The news
is late and I do apologize to my readers …
On December
3rd , De’Andre Lane was sentenced to life in prison in the death of Bianca Jones.
Bianca is the 2 year old baby from Detroit who went missing around this time
last year. De’Andre Lane told the Detroit Police Department and the media that
Bianca was kidnapped during a carjacking in his neighborhood.
De’Andre
further complicated the case when he and his lawyer appeared on the Nancy Grace
show (CNN) and failed to fully answer Nancy’s questions regarding the disappearance
of Bianca. Cadaver dogs were brought to the home and picked up the smell of
decomposing human remains. This evidence in turn was the cause of Lane’s
arrest. During the trial, Lane’s other child (one of seven) testified that her
Father beat Bianca with a wooden paddle because she had a bed wetting problem
the night prior to the carjacking/kidnapping incident. Another child testified
that Lane had Bianca’s car seat covered with a blanket when she was put in the
car the next day. Lane told the child that Bianca was sleeping. The child said
that Bianca usually snored a lot and was not snoring that day. That testimony
and evidence sealed the case for Lane and without any doubts the jury felt he
was guilty of the crime.
During the sentencing, De’Andre was escorted
from the courtroom because of loud outburst against the prosecuting attorney.
Banika Jones (Mother of Bianca Jones) believes that De’Andre is innocent of
murder. She stands by the fact that her
child is indeed missing. Her family and friends feel otherwise.
I
usually don’t give my personal opinion on case like these, but in this
situation I will. De’Andre Lane does indeed have a serious case on his hands.
The judge felt that he used the crime ridden state of the city of Detroit as a
scape goat so to speak in his carjacking/kidnapping story. True a lot of people
who have harmed their own children have went to the police and told these horrible
stories about hooded men that have carjacked them and taken their children. So
yes, we’ve heard it before. But for Banika Jones to feel De’Andre Lane was
innocent speaks volumes! This is a grieving mother who has to spend the rest of
her life wondering what happened to her baby. She is fully aware that Bianca
was in De’Andre’s care the night before her so called abduction and because of
him, she is gone forever. How could she conclude that he is innocent? Is she in
denial? Or does she feel this in her heart because she knows Lane well? Others
have said that even though De’Andre has seven children with seven different
women, he wasn’t a bad guy. He took care of his children and was friends with the
Jones family for many years. Perhaps, we are wrong. Perhaps, Lane isn’t guilty.
What do
you think?
