Mario Andrette McNeill – The body of 5-year old Shaniya Nicole Davis has been found and Mario Andrette McNeill is in jail on kidnapping charges.
Mario Andrette McNeill, 29, was arrested Friday after surveillance footage surfaced showing him carrying Shaniya into a hotel room about 40 miles away on Tuesday.
Late Saturday, Shaniya’s mother, Antoinette Nicole Davis, 25, was arrested on charges that she prostituted her daughter and allowed Mario McNeill to take the little girl to the Comfort Suites hotel in Sanford, NC.
After days of searching, Shaniya Davis’s body was found Monday, hidden in deep brush off a rural road between Sandford and Fayetteville, NC where her mother lived.
It is believed that McNeill passed information to police Sunday that Shaniya’s body was dumped along Walker Road, off N.C. Highway 87.
Shaniya Davis had been raised up until a month ago by her father, Bradley Lockhart, who granted a request by her mother to spend time with her daughter.
“She had asked if she could be a mother, and I felt she was sincere in asking, and I figured to give her a chance,” he said.
“I should’ve never let her go over there,” he told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Fayetteville police have scheduled a news conference for this afternoon to announce additional charges in the murder of 5-year old Shaniya Davis.
And that’s the latest news on the arrest of Mario Andrette McNeill.
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November 16th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Antoinette Davis Arraigned
Antoinette Davis made her first court appearance Monday afternoon and quietly told a judge she understood the charges against her. The judge appointed an attorney for her and set her next court date on Dec. 3.
Arrest warrants state that Davis “knowingly provide(d) Shaniya Davis with the intent that she be held in sexual servitude” and she “permit(ted) an act of prostitution.”
Cumberland County Detention Center officials put her in isolation for her own protection. She was being held under a $51,000 bond.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:09 am
New Charges Pending In Shaniya Davis Murder
Investigators piecing together why and where a 5-year-old North Carolina girl was killed plan to add new charges on top of counts including kidnapping and selling the girl for sexual slavery.
Fayetteville police planned a briefing Wednesday to discuss the case and said new charges are pending in the death of Shaniya Davis.
Authorities are trying to decide where the girl was killed and in which of two neighboring counties the case will be prosecuted.
Her mother, Antoinette Davis, reported the child missing from her Cumberland County home last week. Davis is charged with human trafficking and child abuse involving prostitution.
Mario McNeill was accused of kidnapping Shaniya after surveillance footage from a Lee County hotel showed him carrying the girl.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Mother Who Prostituted Her Daughter Is Pregnant
The North Carolina woman accused of selling her 5-year-old girl into sexual slavery—the girl’s body was found yesterday—is pregnant.
Antoinette Davis, 25, is being isolated from other prisoners as a result, reports local station WTVD.
She has not entered a plea to charges of human trafficking, prostitution, and child abuse. Police say she sold young Shaniya to a man for “sexual servitude.”
Volunteer searchers found Shaniya’s body and Mario McNeill remains in custody, though not yet charged with her death.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Mario McNeill Admits Taking Girl
A search warrant says a man charged with kidnapping a 5-year-old North Carolina girl who was later found dead told police he took the girl to the hotel where she was last seen alive.
The search warrant says 29-year-old Mario McNeill told investigators he took Shaniya Davis last week from her home in Fayetteville to a hotel in Sanford, about 35 miles away.
The girl’s body was found Monday off a road near Sanford.
Antoinette Davis is charged with trafficking her daughter and child abuse involving prostitution.
Police say they collected hair and fibers, clothes, and a straw from McNeill’s 1997 Mitsubishi Galant.
Police said Wednesday no additional charges will be filed until jurisdiction questions are resolved.
November 20th, 2009 at 12:30 am
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November 24th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
I would like to know what the father was thinking of when he sent his child (eventhough she was a product one night stand) to a house that the police said was flity
Did he even go to see where the child would be staying?
Or were he and his sister just tired of taking care of her.
I am amazed why no one is asking What was he thinking?
November 30th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
amazingly sad stuff… thanx