DickensBy Alicia Cruz
The Black Urban Times
The mother of a missing 10 month-old girl was arrested by Memphis police last week and charged with aggravated child abuse, according to Shelby County Jail and court records.
Shakara Dickens, 19, was taken into custody around 6 p.m. Tuesday and lodged into the Jail East for women while Homicide investigators, aided by dogs, searched her 4992 Yale Street apartment at the Raleigh Village Apartment Complex for any sign of her adorable missing daughter. Investigators collected items but did not find the missing child, Lauryn Dickens.
Baby LaurynThe mother told detectives that she had spoken with the child's father, Benjamin Norfleet, "about the welfare of the child and her not being able to care for the child properly," and that the father said he was sending a woman to Dickens' Raleigh apartment at about 11 a.m. to get the child. On September 7, the alleged woman, according to Dickens, showed up and she gave her child to this woman.
She did not report her daughter missing until September 15.
Dickens described the woman as a 40- to 50-year-old white woman with gray, shoulder-length, straight hair parted in the center. She was wearing glasses, a white button-down blouse, khaki capri shorts and white, closed-toe sandals.
Police contacted the father of the child and his mother, but neither could assist police with any information that would lead to the discovery of the child.
NorfleetNorfleet, 19, of Collierville has been in Shelby County Jail under a $1.1 million bond for vehicle burglary charges, according to jail records.
In April 2009, Norfleet was driving a white Hummer H2 on Shelby Drive that Memphis police were looking for in relation to a rash of vehicle burglaries at the Southland Mall. Court records show that Dickens was a passenger in the Hummer at the time Norfleet was stopped. The love birds were both charged by police for burglary of a motor vehicle, but prosecutors later dismissed the charge against Dickens.
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