Thanks, KDs. I had already those and understood that he was in Vietnam but I am wondering if he is back and what his reaction is. What a thing to deal with when out of the country. Just wondering if is back. Sherry
FBI Charges Woman With Faking Child's Disappearance The FBI has charged a Four Oaks woman with filing a false missing persons report last year that led hundreds of emergency workers on a meaningless search. On May 18, 2008, Rosnah Hasan Thomason said she was loading groceries into her car at Brightleaf Flea Market in Smithfield when she claimed her 3 year-old son, Siraj Munir ”Roji” Davenport, disappeared. Smithfield Police were soon joined by Johnston County sheriff’s deputies, the NC Highway Patrol, and FBI agents from North Carolina and Virginia in a search on ground and in the nearby Neuse River. During an eight minute 911 call, Thomason said, “He’s usually very, very good. He always follows me around.” However, witnesses never reported seeing a child with Thomason. There was also a 90-minute discrepancy in the time line as to when he was supposed to have vanished. FBI agents interviewed Thomason who said she spent the day before the alleged abduction at a Raleigh park. But during a court ordered search of her home, agents found evidence where she booked a flight from Raleigh-Durham Airport to Atlanta then Minneapolis – St. Paul with the child, but returned the same day without the 3 year-old. Also found during the search was an Internet printout dated six days before the alleged disappearance on how to report a child missing. During a second interview on May 19, 2009, Thomason admitted to lying about the abduction and claimed her brother, Kamarudin Hassan, forced her to turn her son over to him, in exchange for the safety of her boyfriend and the child’s father, David Davenport. The child, she claimed, would be returned in October 2008 when she signed over part of an inheritance. Hours later, agents determined Hassan and the child were on a flight to Japan. FBI and customs agents interviewed Hassan when he landed. Authorities then learned “Roji” was his son and Thomason had refused to return the child after a visit. In a six-page affidavit, FBI agent Michael Sutton said, “During the course of the investigation, dozens of local, state, federal and international resources were expended… The Amber Alert Network was activated, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children initiated a response, US assets overseas were involved, and an international flight was nearly diverted based on false information provided by Rosnah Thomason.” A trial date for Thomason on the federal charges has not been set. WTSB File Photos
