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http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/236193-erica-lynn-parsons-search-for-parsons-missing-from-north-carolina-ramps-up/
Erica Lynn Parsons: Reported Missing Two Years Ago, Search Ramps Up After Adoptive Parents Hire Lawyer
August 8, 2013

Federal investigators are joining a search for Erica Lynn Parsons, a teenage girl who was reported missing nearly two years ago, after her parents have become increasingly uncooperative.

The FBI has joined Rowan County Sheriff’s Office deputies in the search, reported WBTV.

Parsons was last seen on November 19, 2011, but wasn’t reported missing until July 30 of this year.

Erica’s step-brother, James Parsons, last saw her, and told investigators that his parents told him that Erica went to stay with other family members when he asked about her.

Now the parents, Casey Stone Parsons and Sandy Parsons, have become increasingly uncooperative, say law enforcement officials.

“The parents have since hired a local attorney and refuse to cooperate further with Sheriff’s Investigators in this case,” deputies told WBTV.

The attorney, Carlyle Sherrill, said that the parents were contacted by Erica’s birth mother, a distant relative, who lives in the Asheville area. Erica visited a couple of times, returning to the Parsons after the visits, but on the third visit she never came back. 

“In February 2012, they received a phone call from her and she let them know in no uncertain terms she didn’t want to come back,” Sherrill said. “This is a rebellious teenager who seemed to be safe, seemed to be where she wants to be.”

Sherrill told WCNC: “My clients cooperated entirely with the sheriff’s office for two days, underwent extensive questioning by them, but the sheriff’s office was asking questions they didn’t know the answer to.”

On the other hand, grandfather Steve Parsons said that he’s concerned about Erica.

“If I could just know where she is at, I’ll be alright,” he said.

Investigators told WSOC that Parsons adopted parents have lied for two years about where they are. Also, family members said that she lived a tough life.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen Erica not scared,” said a family member, “You couldn’t speak to her because she was being punished you couldn’t look at her, she couldn’t look at you.”

“I have witnessed some of the abuse myself, yeah I know she was abused.”
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http://www.salisburypost.com/article/20130808/SP01/130809797/0/FRONTPAGE
Official: Parents of missing teen gave false information
August 8, 2013


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Erica Lynn Parsons, 15, has been missing since Nov. 19, 2011. Her older brother, James Parsons, reported her missing on July 30. He told authorities that, when he asked about her absence previously, his parents said she'd gone to live with other family members.
The teen's adoptive parents, Casey Stone Parsons and Sandy Parsons, initially talked with investigators, but became increasingly uncooperative, according to the Sheriff's Office.

Sheriff's Capt. John Sifford said the parents initially provided some information and possible leads to the location of Erica Parsons, saying she may be in Asheville with relatives, but investigators “have determined that the information the parents provided was not true.”
“ ... So far, none of the information provided by Casey and Sandy Parsons has been found to be factual, and none of the leads that have been received by the Sheriff's Office have provided the location of Erica Parsons,” Sifford wrote in a news release.

The couple hired local attorney Carlyle Sherrill a few days after detectives began their investigation.
Sherrill told a Post reporter Tuesday the couple had no known relatives in Asheville, but the girl's biological mother had ties to that city.
He said the parents indicated Erica was a “rebellious teenager.” Sherrill said the couple told him they spoke with the teen a while ago and she told them she did not want to return home.

Sherrill said Wednesday the parents were not being intentionally untruthful, but were providing law enforcement with information that was given to them.
“Someone's been lying to them. It's not that they were being dishonest. They were reporting what they were told,” he said.
Sherrill said Erica Parsons was picked up in a car by some people who the Parsons family had met through Erica's birth mother. He said the people gave the Parsons couple false names.

“The information provided to the Sheriff's Office is the information that my clients were informed of at the time,” Sherrill said.
Investigators have followed up on possible locations of Erica Parsons across the state, but so far none of the leads has led to the teen, Sifford said.

