Err...it was the mother !

by **Jill Havern** 21.04.20 9:20

No mention of Madeleine McCann (Penelope is NOT the Texan Madeleine McCann then)

Child who vanished in 2014 is found starved but alive in hotel room

By Lizzie Day
17 April 2020 @ 20:42

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Credit: Twitter

A CHILD who vanished in 2014 has been found emaciated but alive by FBI agents six years on. Penelope Inks was tracked down at a hotel in Madisonville, Texas, earlier this month, six years after she vanished at the age of 11.

Philip Klein, who was hired by Penelope’s father to try and track down the youngster explained: “She had her first meal. She was refusing to eat. She was living on Dr Pepper and candy. She’s emaciated. Weighed 74 pounds at the age of 16 years old. She’s confused on who to trust, on who not to trust.”

Penelope is now in care of child protective services, and will be returned to her father after receiving mental and physical health assessments. The youngster vanished with her nude model mother Heather after Penelope’s father was granted sole custody.

Heather is said to have remained on the run for six years using a series of aliases she created to try and evade detection by law enforcement officers hunting for Penelope. The teenager was rescued after a woman with an alias known to be used by Heather Inks called police to say her ex-husband was trying to poison her.
Explaining his emotions at discovering Penelope had been rescued, Klein said: “Relief for the father. Relief for the child, that she doesn’t have to run all over the United States with a mother who, at best is a criminal, at worst is an animal.”

Investigators were able to trace the location of where the call had come from, and found Penelope abandoned and starving at a Days Inn hotel. Klein praised the skill of law enforcement officials who tracked Penelope down, telling KTRK: “I can’t say enough about the FBI. I can’t say enough about the Madisonville Police Department, Madison County Sheriff’s Department, 911 dispatchers, everyone who kind of raised their antennas up and said ‘Ooh, we have a problem here. It looks like it may be her’.”

Heather Inks has since been arrested on kidnap charges, and is being held without bond ahead of her next court appearance.

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2020/04/17/child-who-vanished-in-2014-is-found-starved-but-alive-in-hotel-room/

by **PeterMac** 21.04.20 22:18

Lucky CMOMM got in first then !
Beat Pinkie Mitchell to it.

by **PeterMac** 27.02.22 5:38

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10554403/Mother-boyfriend-face-trial-murder-nine-year-old-boy-Worcestershire.html

Mother, 34, and boyfriend, 39, face trial over murder of nine-year-old boy who was 'neglected and abandoned' and found in a critical condition at their Worcestershire home

Alfie Steele, nine, was found in a critical condition by police on February 18, 2021
Paramedics performed CPR, but Alfie died after being airlifted to hospital
Mother Carla Scott, 34, and partner Dirk Howell, 39, are charged with murder
They both denied the charge or causing or allowing the death of a child in hearing at Worcester Crown Court today

by **PeterMac** 01.03.22 8:07

ERR. . . it was the FATHER.

Missing Valentina: body found. Father and stepmother arrested.
By Natasha Donn -
10th May 2020

The body of missing nine-year-old Valentina Fonseca has been discovered.
News flashes coming through shortly after midday today said two people have been arrested.
SIC television news rapidly updated this, saying these two people are the father and step-mother of Valentina, in whose home she had been staying during the Covid-19 ‘confinement’.
According to SIC the father, Sandro Bernardo ‘confessed to the crime’ and led police to the place in which his daughter’s body had been hidden (see update below).
Little has been explained of the circumstances. A press conference has been scheduled for 4pm today by Leiria PJ.
This heartbreaking story has been ‘full of holes’ since it broke last Thursday. Journalists at the scene stress the close collaboration that local GNR and Civil Protection have had with PJ criminal police.
The PJ statement also stressed the “essential” nature of this “close articulation”.
The brief statement given by the PJ confirms that “two people have been arrested suspected of involvement in the child’s death.
“At 16.00 additional explanations will be given at the Department of Criminal Investigation of Leiria”.
Tabloid Correio da Manhã says everything indicates Valentina was killed on Thursday (the day she was said to have disappeared click here).
Her body was camouflaged, says the paper, but not buried. There is the suggestion the little girl’s body was hidden some distance away, in a neighbouring parish.

