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November 16, 2009 2:13 PM

Shaniya Davis Found Dead; Mother Turned Little Girl Into Sex Slave, Say Police

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Photo: Shaniya Davis.

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NEW YORK (WRAL) The body of missing 5-year-old Shaniya Nicole Davis was recovered Monday afternoon, Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine said.

PICTURES: Shaniya Davis Found Dead

The child was first reported missing from her home by her mother last Tuesday morning. On Friday, Mario Andrette McNeill, 29, was charged with first-degree kidnapping, and late Saturday, her mother, Antoinette Nicole Davis, 25, was arrested on accusations that she prostituted her daughter.

Fayetteville police scheduled a 2:30 p.m. news conference at the Benhaven Fire and Rescue Department on Barbeque Church Road.

Fayetteville police received a tip Sunday that Shaniya's body was dumped along Walker Road, off N.C. Highway 87, said Theresa Chance, spokeswoman for the Fayetteville Police Department. About 250 law enforcement agents and volunteers searched the area Monday morning, but they moved farther south after noon.

Searchers focused on an area about 6 miles from the last confirmed sighting of Shaniya. She was seen on security video at the Comfort Suites hotel in Sanford, along with a man who police believe is McNeill, last Tuesday morning.

Shaniya's father and aunt appeared on CBS' "Early Show" Monday to beg for the girl's safe return.

"I just ask that, at this time, please just let her go," said Shaniya's aunt, Carey Lockhart-Davis. "She doesn't deserve this. Have a kind heart."

Lockhart and his sister, who live out of state, cared for the girl until last month, when she went to live with her mother. Davis had worked to get her life together and had been working for at least six months and gotten a place of her own, Lockhart said.

Antoinette Davis is scheduled to appear in court Monday afternoon. Police said that arrest documents say that she "knowingly provide[d] Shaniya Davis with the intent that she be held in sexual servitude" and she "permit[ted] an act of prostitution."

Lockhart-Davis, who is not related to the girl's mother, recalled happy times with Shaniya, when the girl would come home from school showing off marks for good behavior.

"She's a precious, little angel, full of joy," Lockhart said. "A little reserved when you first meet her, but once she gets to know you, she just runs around, plays and won't leave you alone."

