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Endangered Missing
Missing Date: Saturday 10th January 2009 Missing From: Immokalee Florida Missing Country: USA Sex: Male DOB: 15/Oct/2002 Age Now: 7 |
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Adji was last seen playing outside his grandmother’s house in Farm Worker Village in Immokalee on Jan. 10. There has been no sign of him since. He was last seen wearing a blue shirt with thin yellow stripes, blue shorts with flamingoes down the side and black and grey sneakers. A $23,500 reward from Crime Stoppers and a $10,000 reward from the FBI is available to anyone who can provide solid information as to Adji’s whereabouts and safe return. Anyone with any information is urged to call the Collier County Sheriff’s Office at 774-4434 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS. |
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I think about poor Adji quite
I think about poor Adji quite often and pray for His safe return. My prayers are also with His family.
Dear Little Adji.
I am hoping and praying for a miracle,you will be found.
You are loved and prayed for by many people,your mom is in our prayers too..Hugs sweet Child.
Thinking of Adji Today
My thoughts and prayers are with Adji and his family today, one year since he went missing.
One year ago today
This beautiful boy vanished from his home and has not been seen since. It is hard to believe a year has passed already and still no word on his where abouts. I think of him often and pray daily for him and his family. I pray God lights the way for us to find him and bring him home.
Adji is in our thoughts today.
It is a year today since Adji was last seen playing outside his grandmother’s house. Wherever you are Adji, you and your family are in our thoughts today.
1 year later, family & community still has hope of finding Adji
IMMOKALEE — The picture of the smiling boy hangs prominently in Marie Neida and Antal Elant’s Immokalee home.
It’s one of the many daily reminders of what they’ve lost and pray to someday regain.
“I feel that they will find him one day,” said Elant, 42. “Everyday I go out and I think I will get the call that they’ve found Adji... we must have patience.”
On Sunday, it will have been a year since the now 7-year-old Adji Desir was last seen playing outside his grandmother’s house in Farm Workers Village in Immokalee on Jan. 10, 2009, while his mother was at work.
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Whatever happened to? Investigation into missing Adji Desir
IMMOKALEE _ Christmas for the family of Adji Desir will be bittersweet this year.
The family members will mourn their first holiday season without Adji and celebrate his seven-month-old sister Adjiani’s first.
“I miss my son,” said Marie Neida, 36. “My heart is very sad. I need to see him again.”
It’s been 11 months since the now 7-year-old Adji was last seen playing outside of his grandmother’s house in Farm Worker Village in Immokalee on Jan. 10, while his mother was at work.
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Missing 10 months: Adji on cover of People Magazine
IMMOKALEE: The picture of a missing Immokalee boy will be on news stands across the county. Six-year-old Adji Desir is being featured in People Magazine's "Vanished Edition" on Friday.
NBC2 sat down with the boy's mother Wednesday night to talk about how her life as changed since her son disappeared.
Adji Desir is one of six children featured in the upcoming issue of People Magazine. His mother, Marie Neida, is holding on to hope that her son is safe and says she believes the article will provide new leads.
It's been a long and troubling 10 months for Neida. Every night she has trouble sleeping because she worries about her son.
"She is always thinking about him everyday because that's the first son god gave her," Neida's translator told NBC2.
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http://www.abc-7.com/Global/story.asp?S=11488886
Adju Desir
I know you probably gets hundreds of emails about Adji but would you PLEASE forward this to his mother: Marie Neida.
Mrs Neida
I am no one in particular just a mother whose heart has been tugged by Adji's picture. My daughter & I facillitate a 'Missing Person's' email prayer chain here in our little town. I have a 'prayer board' that I keep by my desk with pictures of some of the missing children that the Lord has laid a burden on my heart for!
Only our Lord knows WHY Adji is so close to my heart. My daily prayer for your precious son as I look at his picture is: "I will not forget! You are not forgotten!" No matter how long it takes he will be a part of my heart!!
I just wanted you to know that there are other people out here who agonize and pray for your son. My mothers heart goes out to you and the hundreds of other mothers and fathers who go through such horrible pain.
May it comfort your heart a little to know others love and care so much about your precious son also.
May God bring peace and comfort to your heart.
Judith Newton
1437 Porter St.
Ridgecrest, Ca. 93555
NEWTON697@msn.com
National flier plan to find Adji
Adji was last seen playing outside of his grandmother’s house in Farm Worker Village in Immokalee on Jan. 10, while his mother was at work.
As to what may have happened to the developmentally-challenged boy, Becker said that remains unknown.
“I have no idea what happened to Adji,” he said. “I wish I did so we could focus on one direction or the other. At this point we don’t know if it’s a case where Adji walked off and got lost, or Adji got picked up by somebody and taken away from Farm Workers Village.”
