DC DC - Relisha Tenau Rudd, 8, SE DC, 26 Feb 2014 - #1

[ohhieliz]

JVM said the wife had filed for divorce, is that true?

Yes, in early February

 

[belimom]

Here's the article I posted previously - I learned a lot about the AA system by reading it:

This is interesting --- I didn't receive the Amber Alert, and I live about 6 miles from where Tatum's wife was found in the hotel. Across a state line, but still so close.

bbm

WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA9) - Despite what DC's police chief said yesterday in a news conference, there are no Amber Alerts for Relisha Rudd in other states according to police we checked with across the country, including Virginia and Maryland.

This comes after the four-and-a-half hour cell phone alert delay WUSA9 reported last week after officials declared an Amber Alert within the District....

....According to officials at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, cellular providers don't send out text alerts and digital billboards don't automatically populate missing posters outside the boundaries of where the Amber Alert is active.

"To the best of my knowledge there are no Amber Alerts outside DC (for Relisha)," said NCMEC Amber Alert Coordinator Robert Hoever. "I believe there might be a misunderstanding about what an Amber Alert is."

http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/local/dc/2014/03/25/amber-alert-relisha-rudd-video/6888109/

 

[popsicle]

I think there are probably Alerts out in all those states but not Amber Alerts.

 

[dewey decimal]

NBC now has two videos up from today that a couple posters mentioned having seen live:

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...irl-Relisha-Rudd-Criminal-Past-252328821.html

http://www.nbcwashington.com/video/...d--Considered--Armed-and-Dangerous-/252542091

The Richmond trip is really alarming....that is about a couple hours each way during non-rush hour.

 

[belimom]

NBC now has two videos up from today that a couple posters mentioned having seen live:

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...irl-Relisha-Rudd-Criminal-Past-252328821.html

http://www.nbcwashington.com/video/...d--Considered--Armed-and-Dangerous-/252542091

The Richmond trip is really alarming....that is about a couple hours each way during non-rush hour.

I can't view the videos at the moment. Can you paraphrase about the Richmond trip? Thanks.

 

[Solitaryone]

Lot's of info in this video that 2Hope4 posted:

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/250795...doctor-told-school-she-was-sick#ixzz2x73XWNNj

Of interest, KLT also uses the alias "DOC TATUM"! This whole case is so twisted! WTF is wrong with this family?!

Lot's more in video at link.

Praying Relisha is found. I'm praying hard for her. Why did this happen? This precious girl has my heart. It's impossible to not think about where she might be and what has happened to her. No sleep for me tonight!

 

[2Hope4]

Investigators say Tatum posed as a doctor March 10, telling city officials who were concerned for her safety Relisha was sick with a neurological disorder, and undergoing treatment. When they asked for documents, "Dr. Tatum" said he would leave them behind at the shelter where Relisha and her mother lived.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...irl-Relisha-Rudd-Criminal-Past-252328821.html

 

[hollye]

I can't view the videos at the moment. Can you paraphrase about the Richmond trip? Thanks.

belimom, Pat Collins on channel 4 stated that on 3/19, Tatum abruptly left work and made a round trip to Richmond and back. They do not know or are not saying why.

 

[Solitaryone]

NBC now has two videos up from today that a couple posters mentioned having seen live:

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...irl-Relisha-Rudd-Criminal-Past-252328821.html

http://www.nbcwashington.com/video/...d--Considered--Armed-and-Dangerous-/252542091

The Richmond trip is really alarming....that is about a couple hours each way during non-rush hour.

I like this reporter Pat Collins. He really cares about Relisha and wants this KLT found now!

 

[hollye]

I like this reporter Pat Collins. He really cares about Relisha and wants this KLT found now!

Pat Collins annoys the cr*p out of me (watching him daily), but he does care about the people he reports on.

 

[Solitaryone]

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...irl-Relisha-Rudd-Criminal-Past-252328821.html

"But Relisha may look very different now, said Derrica Wilson of the Black and Missing Foundation.

"He may have cut her hair, tried to make her look like a little boy," Wilson said. Wilson, a former police officer, and her sister-in-law are co-founders of the non-profit group."Black and Missing Foundation."

"A $70,000 reward is being offered by the FBI and Prince George's County Police for information leading to Relisha and Tatum. Call 911 if you have seen either of them."

More at link.

 

[floridamomma]

Investigators say Tatum posed as a doctor March 10, telling city officials who were concerned for her safety Relisha was sick with a neurological disorder, and undergoing treatment. When they asked for documents, "Dr. Tatum" said he would leave them behind at the shelter where Relisha and her mother lived.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...irl-Relisha-Rudd-Criminal-Past-252328821.html

my chickens pediatrician has never provided actual dx, only that yes, they are/were sick.

lol, ETA, childrens. we don't take the chickens to a Dr.

