The 5YO Who Was Sold By Her Mom To Be Violated To Death | Anna Uncovered 

The 5YO Who Was Sold By Her Mom To Be Violated To Death | Anna Uncovered 

I can’t give you justice. This jury has given you what we as humans the best we as humans can do to give you justice. Justice would be if I could reverse all of this, and I can’t. The jury has returned as its recommendation as to the defendant, Mario McNeil, that he be sentenced to death. The time is 4 years, 3 months.

And no jail going to diminish this pain. I think about those last seconds. And you was the last thing my daughter had to look at. This is 5-year-old Shinaya Davis. Her mother sold her for $200 to a monster. What he did to her is simply shocking. And her mother’s decision to send her off like this is just as chilling.

Shinaya’s story is tragic from beginning to end. It’s hard to imagine a 5-year-old can go through this experience helpless, alone, and scared to death. Let’s explore the horrific tale of Shinaya Davis and all the events that led up to her death. Shinaya Nicole Davis was born June 14th, 2004, in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

At first, she grew up with her loving parents, Bradley Lockhart and Antoinette Davis, and her brother, Carl, who was 2 years older. But as her parents split up, the siblings went on to live with their dad. Antoinette had a rough patch financially, partially due to her substance addiction.

 And she didn’t seem ready to raise two small kids. Nevertheless, she stayed close with little Shinaya. Shinaya loved both her parents very much. She was a happy-go-lucky girl who always smiled and loved pink and yellow. She was an her scooter and making friends wherever she went. Bradley loved Shinaya deeply, but he had a rough life, too.

 He was married before Antoinette to a woman named Vicky Sue. When she was only 28, she was bound, and along with her sister and a friend by a group of robbers who believed they had a huge amount of cash stashed in their house. The killers were caught and sentenced to life in prison, but imagine what that does to you as a person. Bradley had three children with Vicky Sue, but he didn’t feel able to raise them, so they were raised by Vicky Sue’s parents.

 Shenaya and Carl were the first children he raised on his own, but Shenaya wouldn’t be in his care for long. In 2009, Shenaya was a kindergarten student at Morganton Road Elementary School. That year, Antoinette asked Brad to pass their daughter on to her. She was ready to be a mom. She now lived with her sister, Brenda Davis, and her boyfriend, Jeroid Smith, in their trailer home.

 It wasn’t a luxurious situation. Brenda and Jeroid had kids themselves, and they would all sleep crammed in one room so that Antoinette could take the other bedroom. However, Brad said, “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.

” So, in September 2009, Shenaya and Carl went on to live with Antoinette and her sister, but Brad’s sister, Carrie, and his other friends all pointed to the same thing. Shenaya did not seem well under Antoinette’s care. Brian even painted a more disturbing of Antoinette. Indeed, Brian is angry at Bradley for sending Shenaya to live with her mother in the first place.

 He had seen the bad signs when she would spend as little as a weekend with her mom. So, why didn’t he think of the risks? Call it reckless or wanting to see the good in people, Brad trusted his ex-wife. He wanted her to have the experience of being a mother and believed she had gotten her life on track.

 But just 2 months would pass, and Brad would regret his trusting nature for the rest of his life. It was November 10th, 2009, just before sunrise, in their Sleepy Hollow trailer home, Brenda and Jeroy woke up to what sounded like someone trying to break into their home. The sound then stopped, and they went back to bed.

 But just a half hour later, Antoinette burst into their room, close to tears. “Have you seen Shinaya?” she asked. Brenda and Jeroy jumped out of bed. This was a serious situation. A 5-year-old girl was missing. Had she been taken by whoever had come into the house half an hour earlier? Or was that sound Shinaya opening the door and leaving on her own? Brenda, Jeroy, and Antoinette dressed up to go outside and look around.

 But before they left, 7-year-old Carl added something crucial. He’d seen someone else in the home shortly beforehand. When Brenda heard this, she knew Shinaya had been kidnapped. So she urged her sister to call 911. Shockingly, Antoinette was hesitant. Why wouldn’t a mother call the police first thing when her small child is missing? Antoinette wanted to ask around and look for herself before going through with the call.

 Almost as if she believed she would bother the emergency services in vain. While Antoinette went outside and knocked on all the Sleepy Hollow trailer home doors, her sister and her boyfriend stayed indoors and spoke with Carl. When they asked him who he’d seen earlier that night, he said Mono. Mono was the nickname of a man called Mario McNeill.

