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Oakland police resumed their search today for a 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who disappeared from outside a store in the Rockridge District on Monday afternoon.
Hassani Campbell was sitting in his father's BMW on the 6000 block of College Avenue at about 4:15 p.m. when his father went to Shuz of Rockridge, a shoe store where the boy's mother works.

The father, who was preparing to drop his son off with the boy's mother, left Hassani in the car as he unlocked a door to the store to allow his son easier access, authorities said.

When the father returned to the car, Hassani was gone.

Police used K-9 and search-and-rescue dogs into the evening but couldn't find the boy. The BMW was towed as evidence.

Police said they didn't believe the boy could have gone far if he left the car by himself. He uses leg braces to walk and has difficulty walking.

Hassani is described as a black boy with light complexion, brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs 30 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray pants.

Anyone with information regarding Hassani's whereabouts is asked to call the Oakland police youth services division at (510) 238-3641 or 911.



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A lot of local people are in question of this mans story..


There was a resturant " very busy " in view of this vehicle when the boy was supposedly there..


I know nothing more then OAKLAND is a dangerous area of California and ANYTHING is possible.
jmho 

In Oakland a disabled 5-year-old boy is missing. Little Hasani Campbell was last seen in the Rockridge District.

OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- Oakland Police shut down a two block area in North Oakland to search for a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, wearing leg braces.

On College Avenue, near Claremont in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland, police focused on the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store where it all began.

Police say the missing boy's father told them he pulled up to behind the building to let his son in the back door because the boy has cerebral palsy and can't walk well. The father reportedly walked around to the front of the store, went through it and when he opened the back door, the boy was missing from his car seat. Police say the boy's father called 911 around 4 p.m. and a search started immediately for Hasani.

He is a 5-year-old African-American boy with a light complexion. He's three feet tall and weighs 40 pounds, but the most notable description is his leg braces on the outside of his gray sweat pants. Police say they have a Spiderman design on them.

Six search and rescue dogs were given the boy's scent from a swab that was wiped on his seat in the father's car. Helicopters, neighbors and police combed a two block area and College Avenue was shut down for more than five hours. Near the shoe store is a busy restaurant where customers were sitting outside.

"Immediately there were five or six cop cars right after that. It was pretty quick and a number of our regular customers went out to see if they could find the little boy," says restaurant manager Elizabeth Arthur.

"There was a lot of foot traffic here and there was a lot of vehicle traffic. There's a business right here that had a lot of people outside and it's one of the first places I went and asked people if they saw him and they said, no they didn't see him. It's kind of notable to see a young man walking around with braces on his legs and nobody saw him," says Oakland Police Sgt. Richard Vierra.

Hasani's father's car is being processed as part of the crime scene because police believe they could be dealing with an abduction. The initial search went on for over a solid seven hours on Monday night and the investigation continues.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6958562

Oakland Police Search For Missing Disabled Boy

Posted: 10:44 pm PDT August 10, 2009Updated: 9:53 am PDT August 11, 2009

OAKLAND -- -- Oakland police continued their search Tuesday for a young boy with cerebral palsy following his mysterious disappearance Monday afternoon.

More than a dozen officers fanned out in the area around College Avenue and Harwood in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood searching for 5-year-old Hasani Campbell. The Alameda County Sheriff's rescue team joined the search with dogs.

Police said they received a call for help at about 4 p.m. from the boy's father. He told officers he drove his son to Shuz of Rockridge, a shoe store, where the boy's mother works so he could leave the child in her care.

Police said the father left the boy in a BMW in the back lot of the store while he walked around to the front, and went through the store the back door. He told police he then realized his son was gone.

"He frantically searched the neighborhood asking people if they've seen his son and nobody can find him," said Sgt. Rich Vierra of the Oakland Police Department.

Police say Hasani couldn't have gone far on his own because he suffers from cerebral palsy and wears braces on both legs.

Investigators say they fear he was either kidnapped or is frightened and hiding somewhere.

Vierra said, "Our worst fear is that he's gone somewhere, he's lost, frightened, hurt himself. We want to find him before anything like that happens."

They described him as African-American, small for his age, 3 feet tall and weighing 40 pounds. He has short black hair and brown eyes and was wearing a gray sweatshirt and sweat pants.

Patrons at the nearby Barclay's Restaurant and Pub said they were asked by police not to leave the establishment for about 30 minutes when the canine search got under way.

