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• Protective Mother of 3 on 11/25 01:10 AM

  I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOUR TEENIE. WE SHOULD HONOR HER MEMORY AND NOT DISRESPECT IT. THOSE WHO WANT TO ARGUE ABOUT OTHER ISSUES THEN DO IT SOME WHERE ELSE PLEASE(NO DISRESPECT). MY YOUR SOUL REST IN PEACE LITTLE ANGEL.

• Teenie on 11/24 05:21 PM

  WoW..poor little girl..she has been tortured and someone took away her innocence and here people are alive and well arguing over nonsense! take it to the fire! this page is for that little girl not for anything else. May YOu rest in peace sweet angel.

• Caroline Fitzgerald on 11/24 12:40 PM

  You say God Bless and then something so hateful? You are the one who needs blessing. At least I do not bring God into it.

• MotherOf3 on 11/24 12:37 PM

  You arent the only one with family in the military and you are a pathetic little nobody. I have no desire to talk to anyone that ignorant. You are the one who got into the conversation ...May God Bless You...I think you really need it.

• Caroline Fitzgerald on 11/24 12:30 PM

  MotherOf3 - How dare you ask me that question. I have more than just my son in the Army - fighting for our freedom. You are just rude and argumentative. Do not bother to reply to any more of my posts, you pathetic little person!

• MotherOf3 on 11/24 12:21 PM

  Caroline, Freedom of Speech mean anything to you? Or is it just the ignorant people that have that right? Opinions are Opinions, everybody has one...SO GET OVER IT~! Keep the issue what it is, dont make it into something its not...Thats all I was saying.

• Caroline Fitzgerald on 11/24 12:20 PM

  I have a son at Ft. Bragg that will tell you that YES, race is a problem there in N. C. and race issues are alive and well everywhere. In an ideal world, there would be no racial issues, but.................well, you know what I mean!

• Caroline Fitzgerald on 11/24 12:16 PM

  MotherofThree, I just do not think it is up to you to tell us what we should be concentrating on. You do your thing and let others do theirs.

• MotherOf3 on 11/24 10:48 AM

  Well we probably needed a Racial Justice Act only because of people like you always using the Race Card. As for why Gov. Perdue and and Attorney General Roy Cooper, I dont know the answer to that question like you dont know the answer to that question. It just seems like everyone wants to place blame on everyone except the ones who are really at fault. All this blame on others is doing nothing but taking it away from the mother and the Devil who killed that sweet little angel. Lets focus on the real murderers.

• myrak on 11/24 10:40 AM

  MotherOf3 did NOT read and comprehend my post. If MotherOf3 thinks race is not a issue in NC, why did NC need a Racial Justice Act in the year of our Lord 2009? Why does MotherOf3 think this child's brutal murder didn't cause Gov Purdue and Atty Gen Roy Cooper to speak out???

• MotherOf3 on 11/24 10:22 AM

  The last comment from MYRAK is just IGNORANT~! Why do you have to make this a race issue? It doesnt matter what color the child or the mother or father was~! I'm so sick of hearing the race card played in everything. Grow up and get over it, this is 2009 geez. What matters is that whoever did this to that precious child gets what they deserve. And if the law on earth doesnt do it, GOD Surely will~!

• myrak on 11/24 10:12 AM

  WHERE IS NORTH CAROLINA ATTORNEY GENERAL ROY T. COOPER? Why is he so silent and absent? Same with Gov Bev Purdue - is the child not WHITE enough for her to get upset? If the Daddy gave Shaniya to Anotinette knowing she had drug problems, etc. WHY didn't Daddy check up on his child and check with her school and do something to insure he had done the right thing? Not checking on the child for weeks seems strange. As for DSS CPS, nothing new there - remember Cory McLauchlan, Sean Paddock ...? -- Why did the Hotel call the Fayetteville Police instead of 911? There are way more questions than answers here from everyone involved. CALLING ROY T COOPER -- WHERE ARE YOU? WE HAVE A HUMAN SEX TRAFFICKING PROBLEM IN NORTH CAROLINA.........

• SAMANTHA A HICKORY RESIDENT on 11/22 07:46 AM

  HELLO WHY DID THE SCHOOL NOT CONTACT THE FATHER SINCE HER MOTHER HADNT TAKEN HER TO SCHOOL IN A MONTH NONE OF THIS ***** SOUNDS RIGHT ALSO YALL ARE ON THE FATHER LOOK AT THE MOTHER WHY IS SHE NOT BEING CHARGED WITH MURDER!!ALSO THE DUMBASS MARIO GETS TOOKEN TO ANOTHER PRISON I WOULDNT LET THE BASTERD EVEN MOVE FROM THAT COUNTY MY PRAYS OUT TO THE LITTLE GIRL AND ALSO 1 MORE THING THE GUY MARIO WANTS TO TALK NOW WHY HE DIDNT JUST TAKE HER TO POLICE AND TELL THEM HER MOTHER TRIED TO SELL HER SINCE HE WANTS TO TALK NOW AND THATS A GREAT POINT WHY WOULD HE TAKE HER TO COMFORT IN WHERE CAMERAS ARE WATCHING I DONT GET THAT IS ANYONE HEARING A DEFENSE FROM THIS GUY!!