He used to date Brenda for a while, and according to some sources, he gave her the money necessary for the rent deposit to move into the trailer home. Whichever the case, Mario and Brenda had called it quits. And now Mario lived with the mother of his 18-month-old baby, April Atury.

 But Mario wasn’t a family man, not by a long shot. He partook in coke, booze, and cheating on April with every woman in Fayetteville. A few days after Shinaya’s disappearance, he would literally tell the police that on the night between November 9th and 10th, he texted all the females in his phone. He would tell them many more things, but for now, back to our story.

 Brenda and Jeroy asked Carl several times if he was sure he’d seen Mano in their home that night, and he said, “Yeah.” So, Brenda called Mano, but he didn’t answer. Then, Jeroy called April, and she said Mano was not with her. Something was amiss. Meanwhile, Antoinette returned from her walk through Sleepy Hollow.

 She said she knocked on everyone’s door, but no one seemed to have seen Shinaya. Again, Brenda insisted that her sister call the police. While Antoinette promised to do so, Brenda and Jeroy went outside only to notice there was feces on the railings. Okay, ma’am. How can I help you? I woke up this morning and my daughter was not in this house.

 I don’t know if she walked out or I don’t know what’s going on, but she’s not here. How old is your daughter? She’s five. Five? And your door was not unlocked, that’s what you’re telling me? No, it was not unlocked, but I’m telling you she knows how to unlock it. I’m hoping that she didn’t unlock it and walked out. This was happening at 6:52 a.m.

 By now, Mano was long gone with Shinaya. Shortly after 6:00 a.m. that morning, Mano checked into the Comfort Inn Suites in Sanford, an hour north of Fayetteville. He used his own name and checked in on his own. However, he mentioned to the desk clerk that he was traveling with his daughter to take her up to her mom in Virginia.

 After checking in at 7:16 Mario returned to his car in the back of the parking lot. Then, he returned to his hotel room carrying a girl covered in a blanket. After leaving Shinaya in his room, Mano returned downstairs and went to the breakfast room, where he got a banana, a muffin, and some juice. At this point, there was an Amber Alert issued for Shinaya.

 Police and search dogs were scouring Fayetteville, and people all over North Carolina were on the lookout. Such was Jacqueline Lee, the desk clerk Mono had spoken to. When he saw him walking into the hotel with Shania, she thought she resembled the kid in the Amber Alert. Her shift was ending though, so when her colleague came in, she told her to keep an eye on Mono and the girl.

 Back in Sleepy Hollow, detectives were interviewing Shania’s family one by one. Officer Elizabeth Culver was the first to knock on the trailer home’s door where Antoinette, Brenda, Jerrold, and the kids were at. She also observed the nasty substance on the railings, but Antoinette had poured hot water on them in an attempt to clean it.

 The police also found a comforting blanket in a trash nearby. Jerrold said the blanket had been in the living room of their trailer recently. The blanket also had feces on it. When the police interviewed the family, they noticed they were all agitated in different ways. 7-year-old Carl wouldn’t answer a question without looking at his aunt for approval first.

 He said he remembered his little sister coming to bed on November 9th, but he didn’t remember her leaving the bedroom. However, he’d seen Mono inside the trailer park. But when the officers wanted to corroborate this story with Antoinette and Brenda, they hit a dead end. They were both looking at their phones and texting all the time, almost ignoring the cops in the room.

 So, Elizabeth Culver decided to bring them to the police station for an official interview. As Antoinette and Brenda were being driven down, Elizabeth and her partner Daniel looked at the CCTV footage around their trailer home. But it was the CCTV footage at the Comfort Inn Hotel that would reveal the mo

1. At 7:34 a.m., Mono left room 201 carrying Shania on his shoulder as he went into the elevator. He was still holding her this way as he left the hotel and walked down the sidewalk. When he exited the hotel, Matthew Argyle, the maintenance worker, noticed him and the girl who seemed to be in a deep sleep. He said, “Hello.

” trying to get Mono’s attention, but he just looked back at Matthew and said nothing. Matthew thought Mono was creepy, so he followed him subtly to the parking lot. Mono put Shaniya in the rear right passenger side of his car. Then, he got into the driver’s seat and lit up a cigarette. After he finished his cigarette, Mono drove to the front entrance of the hotel, where he entered on his own.