Katie Decarlo said, "For a period of time, they didn't want anyone leaving any of the businesses because that would have thrown off the scent."

Police are asking people in the area to check their backyards and basements for any sign of Hasani. "They can walk up to him, talk to him, call 911. Hopefully reunite him with his family."

Investigators are interviewing Hasani's parents. Police tell us they're treating the father's BMW as a possible crime scene in case the boy was kidnapped. The BMW was towed away to a police yard so evidence technicians can comb through it for clues.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20353090/detail.html

video at the link

If the child could not walk far, why didn't Dad carry him?

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Here are photos of the front and back of the store.

Police Return to Rockridge Shoe Store as Search for Missing Five Year Old Intensifies
Created by Brian Shields on 8/10/2009 7:51:00 PM

 
 
Crime scene technicians take photographs inside the shoe store where Hassani Campbell's mother works Tuesday morning.
OAKLAND (KRON) -- Oakland police have returned Tuesday morning to a shoe store where a five year old boy with cerebral palsy disappeared.  KRON 4's Yoli Aceves was on hand as police investigators entered the store where five year old Hassani Campbell's mother works.  The technicians could be seen taking photographs in the back of the store.

The child, wearing leg braces, was reported missing Monday afternoon when his father ran into the store to get the child's mother at the end of a visitation.  The couple is divorced. When the parents returned to the car, Hassani was missing.

Dozens of police officers with dogs searched the area along College Avenue at Harwood for several hours.  Patrons inside neighboring restaurants and bars were told to stay inside the establishments in order not to throw the dogs off the scent.

Hassani is described as an African-American boy with light complexion, brown hair and brown eyes. He is around 3 feet tall and weighs around 30 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray pants.

Because of the child's disability, authorities don't think he could have walked far on his own.

If you know anything about this case, contact Oakland police or your local authorities.

http://www.kron4.com/News/ArticleView/tabid/298/smid/1126/ArticleID/2575/reftab/36/t/Five-Year-Old-Child-in-Leg-Braces-Missing-from-Oakland-s-Rockridge-Neighborhood/Default.aspx

video at link

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Boy, 5, disappears in Oakland

Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, August 11, 2009


(08-11) 11:23 PDT OAKLAND --

Oakland police resumed their search today for a 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who disappeared from outside a store in the Rockridge district Monday afternoon.

 Hassani Campbell was sitting in a BMW on the 6000 block of College Avenue at about 4:15 p.m. when a male caretaker went to Shuz of Rockridge, a shoe store where Hassani's aunt works. The aunt has custody of the boy, authorities said.

The man left Hassani in the car as he unlocked a door to the store, authorities said. When the man returned to the car, Hassani was gone.

Police used K-9 and search-and-rescue dogs into the evening but couldn't find the boy. The BMW was towed as evidence.

The caretaker's name has not been released. Police earlier reported that the man was Hassani's father, but said today that was not the case.

Investigators said they doubted Hassani could have gone far if he left the car by himself. He uses leg braces and has difficulty walking, they said.

Hassani is described as African American, with a light complexion, brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs 30 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray pants.

Anyone with information regarding Hassani's whereabouts is asked to call the Oakland police youth services division at (510) 238-3641 or 911.

So the aunt's boyfriend was watching him? The whole story sounds hinky to me. Parking around back and then going around front. Why not carry him in? Why not park up front? My guess is he did something awful to this little dude.  ::MonkeyNoNo:: ::MonkeyNoNo::

I am praying I am wrong and little dude will be found safe somewhere.

Thanks for the updates everyone.

Nancy Grace will be covering Hassani tonight, she said. But with the pharmacy getting a warrant served in the MJ case and the 13 year old who killed her step-dad over some milk, I don't expect much.

OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- Oakland police are now asking the public for help in finding a missing disabled child.

Police say the boy uses leg braces to walk. He was reported missing Monday afternoon in the 6000 block of College Avenue. 5-year-old Hasani Campbell of Fremont has cerebral palsy.

It is a baffling and worrisome case. Police officers have been busily searching various locations including the business along College Avenue for signs of Campbell.

Police say that around 4:15 Monday afternoon Campbell disappeared as a friend was dropping him off at a Rockridge shoe store, where Campbell's aunt works a night shift. The boy was reportedly left in a car parked on a side street while the driver went to the front of the store intending to walk through the store to open the back door.