• Protective Mother of 3 on 11/22 03:03 AM

  WHAT THE HELL!! WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?? OK PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THE HOTEL CLERK DIDN'T RAISE AN EYEBROW TO A GROWN A** MAN BRINGING A LITTLE GIRL INTO A HOTEL AT 6SOMTHING IN THE MORNING WITH NO SHOES OR PANTS ON?? AS COLD AS IT IS? PLEASE!! I WOULD HAVE BEEN ASKING HIM ALL KIND OF QUESTIONS AND TALKING TO THE CHILD TO GET A CLUE FROM HER TO AND WOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE PHONE DIALING 911 IN HIS FACE!! THIS STORY HAS BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES AND I JUST CANNOT BELIEVE THE THINGS PEOPLE ARE DOING TO CHILDREN THESE DAYS! AND TO HER MOTHER!! OH GOD, HOW COULD YOU LIVE WITH YOURSELF AFTER WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR OWN CHILD?!! A FIVE YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRL?!! THAT CHILD SHOULD NEVER HAD TO GO THROUGH THE THINGS SHE HAS. I AM PRAYING FOR HER AND HER FAMILY AND MAY SHE FOREVER REST IN PEACE. SANIYA DAVIS YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN AND WILL TRUELY BE MISSED!

• preciouslove on 11/21 10:18 PM

  I would also like to say that the big boys in prison will have a good time with Mario. Child molesters don't go over well with them. I don't know about the womens prison but I'll bet you that Antoinette will also be prejudiced by her inmates. I hope so. I hope they feel the pain that Shaniya felt!

• preciouslove on 11/21 10:10 PM

  OK, now let's talk about Social Services and the child's Grandmother. First, we all know that Antoinette's Mom is going to say whatever she can to take up for her daughter. How dare her say her daughter(Antoinette) is innocent when Antoinette allowed HER Granddaughter to be taken for sexual servitude in exchange for a drug debt!!! Antoinette's Mom is going to keep on talking and soon she will be our topic of conversation. And what about Social Services? Where were they? They allowed the little girl to stay with her Mom! They should also be persecuted! Why this woman? And her house is condemned! Drugs, prostitution and the whole nine yards but yet Social Services evidentally dismissed all of that. WHY? Anyone else and Social Services would have had the kids removed. What about the rest of the kids? What about all of the children who are being hurt and shamed that we don't know about? There needs to be a law whereas any Mother who does drugs and that allow her children live in filth be put behind bars. Go raid the homes and pull the kids out.

• Caroline Fitzgerald on 11/21 08:12 PM

  Well, through researching the Dad and the aunt C, I have come across interesting information. I would like to know if TY and Aunt C are related by marriage. This entire family is intertwined so much. Then, Mario's brother is quite acquainted with Shaniya's Dad's other children. I have no doubt that the negligent Dad knows McNeill. Dad is trying to shut everyone up. Why? Also, I wish his job would be researched because I do not think he has been working at all. His out of town trips are to where other family has been living - not work. I want the slimy murderer MN to die for what he did to Shaniya. I want her so called mom to go to prison for life. Then I would like to see Shaniya's Dad and Aunt C to be charged with negligence. They fed Shaniya to the wolves and still yet cannot keep their stories straight. If it comes out that Aunt C. withdrew Shaniya from school, will you be able to connect the dots? Also, the Dad has his home mortgaged to the hilt. Now he wants donations for Shaniya's funeral. Ironic. Sell the BMW, moron, and if there is any money left over, go to CVS and buy some condoms! At least in death, Shaniya will have the dignity no one let her have in life. And also - surely the Dad does not have custody of Shaniya's body because he is not on paper anywhere as being legitimate. The slimy mother is in jail - so who has the right to the funeral decisions? I hope there is no big, fake, emotional outburst at the funeral from Daddy Dearest as was at the vigil where he even spoke in black slang. Geez.......................

• pray4shaniya on 11/21 07:54 PM

  I too, hope they fry the mother and the other monster..But why is the so-called father asking for donations to help bury the child. He sure has tried to play the sympathy card and now I guess he wants to make a buck in the process..Wake up people, he KNEW where he was sending this angel to live.He obviously didn't care what happened to her.He never raised any of his other kids.He is nothing and I mean NOTHING but a sperm donor.He speaks in so many tongues its hard to figure out if he is white or black...I pray for this precious baby, for I know the only one who ever loved her is holding her in his sweet arms in heaven..but don't think for a minute ole Daddy'o didn't know AD's background..I hope those investigating this man for personal reasons find the real truth aBOUT him, and when they do,,,no one is going to want to give him one red cent...Let him sell his 240k home or sell his BMW (beamer),,,to pay for her funeral..In my book he should be right beside the mother for this for sending her to live and die at the hands of a monster....You locals down there..don't be fooled by this fools grief...I dont buy it....Why is he not screeming for the mother and Mario to be hung at sunset,,,instead he gives her a pass...also, why did he say,,this is NOT about Antwonette, this is NOT about Mario, this is NOT about Brad,,its about Shaniya...WHO believes this garbage coming out of his mouth..?????? Give your money to a legit organization helping abused and exploited children,,not to this fake sperm donor....