 He approached the new desk clerk, Regina, and asked her for a security deposit. He said he was going to drive her daughter to her mom in Virginia, as she told Jacquelyn earlier. Regina handed him a receipt, and off he went. Shortly after, a housekeeper came down to the reception to hand Regina something.

 She just cleaned room 201, and she found two small clear open plastic packets with white powder residue inside, possibly bags. When Regina saw the Amber Alert, too, she called the police. Around 8:00 a.m., Mono was driving down a highway when he texted Brenda, “Hey.” It was in reply to her own “Hey” some hours ago when they were trying to get a hold of him.

 But, by now, Brenda was being interrogated at the police station, and Mono’s phone was being tracked. So, Brenda wrote back to Mono, but their conversation was supervised. Brenda, “You’ve been to my house?” Mono, “No, why?” Brenda, “You lying.” Mono, “No. Can I come though?” Brenda, “Hell no.” Mono, “Damn, it’s like that? Him there?” Brenda, “Don’t text me no mo.

” Mono, “Sure, whatever. Who your baby dad call my baby my asking for me? What the hell is going on?” It’s funny. Mono was calling Brenda out for reaching out to April and asking about his whereabouts. Well, it’s not really funny because he had Shaniya’s dead body in his car. When the police made their way to the Comfort Inn after Regina called the Amber Alert hotline, room 201 had been partially cleaned.

 The trash had been taken out, and the towels had been removed, but the bedding had not been changed yet. Other detectives analyzed the hotel’s CCTV footage and concluded Mono was with Shanaya. FBI agent Frank Brostrom was in charge of analyzing Mono’s phone records. In the late afternoon of November 10th, Frank arrived at Sleepy Hollow together with the local police.

 By the end of the day, they had tracked Mono and Shanaya to the Highway 87 area between Spring Lake and Sanford. Also by the end of the day, Brenda had finally told the cops Carl had seen Mono at the trailer house the night before. Brenda also said she saw Mono trying to talk to Antoinette shortly before the incident. Antoinette’s response to the police, “I don’t have [ __ ] to say to you.

 I just want to know where my mother effing babies at.” On November 12th, Mono was found and arrested. His car was taken in as evidence and thoroughly analyzed by a forensics team. Shanaya had been missing for over two days now, but detectives were still hopeful she was alive. Mono was interviewed but told he was free to go if he wanted to.

 He wasn’t cuffed and his phone wasn’t taken away. In fact, he was allowed to use it during interview breaks. It was during this interview that he said he was the cheating type. This is how he justified that he was out on the streets on the night between November 9th and November 10th. However, he denied visiting Brenda’s trailer home that night and denied knowing who Shanaya was. Excuse me? He dated Brenda.

He was at her home several times. He knew Antoinette’s kids all too well. He denied knowing Shanaya, taking her, driving her, and even visiting the Comfort Inn Hotel. When the cops showed him a photo of him at the hotel, he still denied it. When they showed him the hotel records of a Mario McNeill checking in on the morning of November 10th, Mono said maybe he’d lost his ID and someone else checked in with it.

However, 54 minutes later, he admitted he was there with Shanaya. That night he said he received a text message from Brenda’s phone to come to Sleepy Hollow and pick Shaniya up on the porch. He did as he was told, then drove her to the hotel where he took white powder. Then, Mono said he got a call from an unknown person instructing him to take Shaniya to a dry cleaning establishment at the corner of Country Club Drive and Ramsey Street.

 He said he delivered Shaniya to a group of people driving a gray Nissan Maxima. Then, Mono said he was waiting for a call to come and kill her. FBI agent Frank Brostrom asked him to expand on that, but he would not. But, Brenda hadn’t texted Mono to pick Shaniya up and no unknown people had messaged or called him either.

 At the end of the interview, Mono was arrested and charged with the murder of Shaniya Davis. When it came to Antoinette, the interviews were filled with even more lies. First, she blamed her exes, her friends, and all those around her for everything that had gone wrong in her life. She was distracted and tried to distract the police officers from the actual question, what happened to Shaniya? Then, she went quiet.

 As the cops confronted her with more and more evidence, she kept saying, “I don’t have [ __ ] to say to you.” As if they knew where Shaniya was, but didn’t want to tell her. It was the other way around. Only she could shed some light. But, these detectives were well versed in homicide investigations. So, they knew when and where to apply pressure and how to get Antoinette to confess.