Erica is described as small for her age. She is Caucasian, 4 feet 5 inches tall, 85-90 pounds, with a thin build. She has brown hair and brown eyes.
The Rowan Sheriff's Office asks anyone with information about Erica Lynn Parsons to call 1st. Lt. Chad Moose at 704-216-8687 or Investigator Clint Mauldin at 704-216-8710.

http://myfox8.com/2013/08/10/adoptive-parents-say-they-think-missing-salisbury-teen-is-ok/
Adoptive parents say they think missing Salisbury teen is OK
Posted on: 1:25 pm, August 10, 2013, by Web Staff, updated on: 09:07am, August 11, 2013

SALISBURY, N.C. — A Rowan County couple is speaking out after their teenage daughter disappeared nearly two years ago but was reported missing only a few weeks ago.
Casey Stone Parsons and Sandy Parsons spoke with various news agencies earlier this week, after their now 15-year-old adopted daughter Erica Parsons was reported missing.
The couple told The Salisbury Post they believe the teen is likely OK and simply too scared to come forward because police are looking for her.
Casey and Sandy Parsons told WBTV they didn’t do anything wrong. They said Erica went for a three-week Christmas visit with her grandmother, Irene Goodman, in 2011 and they believed she would be fine.
They said Erica called two months later to say she was wasn’t coming back – and they accepted it.
However, WSOC reported that no relatives of the teen could be found in Asheville.
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Deputies said Erica’s adoptive parents initially talked with investigators, but became “increasingly uncooperative.”
Erica Parsons’ brother, James Parsons, reported the teen missing to the Sheriff’s Office on July 30. James Parson said she has not been seen since November 2011.
She was reportedly last seen on November 19, 2011 at a home along the 200-block of Miller Chapel Road in Salisbury when she was 13.
The Parsons said they believe their son reported Erica missing because he wanted to get revenge. Before she was reported missing, they said they kicked their son out of the house because he allegedly hit his mother.
James Parsons told investigators that his parents said Erica went to stay with other family members, when he asked where she was.
WBTV also spoke with Erica’s biological mother, Carolyn Parsons. Carolyn is a relative of Sandy and Casey Parsons.
“This is my kid. Imagine if it was you. How would you feel? I feel like I’m in somebody’s nightmare and they will not wake up and let me out,” she said.
Casey and Sandy Parsons’ attorney, Carlyle Sherrill, told WBTV that his clients were contacted by Erica’s birth mother in 2011. She introduced the family to a relative who lived in the Asheville area.
Sherrill said the Parsons let Erica visit her grandmother three times and after the third visit Erica never came back home.
“In February 2012, they received a phone call from her and she let them know in no uncertain terms she didn’t want to come back,” Sherrill told WBTV. “This is a rebellious teenager who seemed to be safe, seemed to be where she wants to be.”
Sherrill said the couple didn’t report Erica missing because they thought she just decided not to come back.
The Parsons said when Erica’s brother, James, went to investigators and said something was wrong, detectives showed up at their house.
“(Police said) we had killed Erica and buried her in our backyard,” Casey Parsons said. “We told them ‘Go do what you want to the house. Look. Go dig the yard up. Erica is not in this yard. Erica is fine. She’s with Nan – she’s with her grandmother’.”
Investigators said they have not found Erica. Police said the investigation is continuing and the Department of Social Services is now involved.
The Parsons said social workers took their two younger children.
“We had done nothing wrong to these kids or Erica. Nothing,” Casey Parsons said. “Even the social worker wrote on the paper we had nothing, there was nothing wrong with us to put our kids in danger.”
Casey Parsons said Erica was with her grandparent, completely safe and having fun.
“She loves Nan,” Casey Parsons said, referring to the grandmother. “I met Nan. I talked to Nan. Nan is a very good lady.”
The Parsons said they cooperated with police. The sheriff’s office said detectives checked out the information the Parsons gave them but police said the information didn’t pan out.
The couple said they then called an attorney because they started to feel like investigators suspected they had hurt Erica.
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Sherrill said he and the Parsonses have agreed to appear on the “Dr. Phil” show to share their story.

Watch the video at link.  Do you believe them?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2386910/Erica-Lynn-Parsons-Mystery-adopted-girl-15-reported-missing-TWO-YEARS-seen-2011.html
Mystery of girl, 15, who was only reported missing by her brother - and not her parents - TWO YEARS after she was last seen
August 8, 2013

* Erica Lynn Parsons, 15, last seen November 19, 2011, leaving adoptive parents' home in Salisbury, North Carolina
* Case and Sandy Parsons' lawyer claims Erica called in February 2012 to say she wants to stay with her birth parents
* Police unable to track down Erica's biological parents because people who took her used fake name


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Without a trace: Erica Lynn Parsons, 15, was reported missing by her 19-year-old brother last week after she was last seen in Salisbury, North Carolina, in November 2011

Police in North Carolina say the adoptive parents of a 15-year-old girl missing since 2011 did not report her disappearance for two years - and now they are refusing to cooperate with the investigation.

Erica Lynn Parsons was reported missing by her 19-year-old brother last week after she was last seen leaving the Salisbury home of her parents in November 2011.