• betty on 11/21 06:18 PM

  repost! i dont think that either one should be allowed to live... yes contact your politicians, to ensure they are never on the streets again! i think prison is too good for them...they should be stonned or hung in the middle of town! there is way to much child rape and prison is not stopping it! i know that i dont want to spend the $50,000 (or more) to support these type of people in prison. Where all to often they do get out just to do it again! I dont want to pay for their clothing, food, shelter, medical, education and rehab.. i would much rather spend it on some deserving family!!

• Shaniya We Will Not Let Justice Turn Her Back On Y on 11/21 12:05 PM

  I Hope that EVERYONE who wants to see justice done for this horrible crime contacts the governor, the senators and the state reps in North Carolina and demand that there be a FULL investigation into what happened here, It is very easy to blow off steam here in this commentary page but DO take action, It’s very easy to contact these people and express your outrage and demand that justice be served and that there be a laws passed to make crimes like this to not go unpunished to the fullest extent of the law. I personally think that there should be a Law passed in Shaniya's name so that this will not be forgotten and that ALL of our children be given the benefit of being protected from this and that the social workers involved in these cases will remove children from situations like this and place them in homes that Will be safe, clean and secure. It is a disgrace that the people who say that they loved this little girl would talk about how they worked so very hard to give their children a safe and secure place to live they throw their children away like they are plastic and not give them the respect that they deserve and the safe havens that we owe them because we chose to bring them to life. Don’t let these words we are writing here stay here, Call the People who CAN influence the outcome of this case and do not be fooled by the show that these people are creating in order to hide their own neglect, gross negligence and their false reports and statements that are opposite of what they truly did to put this little angel into that situation. No one, no one at all, who is involved in this crime is without shame and the people around them KNOW that they putting on a show. I Applaud those who have come forward and told the truth about who the father and aunt. They Know and they are NOT standing by and letting these people continue to give false information about the actions that lead up to this child's death. THEY are Guilty too! PLEASE, Make the calls and lets demand that there be legislation passed to prosecute all of those involved to the fullest extent of the law. Zero tolerance for those who throw away their children and put them in the arms of death. Shaniya and every innocent child who is violated, raped, abused, neglected and robbed of their life have a right to justice. Let those who are involved have the same rights that they have given their children and take away their ability to create even more children who will ultimately go through this very same thing. PLEASE, MAKE the CALLS! This site below has contact information of all federal, state and local officials in the U.S. http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

• Mother on 11/21 10:29 AM

  Ok this case still makes no sense. I live close to Fayetteville and Sanford and as I try to figure this out its not making any sense. Question 1---if McNeil was going to rape and kill Shaniya would he take her to the Comfort Inn where you have to go through the lobby to get to your room. Who was the room registered to? Would McNeil pay $100 for a hour with Shaniya if the mother owed him money why spend more money? There are motels in Sanford for $50 that you get a key and the rooms are made where you walk right in them without going through the lobby. Why be seen with your murder victim and spend a $100 if somebody owed you money. THE mother's 911 call makes no sense---she told the truth in the begining when she said 5:30 the night before. Thats when McNeil really picked the girl up and he was suppose to have her back by a certain time. The noise the neighbor heard was Antionette trying to stage a crime scene and she wanted someone to hear noise so it would seem like she Shaniya was kidnapped. If Clarence Coe said he lived there a whole month but he didn't stay that night I wonder why? I know he said he had to babysit but why this particular night if he was there every night for a month. I don't believe he had anything to do with it but was this the first night he babysitted. I don't know if my boyfriend would leave me for a whole night to babysit somebody child. If it was a safe enviroment then the child would have came to stay with us. So what's up with that. Did Clarence Coe know anything and he didn't want to get involved? The father---I'm a mother and there's no way I would kiss on my children the way this man continued to kiss on his son on Nancy Grace. Did you see how he held on to his son from behind, massage him and then I once saw him whisper something to the boy and tried to pretend he was kissing him on the back. He is a child molestor and I know it. I'm a survivor of child molestation and rape and I saw the boys eyes when the father was doing these things.--The brother and sister shows no emotions about the death of Shaniya and I believe they know its the only way Shaniya would be safe. Those kids have been through something and it's more to this father than we all think. He may have yall fooled but not me. Shaniya you are in the safest place for you.......GOD will protect you and keep you now......We love you!

• Joel on 11/21 08:13 AM

  Any public employee who permitted Mario McNeill to be out on the street should be fired. These people are not serving the public. They do not deserve to have a job in North Carolina since they are incompetent.