And as time goes on, Becker said authorities are more and more dependent on assistance from the public to try to crack the case.
That’s why Collier officials said the search for Adji would extend to the mailboxes of millions of residents across the United States.
Adji’s photo will be featured on national direct-mail advertising fliers to be distributed to 75 million homes across the United States from Nov. 8 through Dec. 13.
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http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/oct/15/search-adji-birthday-sparks-n...
Candlelight vigil held for Adji Desir
COLLIER COUNTY: A candlelight vigil was held Saturday night for Adji Desir who has been missing since January 10th 2009.
The vigil was held by a group of women from 'Families United To Bring Our Children Home'.
The Florida group is known for traveling the state to hold vigils for missing children, and each woman in the group has their own missing child.
They arrived in Collier County just days after Adji Desir's seventh birthday.
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http://www.abc-7.com/Global/story.asp?S=11332218
Thinking of Adji on his 7th birthday
Thinking of Adji on his 7th birthday
Thinking of Adji on his birthday
Thinking of Adji on His Birthday
Thinking of Adji today, his 7th Birthday
Today is missing Adji Desir birthday
Leads in the disappearance of Immokalee boy Adji Desir are drying up and on what is the boy’s seventh birthday, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office and investigators from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the FBI are spearheading a nationwide campaign to find information that will lead to Adji’s safe return.
Next month the search for Adji will extend to the mailboxes of millions across the nation, Sgt. Ken Becker of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office’s Major Crimes Bureau’s Exploitation Unit said.
“Today is Adji’s seventh birthday. The investigation is nine months old and the number of tips and leads have slowed down dramatically,” Becker said. “Over the last three months, only two new leads have come in.”Those tips have lead to nothing, Becker said.
Adji’s photo will be featured national direct-mail advertising fliers to be distributed to 75 million homes nationwide during the week of Nov. 8 through Dec. 13, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
The fliers will be distributed weekly by region and are scheduled to appear in Florida mailboxes the week of Nov. 15.
http://www.news-press.com/article/20091015/NEWS0119/91015004/1002/NEWS01
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Adji’s still missing, and parents at Golden Gate event
Adji’s still missing, and parents at Golden Gate event want their kids safe
That’s exactly why dozens of parents attended the Collier County Sheriff’s Office and The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s free services event to help families be prepared in case a child goes missing.
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Collier has faced its share of missing children in the past year, including Adji Desir, the missing Immokalee 6-year-old, who disappeared in January from outside his grandmother’s house at Farm Worker Village.
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Anyone with information about Adji’s whereabouts can call the Collier County Sheriff’s Office at 239-793-9300, or to remain anonymous call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS (8477). You can also visit www.colliersheriff.org.
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The search for Adji entering a new venue -- the Internet
The Collier County Sheriff’s Office has taken a new approach in the search for Adji Desir, the missing Immokalee 6-year-old, possibly initiating a new trend other area law enforcement agencies will pursue in the future.
On July 10, the six-month anniversary of Adji’s disappearance, Sheriff’s Office officials posted a video about the case to the agency’s many Internet presences and asked members of the public to share it on the Web, including their profiles on the social networking sites Facebook and MySpace.
Two missing child experts said this is the first time they have heard of law enforcement taking such actions.
“This is not standard for law enforcement to reach out to the community like this,” said Dave Thelen, who has been helping parents find missing children worldwide for 20 years. “It is a good thing, because overall they are doing something that I have rarely heard of law enforcement doing, which is thinking outside the box.”
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Six months later, still no sign of Adji Desir
IMMOKALEE, Fla. - Six months after 6-year-old Adji Desir disappeared from outside his grandmother's Immokalee home, clues are drying up, but the boy's family isn't giving up.
Marie Neida has a brand new baby girl at home, but for six months, her first born, 6-year-old Adji, has been missing.
"I'm sad, I'm scared," Neida says.
She named her new born Adjiani, after her brother, but rather than being a namesake, Neida wishes Adji was home being a big brother.
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http://www.winknews.com/news/local/50509357.html
Search for Adji, Collier County Sheriff's Office produces video
The Collier County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help as the search for 6-year-old Adji Desir continues.
CCSO has produced a video about the case and the agency is asking that everyone post it to their blogs, Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites and e-mail the link to it to everyone in their address book. The video's release today coincides with the six-month anniversary of Adji's disappearance.
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Parents of Adji Holding onto Hope
Time is the enemy for the parents of a missing child.
The first 72 hours are the most crucial.
After that, statistics show the chance of the child ever being found continuously falls.
It has been six months since six-year-old Immokalee resident Adji Desir disappeared from outside his grandmother’s house at Farm Workers Village.
