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Gabriel Falcon
AC360° Writer
The mother of a missing North Carolina girl has been charged in connection with her daughter's disappearance, the Fayetteville Police Department said in a statement released late Saturday night.
The mother, Antoinette Nicole Davis, has been charged with human trafficking, felony child abuse, prostitution, and filing a police report.
Authorities did not reveal the details surrounding the arrest, only to say that information they received today led them to file charges against Ms. Davis.
The whereabouts of her daughter, 5-year-old Shaniya Davis, remain unknown, police said. The girl has not been seen since early Tuesday morning when her mother told the police her daughter vanished from their mobile home. However, hotel surveillance video taken around the same time Shaniya was reported missing shows the girl in the company of a man identified as Mario Andrette McNeill. He has been charged with first degree kidnapping.
Kidnapping charges against another man, Clarence Coe, who was arrested on Thursday for allegedly abducting Shaniya, have been dropped.
Ms. Davis is currnelty being held in the Cumberland County Detention Center.
Investigators are hoping to find Shaniya Davis alive and bring her back safely.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts are being urged to contact the Fayetteville Police at 910-433-1856.
For more crime coverage go to cnn.com/crime.
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