More on this story

Source for this story wxii12

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Lisa Nixon is a happily married, full-time mother of five wonderful children. She graduated with honors from Surry Community College with an associate's degree in applied science, paralegal technologies. Since graduating, Lisa has used her degree to try and affect change in the Child Protective...

Comments

  • I AM SO SICK OF THIS... 2 years ago

    I blame the government and laws. The evil demons that do this to kids should receive public torture, and then death. End of conversation.

  • This Kind of stuff has to stop 2 years ago

    They are not for sure if the body they found today is shaniya or not but most likely it is. The abuse and killing of poor innocent children needs to stop the government needs to step up and protect them from evil monster's like these

  • Me too 2 years ago

    I agree with Sick!

  • Lisa Nixon 2 years ago

    wxii12 and CBS News are reporting that authorities are saying that the body of Shaniya Nicole Davis was found today in a wooded area near where they have been searching. You can see the CBS story at the following link...

    www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/16/crimesider/entry5671683.shtml

  • Leonard Henderson 2 years ago

    And we will soon be hearing about how CPS needs more power and money to "prevent" this. To those people, I refer to the "Minority Report" and the concept of "Pre-Crime". The PROBLEM is the total breakdown of our morals and our society.

    Leonard Henderson, co-founder
    American Family Rights Association
    "Until Every Child Comes Home" ©
    "The Voice of America's Families" ©

  • Lisa Nixon 2 years ago

    Failing these children is not a result of lack of funding, but a lack of doing their jobs. CPS often breaks the law, fails to investigate reports in a timely manner, I even know of cases where they have forged document, falisified records, committed perjury and played favorites.

    The children who die while involved with or in the custody of CPS is not because of lack of funding but because of lack of accountability..if you know an agency is failing to perform their duty, negligent or just straight up breaking the law then they have to be held accountable for those behaviors, including criminal punishment...if not, they get away with it, children continue to die!

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