Police Still Searching For 3-Year-Old Aliayah Lunsford

Damn couldn’t they find a better picture of the poor girl? She looks so sad

Something doesn’t seem right to me.  If a child goes missing out of their room…(being 3 years old, and 30 lbs) I would NOT go driving around looking for them, unless I had reason to believe one of their friends were throwing a barbie party a couple blocks over she was grounded from. 

Sounds REALLY fishy she drove around until out of gas.  (Presumably at least an hour or longer, sorry if I missed the ‘exact’ driving/looking time.)

The child could NOT have gone that far.  An extensive search of the house, neighbors doors pounding, and a call to police would have been more productive instead of waiting for whatever time.

I hope this isn’t a parental involved thing.

You look at that little face and think “Why on Earth would anyone want to hurt anything as precious as that?” But I guess when people do horrible things to tiny children they aren’t thinking about how beautiful and precious they are. It’s unlikely she’s safe, but I’ll keep hoping.

I’d be sad in my photo too if I was forced to wear Dora pajamas.

Mom was sexually assaulted by a CO.

http://www.wvrecord.com/news/227420-woman-sues-correctional-officer-doc-for-sexual-misconduct

Another woman points finger at same CO:

http://www.wvrecord.com/news/226767-woman-sues-division-of-corrections-others-for-sexual-assault

Not sure if there’s a connection, but it’s interesting.

usually when a three year old loses front teeth like that it is from “bottle rot”.  Kids allowed to stay on the bottle for years, sometimes filled with soda.  This rots their teeth.  Just a guess on my part.

I’ve noticed that there are about 6 or so pictures of Aliayah circulating . Out of these pictures I have only seen one in which she smiling, and in that pic she’s eating Doritos, which would make almost any toddler happy as hell. All the other pics is this little girl not even remotely smiling, but looking straight up miserable. It’s odd. We hear horror stories of children who have endured in a few short years what no one should in an entire lifetime, but still manage to smile and glow with such beautiful  innocence, it’s bewildering. It’s what children seem to do, though. But this one…While they say you can’t judge a book by it’s cover, they also say a picture is worth a 1000 words

She was last seen at 6:30 and found to be missing around 3 hours later when Mom went to take her temperature and check on her.

I came on here to see if anyone mentioned this & it was the 1st one!! I’ve seen 4yrs, but typically not all 4 teeth. Hmmmmmmm…

Was it the other Lunsford child that was hidden in a closet in the home of her killer’s brother as the police went door to door looking for her?
I know police cant barge in and look around every neighbor’s home but you cant just knock on the door and say “Excuse me, did you happen to kidnap the little girl next door?”
This is a horrible situation all around.

I can’t imagine having to search for a 3yo that would involve me getting in a car before I called the police.  It’s not like she would be hopping the city bus and going any great distance.

I don’t know how this little one went missing, but I’m hoping and praying they find her alive and well.

As for her missing so many teeth, I, too, am thinking it’s from bottle rot. A friend of mine let her kid use a bottle until he was 4 because, in her words “he won’t shut up unless he has it and I can’t take his screaming anymore!” In this situation, maybe the mom felt the same way or didn’t have time to ween her off; with so many kids I’m surprised she has time to sleep!

All that being said, it’s a possibility she walked off on her own. I have this same fear for my future children and I already plan on putting safety latches on every door way up high so even if the child DOES unlock the deadbolt, there’s no way they’re unlocking the safety latch. You can never be too careful when you have little ones.

This doesn’t look good

That’s exactly what struck me as off. I have a 3 year old. If I ever wake up to find him gone I’m calling the cops immediately, I know people react differently in panic but this just seems off.

Who goes 3hrs without checking on their kid sick or not. I don’t think mom is being 100% about what happened to her daughter. If your 3 y/o goes missing you call the cops becoz they have an obligation to immediately begin searching for her. This isn’t a teenager or and adult so that whole wait 24hrs or even a few hours rule doesn’t apply. You get help ASAP, unless you have something to hide.

you’re onto something there!

I’m pretty much with all of you here. Something is not right at all here, mom’s story is really … off. I have a 3 year old and yeah, I too check on her more often than every 3 hours when she’s sick…

 I don’t get these “child missing from their bed”  stories Where the eff are the parents? are they not aware of their children/what’s going on in their homes, like, at all? My kid can’t even get up to pee in the middle of the night without me waking up and popping my head in to make sure everything is OK. No way in hell she would ever  get out on her own without me hearing her. Period.

