Murder of Shaniya Davis

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On November 10, 2009, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, five-year-old Shaniya Davis (June 14, 2004 – November 10, 2009) was reported missing by her mother. Six days later, her body was discovered in a remote wooded area located in the boundaries of Lee and Harnett Counties. Investigations led to the arrests of Shaniya Davis's mother Antoinette Nicole Davis and a 29-year-old man named Mario Andrette McNeill (born April 30, 1980), and it was revealed that Antoinette pimped Shaniya to McNeill in order to pay off her drug debt, and McNeill took the girl to a hotel, where he sexually assaulted Shaniya before he killed her. McNeill was found guilty of multiple crimes, including first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping and sexual offence of a child, and sentenced to death on May 29, 2013, while Antoinette was sentenced to a minimum of 17 years' imprisonment for charges that include second-degree murder and human trafficking.

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