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[ohhieliz]

my chickens pediatrician has never provided actual dx, only that yes, they are/were sick.

lol, ETA, childrens. we don't take the chickens to a Dr.

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good point. a real doctor would just confirm a sickness, not say what's actually wrong due to HIPPA violations!

 

[belimom]

belimom, Pat Collins on channel 4 stated that on 3/19, Tatum abruptly left work and made a round trip to Richmond and back. They do not know or are not saying why.

No no… That doesn't sound good. Either he had left Relisha with someone else and went to get her, or he took her to someone. Neither one of these scenarios are good. :no:

 

[nursebeeme]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...500c6e-b43e-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html


omgosh this article has SOOOO MUCH information....


says that Relisha's cousin went with tatum to atlanta in March for a "medical conference"

also says she missed 30 days of school this year

much, much more at the link

(also says that he gave gifts, etc to other children as well.. and that he could have been fired from his job for that behavior but was not for some reason)

 

[nursebeeme]

here is that atlanta snip

D.C. police were called, and a sergeant met with Young, according to a confidential record. She told the sergeant her daughter had accompanied Tatum and his family on a trip to Atlanta that past week for a “medical seminar” that took place March 8. She did not know when they would be back, according to the records.

"young" is Relisha's aunt.. Ashley Young

 

[nursebeeme]

if atlanta trip was march 8th.. Relisha could very well be in Atlanta.. wasn't she last seen on the 7th at school picking up her brothers (but she did not attend)?

 

[belimom]

There is tons of info in this article. Wow.

(ETA - jinx, nurse --- I was trying to copy some snippets)

bbm

Relisha Rudd’s difficult past comes into focus

Relisha Rudd’s absences piled up at Daniel A. Payne Elementary School, topping 30 days this year before someone notified the D.C. Child and Family Service Agency on March 13.

But it took an additional six days before the city agency took action. By then, Relisha, 8, had gone missing….

...City records show that D.C. agencies had contact with Relisha and her family beginning in 2007, when the girl was 1 or 2. The records show instances of physical abuse, filthy living conditions and a lack of food. But social workers did not remove Relisha and her siblings from the home, city records show. …

...officials at Relisha’s school struggled to figure out why she had missed nearly six weeks of class and were confused by excuses provided by her relatives…

...The statement also says that shelter officials did not know of Tatum spending time with Relisha, and that he worked in a separate building from where they lived. Officials knew he had a felony conviction in Virginia for larceny, but they noted that it was 20 years ago and did not preclude him from his job….

...D.C. police were called, and a sergeant met with Young, according to a confidential record. She told the sergeant her daughter had accompanied Tatum and his family on a trip to Atlanta that past week for a “medical seminar” that took place March 8. She did not know when they would be back, according to the records….

...A report from November 2013, when the family lived at the homeless shelter at D.C. General, shows that a social worker noted that one of Young’s boys had been physically abused by being thrown to the ground, cutting open his lip, and slapped in the face. Records say the mother was “verbally abusive on a regular basis and would leave [the children] alone often.”….

...Tatum, she said, told the school that Relisha was sick, and the absence was marked excused, meaning it would not trigger potential reporting to the Child and Family Services Agency. Only after school staff visited the D.C. General shelter to gather more information did they discover that the excuse from the “doctor” was bogus, Otero said….

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...500c6e-b43e-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html

 

[2Hope4]

That Tatum was so well known by residents was apparently missed by supervisors until the investigation began March 19. Court records show that a social worker called Tatum that day about Relisha and he told her to meet him at the shelter. But when she arrived, he was gone, and she quickly learned there was no Dr. Tatum. When his boss summoned Tatum, they learned he had abruptly left work prior to his shift ending, according to records.
D.C. police were called, and a sergeant met with Young, according to a confidential record. She told the sergeant her daughter had accompanied Tatum and his family on a trip to Atlanta that past week for a “medical seminar” that took place March 8. She did not know when they would be back, according to the records.
Police tried to call Tatum at 9:39 p.m., but the call went “directly to voice mail,” according to a police affidavit filed Wednesday, and the phone was never turned back on.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...500c6e-b43e-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html


LOTS more at link

 

[nursebeeme]

Sheron Wood, whose 11-year-old daughter reportedly received money and a pet turtle from Tatum, has asked him to call her.
“He has my number. So if he wants to text me or call me, and tell me where I can meet him with the little girl, I’ll come get her,” Wood said.

http://wtvr.com/2014/03/26/amber-alert-fbi-reward-increases-to-70000-for-missing-girl/