NC - Zahra Clare Baker, 10, Hickory, 9 Oct 2010 - #3

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  • #81
Not yet as far as what kind of inspector.

I am a health inspector...we would go to a house if we got a complaint from the neighbor about rodents or a sewage overflow, or if the tenant complained against the landlord. Could also be an SPCA inspector if someone thought the dogs tied up in the yard were being abused (not realizing the further horror going on inside). Could be a Code Enforcement Officer as well.
 
  • #82
BBM,oh no a glove was found with red goo............DNA could be used.
DNA would be in hospital or something since Zahra had many blood tests.

Yep, that's why I mentioned it.:furious:
 
  • #83
I've been following Zahra's threads as much as I can and maybe this has been asked before, so please forgive me if I'm repeating. BUT - all of these people (I just read a quote from Brittany Bentley) saying Zahra was locked in her room and only allowed out for five minutes. Among many other things. Why didn't anyone report this????? All of these people noticed she was being mistreated and no one bothered to contact the police or DCHS????

ETA: I did read that an "inspector" was at the home at one point - was this an inspector from DCHS? Do we know?


If it was DSS or DSHS police would know this information.

DSS was contacted by a couple of people about Zahra but what action was taken as a result of the contact, we don't know and police haven't shared any info.


They did not disclose or give any clue as to what kind of inspector or when this inspector was scheduled to visit.
 
  • #84
oh God I feel sick! I've been following this story as closely as possible since the initial Amber ALert came out (I even posted it to my Facebook page because I have friends who live in North Carolina and surrounding states). I've tried to follow as closely as I could here too but simply couldnt keep up with the posts. But when I just signed on, I read a breaking news alert about this now being a homicide case and the SM allegedly has done this (which most people suspected). And NOW as if that is not bad enough, I'm reading articles that state relatives are saying this poor little girl was beaten, abused, locked in her room except for 5 minutes to eat???) OMG this poor little girl. Suffered through cancer and a lifetime of abuse and now her life has been snuffed out at the hands of evil. So heartbreaking and tragic. I'm so sad today.
 
  • #85
Here's the fire dispatch rewind: [ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116845"]Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]

We don't have a link for LE in that area.

Reminder: We do not quote the Scanner Forum in the public forums. But, we can link.
 
  • #86
<snipped> Zahra's mother spoke out that she has been searching for her for five years, and that she just found out last week her ex-husband was remarried and in North Carolina.

http://charlotte.news14.com/content...issing-girl-turns-into-homicide-investigation
Right there - there is the WHY NOW! Bio mom FOUND them and probably has had contact with someone in the States to try to find out where her daughter is.

How sad - my prayers to the bio mom - she must be just devastated.
 
  • #87
I am so saddened by this story. Yet again, a little girl failed by the adults around her. She had been through so much and now it looks like she is gone. So, incredibly sad that nothing was done to save her when it seems as if many knew the situation. How could they not help???

Zahra, you went through so much in your young life. You deserved so much better. I hope you are at peace. :(
 
  • #88
Just wanted to let you know I am still uploading the pics to photobucket. Will be back when they are completely uploaded. I think I got more than 20 though maybe 30 or more. I was taking pics like crazy. LOL
 
  • #89
If you have bone cancer then later lung cancer, isn't that considered a metastasis and not so much a "recurrence"? And I believe that would be a stage IV cancer that would be hard to "beat" (I know this is how it is being reported). That leads me back to someone elses thoughts on whether she was continuing to get medical care and if the cancer could have killed her due to neglect.
not sure what kind of bone cancer she had to begin with so it is hard to define what exactly the lung tumors were... but I did change my wording.

I agree with you about possible medical neglect.. and wonder if they even had a doctor for her stateside?
 
  • #90
My try at a timeline (please add/subtract)
******************

2005/Australia: at age 5 Zahra battles and beats bone cancer and loses her leg

2007/Australia: at age 7 Zahra has a secondary Lung Cancer and chemo damages her
high frequency hearing

2007 ish Australia/US: Adam and Elesa meet online

July 2008 (?): they marry and Adam comes to the US with Elesa

2008-2010: the couple lives in numerous places around the area and Zahra attends
Caldwell county schools. Neighbors and family describe frequent abuse

May 2010: hearing resource teacher from zahra's school tells her family about the
hearing aid giveaway and she receives bilateral hearing aides at the
the Charlotte Motor Speedway on 11 May 2010

August 2010: family member states that adam tried to run her off the road with a car
and also states that Elesa threated to kill her and her family while aiming
a tazer at her

mid august/early september: Zahra is not enrolled in new school when family moves
to new house in hickory. None of the new neighbors
have reported ever seeing the child

thursday 7 October: dad says he last sees Zahra when he gets home from work

friday 8 october: Elesa calls family member and asks her to drop the charges. Family
member says this is the first that she has heard that the family had
even moved to a new house

friday 8 october: father states zahra was in bed when he left for work and in bed when
he got home from work

saturday 9 october: 0500ish am there is a brush fire reported on a mulch pile behind
the house. LE called by FD at 0520 because they found gas
poured inside one of the vehicles and a ransom note. Adam's boss
and daughter are named in the note. They are checked on and
ok. LE/FD leave around 0640. Zahra is never checked on.

saturday 9 october: Adam says he goes to a job and doesn't see Zahra. He returns
home around 1300 and works in the yard. His wife runs out of the
house screaming that Zahra is gone. LE is called at 1400.

sunday 10 october: Elesa is arrested on unrelated charges with a bond of 31,500.
She is a POI in Zahra's case.

