The Trute Story of a Child Called Cyntoia: Was Justice Served?
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Ellenette Brown, who is black, had no clue 16-year-old Georgina Mitchell, who is white, was pregnant. How could you tell? In 1987, all the kids were wearing baggy football jerseys. Georgina's was certainly roomy enough to hide a swelling belly. But there were a lot of things Ellenette probably didn't know about the young woman who befriended her son, John Harleston. Georgina had come to Clarksville to live with her sister. Her mother warned her she could come back home to Georgia on one condition: without the black baby growing in her belly. Georgina never went home. Instead, she began hanging around Ellenette's house, a gathering spot for neighborhood teens. Ellenette, a trim woman with finely boned hands, was a substitute teacher at a nearby elementary school. Kids like Georgina were drawn to her. They could talk to her about things they could never broach with their own parents. But Georgina didn't tell Ellenette about the baby she carried, or the fifths of liquor she drained most nights. Nor did she mention the money she made charging for sex, or her family's history of suicides and mental illness. On Jan. 29, 1988, Ellenette received a call from John. Georgina, he said, was in the hospital. Was she injured? Ellenette wondered. Her worry shifted to disbelief when he told her the girl was a new mother. By the time Ellenette and John visited Georgina in her room, she'd named her baby daughter Cyntoia. There was no father present. He could have been one of several men, including John Harleston, Cyntoia says, but Georgina could never be certain. Mother and daughter vanished shortly thereafter. When Georgina showed up six months later on Ellenette's doorstep, with Cyntoia in her arms, it was to ask Ellenette to look after her baby for a while. Ellenette had no idea where they'd been, but she found Cyntoia such a sweet child that she didn't mind. The days stretched into weeks, the weeks into months. Ellenette grew to love the baby girl, to treat her like a daughter
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IRISHGREENEYES BODYSNATCHER'S: The Shaniya Davis Story

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Understanding such a loss, of an angel on the earth, is far beyond what I can grasp, and less than you deserve, sleep well little Angel, in the safe arms of the Lord, he heard you cry that fatal night and so your name was called
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For days North Carolina authorities have been searching for 5 year old Shaniya Davis. Today, a week after she was reported missing by her mother, police think they found her body beside a road. Shaniya’s father, Bradley Lockhart, sat at a vigil praying as the news was broken to him. According to all the reports, Lockhart’s estranged wife, Antoinette Davis, is accused now of selling her little girl into prostitution. This almost unbelievable story has to be one of the most horrid I have personally ever heard tell of.
The mother, whom Davis held out hope of reconciliation with, was arrested on Saturday and is charged with human trafficking and felony child abuse for her alleged offering up her petite daughter into prostitution. Apparently a surveillance camera revealed one Mario Andrette McNeill, aged 29, carrying the young child into a hotel room on the same day the mother reported her missing. McNeill has since been charged with kidnapping, but obviously further charges are impending should evidence surface as to his and the mother’s part in the incident.
Literally hundreds of police and volunteers now stand paralyzed at the news the the little girl might be dead. No official identification has been made by officials in Fayetteville as of this writing. The father was visibly shattered in the parking lot of Swann Station Baptist Church in Sanford Monday night, where the vigil for young Shaniya was being held. Theresa Chance, Fayetteville Police Department spokeswoman had this to say:
“Detectives have been running off adrenaline to find this little girl and to bring her home alive. You have a lot of people in shock right now.”
Police have not established the relationship, if any, between Antoinette Davis and Mario Andrette McNeill. But it seems clear that a small child who has been missing, and then presumably being found dead, has some connection to the man seen carrying her to a hotel room. Bradley Lockhart must be literally out of his mind in grief and guilt now. He had raised the child until she was four, only allowing the mother to take her recently. He apparently acquiesced to the mother’s plea to care for the child, and be a good mother, as some reports reveal. Now, he has stated his self doubt and deep sadness over having let Shaniya go.
Everyone has to be wondering what kind of world it is we live in where people can do things like this to their little ones. “Shocking” does not even begin to cover the depth of horrible emotion attached to this story. All we at Everything can say is that we offer our most sincere hope that this man somehow lifted from his misery. And, that somehow, the unfortunate little person who was found, is not this man’s child. Unimaginable, we are all so sorry, certainly there is no pit in hell suitable for those who offend angels. The video below courtesy CBS, is Lockhart’s please for the return of little Shaniya, before this latest news arrived.
The Horrific Shaniya Davis Story http://bit.ly/2jOwTF

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She Dialed 911. The Cop Who Came to Help Raped Her.

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She dialed 911. The cop who came to help raped her. Michael Daly reports.
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South Wales police under investigation over handling of crimes against women

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Exclusive: Victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and rape say they were left at risk following fundamental errors
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Pimp sentenced for child sex trafficking

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SAN DIEGO - A San Diego man who made thousands of dollars forcing underage girls into prostitution using Internet ads was sentenced in federal court Monday to 12 years in prison.
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Human trafficking - The Seattle Times

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Her dad was in jail and her mom, a foreign-born teenage mother of two, was terrified. For Yasmin, it was one of the happiest times of her life.
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Lies the brothel, strip club, fake massage parlor, truck stop, bar or street life is their only destiny and pimps their only family. ... Traffickers are now family.
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Fear of jail time or 'name in papers' major deterrents to buying sex

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Magdalene Laundries now a state scandal | Women's Views on News

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The women incarcerated in these institutions washed clothes and linen for major hotel groups, the Irish armed forces, and even the official home of the Irish president. Established in ...
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Aramark employee arrested for trafficking » Local & Bistate » News ...

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Flora was arrested and transported to the Putnam County Jail on a preliminary charge of trafficking with an inmate, Class C felony. Wyttenbach is being held in administrative segregation and could face criminal charges ...
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Panel hears US military sex assault testimony

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MORENO VALLEY: Not-guilty plea in pimping case

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The case, which authorities say involved a 14-year-old girl, is the first time Riverside County prosecutors have filed charges under the state’s human trafficking law
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Why Is It So Hard to Identify the World's Rape Capital? - By Marya Hannun - Foreign Policy

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Parkville Man Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Sexual Bondage of 15-Year-Old Girl

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BALTIMORE—U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced John Andrew Blaes, age 49, of Parkville, Maryland, today to 27 years in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for conspiracy to produce child pornography and transporting a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct. Judge Bre…

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No leniency when child are being tortured - Herald Sun

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Crackdown on pimps; exhibit brings children's stories to life: Portland ... - OregonLive.com

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In the Media: First human trafficking case in Fiji

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Portland pimp sentenced to life in prison - KPTV.com

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Portland pimp sentenced to life in prison
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A notorious local pimp was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Tuesday, making it the longest sex trafficking sentence in the United States in the last six years.
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Trials postponed in death of Fayetteville girl - WRAL.com

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Trials postponed in death of Fayetteville girl
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He could be sentenced to death if convicted. Davis, 28, is charged with murder, child abuse, sexual servitude, human trafficking, child rape and other offenses.
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Man accused of pimping out 14-year-old girl

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A Memphis man is behind bars and accused of using a 14-year-old girl for prostitution.
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