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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 pattysues November 27, 2009 9:08 PM EST
As I seen this announced on the air,I could not function for about a week. I thought so hard on this little girls innocence and then what she must of faced. Going out the door with a man that she more than likely thought to be a friend of the family or even just a friend. My next thoughts should not be expressed on the internet, of what should be done to those accused. This is only the beggening of what our world will become unless there is justice served for our children and our coutry.. I feel that when these people are found guilty, it should be DEATH ASAP and that is to good for them. When death comes fast to such that is found guilty, then MAYBE, then, it will show the next ones that even think of such that this will not be tolerated, maybe then an end will be put to this torcherous act on our children. God have mercy on our little ones, protect them from this evil that comes their way. AMEN Trish, Ga
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by nurse33 November 21, 2009 9:49 PM EST
Nothing will change until the child of somebody important gets raped,sodomozied and murdered.I can guarantee that if the President' daughter went through this, there would be much tougher laws. Pedophiles cannot be rehabilitated...ever! Read the studies and reoffenses. More children will die and suffer.
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by abriana2011 November 21, 2009 9:23 PM EST
What was going through this woman's mind? What mother does this to her 5 year old baby girl? I honestly hope that i am not the only one thinking this. And as for the male: he should be disgusted with himself! It surely doesnt seen like it as he smiles in his mugshot photo. Hearts have been broken, and family's feelings torn down, and yet he smiles! That flusters/saddens me that someone who could harm such a precious thing without feeling. And for a mother to ALLOW the soliciting of her child should be utterly disappointed/unpleased with her "better" judgement. I am 16, yet i even know that the decision of those convicted in this crime were utterly wrong. But for an adult to see nothing wrong with her clearly negative action...there is something truely wrong with that. My heart goes out to Shaniya's father, as well as the remainder of her family. My blessings and prayers are with you.
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by Prettylegs November 21, 2009 12:59 PM EST
Yes it's true.. " She will never be hurt again, because she paid the ULTIMATE PRICE! DEATH... Yes she was an angel, just like all children are. But some of us don't see them as such, otherwise we would not be commenting on this. Some (inhumans) camofloging as human beings, being apart of the human race,see children as a pretty piece of meat that is only to be use sexually, to sodomized, rape, and kill. WAKE UP AMERICA!
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by Kotsyamama November 21, 2009 1:25 PM EST
imalwayswrite, why use this sad event to take a cheap shot at Islam? The remark about suicide bombers is asinine. You cannot be so ignorant as not to know that suicide bombing incidents represent a very small fraction of Muslims. You might as well say that all Christians are like Timothy McVeigh or that all Christians will grow up to bomb innocent civilians in countries which they should never have invaded, like Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11. The comment was meant to point out that our American society has the laxest morals in the world, with all the promiscuous sex and drugs. This type of behaviour is totally forbidden in Muslim society. Stick to the topic of this little girl's horrific death.
by imalwayswrite November 21, 2009 5:33 AM EST
Your right Stillunbannable,,it would not have happened if they were muslim,,the little girl would have become a suicide bomber and taken more innocents..with her...
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by diamond-1-6-3 November 20, 2009 1:31 PM EST
FIRST OF ALL I WANT TO GIVE MY CONDOLENCES TO SHANIYA DAVIS AND SAY THAT SHE IS IN GODS HANDS NOW.. AND NO ONE, AND I MEAN NO ONE CAN HURT YOU NOW BABY YOUR SAFE AND YOU CAN LIVE FREE AND HAPPY BABY....AS FOR HER MOTHER AND HER GUY ACQUAINTANCE THEY WILL SUFER MAD CONSEQUENCES AND IM NOT TALKING JUST PIRSON TIME IM TALKING ONE ON ONE GOD TIME AND HE IS GOING TO BREAK THEM DOWN SO BAD SO BAD THEY ARE GOING TO WISH THAT THIS WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPEN BECAUSE WHEN GOD DEALS WITH THEM HE IS NOT ONLY GOING TO REMIND THEM 24/7 HE IS GOING TO SHOW THEM AND MAKE THEM WALK IN HER SHOES..WHAT SHANIYA DAVIS HAD TO GO THROUGH AT ONLY FIVE I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW HURT SHE WAS EVEN THOUGH SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS GOING ON.. SHE KNEW IN HER HEART THAT SOMTHING WAS NOT RIGHT..WELL BABY GIRL YOU DONT HAVE TO WORRY NO MORE BECAUSE GOD HAS A PLACE FOR YOU. AND YOU CAN HAVE ANY AND EVERY THING YOU WANT..IT'S LIKE BARBIE HEAVEN MADE FOR A VERY BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS LIKE YOURSELF:) BABY YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN AND YOU WILL ALWAYS BE IN MY HEART.. YOUR STORY HAS TOUCH MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND WE ALL CARE FOR YOU AND WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU BABY OR ALL THE OTHER BABYS THAT IS THERE WITH YOU.. WE LOVE SHANIYA DAVIS AND WHILE YOU ARE UP THERE BABY DO ME A FAVOR...LIVE/LAUGH/LOVE AND ENJOY LIFE..AS IT IS IN HEAVEN...FOREVER YOU WILL BE IN MY HEART I LOVE YOU BABY..REST IN PEACE LITTLE PRINCESS AND MAY YOUR LOVE WATCH OVER ALL OF US AS WE WATCH YOU GROW IN HEAVEN...R.I.P. SHANIYA DAVIS WE LOVE YOU.....:) :) :) :) :)
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by Talidan November 20, 2009 12:39 PM EST
How about we cut the bullcrap, acting like this girl will stay in our minds for years. This sort of thing is going to happen again and again. Each time, America gasps in horror. "How could this happen?" "Who would be sick enough to do that?"

Quit acting surprised and talking as if you're prayers are going to save the world. Do something more about it if you're so damn concerned, otherwise just cut it out.