An attorney hired by Erica's adoptive parents, Casey and Sandy Parsons, claimed that his clients were under the impression that the 15-year-old went to live with her biological mother and wanted to be left alone, the Charlotte ******* reported.

The lawyer, Carlyle Sherrill, said that two years ago, a person claiming to be a relative or friend of Erica's birth parents came by Parsonses' home on Miller Chapel Road to pick her up and take her to her family.

The adoptive parents said they did not raise an alarm at the time because Erica visited that person in Asheville on several occasions.

According to Sherrill, In February 2012, Erica called the Parsonses and informed them in no uncertain terms that she was not coming back because she did not want to live with them anymore, Asheville Citizen-Times reported.

‘They looked at it as being a rebellious teenager. That was an attitude they took,’ Sherrill said. ‘I don't know that at any time it dawned on them she was a missing person.’
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Two years she has been missing!!! And she is just now  reported missing. What is wrong with people. It doesn't sound good. ::MonkeyNoNo::

No, it doesn't sound good at all.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

And it was her 19 yo brother that reported her missing, not the adoptive parents. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2386910/Erica-Lynn-Parsons-Mystery-adopted-girl-15-reported-missing-TWO-YEARS-seen-2011.html

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'Rebellious teen:' Erica, who was adopted by the Parsons family when she was 2 weeks ago, allegedly informed them by phone that she does not want to return home and plans to stay with her birth parents' relatives

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WCNC
Last sighting: Erica has been missing since November 19, 2011, when she left her adoptive parents' home on Miller Chapel Road in Salisbury

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2386910/Erica-Lynn-Parsons-Mystery-adopted-girl-15-reported-missing-TWO-YEARS-seen-2011.html


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Worst fears: The girl's adoptive grandparents, Janet and Steven Parsons, are afraid that something happened to Erica, and their son, Erica's father, and his wife are not telling them the truth

Totally shocking!  Federal investigators should be able to immediately determine if she is where they claim she is or not.  Apparently not.

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/investigators-close-road-near-parsons-home/nZN45/

 ::snipping3::Eyewitness News was first alerted to the scene where police had the road near the home shut down around 11:15 a.m.
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"One police officer showed up and next thing you know there was probably 25 or 30 cars there," said Jerry Fairbank. "They are going in the house. They are walking around the house."
Investigators searching Erica Parsons' home ::snipping3::

Video at link! Police and FBI still on the scene as of 6:30 pm EDT.

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/dss-documents-shed-light-concerns-involving-missin/nZKh3/

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The DSS documents show at least one person was concerned Erica was being abused almost a decade before she disappeared. The documents state that person saw Erica when she was only 4 years old with "four marks on her rear end, a long one down the back of her leg and a couple on the side of her face."

A woman involved in the child abuse investigation said she stands by what was in that report.

 ::snipping3::CASE TIMELINE:
February 2010 – 16-year-old James Parsons arrested for biting younger brother
August 2011 – Domestic violence call involving 3-year-old child, court records show, charges later dismissed
November 2011 – Erica Parsons last seen by grandparents
2012 – Missing-persons report filed for Erica’s adoptive sister, Brooke Parsons
July 2013 – Erica Parsons reported missing by James Parsons

There is a video at this link also and the reporter was talking about some other trouble, something about Erica's adopted mom and being a surrugate mother and trying to con people out of money. This story is just heartbreaking and so confusing. The Nan that Erica was suppose to be visiting in Ashville was found to have died 5 yrs ago. 

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/court-records-several-calls-help-made-home-missing/nZJSZ/ ::snipping3::


Through records requests, Channel 9 learned that in the past two years, Rowan County sheriff's deputies have been called to the home seven different times, sometimes for 911 calls about violent incidents in the home.

Officials at the Rowan County Emergency Communications Center told Channel 9 that in August 2011, deputies were called to the home for a domestic violence incident while a 3-year-old child was inside the house.

That call was just a few months before authorities say Parsons disappeared.

Her parents told investigators she was going to Asheville to visit her biological grandmother, but now authorities say they were lying.

In 2012, authorities said someone at the home filed a missing-persons report not for Erica, but for her adopted sister, Brooke.

