Jul 11, 2009
IMMOKALEE, Fla. - Six months after 6-year-old Adji Desir disappeared from outside his grandmother's Immokalee home, clues are drying up, but the boy's family isn't giving up.
Marie Neida has a brand new baby girl at home, but for six months, her first born, 6-year-old Adji, has been missing.
"I'm sad, I'm scared," Neida says.
She named her new born Adjiani, after her brother, but rather than being a namesake, Neida wishes Adji was home being a big brother.
"Adji don't see your sister, don't play with her," she says.
To this day, Neida believes someone took Adji from Farm Workers Village the night he disappeared.
The Collier County Sheriff's Office has investigated thousands of tips in the six months since Adji disappeared. So far none have led them to the boy.
Lead investigator Detective Ellen Kastner says he could be anywhere, even right here in Southwest Florida.
"Its possible he could have been taken out of state or out of country. He could be anywhere at this point," Collier County Sheriff's Det. Ellen Kastner says.
While kidnapping is a focus of the investigation, investigators are still looking into the possibility that Adji simply wandered off. Either way, the mysterious disappearance has people living in Farm Workers Village keeping a close eye on their children and grandchildren.
"When they're here with me, I'm out here with them or I have them inside the house. I'm not gonna let nothing happen to them, not if I can help it," Guadalupe Lopez says.
Adji's mother carries a picture of her missing son with her and his new sister everyday, hanging on to the hope that this family will be complete again soon.
"The police find Adji," Marie Neida hopes.
If you have any information on Adji Desir's whereabouts, call the Collier Sheriff's Office at 239-252-9300.
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