There are programs you can join to help people out. Victims of rape, human trafficking, or other seriously traumatic events. Volunteer somewhere and help people. Those who already do, great, you're doing more than most of America.



And to hell with North Carolina. That place is beginning to **** me off. I lived there for 6 months with my girlfriend, and during that time there were 3 bank robberies in the area, several kidnappings, a police standoff about 300 feet away, and a few murders all within 15 miles of where we lived. A pedophile less than a mile from each school in the area, except one. Even a pedophile who lived 100 feet from the house, who happened to be my girlfriend's grandpa. My girlfriend's mom was being raped by him since 3 years old. He doesn't do much of anything anymore except look at child pornography, but he still has control over her mom. The crap he put her mom through has made her mom a little crazy and abusive.

So, I took her away from there. We now live happily together in Washington. She is going to be a vet, and I gave up wanting to be a doctor so I can work hard enough to pay for her to be what she wants.


But the point is if you hate what's going, change it. Or at least help out a bit. And get rid of North Carolina (of course I'm kidding. There are many nice things about the state too).

If anyone has any response to this, please reply via email since I will not be looking back here ever again. Zetalidan@gmail.com
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by ranman2u November 20, 2009 1:13 AM EST
Rest in Peace our angel. Nobody can hurt you now : (

I sit and wait
Does an angel contemplate my fate
And do they know
The places where we go
When we're grey and old
'cos I have been told
That salvation lets their wings unfold
So when I'm lying in my bed
Thoughts running through my head
And I feel that love is dead
I'm loving angels instead


And through it all she offers me protection
A lot of love and affection
Whether I'm right or wrong
And down the waterfall

Wherever it may take me
I know that life won't break me
When I come to call she won't forsake me
I'm loving angels instead

When I'm feeling weak
And my pain walks down a one way street
I look above
And I know I'll always be blessed with love
And as the feeling grows
She breathes flesh to my bones
And when love is dead
I'm loving angels instead

And through it all she offers me protection
A lot of love and affection
Whether I'm right or wrong
And down the waterfall
Wherever it may take me
I know that life won't break me
When I come to call she won't forsake me
I'm loving angels instead

Angels Lyrics
Artist(Band):Robbie Williams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXVtO7Ol21Y&feature=youtube_gdata
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by rite777 November 19, 2009 7:25 PM EST
Something just as tragic happened in my family about 30 years ago.My brother and his wife divorced and she became a drug addict and involved with the wrong people. Her new boyfriend was on drugs or something, they both burned "Tony" with cigarettes including groin area of a 5 year old boy. Then drowned him in a bathtub.He survived but was brain dead, he was cared for by California state.He has died a few years back.The people involved rarely thought about him, The boyfriend got 2 years the mother got probation because she was pregnant at the time."Tony" was such a sweet kid,Me and my wife at the time was thinking about raising him along with our own son.Now 30 years later just a distant memory.Don't let this happen to this little girl. There was more to the story about Tony (his real name).Now try and View this Story as if it a play being acted out.The people who were supposed to care for her safety sold her out.As she was being abused and terrorized what was this little lady thinking? The people should be punished for this crime.In this world they'll not get what they deserve. The criminals should be identified ,locked up 23 hours daily. No death sentence , that's too good for them.In some way be reminded what they did to this beautiful, innocent child of God
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by Kotsyamama November 21, 2009 1:45 AM EST
sue, I agree with you 100%. I would also add that it is horrendous how society condones facile baby-making. No one raises an eyebrow when 13-year olds start having children, they just keep on making them, getting pregnant by different men with no intention of having a decent family where both parents are involved in raising the child, providing not only the material necessities but moral and spiritual upbringing as well. It is sometimes harder to adopt an animal than to give birth to a child who will possibly come into the world with drugs in the system, a filthy, criminal environment, malnutrition and a multitude of other horrors to which no one should be subjected. Society no longer has a sense of shame or values. I say shame on unwed mothers, shame on the men who impregnate the women then just take off, shame especially on those who keep repeating the same ugly procedure, like that "loving mother" Antoinette Davis, God help the unborn child in her belly, it is probably already messed up on drugs and certainly has one of the worst criminals possible, a child-prostituting junkie, for a mother.
by sue42970 November 19, 2009 6:47 PM EST
Antoinette Davis is pregnant again. I suppose she is one of the people that are allowed to have "uinlimited" kids (on public aid assistance of course) while the healthcare workers get wage cuts, bonuses taken away, etc. because the hospitals are not making enough money (due to charity cases like this one!). I am so tired of this kind of thing and sure wish there was something America could do to resolve these problems. She was a beautiful little girl who had no chance with an AWFUL mother like that. Antoinette Davis, I know for a god-appointed FACT, YOU WILL BURN IN HELL!!!! God rest your soul pretty little Shaniya. So sorry you weren't born to a mommy who would have loved you as you deserved to be. So very very sad. :(
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by enrapturelj November 19, 2009 12:06 PM EST
Where did they meet? Some crack house? Bet it wasn't the library.
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by stillunbanable November 19, 2009 11:06 AM EST
"Mother Turned Little Girl Into Sex Slave"