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/rowan-investigators-adoptive-parents-not-cooperati/nZHDX/

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/adoptive-mother-missing-teen-hospitalized/nZPxB/

Video at link also items taken in the search warrant yesterday.

http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Wall-checked-for-blood-at-missing-NC-teen-s-home-4736242.php
Wall checked for blood at missing NC teen's home
August 15, 2013
SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) — Search warrants issued in the disappearance of a North Carolina teenager said investigators seized stained flooring and baseboard's from the girl's home and were checking red-stained drywall for blood, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Investigators also found a book about the disappearance of JonBenet Ramsey and plastic bag with magazines about the 6-year-old, who was found dead in her Colorado home in 1996, the Salisbury Post reported. Her killing was never solved.

Authorities also took out two large knives covered with shrink wrap. Police are trying find out what happened to Erica Lynn Parsons, who was 13 when she was last seen in November 2011 and was reported missing July 30 by her older adoptive brother.

Sandy and Casey Parsons have said their adopted daughter went to live with her biological grandmother in Asheville, but the Rowan County sheriff's office says that information hasn't checked out.

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Authorities began searching the property on Wednesday.

Sherrill also said Casey Parsons was hospitalized at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem to undergo emergency surgery for what he said were complications with a medical problem. There was no word on her condition from the hospital Thursday afternoon.

The warrants also say bank records show the Parsonses continued to cash support payments for Erica's care after the girl had left the home. The couple told reporters last week they continued to take the payments because Erica's health insurance was tied to the payments.

http://www.wcnc.com/news/searching-for-erica/Parsonses-move-out-of-Salisbury-home-221339221.html

http://www.wcnc.com/news/searching-for-erica/Sandy-Parsons-responds-to-Ericas-candlelight-vigil-She-aint-dead-221018371.html

http://www.wcnc.com/news/searching-for-erica/Investigators-seize-property-from-Sandy-Parsons-fathers-house-220572471.html

http://www.wcnc.com/news/searching-for-erica/Dr-Phil-appearance-leaves-more-questions-in-Parsons-case-220417851.html

some news articles and an age progression pic. I don't think this sweet Angel has progressed past the age of 13. So sad.

http://www.wcnc.com/news/searching-for-erica/Dr-Phil-appearance-leaves-more-questions-in-Parsons-case-220417851.html

http://www.wcnc.com/news/searching-for-erica/Electronic-billboards-to-aid-in-finding-missing-teen-Erica-Parsons-220970431.html

http://www.wcnc.com/news/searching-for-erica/Sandy-Parsons-responds-to-Ericas-candlelight-vigil-She-aint-dead-221018371.html

http://www.wcnc.com/news/searching-for-erica/Raw-Video-Erica-Parsons-uncle-speaks-out-221007431.html

http://www.wcnc.com/news/searching-for-erica/Parsonses-move-out-of-Salisbury-home-221339221.html

Some news articles . Sadly I think this little sweetheart is in Heaven.

BBM
Darla, I think you are right . . . this poor, precious child.
 ::MonkeyTears::

I know it's been said so many times before, but here's another case of a child that never had a chance.  Erica was failed again and again by adults.   ::MonkeyNoNo::  JMHO 

http://www.wfaa.com/news/national/223749761.html
Police: Foul play suspected in missing girl case
September 14, 2013