When the driver went back to the car Campbell was gone.

Police blocked off a two-block area Monday night and searched for the boy using officer, police dogs and helictopers. They have still found no sign of him.

Businesses in the area have heard about what happened and some of the shopkeepers are worried.

"One of the police cars brought a dog and the dog was barking a lot. So, I don't what that meant, what it tells them. But anyway, we've been watching ever since," said Marikan Rinzen.

Police are asking people to keep watching for signs of Hassani Campbell. The boy is described as a black male, three feet tall and weighing around 40 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and sweat pants, along with leg braces with a spiderman design.

Police have not said much regarding any leads they may be following.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6959546

I hope Hassani can be found safe.  There is a lot about this case that just doesn't make sense.   ::MonkeyNoNo:: 

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I agree MuffyBee.

Could you fix my boo boo? TIA :)

FBI joins hunt for boy who vanished in Oakland

Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer

(08-11) 15:26 PDT OAKLAND --

Oakland police were joined by the FBI today in their search for a 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who disappeared from outside a store in the Rockridge district.

Hassani Campbell of Fremont was sitting in a BMW parked on a driveway on Harwood Avenue off College Avenue at about4:15 p.m. Monday when his foster father walked around the corner to Shuz of Rockridge, a shoe store on the 6000 block of College where Hassani's aunt works, authorities said. The woman is the foster father's fiancée, police said.

The man told police that he had been preparing to drop Hassani off and left the boy in the car as he unlocked a door to the store, authorities said. When the man returned to the car, Hassani was gone.

Police used search-and-rescue dogs into the evening but couldn't find the boy. The BMW was towed as evidence.

Neither the foster father's name nor the name of Hassani's aunt was released. Shoe-store employees declined comment.

The FBI has joined in the investigation, said Special Agent Joseph Schadler, the agency's spokesman in San Francisco. The bureau, which normally investigates crimes that cross state lines, has the authority to investigate local kidnappings involving children.

Flyers with Hassani's picture were posted in some stores along busy College Avenue today. Police took pictures inside the shoe store and, at one point, checked for clues on the roof.

Marlina Rinzen, associate manager of Warm Things, a comforter and quilt store across the street from the shoe store, said she's been asking passers-by to be on the lookout for the boy.

"I hope that he will be safe and with somebody who really loves and cares for him," she said.

Investigators said they doubted Hassani could have gone far if he left the car by himself. He uses leg braces and has difficulty walking, they said.

"I think I would be surprised if I saw an individual like him walking by himself in the street without it capturing some attention," said Mark Geraghty, an Alta Bates Medical Center technician who was eating lunch on College Avenue today.

Crime in the Rockridge neighborhood is rare, Geraghty said. "I would say children are more safe here," he said. "It's very family-oriented."

Julianna Phillips, an architect whose office is next to the driveway behind the shoe store, expressed surprise that the boy would disappear in the middle of the day.

"It's not private," she said of the driveway where the car had been parked. "It's very busy."

Hassani is described as African American, with a light complexion, brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs 30 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray pants.

Anyone with information regarding Hassani's whereabouts is asked to call the Oakland police youth services division at (510) 238-3641 or 911.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/11/BASU19716O.DTL&tsp=1

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Jennifer M Campbell
5997 Roxie Ter
Fremont, CA 94555-3633

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first place I'd check is the park by the aunt's house. wonder if it's wooded. could someone get an aerial? My puter is hating today more than usual.

what a darling little child...I pray that he is found safe...
NG was covering this case tonight....

this is sounding like too too too many cases that we have talked about on here sadly....

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sive: Guardians of Missing Oakland Boy Plea for Public's Help
Created by Brian Shields on 8/11/2009 3:11:00 PM

OAKLAND (KRON) -- The guardians of a five year old boy still missing from Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood are pleading for the public's help in finding Hassani Campbell.

In an exclusive interview with KRON 4's Terisa Estacio, Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell provided new details about the moments leading up to the child's disappearance from behind a shoe store on College Avenue Monday afternoon.

Ross and Campbell are the child's legal guardians.  Campbell's sister is Hassani's biological mother.

Ross says Hassani was standing in the alley at the back of the store when he went inside to get Campbell who is his fiancée.  Campbell was due to care for Hassani while Ross attended night school classes.  The little boy has braces on his legs to help with his cerebral palsy.