• Kathy Burrell on 11/21 03:17 AM

  Well in response to my last post, its good to agree to disagree but my issue is that in serving justice it has to be dealt with and all of the things that lead up to the event are relavent and all of those who contributed are responsible and should have to pay for their hand in this horrable tragidy. This will perhaps teach those who were a party to the deed that they are responsible too. how many more children is this man going to throw away? so far its 6, only shaniya had to pay with her life, the others were old enough to find shelter or know they were in danger. Shaniya was not. I am heartsick for this baby and as i believe we all are over this, I hope that her life was not lost in vein and for those who look for the attention or publicity at that babies expence i hope that you are exposed for the frauds that you really are and are put in jail right along with those that you enabled to take this poor babies life.

• Elizabeth Williams on 11/20 04:03 PM

  Angela said it best on November 16th. However, I would just like to know whether North Carolina would give me the death penalty if I came there and killed Mario and Antoinette??? I think they would but yet they are so willing to permit murders and rapist go free if they think their time is up. Both of those low life bitches should be tortured slowly. I would suggest putting them both in tar for starters. Take them out and savagely rape both of them, let'em beg for a while and put'em back. Let justice be done this time North Carolina!! WE, THE PEOPLE DEMAND JUSTICE FOR SHANIYA DAVIS!!!!!! Using crack cocaine does not excuse anyone's behavior and it certainly is not a reason. Where I live cops shoot first and ask questions later. Perhaps N.C. should've done that to Mario and Antoinette. They don't deserve to live in this life or the next.

• Ninah on 11/20 01:59 PM

  Sick Bastered need his ass raped n killed in prison he need to feel what the hell Shaniya went through.....that lil girl aint do ***** n was only 5 ***** yrs old n you do some ***** like that.....They gon rape his ass in jail thats what is ass deserves ***** dummy if i see him ill kick his ass give his ass the damn chair

• BabyGirl on 11/20 01:35 PM

  I agree with everything that has been said about the mother and father and those involved. McNeil should be tortured and tortured again and again for the rest of his miserable life. The mother who is pregnant again, should have the baby taken away from her the moment the baby is born and forced to have a complete hysterectomy! More charges are pending probably against the mother. I hope they both rot in hell.

• sad on 11/20 01:57 AM

  Mario and Antionette should not have protection while in prison. They should be raped and passed to inmates. Let them be sold for cigarettes. I feel that an injection is an easy way for them to die. I'm hearing that the mother could face 30yrs for what she has done.This is a disgrace, the woman will still be young if she gets this sentence once she's out. The death penalty should be more brutal than an injection.Now, I hear that the father will have time to talk with Oprah tomorrow. There is something about this man that is not sitting right with me. He is doing alot of media outlets for a grieving father.

• fayetteville resident on 11/20 01:17 AM

  There is even more news of Shaniya Davis on this facebook page at http://bit.ly/shaniya It has the 911 call that was sketchy, plus the new charges, and vigil pictures. RIP SHANIYA, God Bless her family!

• Elizabeth Williams on 11/19 11:23 PM

  Since North Carolina is so lenient with criminals, I doubt Shaniya's mom, the kidnapper or anyone else involved in the case will do any real time. My solution to the problem is to kill both of them by way of the gas chamber. Why should they ever have a trial? Did Shaniya have a trial? Did not Shaniya want to live? It is my wish and my hope that both of those evil, wicked, low down & dirty bastards die soon and slow. We demand justice for Shaniya!!!! Oh yeah, The world is watching you North Carolina!!

• BabyGirl on 11/19 02:38 PM

  This situation is making me sick. The father, mother, grandparents, Social Services, friends and all are responsible. The mother and that guy who kidnapped her should be executed. This is a hideous crime against a child. I have no sympathy for all those involved who could have done something and elected to do nothing. What a bunch of Jack-a--es and idiots! The mother is stupid, ignorant, dumb, ghetto, crack-head, prostitute and could never be called a real mother. She is a disgrace to motherhood.

• MI on 11/19 01:22 PM

  I think the whole are a bunch of "crack heads". There is no way in hell any one of them could justify not doing anything to protect Shaniya. Oh, guess what?! The mother is pregnant again!!! This proves the mentality of these idiots. The father makes me sick too. None of his children have ever lived with him. Doesn't anyone think that's strange. He was too busy worrying about his sex life than Shaniya. Shaniya, I'm sooo sorry no one cared about you!!! Rest in peace!

• myrak on 11/19 09:06 AM

  Where is NC Attorney General ROY T. COOPER? Why is he so silent? His claims to protect children from predators through his programs and projects apparently are NOT working. WHY did the reports of child abuse deaths disappear? Why is it so difficult to find an annual report of CHILDREN KILLED DURING CHILD ABUSE? You don't protect children by hiding the problem. In MEMORY OF SHANIYA DAVIS, ask NC AG Roy T. Cooper to step up to the plate and admit he has failed our children and get to work on some solutions, like ..uhm.. having some mandatory jail time for sex offenders instead of letting them "plead down" and get probation. He could call it SHANIYA'S LAW. You can rant and rave all you want - but we need action to protect the children. Make it easier to report anonymously child abuse. Do something besides using the child's torturous death for media ratings and image making.