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No one is sure exactly how long Erica has been missing. When her 20-year-old brother reported her disappearance on July 30, he said she actually had gone missing a year and a half before that.
Concerned residents have held candlelight vigils during which they have begged anyone with information about her whereabouts to come forward.
"We're hoping for the best," said Alan Carpenter, a Salisbury resident who lives near Erica's family and attended a recent vigil at the Rowan County Courthouse. "But we just don't know. There are just too many unanswered questions."
For their part, law enforcement authorities are starting to think Erica won't be found — at least not alive.
Investigators with the Rowan County Sheriff's Office say Erica's adoptive parents have been uncooperative and that they have uncovered disturbing signs of foul play. No charges have been filed, however.
Erica was adopted in 2000, when she was just 2 years old, by her uncle and aunt, Sandy and Casey Parsons. The Parsonses say they haven't seen Erica since late 2011, when they say she moved to Asheville, N.C., to live with a woman they believed was her biological grandmother.
But police say they've been unable to locate the grandmother. Casey and Sandy Parsons "were unable to provide any known locations" or contact information, officers wrote in one of two affidavits seeking warrants to search the Parsonses' house and a shed on property owned by Sandy Parsons' father.
Law enforcement officials have declined to discuss details of the investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is assisting the sheriff's office.
The Parsonses recently moved from their Salisbury home about 40 miles north of Charlotte to the Fayetteville area to escape news media attention. Their attorney, Carlyle Sherrill, told The Associated Press his clients had nothing to do with Erica's disappearance.
"They want her back home," he said.
The search warrant affidavits filed by police paint a picture of a young girl isolated from the outside world who may have been mentally and physically abused by her parents.
"Family members stated that Erica always seemed to be 'grounded' and never allowed to interact with the family," once being beaten so hard with a toy gun that it broke into pieces, a sheriff's office investigator wrote.
Witnesses told police that Casey Parsons, 38, and Sandy Parsons, 39, physically abused Erica, who "consistently had bruises and bumps on her arms and legs," the investigator wrote.
Sherrill, the family's attorney, said social workers investigated reports of child abuse in the Parsonses' home on four different occasions in recent years.
"But none of them were substantiated as far as beating the kids or abuse," he said.
From the beginning, Erica — whom witnesses and Sherrill described as a shy, quiet girl — was surrounded by people who didn't seem to want her.
Just two weeks after she was born on Feb. 24, 1998, her biological mother, Carolyn Parsons, who was married to Sandy Parsons' brother, told her in-laws she couldn't take care of her baby.
The Parsonses, who had three children of their own, agreed to take Erica, and later adopted her.
But when Erica was 6, they sent her to live with another family member, an investigator said in the affidavit for the search warrant. That family member, who was not identified, said Casey told her she beat the girl because she "couldn't stand to look at Erica."
Eight months later, Sandy and Casey Parsons took Erica back because they were afraid they'd lose the state money they were receiving to help with the child's learning disability and hearing problems, the investigator wrote.
Witnesses not related to the family said it was dysfunctional, mainly due to problems the parents were having with James, the same son who later reported Erica's disappearance.
According to Sherrill, Casey Parsons battled gastrointestinal issues for years after botched gastric-bypass surgery. By 2011, she was very sick, and James "took out his aggression on his mother," the attorney said.
James was charged with assaulting his mother and a sibling, and animal cruelty, Sherrill said. It was during this period that Casey Parsons began to wonder what would happen to her children if she died, he said.
In July 2011, the Parsonses re-introduced Erica to her biological mother, but Erica told them she did not want to live with her, Sherrill said.
A few months later, according to the lawyer, Casey and Sandy Parsons said they were contacted by a woman on Facebook who claimed she was Carolyn's mother and Erica's grandmother. She said her name was Irene or "Nan" Goodman, Sherrill said.
"Nan knew all about their family, all about the names of the children," Sherrill said. "Nan tells them that she learned that through Carolyn."
The Parsonses said they arranged a meeting with "Nan" at a fast-food restaurant in September 2011. They let Erica spend a weekend with the supposed grandmother in her Asheville home, and later allowed her to go on a three-week trip with Nan in December 2011, Sherrill said. It was during that trip that Erica called to say she was happy and wanted to live there, he said.
Sherrill said the family agreed because Casey Parsons was still sick and James Parsons was continuing to misbehave.
The Parsons family then lost touch with Erica, but assumed she was safe, Sherrill said. "The phone number they had for Nan didn't work anymore," he said.
In June, Casey and Sandy Parsons kicked James out of the house after he assaulted Casey, Sherrill said.
A month later, James Parsons walked into the sheriff's office to report that his sister had been missing for nearly a year and a half and that his parents had been abusing her for years.
The next day, the Parsonses' two youngest children were removed from the home by the Rowan County Department of Social Services pending an investigation.
The couple told police that Erica was with Nan. They repeated the same story to the local news media and later on a nationally syndicated TV talk show.
But during police questioning, Casey Parsons often referred to Erica in the past tense, an investigator wrote in one of the search warrant affidavits.
"I found these statements to be inconsistent," since the family claims to have left Erica "alive, well, and happy with her biological grandmother," the investigator wrote.
Meanwhile, police pressed ahead with the investigation, but could find no evidence that Irene "Nan" Goodman ever existed.
On Aug. 14, investigators removed more than a dozen items from the family's house, including pieces of wall stained with what appeared to be blood and two knives encased in shrink wrap, according to one of the affidavits.
They also found books and magazine articles about JonBenet Ramsey, a child beauty queen found slain in her Colorado home in 1996; and Susan Smith, a South Carolina woman who killed her two children in 1994. Seized financial records showed that the Parsonses continued collecting money from the state even after Erica disappeared, according to the affidavit.
While the investigation continues, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has erected more than a dozen billboards featuring Erica's picture around the Charlotte area.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/authorities-suspect-foul-play-erica-lynn-parsons-missing-case-article-1.1456079

