That transcription I mentioned above:
http://www.freep.com/article/201112...-home-?odyssey=tab|mostpopular|text|FRONTPAGE
Dec 7, 2011
DL: “Okay, I want to start by saying, there was, there’s never been an issue with me and my daughter’s mother. I mean, you know, we are not, like, you know, we not married or anything like that, so, I mean, you know, we have situations, like any couple you’s, or, any individuals, who, you know, have a child, you know. We, we made discussions, I told her, I was like, I was not willing to have Bebe 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 willing for her to come over there at any time. Me and her mother spoke several times, and she was like, whenever you’re ready, come get her, you know, we, we never, we never argued about these kind of things, or anything like that. On her birthday, because she hadn’t like, they, we, they hadn’t made, like, any big plans, you know, cause financially things are, you know, hard for people right now. I was like, well, can I come get her, you know, cause I got the girls and we’re going to see the Lion King in 3D, and she was like, okay, fine, you know, and we all, we sat there, we, we had a great time. We watched that movie and we had a great time. And I took her home, with her momma, we sang happy birthday, and, and everything was just going well. And me and her mother were talking, and 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 for each other, so that we could be better parents for our daughter. That is the whole point of me, sh, when she called that d, the night before all this happened, she called, and she talked to Bianca. Her uncle talked to Bianca. You know, so all these allegations of people saying I abuse my child, or my child was unresponsive, she talked to her mother that night, you know.”
Reporter: “And agreed to have you keep her for a month?”
DL: “Right, and agreed to have me keep her for a month, and I would come over there and get some more clothes for her and she would stay with me for the month. I would bring her back before the holidays, so that she could spend the holidays with her and come January, when both of us are to start back school, we would set up a schedule so that we both could attend school, and we both could be safe, and, and, and we both could be just comfortable about where she was going to be at, you know. I have another 2 year old, she’s a little bit, she’s only a few months older than Bianca, and like, they, they play together, and I told her, I was like, it’s no use in Bianca going to day care, when she has a sister here that’s her age, that she can bond with, and she has cousins that are her age, that she can bond with. I w, I’m that type of uncle, I will have every kid over my house, you know. And we will play, I will play with the kids, we watch movies, I watch, my daughter loves Hannah Montana, I don’t like Hannah Montana, but I’ll watch it with her, you know. I’ll joke around with her and I play with her. Everything was going smoothly, up until this incident. And that’s why, I don’t under, I, I really don’t understand a, tese things are being put out there like that.”
Reporter: “Well, I, I also want to touch on, um, Jerry told me that you and, um, Banika have been friends since you know, preteen. Like, how old were you guys when you met?”
DL: “I’ve been friends, I’ve been basically, a member of Bianca, Banika’s family since I was, like, 12, you know, a surrogate son to her grandmother, you know. Me and her uncle, childhood friends, we went to school together. I met Banika when I was 13, and we have been friends since we were thirteen years old.”
Reporter: “Okay, and, um, you indicated that you’ve, uh, talked to Banika, and she’s been giving you, just a pep talk, telling you to stay positive…”
DL: “Because she’s not used to seeing me like this.”
Reporter: “Okay.”
DL: “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. You have to be strong. We have to find Bebe.’ And that’s the only thing that she’s been saying, ‘Dre, stay strong, we’re going to find her. She’s safe.’ When I talked to her last night, and she’s like, ‘Dre, you know she’s out there, she’s safe,’ and, I mean, we just want her to come home, that’s, that’s all, there’s, there’s no. She didn’t, there was no evil words, no malicious words, no well you did something, none of that. It was just, everything gonna be okay, I love you, I love you, Bianca’s gonna be fine, and she’s gonna be home. We gonna put all this behind us, and continue on our path that we trying to be on.”
Attorney: “And we’re gonna conclude there.”
Reporter: “Okay.”
Attorney: “Thank you.”
Reporter: “I appreciate it.”
Attorney: “He, he’s been through enough today.”
Reporter: “Yes, thank you. And thank you for talking about your family.”
DL: “I, I just, any information that I just want, I just want the focus to be on my daughter. I want my daughter found. I want her found safely. I want her brought back to her mother, and father, who love her.
I will never understand why people do these things??? 
