There has never been an issue with me and my daugther's mother. I mean, we are not married or anything like that. We've got situations like any couple of any individual who had a child, you know. We made discussions that I was not willing to have B in my home until I had a safe environment for her to be in and once I provided that safe environment for her to be in, I was looking for her to come over there at any time. Me and her mother spoke several times and she's like “whenever you're ready come and get her”. We never argued about these kinds of things or anything like that. On her birthday she had, like they hadn't made any big plans cuz financially things are hard for people right now. So I'm like “can I come get her, cuz I got the girls and we're gonna see The Lion King 3d” and she was like “ok, fine” and we were all (DL's fighting back emotion) you know we had a great time, we watched that movie, and I took her home with her mom, we say “happy birthday” and everything was just going well. And me and her mother were talking.
We both have situations that we're trying to work out financially, educationally and we said that we were gonna do whatever we could do to work together to make sure that we were there so that we could be better parents for our daughter. That was the whole point of me, when she called that night before all this happened, she talked to Bianca, her uncle talked to Bianca, you know, so all these allegations of people saying I abused my child, or my child was unresponsive, she talked to her mother that night, you know.
And agreed to have me keep her for a month. So I would come over there and get some more clothes for her and she would stay with me for a month. I would bring her back for the holidays, so she could spend the holidays with her and come January both of us would be starting school so we would set up a schedule and we both could be safe and we both could be comfortable about where she was gonna be.
I have another two year old, she's only a few months older than Bianca and they played together and I told her there is no reason for Bianca to go to daycare when she has a sister that's her age that she can bond with, she has cousins that are her age she can bond with. I'm that type of uncle, I would have every kid over to my house, you know. And we will play, I will play with the kids, we'll watch movies, my daughter loves Hannah Montana and I don't like Hannah Montana but I watch it with her. And I joke around and play with her. Everything been going smoothly up until this incident. And that's why, I don't understand why these things are being put out there like that.
Reporter: I also want to touch on you and Banika, preteens how old were you guys when you met
DL: I've been a member of Banika's family since I was like 12, to her grandmother, me and her uncle, childhood friends. I met Banika when I was 13 and we've been friends since then
R: You indicated you talked to Banika...inaudible
DL: Cuz she's not used to seeing me like this. The first thing she said when she saw me after the incident was "Dre calm down. I'm the one who's the flaky one, you're the strong one, we have to find BB". And that's the only things she's said. "Stay strong we're gonna find her, she's safe" I mean we just want her to come home.
When I talked to her last night, she's like "Dre you know she's out there, she's safe". And we just want her to come home. That's all. There was no evil words, malicious words, no you did something, anything like that. She was like I love you, I love you things Bianca's gonna be fine, she's gonna be home we're gonna put it behind us and continue on our path.
I just want the focus to be on my daughter. I want her to be back to her mother and father who love her.
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All JMHO.