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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Update - Bianca Jones


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?  

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