It took hours of searching, but police found a missing little girl in the early hours of Saturday morning. One-year-old Zyia Roch-Quelle Alyssa Turner hadn't left her grandmother's Detroit home at all, it seems. The baby was found inside the closet, buried under some 20 pounds of clothing.
It's a heartbreaking end to what is already a sad story. Zyia's family called police late Friday afternoon, thinking she was gone. It would take hours for police to find her body inside the house ... after they searched the neighborhood.
According to police, her mom left the 17-month-old in the care of an uncle so she could go to a medical appointment. He went into his own bedroom, leaving little Zyia and some other children unsupervised for a short period of time.
Kind of makes you wonder why they didn't start the search for little Zyia inside, doesn't it? I'm not a cop, but we are talking babies after all. Crawling babies. Kids who love to disappear into any section of the house and hide.
I know parents who have found their kids under their own cribs after their backs were turned for just a second. Heading to the closet isn't exactly ... rocket science. So I'm more than a little curious how it took nine hours (the time between 4 p.m. when she was reported missing and 1 a.m. when she was found by a cadaver dog) until this missing baby was discovered.
I don't blame the family right now. I blame the searchers. What happened to common sense, people? Can you imagine the agony this family went through?
It seems like this isn't the first time police have found the body of a missing child closer to their own home than you would expect. Last week a missing boy in Michigan was found under his porch -- although reports are now pointing to the body having been moved. Zyia, on the other hand, seems to have spent the sad last moments of her life right there in the closet. And that makes my heart hurt.
What is the first thing you do when you can't find your child? Where is the very first place you would search?
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Comments 89
i agree that you stir people need to find something better to do with your time than this, aren't you moms too? because as a mother f two myself i am so busy and don't have time to find every depressing thing and write a story on it!
My kids delight in finding new places to hide. Everytime I think I've found them all, I'll find them in a dresser drawer or something.
My first thought would have been to tear my house apart, before I called the cops.
It's the family's fault. The searchers can only do so much with the information they're provided.
Why the hell did the guy leave children alone to go into a bedroom?
I don't lose my kids...I'm a funny parent, I keep an eye on them.
How the hell do you pronounce that name??
all over that house first
They def should have checked the WHOLE house before calling the police. And honestly should be charged with child endangerment or something to that effect, because apparently having all that mess everywhere was just as dangerous as leaving a knife or gun for the child to play with...