Hi everybody. Just wanted to follow up on something I said last night I'd do today. I had said I would go back to find out if the LE spokesperson (Theresa Chance) had said if McNeill had "checked in" to the hotel, or simply said 'was seen at the hotel'.
I wanted to hear it right from her lips myself (lol) rather than rely on media quotes of what she had said, which we know can be wrong sometimes, so I watched the pressers... (yes again lol).
I found in the presser of 11/12 that indeed Chance specifically did say "checked in". In fact, she said it more than once. Of particular note to me is that she said once that Shaniya had checked in, and another time that Shaniya and McNeill had checked in.
Since she included Shaniya in the 'checking in' references, and we all know a 5 yr old can't check into a hotel, I do wonder if this means that McNeill actually had Shaniya there with him at the front desk as he checked in. I could find nothing to confirm or deny this.
As I watched the pressers, another thing of note, is that in one of the pressers, Chance said McNeill confessed to 'taking' Shaniya, rather than saying he confessed to 'kidnapping' Shaniya. It stood out to me, although I was not specifically looking for this, and I wanted to mention it, FWIW.
(Shaniya, baby, wherever you are, we're all routing for you, and care about you very much. God and angels please protect this precious little girl.)