Police Need Help Finding Wandering Toddlers Family *Mom found*

[Whisper]

Toddler found wandering Western Hills Wal-Mart

WESTERN HILLS, OH (FOX19) -- Police are trying to locate the parent of a child found alone in a Wal-Mart store Thursday evening.

A short time after 6:30pm Cincinnati Police received a call fro the manager of the Wal-Mart store on Ferguson Road regarding an unattended child wandering the store.

Personal Crimes Unit along with Children Services went to the store and have the child in custody.

The child tells police that here name is "Bonya" and she is 3-years-old.

Anyone with information is asked to call the criminal Investigation Section at 513-352-3542 or Crimestoppers at 513-352-3040.

http://www.wxix.com/Global/story.asp?S=12443282

[Valasca]

Western Hills? Really? I'd have not thought of this area as being... cracktown.
Something MUST be wrong. I mean... She looks healthy and happy.

[thequeenofsorrow]

Oh she is too cute! I hope they find someone she knows soon!

[Silvahalo]

How can you not miss this sweetie, she's a doll!

I wonder what the circumstances are around Binah being abandoned...very cute child. She looks happy and well kept. Very curious.

[Whisper]

How can you not miss this sweetie, she's a doll!

I wonder what the circumstances are around Bonya being abandoned...very cute child. She looks happy and well kept. Very curious.

im not sure of how it happened but still nothing over the blotter

[Misskittychaos]

Could it be a case of the parents were broke and thought she'd be better off? Or please God not another case like Hannah Jackson, http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/s...Hannah+Jackson

[donegaveup]

What a smile she has. she lights up like a Christmas tree. Somebody HAS to be missing her. She looks like she never meets a stranger. Oh God I hope this is all just some crazy mix-up and that her safe little world has not been destroyed by some yet unknown evil.

[LadyCygnet]

What a cutie! I hope some good news comes in this case soon.

[Saffron]

Little Girl Left At Walmart Store

POSTED: 11:02 pm EDT May 6, 2010
UPDATED: 5:07 am EDT May 7, 2010


CINCINNATI --

Cincinnati police are asking for help locating the parents or guardians of a 3-year-old girl left at a Westside Walmart Thursday evening.
Employees at the Walmart on Ferguson Road said she was spotted about 6 p.m. wandering around with no one nearby. Managers thought someone would quickly come and claim her. When that didn't happen, they called police about 6:30 p.m.
Officers said the girl told them her name is "Bonya." She is now in the care of Children's Services until her parents or guardians can be tracked down.
Police are asking anyone who might know who this girl is to call CrimeStoppers at 513-352-3040.

http://www.wlwt.com/news/23481913/detail.html

She's an adorable little girl... hopefully this one doesn't end the same way as the one where the little one was abandoned in the gas station bathroom...

[TheMeaningOfItAll]

I hate stories like this. It's so hard to accept that there are children out there who are abandoned. I hope this little one has a happy future ahead of her. She must be incredibly scared.

[ineedanap]

I hope they find the parents/guardian and throw the book at them. Everyone knows Walmart eats babies!!!!!!!

[Saffron]

Western Hills? Really? I'd have not thought of this area as being... cracktown.
Something MUST be wrong. I mean... She looks healthy and happy.

Ferguson Rd. and Glenway Ave. are getting pretty seedy anymore... and this Walmart is really close to where they join.

[Valasca]

Ferguson Rd. and Glenway Ave. are getting pretty seedy anymore... and this Walmart is really close to where they join.

Been awhile since I was actually there.
I guess it had the potential to go to shit.

[Valasca]

After searching for 14 hours, Cincinnati police say they have located the mother of a 3-year-old girl who was found wandering alone in a Walmart store.

Police say a 3-year-old girl who says her name is Bonya was found wandering at the Walmart store on Ferguson Road in Westwood around 6:45 p.m. Thursday night.

Authorities were unable to locate the parents through the night, but reported around 9:15 a.m. Friday that they have found the mother.

The Personal Crimes unit says it's now trying to figure out who had custody of the girl when she was left alone. They indicate that the girl may have been with a relative or a babysitter last night.

Detectives have not released the name of Bonya's mother or her address.

Tips to Crimestoppers helped detectives find the mother.

The girl is currently at a foster home overseen by Hamilton County Job and Family Services.

Bryan Gregg, a spokesman for HCJFS, will appear at a Hamilton County Juvenile Court hearing at 11 a.m., attempting to claim custody of the girl on behalf of the county.

The incident is still under investigation.

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story...zBOK__PwQ.cspx

Now i realize the area is Westwood. Yeah, always had potential for going downhill.

[MC30]

i'll take her! she is too cute and crazy wants a little sister!

(wtf kind of person just leaves their kid at wal-mart?)

[Jaded]

(wtf kind of person just leaves their kid at wal-mart?)

Depends on the age, I think. I've been tempted with the teenagers a couple of times....

[Saffron]

They are saying that they aren't sure that the mother even has custody of the baby... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37009763

[Whisper]

Mother of Girl Left Alone At Walmart Facing Charges
Cincinnati Police say the mother of a toddler girl was left alone in the Westwood Walmart Thursday night is now facing a charge of child endangerment, although officers say she was *not* the same woman who was with the girl when she was left behind at the store. Police also say as soon as Moriyyah Israel is processed at the Hamilton County Jail, she will be taken to Juvenile Court for a custody hearing involving the girl-and nine other children.

