SC FAYE SWETLIK: Missing from Cayce, SC - 10 Feb 2020 - Age 6 *Found Deceased*

Officials continue search for missing 6-year-old girl

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A little girl is missing from a neighborhood in Cayce.

They said she was on her normal bus from school but she never arrived home.

Family members started searching for Swetlik around 3:45 p.m. Authorities were alerted around 5 p.m.



Cayce officials searching for missing 6-year-old Faye Swetlik

Officials in Cayce are asking for the public's assistance finding a 6-year-old girl they say went missing from her neighborhood.

According to the Cayce Department of Public Safety took to social media of little Faye Marie Swetlik's disappearance. They say she was last seen in the Churchill Heights neighborhood of the city.


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UPDATE: Family, neighbors continue searching for missing six-year-old in Cayce

Multiple law enforcement agencies, along with family and neighbors, are searching for a missing six-year-old girl from Cayce.

According to the city of Cayce, Faye Marie Swetlik was last seen playing in front of her home in the Churchill Heights neighborhood.

An Amber Alert issue has not been ruled out. According to city officials, evidence and information is still being gathered to make that decision.

Neighbors and family members of Faye were seen walking around the neighborhood screaming Faye.

 

FBI and South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) officials are assisting Cayce officials in the investigation. SLED officials have sent regional investigative agents, a tracking team, and an aviation unit to search for the missing girl, according to sources.

She was reportedly playing in her yard in Cayce when she was last seen.

Authorities plan on searching throughout the night, sources told FITSNews.
 
I saw a press conference where the LE officer more than once repeats that she definitely got off the bus. I wonder if they can't say for sure about being seen playing in her yard because they have no way to verify it and someone told them that, whether a parent, a classmate, a neighbor so it is not necessarily tried and true fact, or perhaps two people said two different things that way?
 

Officials in Cayce, South Carolina are asking for the public’s help finding a 6-year-old girl they said disappeared Monday from her neighborhood.

Multiple law enforcement agencies, along with family and neighbors, are looking for Faye Marie Swetlik.

According to the Cayce Department of Public Safety, the little girl was last seen playing in front of her home after getting off the school bus in the Churchill Heights neighborhood of the city.

Police said Faye got off the bus and went home but around 3:45 p.m. her family could not find her. By 5 p.m., they called police to help look for her.

Swetlik lives with her mother but officials say they do not know who was home when she got off the bus.

Faye is lactose intolerant and has a speech impediment with a tethered tongue, according to police.
 

If anyone has any information on where she could be, the hotline number is (803) 205-4444.
 
It is a bit difficult to believe that LE does not know who was home when the daughter was to come home that day. I am not accusing anyone, simply saying that fact I imagine is known by them and was quite quickly so I assume it is being withheld for some reason.
 

Officials in Cayce, South Carolina are asking for the public’s help finding a 6-year-old girl they said disappeared Monday from her neighborhood.

Multiple law enforcement agencies, along with family and neighbors, are looking for Faye Marie Swetlik.

According to the Cayce Department of Public Safety, the little girl was last seen playing in front of her home after getting off the school bus in the Churchill Heights neighborhood of the city.

Police said Faye got off the bus and went home but around 3:45 p.m. her family could not find her. By 5 p.m., they called police to help look for her.

Swetlik lives with her mother but officials say they do not know who was home when she got off the bus.

Faye is lactose intolerant and has a speech impediment with a tethered tongue, according to police.
Poor kid! Tethered tongue is easily fixed and easily diagnosed in infancy.
 
It is a bit difficult to believe that LE does not know who was home when the daughter was to come home that day. I am not accusing anyone, simply saying that fact I imagine is known by them and was quite quickly so I assume it is being withheld for some reason.
If the bus has video of her leaving, I am sure they also have video of other aspects at that moment and possibly could see if she actually went towards her door or if anybody was outside right there at the time. Most of the buses that have that kind of a system also have forward and rear facing cameras and cameras can catch a lot of what is happening in the periphery.
 
If the bus has video of her leaving, I am sure they also have video of other aspects at that moment and possibly could see if she actually went towards her door or if anybody was outside right there at the time. Most of the buses that have that kind of a system also have forward and rear facing cameras and cameras can catch a lot of what is happening in the periphery.

That is encouraging. I would hope too it would show anything that may have occurred on the bus, whether any vehicles followed the bus, and people in the area, etc.
 
I looked it up as I had never heard of it and gathered the same thing, that there is surgery for it that fixes it. I wonder why she never had such a surgery or so it sounds.
It's just a simple clip of the skin in most cases. All they do is clip that little piece of skin that anchors the tongue. That same little flap of skin that anchors your lips to your gums is all they clip for lip tie. That's it. This poor kid has been having speech issues for what could have been most likely a simple procedure when she was an infant. Hopefully her case wasn't that simple for her to still have that issue.
 

Officials said investigators have not found any evidence of an abduction.

Earlier in the day, WIS reporter Caroline Hecker saw FBI agents scouring the property where Faye was last seen.

FBI agents are closely examining the back porch of the apartment Faye lived in with her mother. A lot of coolers and things in the yard. @wis10 pic.twitter.com/S0jcztVoN6
— Caroline Hecker (@CHecker_WIS) February 11, 2020

Officials said more than 100 FBI agents, police officers, family members and volunteers were searching for Faye.
 

In the latest update from police, officials said Faye’s mother, her mother’s boyfriend and Faye’s father are all cooperating with the investigation.

Right now the search for Faye remains focused on her neighborhood.

“We’ve not ruled anything out,” Snellgrove said. “We’re not sure that she hasn’t just walked off and is somewhere in the woods or at a neighbor’s house. Possibly in distress or fallen or something like that.”

Investigators have towed two cars away from the property. Snellgrove said the cars could be useful to the investigation, but didn’t provide more details.

Officials said they have found some useful surveillance footage so far.

 

Members of Swetlik’s family released the following statement to ABC News;

“Faye is a bubbly and happy little girl. She always wants to play and have fun. She’s not the type of kid that will up and walk away.

Her mom was very attentive in watching Faye. Faye pays attention to her surroundings.

Her grandmother is very distraught about what has happened because they are very close. We just want to find Faye and bring her home.”
 

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