 Finally, she revealed her daughter had never been kidnapped. She pimped her out to Mono for a meek $200. She said, “I gave her to him to cover $200. He was only supposed to have sex.” Initial reports claimed that Antoinette owed Mono money for drugs. Through Cumberland County District Attorney Bill West later stated that this was not true.

 He said Mono had lent Antoinette $200 to buy food and pay for a hotel room when she and her children found themselves homeless. In either case, Antoinette didn’t have the money to pay Mono back. The intoxicated man told her he either wanted money or sex. And that’s when Antoinette offered him Shinaya. She was five years old.

Antoinette claimed that she tried to stop Mono from taking her daughter that night, but Billy West doesn’t believe her. Remember the feces found on the blanket and on the railings? According to him, this is proof Shinaya was hurt at her home. I don’t even know what to say about this, you guys. It is sickening that anyone would do this to a small child, but to think a mother could sell off her daughter this way, knowing what would happen, is unspeakable.

 He was only supposed to have sex as if that would have been a fair debt settlement. How would have Shinaya lived with this experience, knowing her mother let her be violated to get out of paying $200? Antoinette Davis was charged with human trafficking, conspiracy, kidnapping, sexual servitude, taking indecent liberties with a minor, and second-degree murder.

 On November 15th, one of the investigators handling this case, called Alan Rogers, Mono’s attorney. The police had received some vague tips about finding Shinaya’s body from Rogers, but this was a sort of telephone game. As Mono’s attorney, Rogers wasn’t supposed to help the police convict his client. So, he gave the DA some tips, and the DA told the police about this.

 Now, the investigator wanted Rogers to speak up. Shinaya’s body had to be found. After multiple back-and-forth phone calls, Rogers pointed the police to the spot in the woods they should be looking at. A big search team scoured the area for two days straight. At around 1:00 p.m. on November 16th, a week after Shinaya’s disappearance, her body was found under a log by an officer and his search dog.

Found her? All right, I’ll call him. Walk up here. We got a tip somebody in the parking lot said that they had heard on the news or something that they’d uh the guy admitted to killing the young child and dumping her where there was deer carcasses and trash. She was simply dumped in a shaded area near the intersection of Highway 87 and Walker Road.

 Mono hadn’t even gone through the trouble of digging a hole. She was partially naked and around her were indeed deer carcasses and trash. I don’t even know I’m a little overwhelmed right now. So it’s just it’s a lot. I’m just you know, I’m glad glad we’re able to help. Mario McNeill was charged with first-degree murder.

 His reaction Now according to the Fayetteville Observer, McNeill says his lawyer should not have told police where to find the girl saying it hurt his case. Mono showed no remorse and said no apology for doing the absolute worst to Shaniya. He loved being the center of attention. He continued to smirk and grimace at the cameras whenever they would film him in court.

 The Fayetteville police also found explicit images of a young girl on Mono’s phone. He was the absolute worst. Yet, he fought tooth and nail to get a light punishment. He filed pre-trial motions to avoid the prosecution from seeking the death penalty. He used the North Carolina Racial Justice Act. Yeah, right.

 Like that has anything to do with beating and killing a child. He recanted all statements made to officers and faked agreements between him and the prosecution. But none of his motions were accepted. His trial was truly chilling for all those who knew and loved Shaniya. These poor people had to listen to accounts of gruesome essay and murder.

 When Mono was done with Shaniya, he simply took her and then carried her limp body through the hotel as if she was simply asleep. The calm way he presented her as his daughter to the desk clerks and the way he simply ignored the maintenance man as he carried a child’s body inches away from him is hard to fathom. But imagine you’re Shinaya’s dad listening to all this.

I can never get Shinaya back. You had taken that from her. She was dying these four to three months. And nothing will ever diminish this pain. I think about those last seconds. And you was the last thing my daughter got to look at. Did Shinaya know her own mother picked her out and facilitated her death? If she did, it’s the worst possible death I can imagine.

And Walker hit this court laughing, joking like this is a joke. Shinaya wasn’t a joke. But her legacy is going to live on. You didn’t win. I could be angry and hateful towards you. It’s not going to fix this problem. You didn’t win. Shinaya won because she’s still alive. She’s speaking out, protecting people against people like you.