• jackson brown on 11/19 08:54 AM

  for some thing or what ever this one hit me hard their are alot of questions but bottem line arope around the neck is not good for those two but they will set in jail 20 years untill they get whats coming to them put them in with the regular prisners it just pisses me off went i see a picture of that baby and what that so called mother did

• Dora on 11/18 11:29 PM

  It is an epedemic,of children constantly being used and abused. Our country unfortunetly has the largest web of trafficking. Who are this men and wicked women? what are they? from what rock did they crawl out of, and why have we as a counrty become so complacent? When will it end? the fear for our children and their lives. A Coalition must be organized throughout the U.S ,A COALITION OF "ENOUGH"You molest a child go to prison for life, and if not a death. Any molester that is ready to be released the coalition is on top of this and hold city and state responsible for that person being released if they do more harm. "One child too many" should be the law.Discard these predictors for they are harming little precious gifts that god gives us.

• Fernando on 11/18 08:32 PM

  This bitch should die for giving the poor little baby a life of a damned dog. I hope she gets the death penalty and the boyfriend as well.

• myrak on 11/18 07:09 AM

  Let the law do their job? ---- ?? Who do you think is trying to stop them. The media and the law are milking this tragic story to death - with "new update" every day. The news will "cut into programming at 10:00 a.m. this morning to update us. WHY do they schedule a news report featuring the Police Chief during other programming? Why not schedule to "cut in" when the NEWS is acutally on? AGAIN I say, The truly SAD part of this incident is that the news will end and people will forget until the next one. Then it will play out in the media again, then be forgotten.

• preciouslove on 11/18 03:19 AM

  I had this thing figured out from the get go and it doesn't take a stupid person to figure it out. Mom is a drug addict and she needs money to buy drugs. She knew she had a beautiful daughter that she knew MEN would just love. So, she figures that if she could convince the Father of the the little girl that she had changed her life around and get the girl back then she could make some money to buy her bootie. A LOT OF $$$. She was also told that she might not see her daughter again if she ever let her go. So, now, everyone involved gets scared that the little girl might talk to someone and they don't want to get caught. So, what do they do? They kill her and get rid of her and they think that no one will find her in the thick cudsu. The rest is history. It doesn't take an idiot to figure this one out. It has happened too often and science will find you no matter how hard you try to get away with it. And you WILL be put to death! So let the law do their job and execute the perpetrators! PLUS...it's too bad that the law doesn't punish the perpetrators in the same way that the victim died. Now..that would be justice! I also hope that the rest of the similar cases that haven't made National television come to justice too!!!

• Lynn on 11/18 12:45 AM

  I too am offended about the people claiming she had burn marks and blaming the father. If these people knew that she was being abused with the cigarette burns then why would they just now come out and say it versus actually going to child protective services and reporting it? Makes no sense to me. The father in-law, friend and daughter should be mad at themselves because they did not do the right thing. Not place the blame on the father.

• betty on 11/17 08:21 PM

  if this poor childs mother did sell her out, then i surely hope that she gets the death penality!! for sure so should the others involved!

• mademan_nc on 11/17 08:15 PM

  I am a father of two girls and lost my son when he was only 5 months old to SIDS and if anything ever happened to another one of me kids I don't know what I would do. I was just listening to what the father in law was saying and I am deeply offended that he has gall to blame the father and the mother and boyfried carried out these horrible acts. My heart goes out to the family but they need to come together becuase they have all lost someone special and stop blaming the wrong person.

• myrak on 11/17 06:41 PM

  The truly sad part of this incident is that the news will end and people will forget until the next one. Then it will play out in the media again, then be forgotten. There are websites I've discovered on stophumantraffickingNC and there is the State task RIPPLE team (which I never heard of until Shaniya); and also Polaris. Let us not forget Shaniya by getting involved and keeping her death in the face of the NC Atty Gen; the NCGenAssembly, the Governor, and our federal representatives. Let us ask for a SHANIYA Bill to put these perverts who buy children and those who sell them into sex servitude in prison for life - no parole. In Shaniya's memory, let us not forget that the sex trafficking of children in NC and the USA is pandemic; goes hand in hand with child pornography. REMEMBER SHANIYA DAVIS and take some kind of action in her memory.

• Michelle on 11/17 06:26 PM

  CL10 said "It just seems to me that if this mother did indeed "sell" her child (which is a felony) and the child died as a result of this crime, then the mother, too, is responsible for her death...just as much so as the person who actually committed the act". 100% she is just responsible. Anytime there is a felony and a death occurs it is felony murder. Kind of like being the get away driver at the bank your friends just held up but things went wrong and someone was killed, you are just as responsible as the person that pulled the trigger.

