6698 - unhappy ending
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scottobearGirl reported missing found dead in Atlanta Update:
A DeKalb County couple has been charged in the death of their 2-year-old daughter, whose body was found in a wooded area near an Atlanta park hours after the parents claimed she had been abducted in Stone Mountain.
The girl's father, Gostavo Flores, 28, has been charged with murder. The mother, Sophia Garcia, 23, was charged with concealing the death.
Late Wednesday — three hours after they reported their daughter missing — one of the parents of Lizeth Atziry Flores led DeKalb police to the girl's body. She was found in a ravine on Euclid Avenue and Oakdale Road, about a mile fromLittle Five Points in Atlanta, police said.
Officials would not say if there were signs of trauma on the body.
When the parents contacted DeKalb police about 5 p.m. Wednesday, they told them Lizeth had been kidnapped by four black men in a black van with tinted windows and missing tag.
The parents told police they were walking along North Hairston Road about noon Wednesday when three men jumped out of the van, snatched Lizeth from her stroller and sped off in the van, said DeKalb police Officer Dale Davis.
From the beginning, police seemed skeptical of the parents' account.
They held back from issuing a Levi's Call — the state's version of an Amber Alert, which notifies radio and television news outlets and flashes missing children alerts on traffic advisory signs throughout the state.
Also, a statement police initially issued about the kidnapping said, "For unknown reasons the crime was not reported to police immediately and detectives are looking into that issue at this time."
Wednesday night, police called the parents' story "a hoax," telling reporters "all of that information was untrue."
A DeKalb County couple has been charged in the death of their 2-year-old daughter, whose body was found in a wooded area near an Atlanta park hours after the parents claimed she had been abducted in Stone Mountain.
The girl's father, Gostavo Flores, 28, has been charged with murder. The mother, Sophia Garcia, 23, was charged with concealing the death.
Late Wednesday — three hours after they reported their daughter missing — one of the parents of Lizeth Atziry Flores led DeKalb police to the girl's body. She was found in a ravine on Euclid Avenue and Oakdale Road, about a mile fromLittle Five Points in Atlanta, police said.
Officials would not say if there were signs of trauma on the body.
When the parents contacted DeKalb police about 5 p.m. Wednesday, they told them Lizeth had been kidnapped by four black men in a black van with tinted windows and missing tag.
The parents told police they were walking along North Hairston Road about noon Wednesday when three men jumped out of the van, snatched Lizeth from her stroller and sped off in the van, said DeKalb police Officer Dale Davis.
From the beginning, police seemed skeptical of the parents' account.
They held back from issuing a Levi's Call — the state's version of an Amber Alert, which notifies radio and television news outlets and flashes missing children alerts on traffic advisory signs throughout the state.
Also, a statement police initially issued about the kidnapping said, "For unknown reasons the crime was not reported to police immediately and detectives are looking into that issue at this time."
Wednesday night, police called the parents' story "a hoax," telling reporters "all of that information was untrue."
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Date: 2004-06-04 11:37 pm (UTC)god rest her lil soul!
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