This would not have happened if they were Muslim.
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by xplorepa November 19, 2009 11:47 PM EST
Yeah they would have strapped a bomb to her
by rrozsa November 19, 2009 10:33 AM EST
I haven't heard what relationship the father had with the mother. Were they married? How long? Did the mother used to be an upstanding citizen and lost her way, or was she already well on the road to ruin when he knew her?
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by enrapturelj November 19, 2009 11:56 AM EST
She was some one night stand. Sounds like Dad had some poor decision making skills himself. What kind of personal life did he lead that he was out having unprotected sex with some stranger off the street? Nancy Grace has uncovered that she was manufacturing and selling drugs out of her home. Dad needs to keep it in his pants next time.
by enough-already November 19, 2009 10:28 AM EST
by vannuys November 17, 2009 4:05 PM EST
This is why I believe that the federal government should license parenthood before anyone is allowed to bring children into the world.

Had this woman been implanted with a birth control device, this tragedy would not have happened.

If this woman had not given birth to this little girl, then whoever murdered her would most likely have just murdered some other little girl.
Forced birth control is not the answer.
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by enough-already November 19, 2009 10:23 AM EST
I can't understand why some people have to bring "god" into everything. You really think a "god" had anything to do with this kind of behavior? And if there was a god, wouldn't he put a stop to this kind of thing BEFORE IT HAPPENED?!!!! Wake up, people.
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by rrozsa November 19, 2009 10:28 AM EST
God wanted people to have a choice in whether to accept him or not - that's why he gave us FREE WILL. As long as men have free will, there will be evil. The little girl is in the hands of God now. The family has my prayers.
by castonesgirl1 November 19, 2009 12:49 PM EST
God is being systematically removed from the equation in America. If America doesn't want God around why would he be inclined to protect America and its citizens?
by Steve1134 November 20, 2009 3:02 PM EST
Well Castonesgirl1....I gather from your oh so Christian answer that your all loving god REALLY only likes Christians. So your all powerful and all loving god decided to take out his wrath upon this little 5 year old girl, because a lot of Americans don't fall for your archaic hocus pocus mumbo jumbo out dated voodoo of a religion.
by castonesgirl1 November 25, 2009 12:19 PM EST
Hey Steve1134... It has nothing to do with Christianity. It has to do with ignorant people who are against all religions and who want a purely sterile "no God" of any type- politically correct country with no substinance. That is the real problem in America. Not sure why you thought my comment was based on Christianity- I only used the word God-not Christian, Lord, Savior, Muhammed, Buddha, Shiva- nothing. Pay attention when you read and respond.
by the_hedon November 25, 2009 4:46 PM EST
It wasn't God that did this or "allowed" it. It was Satan. If you want to pretend like you know something about good and evil perhaps you should actually KNOW something about it. (The Bible is a good place to start) Satan is testing all of us. Some fight against him and others join him. Sounds like you are on the same side as Mario.
by Vetzero November 18, 2009 6:59 PM EST
I have a sure fire cure for this problem and it WORKS...but Americans worship sex and vilence in movies and in real life so my method is not even considered...but I guarentee my method works...first time...every time....it ends the deviance once and for all...per criminal...per occurance. Just locking these perverts up won't work as they find ways to get out and before long they are at it again. Time and time again has shown us this but we won't do what is neccessary to put a stop to this deviance once and for all because of cowards who won't take the big steps it takes to implement my method of putting a stop to this destroyer of children and women.
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by rrozsa November 19, 2009 10:29 AM EST
You never said what your cure is. Are you referring to castration?
by Mamamunchkin November 18, 2009 5:37 AM EST
Can we send these things to the Middle East? Let them experience how they dish out justice there.