Gut feeling is a bad one… and I have a bad vibe about her mom.. Is her dad  around at all?

People i’ve talked to say all the pics they can find of her she looks that way.

Do you think she might have passed away due to her high fever?  And, the Mom did not take her to the Dr. and she is scared her other children and the twins she is carrying might be taken away from her. She might have disposed of her little body while she was driving around all that time.  Maybe even went far away… Just a thought.  I hope this is not true but the story is not right…

Damn! thats what I was gonna send you for your b-day.

I have to say that while reading the article, this same thought crossed my mind; something happened and the mother was afraid her other children would get taken from her.

Yeah, when I saw it said she went driving around looking for her 3 year old I said out loud, “you have got to be fucking kidding me”. She is either really really stupid or she is lying. Even if I did chose to go looking instead of calling police, I wouldn’t go driving, I would be walking because a 3 year old would not get very far. I could see maybe 15 minutes go by before calling the police, enough time to check with those in the house, the yard and maybe a neighbor. After that, not calling the police is very suspicious.

It strikes me as odd that the mother got in the car and drove around for an hour before calling the cops.  I would think that every minute counts in a case like this, especially considering the baby’s age.

I hope it’s not found that a family member did something to that poor little thing.  I said something somewhere else about her looking sad in the pic and got shot down by someone who said that some people just take that kind of picture.  I’m not arguing but seriously, a three-year-old?  I don’t know too many 3′s that aren’t happy go lucky and adorably expressive.  She should not look sad in all her pics unless something horrible is going on in her life.

I am not going to assume that it’s a family member.  It could be something as uncomplicated as she wandered off and fell into the river, considering that the bloodhounds hit on that area.

This was my thought too. Or over medicating, which is common. Give a child Tylenol cold and Tylenol both and you have just over medicated your child.

Well looking at the video the two ladies don’t appear to be rocket scientists… just saying.

Was that the story where the family had been feeding the gator?

The gator was possibly a fed animal as it wasn’t afraid of humans. The thing that reminded me of this case is the girl was 2 years old and managed to climb a 4 foot fence.

http://www.sptimes.com/News/062601/TampaBay/Officials_confirm_all.shtml

That sounds very possible.

I strongly suspect that someone in this family knows more than they are owning up to knowing.

Her first instinct might have been to call the police but due the prison sentence and resulting lawsuit she brought for poor treatment she might have been wary of asking for their help. The lawsuit also has made me hope that this missing child isn’t some sort of retaliatory action toward the mother.

There is that……  Reluctance to turn to the police for help because of past bad experiences could explain what seems on the face of it to be suspicious. Could.

Since she looks so sad in all of her pictures, I have a very bad feeling that she was unhappy at home.  Even when my daughter looks grumpy in some pictures, she still has a light in her eyes.  This little one’s light is gone.  I would bet that the mother and/or stepfather killed her and disposed of her body in the river.

God, I can’t look at her picture without welling up.  I just want to take her in my arms, hold her, and give her a plate of homemade chocolate-chip cookies and a big glass of milk.

lmao ok.

lmao I was thinking munchkin and the Wizard Of Oz.

Gas is high as hell. Maybe she only had  1/4 tank

Sometimes, but I lost my first baby tooth at about 3 1/2, and was missing several within about a year after that. And it’s becoming more common for kids to have “early childhood cavities” for no known reason, and the dentist will just pull them before they can cause much trouble.

And to add to that, she was going to check her daughter’s temp, so the girl was sick…knowing my sick toddler wouldn’t be eager to get out of bed and run around would make me call the police even faster.

I tentatively agree with you.  It does sound suspicious that the mother didn’t call the police immediately.  However, I can understand her reluctance to call them.  I don’t trust the police–not one little bit.

