November 18, 2009 11:35 AM

Shaniya Davis' Little Body Found Near Deer Carcasses in Trash

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Sammy Rose Saltzman
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Photo: Shaniya Davis.

NEW YORK (CBS/AP) The story of Shaniya Davis gets more gruesome as it unravels.

PICTURES: Shaniya Davis Found Dead
PICTURES: Shaniya Davis' Vigil

A dog trainer who helped look for the missing North Carolina 5-year-old says searchers overlooked her body at first because all they saw were deer carcasses in trash bags.

But Jeff Riccio of Tarheel Cainine Training Inc. said his team returned after getting information that the body of Shaniya Davis might be near the carcasses. The searchers found the body Monday afternoon underneath kudzu plants along a rural highway southeast of Sanford, N.C., about 40 miles south west of Raleigh.

Riccio says it was terrible seeing Shaniya's body, but he's glad her ordeal is over. A massive search for Shaniya began Tuesday Nov. 3 when her mother, Antoinette Davis, reported her missing from their Fayetteville, N.C., home.

Antoinette Davis has been charged with human trafficking and felony child abuse, accused of selling her daughter into sexual slavery. Police also charged Mario McNeill with kidnapping after he was captured on a hotel's surveillance video with Shaniya.

So far, no one has been charged with the girl's murder.

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PICTURES: Shaniya Davis Found Dead
PICTURES: Shaniya Davis' Vigil

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November 18, 2009 - Shaniya Davis' Little Body Found Near Deer Carcasses in Trash
November 18, 2009 - Police: No New Charges for Shaniya Davis' Death ...For Now
November 18, 2009 - Shaniya Davis' Aunt Says Mother, Antoinette Davis, was "Neglectful" Before Child's Murder
November 17, 2009 - Shaniya Davis Vigil: Tearful Father Bradley Lockhart Prays, "She's Right There With You"
November 17, 2009 - Antoinette Davis, Mom Accused of Selling Shaniya Davis as Sex Slave, is Pregnant Again
November 17, 2009 - Shaniya Davis, Fallen "Angel" Remembered In Pictures
November 16, 2009 - Mario Andrette McNeill: Things May Get Much Worse for Man Charged With Kidnapping Shaniya Davis
November 16, 2009 - Shaniya Davis Found Dead; Mother Turned Little Girl Into Sex Slave, Say Police
November 16, 2009 - Bradley Lockhart, Shaniya Davis' Father, Pled For Girl's Return in Vain
November 16, 2009 - Shaniya Davis Found Dead; Mother Turned Little Girl Into Sex Slave, Say Police
November 16, 2009 - Shaniya Davis Not Found: Cops Fear Missing Child is Dead, Search Focuses on Body
November 16, 2009 - Shaniya Davis: Missing 5-Year-Old Seen in Horrifying Hotel Video
November 16, 2009 - Shaniya Davis Missing: Mother Arrested for Human Trafficking, Putting Daughter in "Sexual Servitude"
November 11, 2009 - 5-Year-Old Shaniya Davis Missing; Foul Play Suspected


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by 82girl November 24, 2009 9:44 PM EST
They should take them both to a very remote clearing in the woods, complete with two freestanding poles where no one would find them, tie them to the poles, pour gasoline on them and burn them alive.
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by beccaj0101 November 21, 2009 11:28 AM EST
I try to be thankful to God every day but when I read something like this I have to ask why...why the childern
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by poorerobin November 21, 2009 10:49 AM EST
This case so enrages me that I believe that if I was a cop that arrested these two despicable creatures--McNeil and Davis--my gun would have "accidentally" went off at least twice in the foreheads of these inhumane pieces of trash! There is no excuse for this heinous crime--but I am sure we will hear plenty (drugs, impoverished childhood, blah blah!). The mother admitted to selling her child and McNeil is seen in hotel video with the child--This equals DEATH! No free passes--No get out of jail free card--A bullet to the forehead will do nicely! I do not want them to breathe anymore air on this earth! Their days should be numbered--not in years, but days! The justice system is too slow to enact the proper punishment for these types of pschopaths--DEATH IMMEDIATELY!
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by pnut134 November 20, 2009 9:50 PM EST
My soul aches.
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by pinetucky November 20, 2009 9:23 PM EST
Until we get some LEADERS in this country, who can START with dicipline (like Japan) in our schools - we will continue to raise MONSTERS like these nitwits! We can't depend on parenthood, its getting practically nonexistent. What we have as leaders is the spoiled s--- of our times! How can we have future Mayors, Governors, Legislators or Presidents. When Japanese children go into classrooms, silence prevails. In the 7th grade, they are doing college caculus. Don't agree? OKAY, get ready for even more henious CRIMES (if possible) in the future!
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by tonya4252 November 20, 2009 4:22 PM EST
I hope that there is a reader out there that knows people that can make sure that GOD awful excuse of a mother and the true "Devil" that did that to that poor little angel suffer for the rest of their unwanted lives. They are the poorest excuse for a human being that I have ever seen...evil demons on earth. They will get what they deserve in prison and I hope they are one hundred times worse than the little angel that is in heaven now.
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by MookieSBH November 20, 2009 3:34 PM EST
This story has brought tears to my eyes. I'm completely speechless. And just fearful for the future. My mind refuses to wrap around what those animals did to that sweet baby. Someone asked the question 'what is happening to our country?'. And someone replied that we have been on the decline ever since we took prayer out of our school system. I agree 100%. I do not think we should waste our tax dollars...just fry their A$$es and make examples out of them. Criminals know the law and they know they have rights. So what, they do this terrible crime and then get housed, clothed, fed for the next 30, 40, 50 years? they get to read, exercise and LIVE? With appeal processes a criminal can extend their life another 10 years. Then they get to say I'm changed man. WHATEVER. I'm going to end now because I know God does not like my thoughts. I have to remind myself that our body is just host for our souls. If you are right with God it does not matter how we leave this world. Plane crash, fire, gun shot, etc...Our soul will be our Father's in Heaven. God has a new little Angel in Heaven.
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by angelhorton November 20, 2009 3:15 PM EST
i feel like da lil gurl momma should be buried under da jail because watever was going on between he and dat man dat baby didnt have nothing to do with dat...i hate people like dat
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by ponderdonk01 November 20, 2009 2:43 PM EST
This is the most heinous, disgusting act I've heard of. Forget prison - neither are good enough. Why should we pay for food and a roof over their heads for either of these two monsters for the rest of their lives? My tax money can go to better things. Their TOTAL lack of love and compassion and for a 5 year old life just blows my mind. Put them - along with all the other pedophiles and users - on a island and give them both enough drugs to just overdose. We don't need people like these in our world. I am so sorry for the loss of such a beautiful child. Our world is going to hell right in front of us. It needs to stop - NOW.
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by mcgerm1 November 20, 2009 2:42 PM EST
Proudmilvet: "I know i am not supposed to use Foul Language on here, but what in the ******* hell is happening to our Country?"

I don't know where you have been, but it happened when we took religion and the compassion and altruism it teaches out of schools. The teaching of the golden rule, "do to others as you would have them do to you", has been replaced with Darwin?s kill or be killed, "survival of the fittest". All you are seeing is the effect of people taking that message to heart.

I am not advocating a return to religious education in public schools, but I really do believe that one of the unintended consequences of its removal has been that we are a more selfish and hard hearted society. From a societal point of view this leaves many whose 'personal moral framework' was never guided by an iron standard or structure. For these rudderless moral vacuums the only important entity within their moral universe are themselves; altruism, guilt, compassion, or empathy are unknown motivators within their moral code.
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