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by mari1963 November 17, 2009 10:59 PM EST
I hope they throw the book at this mother and the man they arrested. There isn't a long enough sentence for either one of them. They are animals. I can't wait to hear from this woman's family plead for her life when her sentence comes down. She doesn't deserve to live.
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by blessbest November 17, 2009 9:08 PM EST
You know our prison system sucks! To the father who took care of his daughter, my heart goes out to you. To the mother god will handle you. Your family can say you were a good mom, but I can't tell. I hope everyday for the rest of your life, you hear your baby calling your name. I can only imagine when this baby was going thur how she was calling for her mother. And now they are saying she is preg. again. This woman is a ghetto sick chic.
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by unheard1 November 17, 2009 7:50 PM EST
I just cannot wrap my head around this. I cant see how a mother can do this. As I state that I realize this "mother" was never her mother. She did not raise this child. She had no bond to this beautiful angel. Even still I cannot fathom willing sending any child into the arms of a pervert. Did the mom know that the child was going to be killed? Or did she "just" think she was going to be molested ... and I say that very squimishly...My heart aches for this father. I fully understand where his heart was at. He believed the devil. He was trying to do right by the child and her "mother". In the same situation I probabaly would have done the same thing. I mean honestly how many parents would believe that the father/mother of ur child is capable of this? Even in the darkest of imaginations. His heart was in the right place. So sad that it cost him his daughter. But I hope he can find comfort in knowing that Shaniya will never be hurt again. I have prayed for this little angel .. I prayed that she would be found safe. And she was. Not like we would have hoped, but still shes safe now. The only thing that makes this situation better is to know that it will never happen to her again. We dont always like the way prayers are answered but we always get our answer. Thank God that she will never have this happen to her again. Dont blame God, evil is whats to blame. God brought her home and also opened ours eyes to a problem that many of us either were not aware of or never really thought about until now. I have always said that if either of my children was missing that I would much rather find them dead than to think of them living in a situation where they were being tortured. How many years would this baby have lived like this before it was discovered had the events not happened like they did??? May we never forget Shaniya. Unfortunatly, there are still thousands of Shaniyas still here. Still being molested, still being sold, still being killed. I hope this has opened our eyes. I know it has mine. My heart aches when I think about the pain and confusion of what this baby went through before she was finally delivered from this hell on earth.
Im not trying to turn this into a sermon, sorry. And I know I will be attacked by ppl who do not believe in God. But this is not about religion, black/white, etc... It about a child named Shaniya Davis and all the other Shaniyas still out there. Lets focus on that. What can we do in our own community to help?? Lets not let her death be in vain. Lets not let her memory remain on the side of the road amongst the trash and deer carcasses.
Thank you Shaniya Davis that you have brought to light an evil that we have closed our eyes to. You were an angel on earth and now will forever be an angel in heaven. Mr Lockhart just know that your daughter was a vessel for a larger purpose. It doesnt make it hurt any less I know. But because of your daughter now thousands will be saved.... and a little child shall lead them. Isiah 11:6
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by Prettylegs November 21, 2009 12:55 PM EST
Yes it's true.. " She will never be hurt again, because she paid the ULTIMATE PRICE! DEATH. Yes she was an angel, just like all children are. But some of us don't them as such, otherwise we would not be commenting on this. Some see children as a pretty piece of meat that is only to be use sexually, to sodomized, rape, and kill. WAKE UP AMERICA!
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