Ross and Campbell say they did not leave Hassani in the car.  When they returned to the alley, the child was missing.

Campbell says she's been in contact with Hassani's biological mother who says she doesn't know the boy's whereabouts.  Campbell is six months pregnant.  She and Ross say they're in the process of formally adopting Hassani.

The FBI confirms to KRON 4 News that it is now involved in the search for Hassani.  Oakland police searched the Rockridge area with dozens of officers and search dogs Monday evening.  Patrons at area bars and restaurants were kept inside the establishment during the search efforts.

Stay tuned to KRON 4 and KRON4.com for new developments in the search for Hassani Campbell.  The child is described as an African-American boy with light complexion, brown hair and brown eyes. He is around 3 feet tall and weighs around 30 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray pants.

If you know anything about the child's disappearance, contact the FBI, Oakland Police, or your local authorities.
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I wonder how old the sister is?  Did Ross have to carry her in?

hiya fatcatlurker,
from the last article on the previous page:

ty pink angel! so he couldn't of carried both I guess.  so sad, I hope he is hiding but its been awhile now.

Yes, Cookie - it surely does. And if so, how sad and perverse the mindset of far too many in this country has become . . . hurt a child, then try to cover it up by crying wolf with a "kidnapping" story . . . "Oh my gosh, help - they JUST DISAPPEARED!" . . . seems it is beginning to become a cookie-cutter (no pun intended - LOL!) all purpose "idea". Can you say 'Jada Justice'?!? (Or quite possibly Caylee Anthony, Haleigh Cummings, Neveah Buchanan, Robert Manwill, etc etc etc) . . . Sickening.

All my opinion, of course. Forgot to state that.

I hope to be proven wrong, and that this little guy will be found safe.

I said that too Tams, that I felt the same way and that I hoped to be proven wrong and that this little dude will be found safe.

http://p.castfire.com/oglmm/video/139011/139011_2009-08-11-234805.flv

Here is video of his aunt and her boyfriend. Cat must have his tounge. She seems to be upset. Him, not so much. jmo

New Developments In Search For Missing Disabled Boy

Posted: 10:51 pm PDT August 11, 2009
FREMONT -- -- The search for missing five year old Hasanni Campbell moved to Fremont Tuesday evening to a house where the child has been living with relatives.

Authorities served search warrants at the home in the 5900 block of Roxie Terrace which is in Fremont's Hampton Place neighborhood, where the boy lived with his foster parents, his aunt and her finance.

Earlier Tuesday evening, KTVU's Amber Lee spoke with the aunt Jennifer Campbell who told us she's very distraught and she's asking for the public's help.

In the meantime, law enforcement spent hours at the couple's home looking for clues.

The FBI has joined Oakland Police in the investigation into the disappearance of Hasanni Campbell.

Tuesday afternoon law enforcement officers removed items from the home, including what appeared to be a computer.

The Alameda County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Team used four dogs to search the premises.

Rhonda Dyer of the Search and Rescue team said, "This dog is trained to find human scent of both alive and dead. We searched the home here and the area around it."

Earlier in the evening, Hasanni's grandmother talked about the boy. She said he speaks with a slight lisp and loves Spongebob Squarepants, the cartoon character. Pamela Clark said, "He's a sweet affectionate boy. He's very intelligent very smart."

Grandmother Clark told KTVU her daughter Jennifer was awarded temporary custody of Hasanni by the courts eight months ago when another daughter, Hasanni's biological mother, couldn't care for the boy.

Police would not comment if a possible custody dispute may be a factor in the boy's disappearance.

Acting Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan said, "We've devoted a significant amount of resources to finding this young child because it's very important that we locate him as soon as possible."

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20366241/detail.html

Hi Pink! How are you this evening? Usually by the time I get home from work & get caught up on all the threads, everyone is LONG gone - LOL! I'm CA time - what time zone are you in?

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Hiya Tams,
I am in IL. I just don't sleep. I suffer from night terrors and insomnia so sleep is something I don't get a lot of. I try. I just am not good at it. :)

I'm so sorry to hear that, Pink - my goodness, it's super late out your way then. The insomnia thing can suck the life out of you though, I do know; my work hours are so all over the board that my body has no idea when to sleep sometimes. It leaves me wiped out and not functioning at full capacity often - not to mention feeling OLD! I sooo need to get out of this line of work - retail is a young woman's game. Big Sigh.

