Mom charged with killing daughter, selling her for drugs

FAYETVILLE - Antoinette Davis, 27, has turned herself in to police in Fayetteville, North Carolina and charged with assisting in the rape and murder of her five-year-old daughter...

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Antoinette Davis, 27, has turned herself in to police in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Davis has been charged with first degree murder, taking indecent liberties with a child, child abuse, sexual servitude, rape of a child, sexual offense of a child by an adult offender, human trafficking, and making a false police report.

Her bail is set at $1.5 Million. There is no bail for the murder charge.

The body of Davis’ five-year-old daughter, Shaniya, was found on the side of a road on November 16, 2009. The Fayetteville Observer reports that Shaniya had been raped and strangled before her body was dumped.

It is also reported that Antoinette Davis allowed Mario Andrette McNeil, 31, to take her daughter as payment for a drug debt. McNeil was charged with first-degree rape, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree murder and has been in jail since his arrest two years ago.

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