The search for a missing 4-year-old has entered its third day, and the child’s father said people were “snooping” around the house.
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Father of missing 4-year-old says people were ‘snooping’ around the house before her disappearance
The search for a missing 4-year-old has entered its third day, and the child’s father said people were “snooping” around the house.
Since Javeayah Kemauni Harris was reported missing Tuesday night from her home in Aiken, South Carolina, authorities said they have searched 3,000 acres.
The search resumed Friday morning, Aiken County deputies said.
“Not knowing is killing me,” her father, Johmarea Harris,
told News 12. “It’s killing me, like, because, like, I mean, you see stuff like this often, but you don’t expect it to be you.”
As for the girl’s mom, “She’s still a little tore, but she’s making it,” he said.
Harris said that he was out of the house when the girl was reported missing, but he knew something was going on when he saw a lot of patrol vehicles in the area. He was doing laundry and had visited a convenience store, he said.
“I was seeing a lot of police and stuff going through. And I was wondering, I was like, you know what I’m saying, you know, a lot of stuff goes on in Aiken to where you would be, like, OK, it’s a police or whatever,” he said. “But you know, I didn’t know that it was my house. But my girlfriend, at the time she didn’t have service. She didn’t have a service on her phone, so she couldn’t call me to let me know anything that was going on. So she just ended up calling 911. So when I came back to the house, before I got on my road, I seen a police truck with a drone out.”
He said that’s when he sped up.
“Cause I was like, it’s something going down like close to my house. When I got turned on my road, I seen a whole bunch of police is like right in my house. So that’s when I hurried up and I got to the house and I was like, what’s going on?” he said. “I thought my girlfriend was in labor because she was supposed to have a baby. You know what I’m saying? So she ended up having a child that same night on July 1st. But she came up crying to me saying, Javeayah is missing.”
Harris also said that Javeayah was not one to run away and that, despite some media reports, there is no indication she’s autistic.
He said they have no idea what could have happened to her.
“I have no clue. Like, sir. I don’t. I don’t, like, it’s really wild, but I had, like I said, I had, I had gave all of these detectives information about people snooping around the house lately,” Harris said.
Javeayah was reportedly last seen playing with chickens in the family’s coop around 8 p.m. Tuesday night.
Aiken County Sheriff Marty Saywer said the information authorities have is that she wandered away on her own, and that, “this is still a search effort.”
