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A In A Baltimore, Maryland, December 2,A 8 yr old Monica Ring never showed up at school. The 8 yr old honor student and peer counselor was said to be dropped of by the mother's boyfriend.
Regrettably, you probably know where this is going. Yesterday, police found her body (though as of this publishing it has not been substantiated).
In the days immediately after Marciana's disappearance, police also discovered inconsistencies in the boyfriend's account of the last morning the girl was seen alive.
Marciana's father, Marc "Starks" Ring Sr., told police that he went to his children's home at about 7:30 a.m. on Dec. 3 to take his 3-year-old son Marc Ring Jr. to day-care, according to court records. Ring told police that the boyfriend told him at that point that Marciana already had left the house to walk to school.
A neighbor, however, told investigators that she saw Marciana leave the apartment at about 8 a.m. and get into a vehicle driven by the boyfriend. Court records show that the boyfriend explained the discrepancy by saying that the girl had started to walk to school but returned home to have her homework signed by an adult.
The boyfriend said he then drove Marciana to school, but court records show that school officials called the girl's mother, Milagro White, during the day to say Marciana never arrived at class.
Two days later, on Dec. 5, White received by mail the scrawled, handwritten ransom note addressed to her children's father.
"To Starks: I want $5,000," the letter said. Riddled with misspellings, it went on: "Put in bag and put I men bathroom at Dru Hill Park by 8 p.m. tonight or the girl dies."
"If she die let just say we even, an eye for an eye," the letter said.
After being arrested on handgun charges Saturday (12-7) the boyfriend was released Sunday (12-8) on bail and is now (as of 12-13) missing and considered armed & dangerous.
Now my mission is not to deliver bad news, but to ask:
How hard is it for single moms to discern between looking for love and trying not to have a bad influence around your child? No one wants to be alone, but you don't want every Tom, Dick, & Harry around your child either. Do you have to become a private eye and investigate ever single man you meet or do you resign yourself to just being alone until they get old enough (whatever that age is). I'm sure Monica's mother will never be the same, please pray for her.
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