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“As far as any tips, they’ve slowed down to about nothing,” said Sgt. Ken Becker with the Collier County Sheriff’s Office Special Crimes Bureau. “In the last three weeks, we probably got one. Other than that, we haven’t been getting any tips.”
And the majority of the case leads, Becker said, didn’t come from within Collier County.
One of the leads that arose soon after Adji went missing was that the developmentally challenged boy could be in Haiti.
“That was something that we looked into early on,” said Becker, adding that the agency spoke with Adji’s biological father and that the boy’s extended family members have taken fliers back and posted them in Haiti. “There is no indication at this point that he is in Haiti.”
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Psychic believes missing Adji may still be in Immokalee area
IMMOKALEE — A nationally known psychic continued her search Saturday for a missing Immokalee boy, suggesting at one point that he still may be in the Immokalee area.
Gale St. John continued to search for 6-year-old Adji Desir, who has been missing from his home in Farm Workers Village since Jan. 10.
“It’s not only about being psychic always, it’s about properly searching the area,” St. John said Saturday.
On day three of her search, St. John, along with her daughter, Tamra, and a Naples volunteer physically searched a wooded area behind the Immokalee housing complex.
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My thoughts are with the
My thoughts are with the family now. It's so discouraging that this case wasn't headline news for months like some previous missing children cases. All missing children should be a priority. I sincerely hope this little boy is found so the family can find closure.
In Our Thoughts Adji - Wishing You Home
Detractors don't detour psychic's search for Adji in Immokalee
IMMOKALEE — You won’t see Gale St. John walking around with a crystal ball or standing about with her arms outstretched asking for divine intervention — that’s not her style.
“We were out here around 6:30 a.m.,” St. John, 50, said Thursday. “We don’t want to draw too much attention. It’s hard to work, when you have that going on.”
However, St. John, a nationally-known psychic, has started making the rounds in Immokalee to help in the search of 6-year-old Adji Desir, who has been missing from Farm Workers Village since Jan. 10.
In an interview at the Village, St. John said she came down to Florida to help with the Adji case after a number of requests for help from concerned residents.
“So many citizens of the state of Florida kept e-mailing me and asking me, ‘Could you please come down and look into the Adji and Haleigh case,” St. John said.
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http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/apr/16/psychic-searches-adji-immokalee-area/
Ummm.......
:'( It angers me that we are still hearing coverage about the Anthony's! What happened to this little girl is a travesty but, we know where she is. Nancy Grace, shame on you for not profiling other kids like Adji on your show. It goes back to money money money. Damn this world!!!!
Lack of Media Coverage of Missing Kids
I agree! I, also, hate what has happened to Caylee. Also, I'm getting tired of hearing about Michael Jackson's three kids as well as the eight Gosselyn kids. At least we know where all these kids are. I seek, in vain, to find any more coverage of currently missing kids. I have heard coverage of Adji for months, though he has never been found. There are other kids that have been covered in the national new, until, it seems, micheal Jackson's tragic death. I hate what has happened to MJ, but at least we know where he is. We don't know where kids like Lindsey Baum, Brittinie Drexel, Adji Desir, and others are tonight. The media can do much more to make these and other missing kids high-profile stories (as they did for Elizabeth Smart). Instead, they seem to prefer to cover the stuff that drives up the ratings, like scandals, especially of celebrities, and what killed MJ? It's all about ratings! I guess they're under pressure to keep up the ratings, but I just wish fervently that they would give these missing kids more coverage!
I agree..
I agree..
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Adji Please Come Home
Three months later, the question remains: What happened to Adji?
IMMOKALEE — For Marie Neida, the horror of her son going missing continues to dominate every facet of her life.
“I pray to God for my son to come back home,” Neida said Friday.
It’s been about three months since 6-year-old Adji Desir disappeared from outside his grandmother’s house at Farm Workers Village in Immokalee.
Since then, Neida and her family members have tried to continue with their daily lives, while passing out fliers with her son’s information and keeping in touch with the Collier County Sheriff’s Office for updates on the case.
“My family is so-so,” Neida, 36, said in a sad voice. “I’m so-so.”
The situation has taken an emotional and psychological toll on the family, but especially on Neida and Adji’s grandmother, Jesula Thebaud, 55, said Neida’s husband, Antal Elant, 42.
“They don’t sleep at night,” Elant said. “Nobody sleeps.”
Elant said the family prays daily for the safe return of Adji.
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New search for Adji
IMMOKALEE, Fla. - WINK News has learned the Collier County Sheriff's Office conducted a new search for missing six year old Adji Desir.
On Saturday Sheriff's Deputies did a low-key search in areas of Immokalee for the missing child.