I have an arrest record for the crime of being a victim of domestic violence.  (In domestic violence disputes in my county, the police arrest BOTH parties, even when the victim hasn’t hit back.  Their rationale is that the victim was probably hitting, too.)  Adjudication was withheld and it was 13 years ago, but the police in the incident didn’t treat me well.  I have scars on my wrists from the handcuffs.  And they repeatedly called me an “idiot” and “retarded” because I got “ticcy” and didn’t understand the Miranda rights.  (I refused to say anything after they said I had the right to remain silent.  I didn’t understand that it applied to interrogations.  So when the cop asked me “Do you understand?”  I just looked at her and after a few seconds, she shook her head and muttered, “idiot” and typed down, “she understands.”)  Several years after that, I was raped and called the police to report it.  The officer who responded didn’t believe me and told me that my reactions were “all wrong.”  (Under severe stress, I speak with a monotone, show no emotion, blink a lot and don’t look at people.)  Upon finding out that I’m autistic, the police offer said my condition made my word unreliable, so no report was filed and she told me to be grateful that they weren’t bringing charges against me.  So, no, I don’t have much confidence in the police.  In fact, I hate them.  As far as I’m concerned, most of them are criminals with badges.

However.  If my little boy (3 years old) went missing out his bedroom, I’d face police scrutiny for him.  His well-being and survival is everything to me.  It means more than my happiness, freedom and/or life.  As much as I hate those uniformed thugs, I’d call them immediately if it would increase the chance of my little boy being found safe and sound.

On another forum they claim the parents had been partying all night and were too drunk to take the lie detector. It’s quite possible then that someone else did walk out with the child. Lord knows who they would have had visiting.

Another theory was that perhaps that child is the result of the CO assault…

Marcus Maxine Stalnaker and Mary Geneva Friend these are the step dad’s grandmother and aunt from what I am hearing and they still have not been found!!

This is so sad. The other children have been removed from the home, and mom has a lawyer. I had so hoped this would have a better ending. =(

Aaliyah’s pic is the saddest faced baby Ive ever seen, maybe when she had the bag of fritos she smiled but for the most part she looks very sad… and forgive me for saying this because its off topic, but Ashton Marra looks like a hobbit, maybe Frodo or Sams sister…

New Search New Reward
National Recovery Team In Weston Searching For Aliayah Lunsford
New developments in the search for a missing Lewis County toddler.Aliayah Lunsford, 3, went missing from her Bendale home on September 24, 2011. On Monday, search efforts resumed, and a new reward is on the table in the case. A nationally known search and rescue crew just arrived in Weston. Their called P.P.P. Recovery, and their a national program of Patriot Outreach.P.P.P’s group has made it their mission to find Aliayah, and bring closure to a case that’s made few known strides almost five months later. Rachel Jackson is the national director and founder of P.P.P. which stands for “Ponies, Patriots, People.” They’re a non-profit agency that specializes in finding missing people. Jackson says they rescue horses, ponies, and dogs, with the help of patriots, who in turn, find the missing people. We have to be a child’s voice. We can’t let a child go quiet,” says Jackson”You don’t know if she’s alive, you don’t know if she’s passsed and this is just a constant grief,” explains Hunter Glass. Glass and Joe Nicholas (Joe Nick) make up her team. All are highly trained ex law enforcement officers that have taken up Aliayah’s case in a quest to dispel fact from fiction and bring the toddler home. “There’s a great chance that we may not find this little girl in five days. A phenominal chance. The odds are not in our favor but at least in five days we can maybe take this book and and cut it in half and make it a more truer novel,” explains Nicholas. The team has set up a command center of the Fraternal Order of Eagles lodge in Weston. They’re backed by a group of local volunteers, and they’re bringing new life to the search for Aliayah.”Everyday gets harder, everyday not knowing,” says Tina Smith, Aliayah’s great aunt. “We’re going to find this child,” says Vickie Bowen, another great aunt. P.P.P announced on Monday that an additional reward is being offered, but they won’t specify a dollar amount. This money will be on top of the $20,000 that is already being offered by the FBI.”I don’t care who did what, I just want to know where she’s at,” says Nicholas. “We have to come in and be her voice. We have to go looking for her. We have to try to not leave any stone unturned to try to find Aliayah,” says Jackson.The group is looking for volunteers for the rest of the week’s searches. If you want to help, go to the FOE Lodge on East Third Street off of Route 33 in Weston. [....]Vickie Bowen would like to extended a special thank you to John Goodwin, with John’s Tree Service, who is allowing them to use the FOE lodge. He also helped hang banners with Aliayah’s information
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http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/eyewitness/120206_8234.shtml

Thanks for the update, though it doesn’t look good.