nchor Jan Jeffcoat sat down with Young to discuss her granddaughter's disappearance and get answers from one of the people who knew Relisha and her mom the best.
Young said: "I called Mr. Tatum and let him know her tablet was broken. I asked him was there a warranty and could we get it fixed, and he said yes there is a warranty. I said when do you want to pick it. He said I'll pick it up Sunday. I said okay. Then, I said Mr. Tatum have you talked to Relisha or do you have Relisha. His answer to me was no, he didn't have her. Then he said: Do you know where I am? And I'm like: Yeah, you should be home, getting ready to go out of town on your trip. This was when he was going to Atlanta Georgia. So he was like: Yeah you're right, but I'm already in Atlanta, Georgia. He said: We're already in Atlanta, Georgia. And I'm like: Who? You, your wife, your daughter and your granddaughter? That's when he says to me: No, me, my wife, Relisha, my granddaughter and my daughter."
Jeffcoat asked: "What were they doing there?" Young replied: "He told me it was a retreat, I don't know, but he told them, he told Shamika, it was a medical thing or something."
http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/local/dc/2014/04/08/relisha-rudd-melissa-young-amber-alert/7492829/
note the grandmother says Shamika was told Relisha was with him but Shamika says absolutely not. All we have is grandma's heresay on that direct quote wise.
Tatum had worked at the homeless shelter being run out of the old D.C. General Hospital in Southeast, where Relisha lived with her 27-year-old mother and three younger brothers. The mother, Shamika Young, said she frequently allowed her daughter to spent time with Tatum and allowed Relisha to go home with Tatum late in February.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...4e8534-b90e-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html
this is just one of dozens of articles that states Shamika SAYS she allowed him to take her at times. But it does not have a quote so it is a reporter reporting that info as fact. I wonder how it was sourced? I am thinking that it is things like this:
And her mother, who allowed Relisha to be with Tatum, told school officials her daughter was missing school because she was sick, an explanation that authorities say delayed their ability to respond.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...500c6e-b43e-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html
and this:
Relisha’s mother, Shamika Young, had allowed her daughter to go home with 52-year-old Kahlil Malik Tatum, the janitor at a homeless shelter at the old D.C. General Hospital in Southeast Washington, where Relisha and her family lived. Police said Tatum took Relisha the final time on Feb. 26; the mother never reported her missing.
Police did not get involved until March 19, when a school counselor investigating Relisha’s absences contacted Tatum,who was listed in school records as Relisha’s doctor. Police said Tatum abruptly left the shelter when the counselor tried to meet with him.
Police then made it a missing person’s case, even though the mother assured authorities her daughter was with Tatum and was fine.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...091c00-c4af-11e3-b574-f8748871856a_story.html
Investigators said that Rudd's mother, grandmother and Tatum were in cahoots in an effort to mislead the administration of Payne Elementary School, where the girl had racked up 30 absences, MailOnline earlier reported.
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According to police, Relisha's mother, 27-year-old Shamika Young, asked the 51-year-old janitor to look after her daughter February 26.
Miss Young was living in the homeless shelter at the former D.C. General Hospital with four of her children and their stepfather.
‘He was a good man, never got a bad vibe about him or salty taste in my mouth about him,’ Antonio Wheeler, Relisha’s stepfather, said of Tatum.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ch-girl-recovery-operation.html#ixzz2z6W0K4Ps
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