I cannot access the article. Can someone sum it up for me. Thank you.
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Here is what paternal Grandmother said:
Gray used to see a lot of the children, even after their mother split from her son Cody Sullivan, their biological father, more than three years back.
“The whole family was into their lives when her and my son were together; there were many visits,” she said.
“Once they split up, Malehya would bring the kids here just about every two weeks.”
Those visits continued for about a year after the breakup.
“And on one of the last visits, she stated that she had met somebody,” Gray said. “When she met Daniel she told us that he was uncomfortable with her coming here. So right away we said, ‘Well, why don’t you bring him along?’”
Brooks-Murray promised she’d mention it to him, Gray said. “But the next time she came, she stated that it is just not working out for her coming here.
For a time, Gray visited Lilly and Jack in the Truro area, where they were staying with their mother’s family.
“That worked out good for a while,” Gray said.
But in the fall Jack turned three, Gray said when she took him gifts and Halloween treats for both kids, something felt off. “Malehya seemed to be in a rush to hurry our visit.”
After about a year in Truro, Lilly, Jack, their mom and her new partner moved to Lansdowne Station.
“It was Daniel’s mother that gave them her big trailer and she moved into an RV,” Gray said.
“When Malehya told me she was moving to Pictou (County), she told me that his mother had a farm … and right away, I was picturing fields, like farmland. And I told her that sounded awesome. The kids would have a big yard to play in. That was wonderful.”
They “maintained light contact through Facebook,” Gray said.
Before Lilly’s birthday this past March, Gray spoke with Brooks-Murray about sending money to buy a gift for the girl. “I said, ‘I just want you to know that don’t think that we don’t love them because we think about them all the time.’ She said, ‘Look, I was thinking we’re probably going to come by for a visit.’ And I was ecstatic. I told her, ‘We can’t wait.’”
That visit never took place.
When Gray heard Malehya was pregnant with Martell’s child, she chalked up the lack of a visit to that.
“I congratulated her,” Gray said. “And I figured, okay, so this must be why it’s been a little distant right now, because, I mean, she’s pregnant. And I made up excuses about why she was too busy.”
At first, in the photos of Jack and Lilly their mom posted on social media, “they looked well cared for,” Gray said.
“They were happy and I just told myself it was okay if I didn’t see them because they’re living a good life.”
After the baby was born, the photos their mom posted of Jack and Lilly started to dwindle, Gray said.
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“Malehya told me on Saturday (the day after Jack and Lilly vanished) that he’s been in the woods since the kids went missing, that he’s been scouring the woods ever since,” Gray said.
The mobile home where they were living sits along a gravel road surrounded by dense woods.
“The woods is a giant maze that if you’re not crawling under something, you have to climb over it,” she said.
“There was no way whatsoever that those kids … would want to do that, the woods were that bad.”
The little girl did not like bugs, said her grandmother. “Lilly had that princess thing about her even as a baby. So, I could not see her wanting to go there at all.”
Jack was curious, and did like bugs, Gray said. “But from all indications, from all the people on the property, he did not like the woods because he couldn’t walk and he kept tripping up and falling. So that tells me these kids would not go into the woods.”