Authorities suspect foul play in disappearance of 15-year-old North Carolina teen Erica Lynn Parsons who was last seen in 2011
Erica Lynn Parsons, a resident of Salisbury, N.C., had been missing a year and a half before her brother reported her disappearance in July. Now, authorities suspect foul play in the now 15-year-old's vanishing.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Saturday, September 14, 2013, 3:36 PM

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Erica Lynn Parsons, pictured at left in an undated photograph and an age progression artist rendering at right on how she might look like today. Parsons was last seen in late 2011, when family members say she moved to Ashville, N.C. to live with a woman her adoptive parents believed was her biological grandmother.
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http://www.wcnc.com/news/searching-for-erica/Developing-Parsons-family-evicted-from-Salisbury-home-225220032.html


 ::snipping3::According to the paperwork filed by Sandy Parsons' father and step-mother Wednesday in Rowan County, the couple owes their landlords more than $25,000.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/11/23/4491992/booming-nc-home-schools-face-little.html
Booming NC home schools face little scrutiny
November 23, 2013

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Home schooling is booming in North Carolina. The number of registered home schools has doubled in the past decade to 53,347. Mecklenburg County alone has more than 4,000 registered schools serving an estimated 6,573 children.

In North Carolina, like most states, those children can disappear from outside scrutiny. Home schools are never inspected; federal courts have ruled that sending government workers into homes violates the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure.

Keeping records of attendance, immunization and testing is required by N.C. law but voluntary in practice. Once a year, home educators are invited to a meeting in their region where they can show those records to state officials, who make no copies. About three-quarters of the parents, including Larson, choose not to participate, state officials say.

“Most children who are home-schooled are safe, with very good parents,” says Dr. Preeti Matkins, a pediatrician with Levine Children’s Hospital and Charlotte’s Teen Health Connection. She’s a member of the N.C. Pediatric Society’s Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, which has delved into concerns about home schooling.

The Charlotte area alone has at least a dozen home-school groups, where parents meet to support each other and provide proms, sports, field trips and community service projects for their children.

The fear is focused on the people who use the cloak of privacy afforded by home schooling to hide mistreatment. In a recent report, the Pediatric Society dubbed the victims “invisible children.”

Robert McCarter, managing attorney for the Council for Children’s Rights in Charlotte, says there’s no reason to think that home schooling encourages abuse, but notes that abusers can use it as a cover: “The people who are going to be abusive to children don’t want to do it in public. If they are sending a child out to school every day, and he has a black eye or a chain mark on his wrist, people are going to notice.”
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The adoptive mother of Erica Parsons, who is missing and suspected to be dead, registered a home school in Salisbury in 2005, when Erica was 7 years old. The mother never produced any follow-up records, the state says, and Erica’s educational path after that is unclear. She attended North Rowan Elementary half of her second-grade year, withdrawing in January 2006, and attended third grade at Mount Pleasant Elementary School in Cabarrus County in 2007-08, school records show. Her older brother reported her missing in July 2013, but no one has been able to verify where she has been since 2011, when she was 13.
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http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/sentencing-hearing-friday-adoptive-parents-missing/nkgF8/?ecmp=wsoctv_social_facebook_2014



Casey was sentenced to 10 years in prison while Sandy was sentenced to eight years.

"I have sentenced over 1,000 people. I cannot think of a case that has disturbed me more,” said the judge during court Friday.

The judge called the Parsons sinister, and said, "You embarked on a plan to get rid of" Erica.

He also said the Parsons knew that if they stopped accepting government benefits for Erica, people would wonder what happened to her.

Erica's biological mother, Carolyn Parsons, told Channel 9 after the sentencing that she hopes they "enjoy their life in hell."


**Nut44x4/ They have not been charged in connection with Erica Parsons’ disappearance.

Update: Bones found at former home of missing Rowan County teen Erica Parsons not human

Posted 4:25 pm, November 2, 2015

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The person who now owns the property on Miller Chapel Road cut down a large tree on the property and found some bones.
 
The person called the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office to investigate.
 
Digital images of the bones were sent to the State Medical Examiner’s Office, which determined the bones were likely from a small animal.
http://myfox8.com/2015/11/02/bones-found-at-former-home-of-missing-rowan-county-teen-erica-parsons/

She has been found at last...
"Remains of Erica Parsons discovered five years after she disappeared"
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/body-of-erica-parsons-discovered-five-years-after-she-disappeared/451930197

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article105048256.html

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 8:32 PM
Missing nearly five years, Erica Parsons found buried in rural S.C.

Nearly five years after Erica Parsons was last seen, her diminutive skull and bones were delicately sifted by detectives from the red clay of upstate South Carolina, the final chapter of her short and ever-tragic life, an all-American horror story.

