This picture just sends cold chills down my spine as it would to any parent out there; this is the last known image of five year old Shaniya Davis as she is carried to a hotel room by a man who has bought her from her mother for sex. Wearing no shoes on her feet, she is about to disappear into an elevator with a dreadlocked man, Mario McNeill, to be taken to a room and suffer a fate too hideous to contemplate.
And all allegedly organised by her mother, Antoinette Davis.
Little Shaniya went missing after this image was recorded and tragically her broken little body has been found dumped in bushland by a roadside in North Carolina. This poor little girl had been living with her father, Bradley Lockhart, when he decided to allow her to live with her mother again and had been with her for 3 weeks prior to her disappearance. The mother refused to co-operate with police after she reported the child missing and quite frankly find the actions and words of both parents in this tragedy quite strange…
“It’s not the result I wanted, it’s not the result any father or family would want for their children, but God has a greater calling for all of us.”
‘Result’…? his five year old daughter has been found dead and he calls it a ‘result’…? and what the heck does ‘God’ have to do with this other than allowing it to happen! what an utterly contrived and odd statement for a griefstricken father to come out with – and his use of the word ‘but’ worries me…’but…’ – as if he is trying to justify what has happened to this little girl in some way! the police are saying very little right now in terms of information – that to me confirms a few of my own suspicions – but we must pray that those responsible for this little girl’s murder are brought to justice as soon as possible. Looking at that last grainy image of little Shaniya it is hard to tell if she was frightened, consigned to what was going to happen to her or if she for some reason trusted that man carrying her. That she was betrayed in the most vile and premeditated way possible is undoubted – and why whoever did this to her should be executed without a second thought.
Those images of Shaniya with that monster will haunt me for the rest of my life, it beggars belief what was going through her sweet little mind. I just want to reach out and grab the little lass. It’s heartbreaking, truly heartbreaking. I would happily spend the rest of my natural behind bars for a shot at that monster.
There is more to this story than meets the eye in my opinion – maybe I am wrong but the reaction of that father and his composure and attitude when speaking to the press was just a little too controlled for my liking. I am not saying he killed the child at all – but my instincts tell me these people are not what they seem. Had it been my child I would be beyond speaking…
That image is indeed horrifying.
I have taken this so personal, I guess having a 7 year old bi-racial child does not help much, this is a horrible thing that has happen that poor baby imagine what was running through her head through out this ordeal is just umbelievable. I am speechless and may this baby be at peace. I am sickened with the disgusting mother and this trash that is seen holding her on this image..
It is shocking and the sight of that little girl in that man’s arms – so seemingly calm – makes you feel like screaming out. The thought of the fate she was to suffer soon afterwards is too much to bear – there is no possible defence any lawyer could put up for this animal, hang him I say.
Wendy, thank you for posting the story (what we know for now) about this little girl. How horrifying and sad. That poor baby! I am confused about her situation, pictures depict a beautiful, well groomed, cared for girl, yet,these circumstances are bizarre to say the least. I think mom is a crack “ho” that dad got high with and …ooops! a baby. Why he let Shaniyah go with her????
The photo is heartbreaking…a trusting baby in a monsters arms.
Already, the story is fading away which is infuriating! North Carolina IS a death penalty state and I hope it is utilised. We must fight the bleeding hearts who feel SORRY for the wrong people!!!! If we cant protect our children, what kind of people ARE we?
Fading away already??? this crazy! something about this story does not sit right with me and like I said that dad was waaay too composed during those press calls for my liking – he made one hell of a speech at a time when he should have been doubled over with grief and shock! the stepmothers face was like concrete…
wow this is too much for me too handle!….how could you do such a thing to a wonderful inocent child like that!…she was so pretty, but yet so clueless!!…i dont think i could ever have been apart of something so wicked in life…i think that her mother should do her whole life in jail and so sould the man that had something to do with it!…i can’t believe this happen…what a life we live..a world we live in!..but never the less…at least she’s in a much better place than witht the evil pepople she was with!!!…..RIP Shaniya Davis…!! love Dominique Rush!!…and my Heart and Prayers does go out to the family!