• angela on 11/17 03:09 PM

  I just watched the interview with the suspects' (mcneill) girlfriend April Autry, she looks and acts like a crackhead too. The entire nest of vipers that surround these children need to be cleaned out and exterminated and those "mothers" need to be sterilized before they bring another child into their drug addicted world.

• preciouslove on 11/17 02:36 PM

  Landshark: How about truth serum?

• CL10 on 11/17 02:29 PM

  It just seems to me that if this mother did indeed "sell" her child (which is a felony) and the child died as a result of this crime, then the mother, too, is responsible for her death...just as much so as the person who actually committed the act.

• KATHY on 11/17 09:54 AM

  I think the grandma is in denial

• blessqueen on 11/17 09:39 AM

  I am very angry with Social Services, the mother and all those involved with this precious child's tragic death. The mother is a drug addict and probably a prostitute herself. This beautiful child died because of a dyfunctional system. No one stood up for Shaniya's rights or her life. Why was Shaniya with her mother when she (the mother)is clearly not competent to be called a mother? Where was Child Protective Services, where were the neighbors? The only way these types of crimes against "OUR" children will stop is if "WE" as a community come together and look after one another and most importantly "PRAY". Shaniya's mother is a drug addict. Shaniya's grandmother and other family members are defending "the mother". That is part of the problem, denial. The mother is guilty of prostituting her own child and probably an accomplice to her death. "ALL" those involved should either spend the rest of their pathetic lives in prison or be executed!

• myrak on 11/17 09:06 AM

  QUESTION: Why didn't the hotel call 911 and get the SANFORD police to respond (or sheriff)? Why did the Fayetteville police respond and does the Fayetteville police have jurisdiction in Sanford? I am sick of the way the MEDIA is manipulating this child's tragic torture and death into HEADLINES and rating-gathering stories. Notably, the Fayetteville Observer front page had a BIG photo of the mother and just a tiny image of Shaniya. Where is NC Atty General Roy T. Cooper? Why is he so absent. Gov Purdue, Mayor Chavonne, et al are silent too.

• myrak on 11/17 07:46 AM

  personwithaworking brain Permit me to introduce you to the First Amendment giving outraged the right to speak her/his mind. Personally, it takes courage to speak out against the ''system'' ... I, too, wondered why Ms. Chance looked so disinterested and unconcerned and, well, showed no emotion. At one point I expected her to giggle, but, I know that people show emotional distress in many ways so I didn't question it or focus on it. What did BOTHER ME was hearing of the group RIPPLE and POLARIS and learning that Human Child Sex Trafficking is a growing business in North Carolina and the USA. Dear God.

• LOZANO FAMILY on 11/17 03:00 AM

  I cant belive how a mother can do this to her child. it made me cry when i heard that she had gave her child for money. . i have two beautiful little girls and i would never ever do such a crul think. Poor Shaniya didnt even know what she was getting into going up that elevator with that nasty man =( im sorry baby this had to happen to you. THe man and mom should get the death penalty. Love you baby sleep with the angels

• Joseph on 11/17 12:52 AM

  sweet chiled did not deserve to lose her life that child did nothing to know one if a same how children get heart or kill and it a same hoe police and nc do not knoe abbout humen trafficking in NC area and it a same how this is the first we heard of human traffking in NC god watch ing over her she in a safe place haven the safest place on earth god bless that child i do not know the familty please fine justice fo shaniya davis child need justice

• personwithaworkingbrain on 11/16 11:59 PM

  This is in response to the post by "outraged'. You must be a person with a total disregard lack of respect for law enforcement which tells me that your are probably a seasoned criminal yourself. After a week of round the clock watching, waiting, worrying, hoping, praying and crying Ms Chance had to tell the world the world that this precious little girl had been found dead, tossed aside like trash and obviously you don't have the sense to know that she knew EXACTLY how that baby was found. She had obviously been crying and surely was scared to death of breaking down on camera. To beat it all your statement that the Police Dept is more guilty than the criminals who commited the crimes against her???? What kind of insane, stupid moron could come up with that? You "outraged" are one and the same as those good for nothing wastes of human life pieces of trash who did this to that precious child.

• MotherOf3 on 11/16 08:27 PM

  I cant believe people are so worried about the color of this child and her parents. The color had nothing to do with what happened to the child or why her mother and anyone else involved did this to her so lets try to keep the race card out of this one and focus on making sure whoever did this to that little angel pays for what they have done.

• Michelle on 11/16 08:19 PM

  To the sorry sack of crap that done this, you will one day close your eyes on this earth and open them in eternity and it will be your living hell forever. Hope you enjoy your nice long stay while you are there.

• Sharon on 11/16 07:15 PM

  I hope all responsible parties be put to death and go to hell who contributed to this baby's abuse and death. Stop being soft on the low life!!!!!!!

• myrak on 11/16 07:07 PM

  Rest in Peace Shaniya Davis. Go with God.