Erica – who was given up at birth to a family said to despise her – was found in deep, rural Chesterfield County, S.C., after her adoptive father told authorities where to find her, people close to the investigation told The Charlotte *******.

 ::snipping3::  Erica’s decomposed remains, tugged from the soil in a remote area not far from where Sandy Parsons’ mother lived, has already been carried to the N.C. Medical Examiner’s Office and identified.

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Authorities said late Thursday they learned in August that Erica was more than likely deceased, but did not elaborate on specifics.

Both Sandy Parsons and his wife were convicted last year of financial crimes that included cashing adoption assistance checks totaling more than $12,000 after her disappearance, and are both in federal prisons.

Sandy Parsons, 42, is serving eight years in a prison in Butner and his wife, Casey Parsons, 41, is serving 10 in Tallahassee, Fla.

Authorities said Erica’s remains were recovered by Rowan County detectives who were joined by agents from the FBI and N.C. State Bureau of Investigation.

Remote area

David Marshburn, a Smithfield private investigator, was retained last year by a family member to help look for Erica's body.

Working on a tip, Marshburn said he examined an area near Pageland, S.C., in June, and was planning on organizing a large-scale search soon if other tips he was pursuing petered out.

Casey Parsons had always maintained that she gave Erica to the girl’s biological grandmother named “Nan” Goodman at a fast-food restaurant.

She had said during the investigation that Goodman – who authorities were never able to find – lived in a white house with two chimneys, a long front porch and a horse pasture beside it, Marshburn said.

When Marshburn and his lead investigator, Marsha Ward, went to explore the area, they saw a dwelling that eerily matched the description: two chimneys, long porch and a pasture with a couple of horses.

Only one thing – the house wasn’t white; it was brown.

Marshburn said that Sandy Parsons’ stepfather, who lives in the residence, told him that Casey Parsons always liked the house “but she thought it would be prettier white.”

Marshburn said the house was at least two miles down a dirt road from the main highway, a “very secluded” area, he said.

Timber had recently been harvested in the woods nearby, which Marshburn said makes searching difficult because the ground is disturbed and limbs and wood are strewn about.

Marshburn said he passed on the information about the tip and the house to the FBI and Rowan County authorities investigating Erica's case.

MORE at link

http://www.journalnow.com/news/state_region/how-erica-parsons-body-was-found-a-path-paved-by/article_83f5fde7-465f-5ad8-a2e2-89b8744e14b1.html

How Erica Parsons' body was found: A path paved by years of frustration
 
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Charlotte — For three frustrating, fruitless years, authorities hunted for Erica Parsons — using computers, search warrants, tracking dogs.

Their unexpected break came only this summer, the path to her body materializing from a federal prison in Butner.

It was there that Sandy Parsons — the adoptive father of the girl whose 13 years on Earth were spent in harsh servitude and gruesome exploitation — reached out to authorities through an intermediary. ::snipping3::

 ::snipping3:: Break in the case

This summer, Sandy Parsons told a relative that he was trying to work out a deal with prosecutors.

He boasted that Erica’s body would never be found without him. She was buried in a place where hikers, hunters and wandering children would be unlikely to find her. ::snipping3::

 ::snipping3:: On Sept. 27, Sandy Parsons was taken to the area and led authorities down a remote road to a small mound shaded by pines. ::snipping3::

 ::snipping3:: They found the remains in a shallow grave just yards from a desolate, earthen path. Whoever disposed of Erica hadn’t carried her small body very far and hadn’t dug very deep. ::snipping3::

http://www.fox46charlotte.com/news/local-news/210566221-story

Erica Parsons' biological mother: I don't have closure

 ::snipping3:: “I don’t have closure. They say it gets easier. I get angrier,” Carolyn said.

Carolyn gave Erica up for adoption to give her a better life. But according to court testimony, Erica was tortured by her adoptive family, beaten with a belt, and locked in a closet.

Erica’s adoptive parents, Casey and Sandy Parsons are in prison for fraud related to Erica’s disappearance, but they haven’t been charged in her death, even though authorities say Sandy Parsons led them to the place where Erica’s body was buried.  ::snipping3::
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“She is a free spirit, she’s no longer trapped, she’s no longer scared, she’s in heaven playing away,” Carolyn said.


Prevent Child Abuse Rowan is collecting donations in Erica’s memory. You can mail donations to:

Prevent Child Abuse Rowan County

130 Woodson Street

Salisbury, NC 28144

Be sure to indicate that you want the donation to go towards "Erica's Angel."

