SC SC - Amir Jennings, 18 mo., Columbia, Nov 2011

[Mimiof8]

http://www.wistv.com/story/18899712/still-missing-amir-jennings-turns-2-years-old


Still missing, Amir Jennings turns 2 years old

Posted: Jun 27, 2012 9:32 PM CDT
Updated: Jul 07, 2012 9:32 PM CDT
By Meaghan Norman - email
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Amir Jennings has been missing since Thanksgiving of 2011.
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Amir's mother, Zinah Jennings, has been in jail while law enforcement officials work leads to find her missing son.

Amir Jennings will be 2 years old on Thursday. He's been missing since Thanksgiving of last year.

Columbia Police Chief Randy Scott they are still investigating every tip, but no one knows where Amir is at this point.

Where is Amir Jennings?
Amir Jennings has been missing since November 24. His mother, Zinah Jennings, remains in jail.


No one, that is, except Amir's mother, Zinah Jennings, who is now 7 months pregnant with her second child.

Zinah has been in jail since December and was charged with unlawful conduct of a child. She's been in solitary confinement since an incident with a nurse over medication earlier this month.

Zinah's attorney, Hemphill Pride, says it's tough for Zinah in jail, but it's also a bittersweet time for the family since they are left only imagining what 2-year-old Amir looks like now, how many teeth he has, if he's started talking, or if he's even alive.

"There are no leads; no reports from the Solicitor's office. There are no reports from law enforcement," Pride said.


More of the same at link, nothing new.

 

[summer_breeze]

http://www.thestate.com/2012/07/30/2375432/mother-of-missing-child-appears.html#.UBbY3GGPmAg

By NOELLE PHILLIPS - [email protected]

A pregnant Zinah Jennings appeared in court Monday for a hearing where a judge is considering multiple pre-trial motions.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Mother of missing child appears in Richland court

A pregnant Zinah Jennings appeared in court Monday for a hearing where a judge is considering multiple pre-trial motions.

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Knox ruled that Jennings’s statements to investigators can be used in her trial. That trial will be later in the summer.

In those statements, Jennings told a Columbia Police Department investigator that she had left the child in the custody of his biological father. She told them the man, who was a Dreher High School graduate, lived in an apartment complex on Garners Ferry Road. But the investigator said he determined Jennings made up the name.

The judge also will allow Assistant Solicitor Dolly Justice Garfield to use statements Jennings gave to two investigators during a two-hour interview the night she was arrested. Details of that interview were not presented in court.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2012/07/30/...child-appears.html#.UBcfIaPAHyI#storylink=cpy
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http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/07/31/4151359/blood-on-blanket-matched-missing.html

Published: July 31, 2012 Updated 3 hours ago
By Noelle Phillips — [email protected]

COLUMBIA — Bloodstains found on a blanket in Zinah Jennings’ car trunk belonged to the South Carolina woman's missing son, police said during a Monday court hearing.

 

[Mimiof8]

It's not right that her attorney is trying to get the blanket thrown out of evidence!

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Police: Missing boy's blood found in mom's trunk

Police say bloodstains found in the trunk of a Columbia mother's car belong to her missing son.

Officers discussed the evidence in the case against Zinah Jennings during a court hearing Monday.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/31/4677581/police-missing-boys-blood-found.html#storylink=cpy​

 

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http://www.wistv.com/story/19243454/mother-of-missing-toddler-charged-with-assault

Posted: Aug 10, 2012 12:09 AM EDT
Updated: Aug 10, 2012 12:09 AM EDT
By Renee Standera

Short article at link

 

[stillwatersc]

http://www.wistv.com/story/19245756/mother-of-missing-sc-boy-facing-assault-charge

...pushed and shoved a jailhouse nurse over medication earlier this year

Zinah appears to have anger management issues. I think what she did to Amir was not premeditated. She is just out of control and hopefully will never get out of jail. She is a danger to society & to the child she carries.

 

[stillwatersc]

http://www.wistv.com/story/19287722/bloodstains-allowed-in-zinah-jennings-trial

Prosecutors can use the bloodstains of a missing Columbia boy in a trial against his mother.

 

[stillwatersc]

Prosecutors can use the bloodstains of a missing Columbia boy in a trial against his mother.
http://www.wistv.com/story/19287722/bloodstains-allowed-in-zinah-jennings-trial

 

[Swamp Fox Trot]

Testimony of mother's police interview: http://www.thestate.com/2012/08/29/2415816/heated-exchanges-open-trial-over.html

 

[Donjeta]

In the trunk, police say they found bloodstains belonging to Jennings' missing son, Amir. Pride says anyone could have accessed the car in the days between the wreck and when police retrieved the car from a salvage lot.

Yeah, and anyone could have access to the blood of her missing son...?

 

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http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Father-of-missing-SC-boy-testifies-against-mother-3824075.php

MEG KINNARD, Associated Press
Published 7:52 a.m., Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Short article at link

 

[stillwatersc]

http://www.wistv.com/story/19378210/sc-mother-set-to-be-tried-in-missing-boy-case

Roderick Mitchell testified Wednesday that Zinah Jennings moved out of their apartment after the boy was born in June 2010 and wouldn't let him spent much time with Amir.

"I don't know of any law that requires a mother to tell the state where a child is especially when the mother is being charged with a criminal offense," Pride said.

:sick:

 

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http://www.goupstate.com/article/20...Mother-pondered-selling-missing-Columbia-boy-

MEG KINNARD
The Associated Press
Published: Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 10:19 a.m.

COLUMBIA — Overwhelmed by parenting, the mother of a missing South Carolina toddler considered giving away or selling her son to alleviate the stress, a high school friend testified Wednesday.

 

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http://www.wltx.com/news/article/199827/2/Mom-of-Missing-Toddler-Gives-Birth-to-Second-Child-

9:46 AM, Aug 31, 2012

Columbia, SC (WLTX) - Zinah Jennings, the mother of missing Columbia toddler Amir Jennings, has given birth to a second child.

 

[mikkismom]

Jennings taken to hospital, gives birth to daughter

http://www.wistv.com/story/19426295/jennings-taken-to-hospital-after-testimony-thursday


Amir, you are a big brother now! Wish you were here to see your baby sister.

JMO

 

[rachaellouise]

I bet you'dve been the best little brother, Amir! :blushing:

 

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http://www.wistv.com/story/19445198...case-resumes-tuesday-after-mother-gives-birth

Posted: Sep 03, 2012 5:14 PM EDT
Updated: Sep 03, 2012 5:14 PM EDT
By Jack Kuenzie - email

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) -The trial of a midlands mother charged in the disappearance of her son is expected to resume Tuesday, after she gave birth to a daughter Friday.

 

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http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Storeowner-saw-SC-boy-weeks-after-reported-missing-3844473.php

MEG KINNARD, Associated Press
Updated 9:17 a.m., Thursday, September 6, 2012

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina toddler and his mother visited a Lexington consignment store weeks after the boy was reported missing, the storeowner testified Thursday.