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Nevaeh Buchanan has been found.
This is not the outcome I had hoped for. 5 year old Nevaeh Buchanan, who has been missing since May 24th, was found today in the River Raisin, allegedly encased in cement. I just don’t get it….why must people keep doing this to our children? Why does it seem so hard to keep them safe these days?
I guess at least now Nevaeh’s family knows what happened to their little girl, and can try to go on (as best they can, which probably isn’t very well).
I am so sad tonight.
More on this story at the Monroe News, which also has a comment section. The story below is from the Detroit Free Press.
BY AMBER HUNT, ZLATI MEYER AND JEFF SEIDEL • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS • June 4, 2009
Updated at 9 p.m.
A body found near the River Raisin is that of 5-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan, who disappeared from her Monroe home May 24, the Monroe Evening News has reported.
The paper said police have spoken to the family.
Ryan Bickley, 15, said his father, Guy Bickley, found the body this morning when he was by the river fishing with his grandfather around 11 a.m.
The teenager said the body was encased in a cement block and they could smell it. His father, he said, chipped a piece of cement away and saw skin and when he saw skin, he stopped and called police. The block was near the water.
Nevaeh’s mother was huddled with friends at her apartment in Monroe.
A mobile command unit, which signifies intense police activity, arrived earlier this evening at the area of Dixon Road and Sullivan in Raisinville Township. Police were acting on a tip that the body of Nevaeh could be buried there.
A medical examiner truck also arrived at the scene.
Volunteers claimed to have found a clump of long brown hair, said the Rev. Dale Hayford, senior pastor of Crosswalk Community Church in Monroe.
Barricades kept traffic away from North Custer Road, west of Ida Maybee Road.
Since Nevaeh’s disappearance, police have zeroed in on a few men with histories of sex assault convictions, but no one has been charged in the case and leads are dwindling.
One man, George Kennedy, 39, told a Ohio newspaper this week he had nothing to do with the girl’s disappearance. In fact, he told the Toledo Blade, he helped the girl’s mother search for Nevaeh.
Earlier in the day, firefighters from area departments sent over not only volunteers, but also equipment, to breathe new life into the nearly two-week search.
“I hope this is what we needed,” said Elisa Boyer, 31, of Monroe.
Firefighters from agencies such as Monroe, Monroe Township, Ida Township and Dundee are being tracked electronically into a system usually reserved for battling blazes.
The fireTRAX program logs who searches where, then allows that volunteer to move onto another unsearched area when finished, said Monroe Township Firefighter Joe Hernandez.
“We want to help any way we can,” said Ida Township firefighter Mark Andrews, 19. “We hope to find her alive, but finding her in any way will help the family.”
Contact Amber Hunt at alhunt@freepress.com.
I just want to scream. Rest in peace sweet angel. It’s not fair.
i don’t care…that mother knows who did this…probably the pedo she let hang around her home. and the beauty of this tragic ending? if /when they find the kiler, we’ll get to pay for his upkeep for the rest of his life!! Sweet Justice smdh
Lately, there are just way too many of these stories. I don’t feel like it’s one more tragic ending to a news story about the loss of a child’s life that is desensitizing me, but rather it’s making me more angry. I believe this mother should be charged with something; for heaven sakes, she was hanging around with more than one sex offender. And she herself says one of them was supposed to be a father figure to Nevaeh, this poor child that didn’t haven’t a chance in this lifetime. I believe it’s going to take a public outcry for Nevaeh’s voice to be heard above the plain stupidty of her mother’s choices?
Her mother is directly responsible. She met a convicted sex offender at the parole office after she was set free for a conviction on home invasion. She then brings this sex offender into her home as a “father figure” for poor Neveah. Someone PLEASE sterilize this horrible woman, at the very least!
What is this world coming to? Caylee Anthony (different circumstance but murdered), Haleigh Cummings(still missing), Sandra Cantu,Neveah Buchanan we need to do something and fast to many of our babies are dying. This should have never happened a sex offender will always be a sex offender. They need to be monitored in other ways like a ankle monitor even a GPS . When these people get caught the first time more then likely they will do it again and when they do they are going to make sure they will not get caught again. We need to have strict rules on the mothers who put their children in harms way neveahs mommy should be charged with child endangerment. She had a rule in neveahs death. these women need know that they will be punished for their stupidity. This breaks my heart i don’t know these beautiful angles and yet i cry tears of pain and sorrow God embrace these angles and keep them safe in your arms
This is really sad and disgusting. What is wrong with people? Something different needs to be done about sex offenders.
I hope that she can rest in peace.
I think we need a law that makes any and all sex crimes committed against children a federal offense with the penalty being LIFE in prison, NO PAROLE.
It just blows my mind that sex offenders do their time (if even that) and are released back out into the public to again prey on more victims. Of course, they are more likely to “dispose” of their next victim/s because they sure don’t want to get caught and go back to the joint again.
I think there should be a federal death penalty as well, for those monsters who kill children. Why would anybody (parole board for example) even think that a sex offender will not re-offend? I understand that not all 50 states have a death penalty, but I do think that child killers should be put to death in any/all states under a “special circumstances” clause. These type of offenders do not deserve to live. That is MY opinion, of course.
For this Jennifer Buchanan, or whatever her name is, to make the statement that just because somebody is a sex offender doesn’t mean that they will offend again…Holy smokes!!!!! And she also stated that it doesn’t really matter that her friends are registered s/o and are around her daughter. What kind of drugs is she on? I haven’t typed her statements verbatim, but no matter how she said it, she is still either clueless, totally stupid, or just doesn’t care. She is the epitome of BAD MOTHER.
The sad fact is, with a drug-addicted Mom and at least two known pedophiles in her circle of adults, this poor child probably had known abuse long before her final day of victimization and murder.
Small comfort that while her abduction and murder wasn’t her first, it was her last.
Alcoholic/Drug/Gambling Addicted Moms are a target for predators who know their first priority isn’t the safety of their children.
We can weave a better safety net for our children still living. We must.
Whoops..had typed my website wrong.
This is just a general statement or question………. not solely pertaining to sex offenders or crimes against children. I don’t understand why we have parole at all……… if a criminal is sent to prison, why is there even a question that he or should be released before serving their time? I saw a TV show about Charles Manson & he becomes eligible for parole every 5 years or so……… I probably have the number wrong, but I don’t understand this. Why is he ever eligible for parole??
I cannot understand why things like this keep happenning either. What makes me even more upset is that the little girl was found, but have we heard anything further about the case It is now considered fourth page news. I hope that justice will be served and little Neveah can rest peacefully in heaven knowing that the person that did this injustice to her has been found.
R.I.P. Nevaeh