Other little kids. Exactly. Brad and the rest of Shinaya’s family would go on to raise awareness around her case and try to encourage other families to protect their children from kidnapping and neglective parents. Mario McNeill was charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping, SA, SA of a young child, and a dozen other charges. The verdict was simple.

The jury has returned as its recommendation as to the defendant Mario McNeill that he be sentenced to death. And the judge, well, he delivered one of the most heartfelt conclusions I’ve ever heard. You did not have to kill that child. Take him out of here now. I apologize for referring to Shinaya as victim. We’re talking about Shinaya’s body.

I apologize for you having to go through any of this. Indeed, he didn’t waste too much time speaking to Mono. There was nothing he could do to change him. He was evil, plain and simple. Instead, he addressed Brad and the rest of the family, knowing they needed all the comfort and closure they could get. I can’t give you justice.

This jury has given you what we as humans the best we as humans can do to give you justice. Justice would be if I could reverse all of this, and I can’t. I said a prayer for you every night of this trial, and I will continue to do so. There was one last chapter left to close this case.

 At the time of the arrest, Antoinette was pregnant. Yep, you heard that right. When she gave birth to the child, it was taken from her and put into foster care. She faced a long list of charges, but entered Alfred pleas, not pleading guilty, but admitting that the state has adequate evidence to convict her. The second-degree murder, human trafficking, conspiracy, kidnapping, sexual offense, sexual servitude, and taking indecent liberties with a minor.

 At the end of her sentencing, she said, I did the best I could with my children. I never said I was a perfect mother, but I was a good mother. I put I did my I did what I had to to provide for them. I did what I had to to make sure they was all right cuz I didn’t have any help from anybody. You sold your 5-year-old daughter as a sex slave.

 No, you were not a good mother, Antoinette. And yes, you did have help from a lot of people, and they were all better caretakers than you. Judge Jim Ammons told her, You could have saved your daughter’s life, and you did not. You had the time, the opportunity, and the means to save Shayna’s life, and you did not. You are not a good mother.

This did not have to happen. Take her away, please. A good mother is making a few mistakes, but good intentions. A good mother is caring for her child, no matter what, and doing her best to provide care, attention, and nurture. Antoinette might be one of the worst mothers out there. In July 2011, she was sentenced to 17 years in prison.

 She will also have to register as a sex offender once she is released. But, as Mono’s judge said, there is little justice in convicting these two people. It’s good they’re off the streets, but imagine the pain Brad, little Carl, and the rest of Shayna’s family have to live with. Brad was seen crying and borderline collapsing at the court hearings and candlelit vigils for his daughter.

But, I come to you with open arms, and I’m hurt. IT’S HURT. IT’S HURT, MAN. IT’S HURT. Bradley Lockhart could hardly speak. His legs shaking, he was held up by friends and by a crowd of hundreds around him. Don’t give up on me, and don’t give up on Shayna. She’s right there with you. People flooded a shopping center parking lot on Morganton Road, lighting candles in remembrance of 5-year-old Shayna Davis.

Just bless her and bless those who did not know no better. She was laid to rest at Fayetteville Memorial Cemetery with the inscription God’s angel called home. In a tragic twist, Shayna’s half-brother, Shavers Lockhart, was shot to death on May 25th, 2017. He was 20 years old and buried next to his little sister.

A family dealing with the unthinkable for a second time, the loss of a child. Eight years after the body of 5-year-old Shayna Davis was found in Sanford, her older half-brother was shot and killed. Shavers was killed at 9:30 p.m. at a different trailer park home while inside his car.

 Two teen boys were arrested for his murder. According to Sheriff Hubert Petterkin, drugs may have been involved in the murder motive. This is simply shocking. Remember Chavez’s mother Vicky Sue had also been killed along with her sister in a home robbery? It’s hard to imagine how this family lives with this amount of tragedy.

 In an interview with Oprah, Brad was asked if he would ever speak to Antwonette again. He said, “I just think it’s best that we let the justice system take its course. I try to keep my heart as pure as possible and I’m sure that one day I will be able to sit down and talk with her and try to understand what was going through her mind.

” Brad seems very wise considering what he went through. He’s hoping that Shania’s awful death will help keep other children safe through awareness and togetherness. Indeed, let us hope that horrible cases like these do have a silver lining. Without it, all of the suffering is in vain. Thanks for watching you guys. What are your thoughts on this case? Do you know of other similar stories? Let me know in the comment section and before you leave, make sure you like and subscribe.

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