There will be a benefit concert to raise money for Erica Parsons' memorials on Oct. 22 starting at noon at Tilley Harley-Davidson. The location is 653 Bendix Drive in Salisbury. The concert is free, but donations will be taken for Erica's memorials.  ::snipping3::

its prob just my bad memory, Sandy Parsons, (Parsons) was that one
of the names from Zahra Clare Baker case, no mention here @ wiki
of a (Parsons)

Reportedly, Elisa Baker was married seven times
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Zahra_Baker#Elisa.27s_past_marriages


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Erica was reported missing in July 2013, but investigators discovered she had not been seen since 2011 when she was 13 years old.

Her adoptive parents, Sandy and Casey Parsons, are both serving time for collecting federal benefits for Erica, even though she was no longer living in her home.

Her remains were found in Chesterfield County after Sandy told investigators she was dead. Warrants show that Sandy told detectives that Erica was buried Dec. 19, 2011.

The warrant states that in August, Sandy Parsons told a Rowan County investigator that Erica was dead and said that the girl’s body was discarded off Taylor Chapel Road in Pageland, South Carolina, near the home of Sandy Parsons' mother.

So far, no one has been charged in Erica's death.

The Rowan County Sheriff’s Office said no information about progress of the investigation, findings from the medical examiners or potential criminal charges will be released at this time.

Erica’s Day

Saturday February 25th 2017 2:00 p.m.

Funeral Service

First Baptist Church Salisbury

223 North Fulton Street

Salisbury, NC

Funeral: 2:00 p.m.

Processional to West Lawn Memorial Park: 3:00 p.m.

Processional will travel down Fulton Street, Liberty Street, Main Street, China Grove to West Lawn Park

Burial Site

West Lawn Memorial Park

1350 South Main Street

China Grove, NC

Graveside Service: 3:30 p.m.
http://www.topbuzz.com/article/i6389567986990055940?app_id=1106&c=fb

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/erica-parsons-case-parents-charged-with-murder-years-after-n-c-girl-vanished/
Erica Parsons case: Parents charged with murder years after N.C. girl vanished
February 20, 2018

ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. -- The parents of a North Carolina girl who was missing for years before her father led them to her skeletal remains in 2016 will be charged with murder, reports CBS affiliate WBTV.

A grand jury on Monday indicted Sandy and Casey Parsons on charges of first-degree murder, felony child abuse, felony concealment of death and felony obstruction of justice in the death of their daughter Erica, the station reports. Erica Parsons went missing in 2011, when she would have been 13, but wasn't reported missing until two years later by her brother.

Sandy Parsons and his wife Casey are both serving sentences in separate federal prisons after being convicted of fraud for taking federal adoption assistance money meant for the girl long after she was last seen, the station reports.

Testimony at the fraud trial unveiled a pattern of abusing Erica, who was adopted and lived with the family from 2000 until she disappeared in 2011.

Sandy Parsons was in prison in August 2016 when he allegedly admitted that the girl's body was "discarded" on Dec. 19, 2011, and that it could be found in Pageland, S.C., near property owned by his family, reported WBTV. A judge approved an escort team to transport Parsons from prison to help investigators locate the body, and they uncovered the girl's remains in a shallow grave the next month, the warrant said.

No plea deal was offered in exchange for the information, officials have said.
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The body was returned to a Rowan County for an autopsy. On Jan. 9 the autopsy report was received from the medical examiner, which Auten called critical in moving forward with the case. The report, obtained by WBTV, found that Erica died of "homicidal violence of undetermined means." The coroner wrote "we cannot exclude the possibility of a terminal blunt force injury, suffocation or strangulation."

The autopsy found the girl was malnourished and had been abused over a long period of time. Sandy Parsons has allegedly admitted his "harsh treatment" of the girl, including beating her with a belt, bending her fingers backward, locking her in a closet and choking her. According to the warrant, UNC School of Medicine Dr. Cynthia Brown called the abuse "child torture."

Auten said he was at times critical that the medical examiner's report took such a long time to complete, but said the skeletal condition of the remains and the long period of time the body had been left undiscovered made the case unusual.

Auten said the case has "haunted" the community and law enforcement for years. He said he's relieved to be able to move forward with the prosecution phase and finally seek justice for the child.

"There's people that think the Parsons should have already been hung on the square," Auten said. "But they'll have their day in court. We'll let a jury decide their fate."

He said more than anything, he was glad that the girl's remains are back in Rowan County and that she was able to have a proper burial.
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