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Officials Find 9-Year-Old Iowa Girl Missing Since 2005 Living Under False Name Created by Mother
FoxNews/AP ^ | 2/28/07 | AP

Posted on 02/28/2007 8:13:52 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo

A Burlington girl missing more than a year has been found in northern Mississippi in a run-down mobile home with her mother, who is accused of kidnapping the child and forcing her to use a fake name, authorities said.

Trashanda Waytes, 9, disappeared in November 2005, one month after a judge awarded her father custody of the child. Authorities said they used a tip to track the girl to Byhalia, Miss., on Tuesday night, and her father was traveling Wednesday to Mississippi to bring his daughter home.

Ron Waytes may be in for quite a shock when the two are reunited.

"She denied she was Trashanda Waytes," said David Jolley, a U.S. Marshal based in Memphis, Tenn. "She denied to officers she was the missing girl from Iowa the whole time, until her mother finally fessed up. ... Apparently the mother pressed it upon her that she follow this story — that the child go by the fake name. That's who she thought she was."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: found; kidnap
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We can always use some GOOD news.
1 posted on 02/28/2007 8:13:56 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: SoCal Pubbie

I'm guessing she's not particularly vulnerable to skin cancer.


3 posted on 02/28/2007 8:18:32 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

If my name was Trashanda, I think I'd deny it, too!

But I guess it's good that she's found.


4 posted on 02/28/2007 8:18:37 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
"Trashanda"?

Just damn.

5 posted on 02/28/2007 8:18:54 PM PST by SIDENET (Voting for a liberal doesn't advance Conservatism.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

"Trashanda"

I question the fitness of any parent, who would saddle their child with a name beginning with "trash." You just know where that's headed in middle school.


6 posted on 02/28/2007 8:19:10 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Nope. Here in Atlanta, a name like that would not even make one blink twice. Damn shame. Sorry, my son Traimequa just woke up and his mom Ashtrondia wants me to deal with him.


7 posted on 02/28/2007 8:20:59 PM PST by aliquando (A Scout is T, L, H, F, C, K, O, C, T, B, C, and R.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Who cares what her name is? My family is Welsh and we've got aunts and uncles with names like Olwyn, Blodwyn, and Enoch. By modern day American standards these are pretty weird too.

Thankfully the little girl was found safe, this is what people should care about... not what color her skin is. Get over it already people!


8 posted on 02/28/2007 8:23:57 PM PST by t_skoz ("let me be who I am - let me kick out the jams!")
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"Blodwyn"?

Just damn.

Sorry, I just had to do it.

9 posted on 02/28/2007 8:27:10 PM PST by SIDENET (Voting for a liberal doesn't advance Conservatism.)
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To: t_skoz

Thank you...

I was very close to having this thread pulled.


Sheesh......


10 posted on 02/28/2007 8:27:26 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily. Apply Sparingly.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
"She denied she was Trashanda Waytes,"

Can't say as I blame her.

11 posted on 02/28/2007 8:34:46 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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It's not he weirdness of the name. That's no surprise these days. But Trash-anda? What name was she living under, Garbasia, LaRefuse?
12 posted on 02/28/2007 8:45:17 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: aliquando

I knew a girl named Jayqucea. It was pronounced "Jock-see".


13 posted on 02/28/2007 8:48:22 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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Trashanda? "Living in a run down mobile home."

With a start like this in life, this girl has great potential for the future. She needs our prayers.

15 posted on 02/28/2007 9:14:02 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: RightOnline

Even made up names are okay with me. Silly sounding, maybe, but what the heck. But giving kids the chance to "trash" your kid's name is juts plain dumb!


16 posted on 02/28/2007 9:16:44 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: RightOnline

Fer crying out loud, you are right. Enoch is a pretty well known name. The Welshman needs to expand his reading to the Old Testament.


17 posted on 02/28/2007 9:18:28 PM PST by healy61
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To: SoCal Pubbie

I personally think Trashanda is a mighty fine trailer-park name. It might catch on. Its much better than Debbie-Lou or J-Lou-Ann.


18 posted on 02/28/2007 9:23:10 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: Right Wing Assault

How's about LaTreen?


19 posted on 02/28/2007 9:27:18 PM PST by Sherman Logan (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

I think you are talking about her younger sister, LaTreen ...


20 posted on 02/28/2007 9:39:18 PM PST by ikka (The US Catholic Bishops' position on immigration is objectively anti-American.)
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