Sorry you have to deal with the whole difficulty sleeping thing as well. Nice to have someone to say "howdy" to late at night though!

Soaking in a hot bubble bath can help me to get wound down - in fact, about to go do just that!

I have been suffering for about eight years now. You get used to functioning on 2-4 hrs sleep a night. LOL

Funky work hours can be just as bad for throwing off your system. I feel your pain.  I used to work split week, where I would work nights a few days, then days a few days.

I know what you mean about feeling OLD. I don't know what is squeakier,  my dog's toy or my knees, trying to get up from gardening or after sitting  any length of time.

We are young at heart though. ;) That's all that matters.

Enjoy your bath hon, it is nice to see you. :) I loves me some bubbles in my tub.


Praying for little dude. I hope he is safe and found soon.

Thanks for the smile, Rosie (yes, I have squeeky knees too!) Nice to see you! Good night my dear.

. . . and, yes - only hoping for good things for this little guy.

Oops - I meant PINK - LOL! See how tired I am?!? Had just posted to Rosie over in Lindsay Baum's thread . . . what a dork . . . sorry!

Nice to see you, PINK!

Cops with search dogs scour missing boy's home
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, August 12, 2009


Police and FBI agents with search dogs scoured the Fremont home Tuesday evening of a 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who reportedly disappeared from outside a store in Oakland's Rockridge district.

The investigators, who included Oakland police and members of the FBI's evidence response team, were looking through the home on Roxie Terrace for evidence in the disappearance of Hasanni Campbell. The home belongs to Hasanni's foster father, Louis Ross, 38, and his fiancee, Jennifer Campbell, 33, public records show.

Ross told police that the boy disappeared about 4:15 p.m. Monday from Ross' BMW, which was parked on a driveway on Harwood Avenue off College Avenue in Oakland. The boy vanished when Ross walked around the corner to Shuz of Rockridge, a shoe store on the 6000 block of College where Campbell works, Ross told police.

Campbell is the boy's aunt, authorities said.

Ross told police that he had been preparing to drop Hasanni off and had gone to unlock a door to the store, authorities said.

Police with search-and-rescue dogs combed the Rockridge area well into Monday evening but couldn't find the boy. The BMW was towed as evidence.

Authorities brought the search dogs to the Fremont home Tuesday evening. Authorities would not say what they were looking for.

Hasanni's godmother, Regina Douglas of San Francisco, said she doubted that Ross and Campbell were responsible for the boy's disappearance.

"If I knew what happened to Hasanni, we wouldn't be having this conversation," Douglas said.

Oakland police Sgt. Ray Backman, interim Chief Howard Jordan's chief of staff, said, "We are keeping all investigative leads open at this time. We cannot discount any possibility at this point in the investigation."

Police said they have interviewed Hasanni's biological parents, who live separately in San Francisco.

Shoe-store owner John Riker told reporters that Campbell is a devoted foster mother to Hasanni and his year-old sister. "When she talks about the kids, she beams," Riker said.

Flyers with Hasanni's picture were posted in stores along College Avenue on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, police took pictures inside the shoe store and, at one point, checked for clues on the roof.

Investigators said they doubted Hasanni could have gone far if he left the car by himself. He uses leg braces and has difficulty walking, they said.

Cerebral palsy is an incurable, sometimes disabling ailment that affects about 1 in 1,000 infants. Its effects range from mild stiffness and lack of coordination in the legs, arms or hands, to near complete inability to control movements and speech.

Douglas described Hasanni as a "very gentle, mild and loving boy."

Hasanni is African American, with a light complexion, brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs 30 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray pants.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/12/BASU19716O.DTL

I hope they find this very, very, very cute little boy soon.

I'm close to Oakland and I can tell you that that area is one big cesspool of crime. SF is turning over to the dark side too.

Pretty place to visit, but be sure to leave by nightfall.

Listening to the story on NG last night it just did not seem to make sense. First they did not know who the person the kid was with was. This morning I hear there is a sister - but there was no mention of her on NG. The area is busy but no one remembers seeing him. Why park in the back? And why would you drop one kid off and not the other? And at work? Something is VERY wrong here. I somehow doubt that Hassani was ever in the car that day. Just my opinion but the "father" smells fishy to me.

Man - either this man is made of stone or he did something or knows something. At the beginning it looks like he is trying not to laugh. This story is getting stranger by the minute.

