Just a gentle reminder to all that I am local to this case. (Please check the 'locals' listed.)
The above listed article is accurate.
I mentioned several posts ago that addressed the issue of this perhaps being significantly more complex than the rape and murder of Shaniya.
NO ONE in either LE or the judicial system has forgotten about Shaniya.
Take my word on that, as someone very close to the case.
BBM
:clap: First, Oriah, thanks for "riding herd" on the news from where you live -- it's always
so good to have local people who have their ears to the ground on a case as big and as horrible as this (or any case, actually). And to know further that you are "someone very close to the case," your presence in that area and on this forum is great for the rest of us.
I am in Raleigh, NC, now, but I was raised about 30 miles from Fayetteville, NC, and I had a first cousin whom I visited there every summer for years, so I, too, am at least familiar with some of the "customs" and ways of life in Cumberland County and nearby. Each area of the US has its own "flavor" and sometimes they are very similar, and sometimes not. It's part of what makes the US us!
So please keep on keeping on with what you do for us, and don't let 'em get away with anything!
And the length of time doesn't bother me too much -- I feel strongly that they are taking their time because they want to do it right the first time since that will be the only shot they get at prosecuting for murder and rape and such.
Thanks, and keep your ear to the ground....:justice: for Shaniya and all the little children who have no voice and no way to fight back.
ETA: And another thanks for the heartbreaking job you do for those thrown-away children. How you even have a little piece of your heart left, I cannot imagine. Those cases must break your heart & tear it up every time you get a new case and try so hard to find and put them back together. What strength and what tenderness it must require. I won't go on & on, but thanks for patching up those that still have those tatters left on them -- you probably do find one now & then whose eyes no longer let you see their soul, because it has been stomped or squeezed out of them. You do it for them, and we thank you.