Monday 11 October: there is a press briefing. LE is trying to establish a timeline for
when Zahra was last seen by anyone other than the family.
Later in the day the SW is released that states there was evidence
of human remains in both vehicles and possible blood in one.
The ransom note is also released. Elesa is interviewed in jail by
LE that night.

Tuesday 12 October: at a presser LE says that this is now a homicide investigation and
the amber alert has been cancelled. Elesa has now been served
with a felony warrant for obstruction of justice and has admitted
to penning the ransom note. She asked for a lawyer after that
admission. LE continues to ask public help for anyone who has
seen Elesa in the past month and asks for anyone who knows
anything about an inspection at the house or an inspection that
was scheduled at the house to come forward. Le says that info
to the public will now be limited due to the fact that it is a
homicide investigation

Somewhere between "neighbors report never having seen the girl" and the Thursday - October 7 claim of father to have last seen girl we need an entry that reads Week of 10-3-10 After years of searching for Zahra, her natural mother discovers Mr. Baker has remarried and resides in NC.
 
  • #91
BTW, for those who were asking on the last thread, it sounds like the step-mom made the call about the fire.
 
  • #92
if stepmom threatens adults with tazer guns and is a known abuser of this child what are the odds that she tazered Zahra and put her into cardiac arrest?
 
  • #93
Right there - there is the WHY NOW! Bio mom FOUND them and probably has had contact with someone in the States to try to find out where her daughter is.

How sad - my prayers to the bio mom - she must be just devastated.

How awful!!! Your child is missing, you get a glimpse of hope after five years, and then THIS.

I don't know if I should cry or scream with rage.
 
  • #94
Step mom has admitted she wrote the note.
I could just cry.
 
  • #95
I can't comprehend someone "beating" a child at all, much less a child who's no doubt GOT to be fragile. And locking a child, especially one prone to health problems like this, behind a door that you can't see through for hours and hours at a time??? When the Dad claimed they heard her coughing in her room, and he didn't say either of them went to check on her, I knew then and my heart broke in a million pieces for this child. I just can't get my head around this at all. It's like seeing a glimpse into the life of what we suspect little Caylee's life would have been like before her life was so senselessly snuffed out. I don't ordinarily believe in the death penalty (no flames please) but this, this is, wow....I hope they both wind up on death row. You will never convince me that both of them aren't involved in whatever became of poor lil Miss Zahra. Karma is a *itch, and it gets around to everyone. Zahra, your day is coming precious heart.....we're coming, whisper louder honey, so that we can find you.

I still hang onto the hope that maybe, JUST MAYBE they gave Zahra away to keep her Mom from finding her. Hope I think is all we have left. Zaha is not a four year old. I can't get the image out of my head that maybe Zahra had enough and tried to defend herself.

I would like to take this opportunity, if she's reading here, to personally invite Zahra's MOTHER to join us.
 
  • #96
Read the article abot bio mom looking for Zahra for the last 5 years, well that's all good but where had she been the first 4 1/2 years :waitasec: She has not seen Zahra since she was 8 months old ......
 
  • #97
I'm wondering about phone records now. Who did bio mom contact? Did she/has she had conversations with LE? FBI? The Australian consulate? How about LE and the counterparts in Australia? Did she have a private investigator working for her?

I hope these two FRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
  • #98
We gotta make a change...
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive.
This is from 2Pac on her my space. The lyrics I looked up to post. Change. She is right about that.
 
  • #99
Read the article abot bio mom looking for Zahra for the last 5 years, well that's all good but where had she been the first 4 1/2 years :waitasec: She has not seen Zahra since she was 8 months old ......

I thought that as well - what separated them, I wonder?
 
  • #100
not sure what kind of bone cancer she had to begin with so it is hard to define what exactly the lung tumors were... but I did change my wording.

I agree with you about possible medical neglect.. and wonder if they even had a doctor for her stateside?




Zahra is hearing impaired and also wears a prosthetic leg, after having her lower left leg amputated at the age of five due to bone cancer.


Later, she suffered a secondary bout of lung cancer but that went into remission.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wor...girl-zahra-baker/story-e6frg1p3-1225937873915

I think secondary bout, is just another way of saying secondary bout with cancer. But yes, it would be metathesis.
 
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