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FBI Joins Search For Missing Disabled Boy

Posted: 10:44 pm PDT August 10, 2009Updated: 12:04 am PDT August 12, 2009

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The search for missing five-year-old Hasanni Campbell moved to Fremont Tuesday evening to a house where the child has been living with relatives.

The boy was reported missing from the area of 6000 College Avenue at around 4:15 p.m. Monday, according to the Oakland police youth services unit.

Campbell was last seen Monday afternoon sitting in the car parked outside a shoe store where his aunt and foster mother, Jennifer Campbell, works.

Hasanni's foster father Louis Ross told police he had driven to Shuz of Rockridge with the little boy and his one-year-old sister to drop them off with Jennifer Campbell.

Ross told police he left Hasanni in his BMW parked behind the shoe store and took Hasanni's little sister with him as he went around to open up the back door to get the boy. But when he got there, he said Hasanni was gone.

On Tuesday, authorities served search warrants at the home on the 5900 block of Roxie Terrace in Fremont's Hampton Place neighborhood, where the boy lived.

Earlier Tuesday evening, Jennifer Campbell told KTVU she's very distraught over Hasanni's disappearance and that she's asking for the public's help.

Hasanni is African American and suffers from cerebral palsy. He's described as three feet tall and weighing 40 pounds. He was last seen wearing grey sweatshirt and pants. Hasanni has braces with Spiderman stickers on both legs.

In the meantime, law enforcement spent hours at the couple's home looking for clues.

FBI spokeswoman Patti Hansen said she could not give details about the case but confirmed that FBI is helping search for five-year-old Hassani Campbell.

Tuesday afternoon, law enforcement officers removed items from the home, including what appeared to be a computer.

The Alameda County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Team used four dogs to search the premises.

"This dog is trained to find human scent of both alive and dead," said Rhonda Dyer of the Search and Rescue team. "We searched the home here and the area around it."

Earlier in the evening, Hasanni's grandmother talked about the boy. She said he speaks with a slight lisp and loves Spongebob Squarepants, the cartoon character.

"He's a sweet affectionate boy. He's very intelligent very smart," said Pamela Clark.

Grandmother Clark told KTVU her daughter Jennifer was awarded temporary custody of Hasanni by the courts eight months ago when another daughter, Hasanni's biological mother, couldn't care for the boy.

Police would not comment if a possible custody dispute may be a factor in the boy's disappearance.

"We've devoted a significant amount of resources to finding this young child because it's very important that we locate him as soon as possible," said acting Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan.

Grandmother Clark had a message for whoever may have the boy: "I just want my grandson back. If anybody has him please release him, please."

Police are asking that anyone who has information to call them right away.

Fatcat!! where ya been? I think of you often and am glad to see you posting!  I have missed seeing/reading your posts!
 
Another sad case ....sweet little child..

Pinky..I am in Illinois too!

hope that this little one is ok...I am kindof worried on this one though...
how could he have gotten very far if he left the car on his own? and a kidnapper would have had to have been in that exact spot at that exact time..I know it happens, but would guess that it is rare...

Louis Ross, the child's foster father, said he left the boy, Hassani Campbell, outside his newer-model BMW in the back parking lot of Shuz, a shoe store in the 6000 block of College Avenue, about 4:15 p.m. He was there to drop the boy's 1-year-old sister off with his fiance, Jennifer Campbell, the boy's aunt and foster mother, police said. Campbell manages the store.


Money money money.. Fears of accusations of abuse... Money Money money..
Self protection... ?

PEOPLE make money on Fostering children.
jmho

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=8312235&page=1

FBI Searches for Disabled Boy Hassani Campbell
Cops Say Campbell Couldn't Have Walked Far Alone Because of His Leg Braces
By EMILY FRIEDMAN
Aug. 12, 2009
he FBI has joined the search for a 5-year-old California boy, whose cerebral palsy makes it difficult for him to walk and requires him to wear leg braces. He has been missing since Monday.
Oakland, Calif., police, now with the help of the FBI, are searching for Hassani Campbell, an African-American boy who was last seen Aug. 10 with his aunt's fiancé, according to ABC News' San Francisco affiliate KGO-TV.

"We are confirming the FBI is involved in the search for the missing 5-year-old boy," FBI spokeswoman Patti Hansen said.