• Brenda on 11/16 06:51 PM

  I am appauled the way Ms. Chance was laughing as she was reporting the death of a child. How can anyone find anything funny before or after the camera is rolling. She should be ashamed of the way she handled herself on live tv.

• Crissy on 11/16 06:31 PM

  Come on people let's stop this craziness. What make some parents want to get someone, else to kidnapp their child. That to me is the dumbest damn mess I've heard. Shaniya looked so gorgeous and innocent. Why would someone want to hurt a child? I was hoping that they found that precious little girl alive. But God Bless her soul.

• Angie on 11/16 06:08 PM

  Read some comments and BOY some of you guys do NOT listen to the news at all. That baby was spotted at 4am to 4:30am in the hotel it was around 5:30 to 6am when police arrived and they had already left. No ONE checks into a hotel with a half NAKED 5 year old unless they are up to NO GOOD (god i hope DNA was not compromised) we will also find out that the child has already been molested my guess is at the hotel. I am figuring that who ever was going to buy her backed out and their only coarse of action in their mind was to elliminate her. What a waste of a precious and lovely little girl. But in my opinion the video at the hotel speeks VOLUMES she's half dressed, hair is just in shambles she can't WALK what is that telling you people???Either way they had 48 hours she was dead soon before or right after.

• Will TX on 11/16 02:36 PM

  FOX News is reporting that they found her body.

• myrak on 11/16 02:12 PM

  angela, I totally agree with you. Unfortunately, in NC too many child sex offenders get to plead down and only get "probation". I hear NC AG Roy Cooper say the opposite a lot, but in reality the plea deals with no prison time seems to be the "rule" not the exception. Recently, white well known upscale business men charged with child sex offenses get positive press and a boost from the media.

• myrak on 11/16 01:52 PM

  Pamela Waldher came to live with her dad in Fayetteville. She disappeared and he never once got on TV asking for help to find his child. He refused to talk to the police. Her body was found around 2 years after she disappeared. Dad still kept silent and off the air even when they found her remains. The grandparents came from Washingon State to ask for help, they paid to put up billboards. -- Now Shaniya Davis comes to live with her mother in Fayetteville and disappears, and Mom never gets on TV to ask for help to find her child. I guess as reported earlier this year, Fayetteville NC is the 3rd worst town to raise a family in.

• Angela on 11/16 01:15 PM

  All child molesters and those who enable them must be put down like the dogs they are! NO MERCY!

• myrak on 11/16 12:08 PM

  The Sanford hotel only has ONE camera? The desk clerk did not recongize the child? The mother not arrested until days after the child went missing. The police said they don't need help searching now. Way too many missing 'details' - begs a lot of questions.

• JMS1 on 11/16 11:36 AM

  Please, everyone keep this child in prayer. I hope that she is alive, healthy and returned to her family. No one has the right to harm a child, they are the only thing left that is sacred in this world. I also hope that the FBI, and Fayetteville P.D. make sure to press charges against this "mother" for not protecting someone so young -children trust their parents to do the right thing. My heart is breaking for this family.

• ds on 11/16 10:22 AM

  Lets compare: in the Fayetteville Observer you can get a $50,000 bail for drug trafficing, or get $20,000 for a felon with a firearm. Or in the Raleigh News & Observer you can get $500,000 bail for sexually molesting a 6 yr old. OR $200,000 for 2nd degree rape on a mentally incapacitated & physically helpless woman. That 5 yr old is not mentally able to understand what her mother set her up for and not physically able to defend herself. $51,000 bail? And she is not cooperating with finding her daughter either?

• ds on 11/16 09:44 AM

  Either way, there will be no justice. $51,000 bail? For all the mother is charged with? That is a joke.They will all end up with a smack on the hand as North Carolina is good for doing. Her bail is just a good example. I hope and pray the child is safe and returned to her father. I hope her son is given the help he needs because there is no telling what he has gone through either. And to all of you who have done anything but positive things for this little girl, God don't like ugly.

• outraged on 11/15 08:10 PM

  First off i'm baffled the Fayettville police office would put this grinning nut of a woman out there to be a spokesperson...what is funny about this situation? If that were her child or maybe even not a child of color would she be grinning and laughing like a hyhenna?! The police dept is more of a disgrace and as guilty than the people who committed such horrific crimes to this little girl. This is all about a little publicity for them...they don't care about this little girl. Obviously they don't know how to handle such cases or else they would act like they have a little more class.

• JMS1 on 11/15 11:18 AM

  This is a terrible story, and this mother and all the ppl involved need to be charged to the fullest extent of the law. The ONLY thing sacred in this crazy life are children. They didn't asked to be here and it's our job as adults to protect them from crazy ppl like this. I hope and pray this child is returned safely.