UPDATE following press conference at 4pm:
A relatively long press conference, involving elements of the PJ, GNR and PSP, has gone a little further in establishing what happened to Valentina.
PJ investigation coordinator Francisco Fernando Jordão said police are fairly certain she met her death in the family home, at some time during last Wednesday – in other words, almost a day before the alert went out over her disappearance.
Jordão said it looks unlikely that Valentina died as a result of a tragic accident. “Murder”, he said, was what the PJ is focused on: “murder, the hiding of a body, among other crimes”.
What was consistently stressed was the excellent pooling of information by all authorities involved, with the help of civic entities and local people.
Even though the tireless searches failed to locate Valentina’s body, they were vital, said the police, as they helped establish that Valentina was not in the immediate area, and very possibly hadn’t ever ‘wandered off into the night in her pyjamas and flip flops’.
Over the days, it was also noted that Valentina’s father Sérgio was not taking part in any of the searches for his daughter, nor appearing particularly distraught.
But the story that he ‘confessed’ to killing his daughter was not confirmed by Francisco Fernando Jordão. He referred more to the “permanent exchange and analysis of information” that “allowed” police to “establish strategies” that led to the discovery of the child’s body.
As the father, 32, and stepmother, 38, are in police custody and facing further questions, a flatbed truck has arrived at the family residence to remove the father’s car for analysis.
Said Jordão, it’s understood that Sérgio Bernardo will have driven his daughter’s body to the place roughly 5 kms away where it was found, ‘covered by bits of shrubbery’.

natasha.donn@algarveresident.com

by **Jill Havern** 02.03.22 11:47

Adoptive parents of missing California City boys charged with murder

According to police, Trezell and Jacqueline West were both arrested Tuesday evening in Bakersfield.

https://abc7.com/adoptive-parents-missing-california-city-boys-murder-charge-orrin-and-orson-west/11613244/?fbclid=IwAR3ZLrriN7huPWMy-shlIkoP1srcCDgCJ6fqUpOcgwrnueS7NB09w6dZv4E

by **PeterMac** 03.03.22 6:33

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10570459/Logan-Mwangi-trial-Mother-accused-murder-sarcastic-police-quizzed-her.html

Mother accused of murdering her five-year-old son Logan Mwangi was 'sarcastic' with police when they quizzed her in hospital about his death, court hears

Angharad Williamson is on trial accused of killing five-year-old Logan Mwangi
She is charged with murder, alongside partner John Cole and a 14-year-old boy
Cardiff Crown Court heard Williamson 'sarcastic' with detectives in the hospital
Jury heard Williamson was 'distressed' when cops tried to find out how son died
Williamson, Cole and teen deny murder and are on trial at Cardiff Crown Court

by **Jill Havern** 06.01.23 16:21

Mum faked kidnapping before murdering and dismembering toddler because 'he wouldn't eat'

A jury found the mum guilty of first degree murder after she killed her toddler son and faked a kidnapping to try to cover up the crime.

A woman killed and dismembered her 23-month-old son because he "wouldn't eat" or "listen". Nakira Griner, 24, was convicted of first-degree murder; endangering the welfare of a child; desecration of human remains, and tampering with evidence by a jury which deliberated on the verdict for less than 90 minutes.

Police said that she initially told authorities in February 2019 that her son, Daniel Griner Jr, had been abducted after she was violently attack in the street.
She claimed her assailant kicked her and continued to kick her in the head and side after she fell to the ground.
When she looked up, the pram and her son were gone, she said to police. Officers found the stroller a few blocks away, containing only Daniel's sneakers.
An intensive search was conducted and the child's burnt, dismembered remains were discovered buried in the yard of the his home - an autopsy revealed that he had been beaten to death.
Prosecutors said that Griner later told police that the child accidentally fell down a flight of stairs in the family home, but she said in phone calls from jail that she "did what she did to him" to cover up bruising on his body.
Griner eventually told police she had hit Daniel because he wouldn't "eat nor listen to her", according to the criminal complaint.
The complaint said that Griner admitted to striking the child so hard that she left bruises.
Daniel's burnt body was found buried under a shed at Griner's house on Woodland Drive in Cumberland County, New Jersey.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/1717811/new-jersey-mum-faked-kidnaping-after-murdering-dismembering-toddler-dxus