ETA: Whoops sorry I posted the article before I read the thread & now half see that WhyaDuck posted it already!
Sorry about that...I'll leave it just the same...his name & the thread needs as much bumping to remind everyone about Hasanni still missing! TIA :angel:
Volunteers keep search for missing boy alive
Posted: 09/22/2009 05:29:36 PM PDT
Updated: 09/22/2009 07:27:04 PM PDT
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Six weeks ago, 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell disappeared.
Just like that. No trace.
The police later would arrest Ross and Campbell. But the Alameda County District Attorney booted the case, saying there wasn't enough evidence to file charges against the pair in connection with Hasanni's disappearance.
Since this debacle is straight out of a "Law and Order" episode, the police investigation into Hasanni's disappearance has pretty much ground to a halt. Oakland Police Department officials have said they have no new leads and are not actively searching for the child because they don't know where to search.
Because there are no new developments, there is nothing for reporters to report. A few soldier on at the Tribune doing what they can to give the story some oxygen. Most of the media swarm right now, however, is focused on Antioch—ground zero of the latest child abduction atrocity.
We hear about every new wrinkle in the horrendous story of Jaycee Dugard's kidnapping. The condition of this poor young woman's cats, dogs, birds and mouse, even make the national news.
But not the disappearance of an African-American boy who weighs just 40 lbs.
What keeps Hasanni's disappearance from falling off the radar completely is that there are regular people in our community who care.
People like Sherri-Lyn Miller who has helped organize volunteers to search for Hasanni. They have scoured Lake Elizabeth in Fremont, the Coyote and Oakand Hills. They have held vigils. Now, they're planning an October benefit to raise more money for the search effort.
What makes a struggling print shop owner in San Leandro spend more than $1,000 of her own money to try to find a child she doesn't even know? To spend hours upon hours on the phone needling police and other officials to get permission to bring hundreds of volunteers to search rural park areas for the missing boy?
To pound the pavement at Bayfair Center asking stores to donate to the search effort?
The other day, I paid a visit to Miller at All In 1 Stop, her print shop on E. 14th Street in San Leandro. Stenciled T-shirts bearing the pictures of young men and women murdered on the streets of Oakland lined the walls along with the Tribune's homicide map.
Miller, a gregarious woman, had two phones going at once as she made plans for another volunteer search party this Saturday in the Coyote Hills area. She says Oakland police investigators have told volunteers to search certain areas.
"It's a 5-year-old out there," Miller said. "He deserves to be found.
The problem of course is, the only person who knows where Hasanni is, is whoever saw him last.
With no real clues to go on, volunteers are checking remote areas near Hasanni's home in Fremont as well as in the proximity of Rockridge where Ross says he disappeared.
It's basically like looking for a needle in a haystack.
What makes someone spend an entire Saturday combing through brush looking for a child who could literally be anywhere?
"Occasionally, you do get lucky and find the needles," said Tena Oakley, a gas station manager in Newark who has been helping search for Hasanni.
"The police departments don't have the personnel but somebody has got to do it."
Some people say the volunteers are wasting their time. 
But who is to say they won't find Hasanni?
At least someone is looking. :yes:
To sign up for the search contact findhassani@gmail.com.
Article:
http://www.mercurynews.com/columns/ci_13396741
I can't believe it has been 6 weeks since our little guy was reported missing....at least Miller is trying her best to keep his name in the media! :clap:
It's his birthday tomorrow & you would think someone....anyone from his family would be pleading for help to find him. They all have seemed to have gone into hiding, cause they know the truth....he is already safe in the arms of God & the angels. Though he still needs to be found & be properly buried & Justice served for him too! He should be just as important as any other missing child to the media. ITA with the comment about Jaycee's pets making national news....What about Our Hasanni???? He is still missing & the POI's (LR &/or JC) need to get what is due to them a room in a jail cell!
I'm :furious: that LE isn't doing anything at all in this case...What about calling Tim Miller or another team of expert to assist in finding his body??? They have declared this a homicide case...Well do something about before all evidence is gone that would enable you to charge the person/s responsible for it! I'm just as mad at LE right now as I am with LR & JC! If they are so innocent why aren't you pleading for the kidnappers to bring Hasanni home for his birthday??? It's because you don't want him found...cause when he is you know where your living quarters will be!
Sorry all for the rant....I'm upset just thinking about this little guy & the birthday he should be all excited planning....starting kindergarden has passed for him too! yet still no pleading from not a single soul from anyone in his family...not even Grandma....his mother...aunts...uncles...cousins etc.
Just Ms Miller pounding the streets, parks, woods etc. trying her best to find him! :clap:
P.S. OT: Sorry if I have typos I have antibiotic onitment in my both my eyes & things are a bit blurry for my infections. Off to have eyelid surgery on 1 eye today at 11:30am & haven't been able to sleep...toooooo nervous!!!! :winko: <<<<< me later today when I log in after surgery! :biggrin:
raying: For Justice For Hasanni!
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