• Menotyou on 11/15 01:14 AM

  Now I told you this story is crazy....Mario wasn't smiling in court because he's innocent. He's smiling because his girlfriend April was sitting there.What does she know because I don't know if I would be in court supporting a man that was seen on camera at a hotel with a missing 5year old at 6am. (Do April have kids)There's no way he was doing a good deed and he took Shaniya to a hotel miles away from home and stayed for an hour. Something is wrong with that. Also how was it known that they checked out in a hour if no one saw them exit. The police said tonight that Antionette was the one that told them that she saw her boyfriend Coe drive off with Shaniya but I thought they been saying she last saw the child at 5:30 on the couch.Shaniya is not in a good situation the way this is playing out. I hope they step there search up. This mom needs to talk now and I pray she is alive. McNeil didn't know he was going to be caught when he left that hotel so what has happened to Shaniya and why??? He thought no one would recognize him because she wan't reported missing yet---but thank GOD for the worker at the hotel.

• maureen on 11/15 12:50 AM

  You know, I was wondering why Mario kept looking smug and smiling while he was arraigned... maybe he was trying to save the girl? It may be far-fetched but this story seems kooky. I just hope this girl comes home safely, and gets saved from her mother, who obviously has been exposing this poor little girl to some horrible things!

• SunStar201 on 11/15 12:06 AM

  I see they got the MOM , now I pray they find this little girl.

• SunStar201 on 11/14 11:04 PM

  Joseph go back and re read out loud this news clip, they have question the boyfriend , they let him go and they arrested another man in the area where the child was seen at a hotel with this second guy in question , this child was taken out of her home in the early morning hours , not a bus stop. This little girl is only 5 years old. IMO , if I was the parent I would be in front of the news media asking for the safe return of my child also.

• Butter on 11/14 08:00 PM

  This case is so confusing. I'm a mother and there's no way my child could be missing and I not be on every station you could turn to. What does this mother really know. Why would she be putting a 5year old on the couch at 5:30 am anyway. If Shaniya slept in a room with her mom and her boyfriend was home with his stepmother who did the mother need to be alone with in the bedroom that made her put the girl on the couch. If there is a tape of McNeil and the girl at the hotel why isn't there a tape of there exit. There has to be a tape of the parking lot. The police needs the community help and as long as they hold on to what they know it's another day of Shaniya's not coming home. POLICE----READ THIS---GIVE EVERYONE IN THAT HOME AND THE FATHER A LIE DETECTOR TEST. If Coe didn't know McNeil whose not to say the real father really doesn't. They could have met when they were dating sisters. This mom needs to talk now... And who is the sister dating now........Somebody in that home knows more...

• landshark on 11/13 05:01 PM

  Give this fool a beating, some drugs, what ever it takes. Make him tell where the child is!

• Marie on 11/13 04:04 PM

  It is so obvious that the mother in this case is connected to her daughter's kidnapping. A real mother who cares would be on every channel, at every station begging and pleading for her child's safe return, but she must have something to do with this situation. It's ridiculous when a woman puts a man before her child. If the boyfriend isn't part of this, I do believe the mother is. Hopefully, the child is safe somewhere, but this sounds like the Casey Anthony story. Hope this case has a better ending. What a sick world we live in!

• Marie on 11/13 04:01 PM

  It is so obvious that the mother in this case is connected to her daughter's kidnapping. A real mother who cares would be on every channel, at every station begging and pleading for her child's safe return, but she must have something to do with this situation. Hopefully, the child is safe somewhere, but this sounds like the Casey Anthony story. Hope this case has a better ending. What a sick world we live in!

• maureen on 11/13 02:45 PM

  How terrible... look up Clarence Coe, the man that got released. There is an article about him being HIV positive, I hope he never raped that beautiful little girl... Her mother needs to wise up as to who she has around her daughter. I hope she comes back safe, and all her blood tests are negative. Single mothers... don't date men just released from prison. I wonder if she was aware of his HIV status...

• Jessica on 11/13 10:29 AM

  This whole situation is way too weird! Where is the little girls mother?? I would be showing my face everywhere, begging for my childs return! Shows how SORRY she must be. When they find the little girl, I sure hope her father gets custody of her.....b/c her mother evidently doesn't need her!

• NYC on 11/13 07:45 AM

  I am wondering the same thing.Why haven't her mother show her face.If that was my child I would be on t.v. asking and praying to have her back.Something is just not right about this story.

• pattynoeth on 11/12 09:11 PM

  You got to be kidding me RIGHT!!!! How many more children are we gonna lose because of mothers who put there children in harms way because they put there men before there children!!! And its a funny thing I havent once seen the mother of this child!! So maybe shes the gulity one!!!!!!!!!!

• Lainie on 11/12 12:03 PM

  It's a shame that someone would want to bother a 5 yr little girl or any child as a matter of fact. People like that needs to be put in boiling hot water for be beat so badly, it makes me very angry to see someone take advantage of any child, boy or girl, if somebody touched or take my grandkids, I'd be going to the big house for sure, because I would probably try to hurt that person. '

• Joseph on 11/12 12:02 AM

  how come now one has question the boyfriend and why the boyfriend not in question or in cutody this boy frind need to be question and look at and the father need to be question and look at too thirdlee why chidren out be them seffs waiting on he school bus at five in the morning

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