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National exposure of missing boy brings in new leads - Adji
National exposure of missing boy brings in several new leads
The Collier County Sheriff’s Office received seven new leads into the disappearance of 6-year-old Adji Desir after his case was featured last Saturday on the "America’s Most Wanted" television program.
"You never ever know when you go on any show whether your going to get a lot or a little," agency spokeswoman Karie Partington said. "Its a matter of getting the right one."
The Sheriff’s Office also released a new photo of Adji on Wednesday, in which he is wearing the two-tone, blue sneakers he wore the day he disappeared. Investigators hope the sneakers will generate fresh leads.
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http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/mar/04/national-exposure-missing-boy-brings-several-new-l/
adji desir
Bekki....no, there is at least two more wanting to know the same thing.... my mother and myself...
Some kind of up date would be nice....
adji desir
Have there been any leads or breaks at all in this case? Why is it so low profile compared to the other recent cases? And am I the only one who wonders why this is the 3rd missing child in the state of Florida in recent months?
Adji Desir on America's Most Wanted
The Collier County, Fla. Sheriff's Office and more than 100 officers from nearby agencies have desperately searched for Adji Desir, a 6-year-old boy who has been missing since January 2009.
Police say Adji, whose nickname is "Ji Ji" (pronounced "Gee Gee") was at his grandmother’s home for the day while his mother was working. The boy's grandmother lives in Farm Workers Village in Immokalee, Fla.
Adji was last seen around 5:15 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009. Investigator Maria Butrico with the Collier County Sheriff's Office told AMW that Adji went outside to play with some friends, and at some point, he disappeared.
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http://www.amw.com/missing_children/case.cfm?id=62497
Thinking of Adji and his family
I agree, all missing children should get the same coverage, every child is as important as the next. We hear very little about Adji, but we're still thinking of him and hopefully when he's featured on AMW on 28th Feb they will get closer to finding him
FOR ALL MISSING CHILDREN
I AM JUST EXPRESS MY THOUGHT'S IN REGUARD TO WHAT THE MEDIA CAN DO TO GET THE FACES OF ALL MISSING CHILDREN OUT TO THE PUBLIC NOT SURE HOW MUCH IT WOULD COST TAXES PAYER'S BUT WHY NOT USE THE SUPERBOWL HALF TIME SHOW AS A STAGE OR THE NBA FINAL'S/OR ALL THE MAJOR SPORTING EVENT'S TO LET OUR KID'S KNOW THAT WE ARE LOOKING TO BRING THEM HOME LET'S USE THE MEDIA AS WELL AS HOLLYWOOD THE GOLDEN GOLBA'S AWARD'S MILLION'S PEOPLE WATCH THESE EVENT'S WHO CAN HELP BRING ONE CHILD HOME EVERYDAY WELL JUST THINK ABOUT IT.
MISSING 6YRS ADJI DESIR
WELL MY QUESTION IS THIS WHY HAVEN'T ADJI DESIR CASE HASN'T BEEN IN THE MEDIA LIKE THE ANTHONY'S OR THE CUMMING'S I MEAN HE'S STILL MISSING RIGHT? AND LIVES IN THE FLORDIA AREA JUST LIKE THE TWO OTHER CHILDREN THAT ARE MISSING NANCY GRACE HASN'T SAID MUCH ABOUT HIM OR THE FAMILY SINCE THE CASE WAS REPORTED.
PRAYERS FOR ADJI
We live to far away to help in the search for Adji. However, Adji and his family are in our thoughts and prayers. It is a shame that this precious child's face isn't shown daily on every major network - if anybody needs lots of news coverage, it is little Adji. God bless you baby.
Adji's disappearance on AMW again
The search for missing 6-year-old Adji Desir will be profiled on America's Most Wanted a week from now.
Desir has been missing from the Immokalee area since January 11th.
"Having this national exposure is what we've been working for," said Lieutenant Tom Smith of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office. "This is a big deal for us and the investigation."
Deputies, other law enforcement and volunteers conducted several full-scale searches of the area, but found no sign of the missing boy.
A crew from Americas Most Wanted spent three hours Friday talking to investigators and Desir's family.
The story is expected to run February 28th as part of an 8-minute piece about missing children across the country.
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http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=26260&z=3
America Most Wanted - Adji
This is great news - some much needed focus on Adji's case - thank you nbc xx
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Adji's story gaining more national attention
The case of missing 6-year-old Adji Desir is getting more national exposure. On Friday, a crew from 'America's Most Wanted' filmed at Farm Worker Village.
"National exposure is huge in any case especially missing kids," says America's Most Wanted producer Cindy Anderson. "If it's an abduction they usually leave the area."
The crew retraced Adji's steps, talked with his family and with investigators.
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