Security cameras at the store on Ferguson Road in Westwood clearly show a woman walking into the store with the little girl at 5:57 p.m. Thursday night. Exactly 10 minutes later, the woman leaves the store-alone-and talking on her cell phone.

The little girl was spotted wandering around shortly afterward, by herself. She was taken to an office, given a snack and some crayons to color with and was able only to tell investigators that her name is Bonya and that she is around 3 years old. Police say she had bruises on her arms and legs, was dirty, and was not wearing any undies.
[...]

The little girl is now in the custody of Children's Services. There is a hearing later today where Children's Services will try to get custody of the girl and nine other children who reportedly live in the girl's home. Officials also say the father in this case is deceased.

http://www.local12.com/news/local/st...LQ.cspx?rss=30

[Saffron]

I don't understand exactly how the mother can be charged and her kids threatened to be taken away when she was abandoned by someone else?!?

[Silvahalo]

I don't understand exactly how the mother can be charged and her kids threatened to be taken away when she was abandoned by someone else?!?

I think we don't have all the info here. I would bet mom has something to do with having Bonya abandoned as she was. I look forward to updates on this one. I want to hear the whole story and how it is mom is charged....and who the heck was that woman that left Bonya there?

[Saffron]

According to the criminal complaint, the girl's biological mother, Moriayyh Israel, called the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services and claimed the girl, whose name is Binah Israel.

http://www.wlwt.com/news/23481913/detail.html

[Saffron]

picture of mama here... http://www.local12.com/content/break...v9nChjFLQ.cspx

[donegaveup]

FIFTEEN children? Holy labor pains.

[AngelFire]

She denied being the mother of such a beautiful child? Shit If I were the girl, I'd deny that the toad was my mother.

[Valasca]

FIFTEEN children? Holy labor pains.

[Valasca]

The mother of the children, Moriyyah Israel, 42, of Northside, has been charged with one count of child endangering. She was arrested about 11:30 a.m. Friday.

Israel will be sent to Hamilton County Juvenile Court for a custody hearing, said Deputy Chief Magistrate Carla Guenthner.

The father of the 10 children, Michael Israel, is deceased, Guenthner said. Officials think the father of an 11th child, whom they have not yet identified, is alive.

Brian Gregg, spokesman for the Department of Job and Family Services, said the children will be placed with relatives. Some will stay with an adult sibling, others will stay with one of two aunts.

“Our first choice is relatives and we think we have identified some,” he said.

According to a sworn statement by a social worker, the little girl was found in the Westwood Walmart. Police said she was found at 6:15 p.m. The social worker said Walmart security saw a woman, man and two young boys with the little girl, who told police her name was Bonya.

After checking out, the group left the store without the child, telling store staff Bonya was not their child. The store put out pages over loudspeakers four times at 10-minute intervals with no response. Police publicized the incident Thursday night.

Police said Friday the woman in store surveillance video that shows the child entering with a woman, who later leaves alone, is not the child’s mother. She is an unrelated shopper whom the child followed, and she took the child back into the store where she alerted employees to the situation.

Police said a Crime Stoppers tip led them to Israel. The county social worker said in her statement that Israel contacted family services Friday morning and claimed she was the mother of the child. Her nine other children are in her care.

This is not the first time the county has investigated the family, Gregg said. None of the previous abuse or neglect complaints were substantiated, so the investigations were closed. In some cases, services were provided to the family even though the complaints were unfounded.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/2...dy+of+children

[Tundratot]

So she was the one who left Binah at the store?

If you have 15 kids, and you know where they come from, why would you then abandon one -- probably the youngest one?

[thehesbomb]

Police charged a Northside woman with endangering children after she left her 3-year-old in a Walmart store Thursday night and didn’t realize the girl was missing until Friday morning, when a relative told her she had seen the child on the news.

The little girl, who told authorities her name is Binah, apparently followed several shoppers around the store on Ferguson Road in Westwood after being left there. At one point she followed a man, woman and two boys to the checkout area. Walmart security got involved when the group left the store without her, according to a sworn statement by a social worker. The group told security they didn’t know Binah.

Security made a series of announcements over the loudspeaker before calling police around 7 p.m.

Binah’s mother, who authorities say has 15 children, is 43-year-old Moriyyah Israel.

Hamilton County Job and Family Services was granted temporary custody of the little girl and her 10 minor siblings Friday.

Their mother was arrested Friday, charged with one count of child endangering.

Several of Israel’s family members attended her custody hearing Friday. They told the local media that Israel’s husband, Michael Israel, died in 2008, leaving his wife to care for all the children.

According to court documents Israel was served an eviction notice less than two weeks ago.

Brian Gregg, spokesman for the Department of Job and Family Services, said two children were placed with an adult sibling, and three aunts took three children each.

Police said a Crime Stoppers tip led them to Israel. The county social worker said in her statement that Israel contacted family services Friday morning and claimed she was the mother of the child.

This is not the first time the county has investigated the family, Gregg said; however, none of the previous abuse or neglect complaints were substantiated, so the investigations were closed.

Israel will be arraigned on the first-degree misdemeanor charge of endangering children at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Hamilton County Justice Center.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/A...irl-at-Walmart