When I saw all the pictures of this little girl, all I could think of was how happy she looked. (So much different than Aliayah.) I was soooo hopeful that she was not an abused child with a smile like that and the joy in her eyes. KWIM? Now I find out that those smiles and joy were probably captured on film while she was under the care of someone other than her mother and I'm not so hopeful anymore.![]()
Cousin says she called CPS about Jahessye Shockley
A relative who helped raise a missing 5-year-old Glendale girl says she called Child Protective Services several times to report her suspicions that the girl and her older sister were being abused.
Mahogany Hightower, one of four cousins who took care of Jahessye Shockley for the first four years of her life, told me she last saw the little girl in April, at a family barbecue.
She cried really bad, telling us she wanted us to take her home, Hightower said. She wanted to go home now. We told her you can't come home with us now but you will later. She goes, I can't go later. I've got to go now.'
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Hightower is astonished that authorities allowed a child to be left with a mother who repeatedly whipped and scarred her.
I want it to be known that CPS dropped the ball, she said. That in California, they dropped the ball. In Arizona, they dropped the ball. Even the police department, they dropped the ball.
Whether any of that had anything to do with Jahessye's disappearance, however, is yet to be seen.
While Hightower believes that the children were being abused, she's not ready to say that abuse is linked to Jahessye's disappearance.
Like the rest of us, she's unsure what to make of a 5-year-old disappearing into thin air. Like the rest of us, she's holding out hope that her little cousin will be found, alive and well.
I really don't know what to think, she says. I know there was abuse in the home and I reported it.
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Would it be okay for me to ask the station's website for help finding that clip where they mention the black car?
Cousin says she called CPS about Jahessye Shockley
A relative who helped raise a missing 5-year-old Glendale girl says she called Child Protective Services several times to report her suspicions that the girl and her older sister were being abused.
Mahogany Hightower, one of four cousins who took care of Jahessye Shockley for the first four years of her life, told me she last saw the little girl in April, at a family barbecue.
She cried really bad, telling us she wanted us to take her home, Hightower said. She wanted to go home now. We told her you can't come home with us now but you will later. She goes, I can't go later. I've got to go now.'
.........................snip....................
Hightower is astonished that authorities allowed a child to be left with a mother who repeatedly whipped and scarred her.
I want it to be known that CPS dropped the ball, she said. That in California, they dropped the ball. In Arizona, they dropped the ball. Even the police department, they dropped the ball.
Whether any of that had anything to do with Jahessye's disappearance, however, is yet to be seen.
While Hightower believes that the children were being abused, she's not ready to say that abuse is linked to Jahessye's disappearance.
Like the rest of us, she's unsure what to make of a 5-year-old disappearing into thin air. Like the rest of us, she's holding out hope that her little cousin will be found, alive and well.
I really don't know what to think, she says. I know there was abuse in the home and I reported it.
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http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/LaurieRoberts/146522
I know! I just want to find her and bring her home with me. I can't stand that she might have been living in abuse. Why did they let her mother have custody. She was happy and healthy. Now look! Where is this precious little one?
Dear God, please help them to find her and take her to a safe and loving home!
God Bless that family for trying! Please don't let it be in vain!
"She basically said that the kids told her there was no abuse," Hightower said.
Cousin says she called CPS about Jahessye Shockley
A relative who helped raise a missing 5-year-old Glendale girl says she called Child Protective Services several times to report her suspicions that the girl and her older sister were being abused.
Mahogany Hightower, one of four cousins who took care of Jahessye Shockley for the first four years of her life, told me she last saw the little girl in April, at a family barbecue.
“She cried really bad, telling us she wanted us to take her home,” Hightower said. “She wanted to go home now. We told her you can't come home with us now but you will later. She goes, “I can't go later. I've got to go now.'
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