Campbell, who has brown hair and brown eyes, was wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray pants when he was last seen with 38-year-old Louis Ross, a man police describe as his "caretaker."
The leg braces Campbell has to wear are decorated with a Spiderman design, according to KGO.

Campbell was reportedly seen Monday at around 4:15 p.m. sitting in Ross' BMW outside a shoe store, Shuz of Rockridge, where his aunt and foster parent, Jennifer Campbell, 33, is employed. Jennifer Campbell also cares for the 1-year-old sister of the missing boy.
Ross told authorities at the time that he left Campbell alone in the car when he went to unlock the shoe store so that the child would be able to go inside more easily. He said the boy was gone when he returned, according to the Associated Press.

Authorities do not believe that Campbell would be able to walk far on his own because of his disability.

With the help of the FBI and a search warrant, authorities have been combing the Fremont, Calif., area for clues and have used search dogs to bolster the investigation.

"We've devoted a significant amount of resources to finding this young child because it's very important to us that we locate him as soon as possible," Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan said at a news conference late Tuesday.
Boy's Aunt Is 'Devoted Caregiver'

Asked whether there were any leads suggested Campbell has been hurt, Jordan said that authorities, so far, have no "specific facts" that lead them to believe the boy is harmed, but would not discount it as a "possibility," according to KGO.

Jordan did not immediately return messages left by ABCNews.com today seeking an update on the progress of the investigation.
John Riker, the man who owns the shoe store where the young boy's foster parent works, described Jennifer Campbell as a "devoted caregiver," according to KGO.

An employee who answered the phone at the shoe store today declined to speak to ABCNews.com.
Pamela Clark, the grandmother of the missing boy, told the San Francisco Chronicle that she's anxious anxious fort her grandson's safe return.

"I would like my grandson back," Clark told the paper. "I just hope this works out.

Clark said that she did not think the family is involved in Campbell's disappearance "at all," according to the paper.

Hasanni's godmother, Regina Douglas, told the paper that she did not think Ross or Campbell were behind the boy's disappearance.

"If I knew what happened to Hasanni, we wouldn't be having this conversation," Douglas told the paper.

Douglas described Hasanni as a "very gentle, mild and loving boy."

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Missing boy's relatives plead for his return

Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, August 12, 2009
(08-12) 09:35 PDT FREMONT -- Relatives of a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy pleaded for his safe return today as police and the FBI wrapped up a search of his Fremont home.
Oakland police and members of the FBI's evidence response team left the Roxie Terrace home of Hasanni Campbell at about 1 a.m. today after searching the property for several hours, said FBI Special Agent Joseph Schadler, spokesman for the agency in San Francisco.

Schadler would not say what investigators were looking for and what they may have seized from the home in Fremont's Ardenwood neighborhood. Authorities arrived at the home Tuesday evening with search dogs. The home belongs to Hasanni's foster father, Louis Ross, 38, and his fiancée, Jennifer Campbell, 33, public records show.

Ross told police that the boy disappeared about 4:15 p.m. Monday from Ross' BMW, which was parked on a driveway on Harwood Avenue off College Avenue in Oakland. The boy vanished when Ross walked around the corner to Shuz of Rockridge, a shoe store on the 6000 block of College where Campbell works, Ross told police.

Campbell is the boy's aunt. She became Hasanni's legal guardian after his mother, Shemika Campbell, who is also disabled, could not take care of him, relatives said.

"I would like my grandson back," said Pamela Clark, 62, of San Francisco, who is Shemika and Jennifer Campbell's mother. "I just hope this works out."

Clark and she doubted Ross or Jennifer Campbell were responsible for the boy's disappearance.

"I don't think the family's involved at all," Clark said.

Regina Douglas of San Francisco, Hasanni's godmother, agreed. "There is no custody dispute," she said. "Everyone is satisfied. Everyone was comfortable with the arrangements."

Douglas said her message was simple: "Return our child to the loving environment he was already living in."

The investigation jarred residents on quiet Roxie Terrace, where Ross and Campbell moved in less than a year ago and kept to themselves, neighbors said.

"We don't see them outside very much," said Ben Siu, adding, "I hope they find the boy."

E-mail Henry K. Lee at hlee@sfchronicle.com.

Fox News just showed LE searching the park near the home they recently finished searching. Guess LE is leaving no stone unturned.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/FBI-Joins-Search-for-Missing-Oakland-Boy-53045372.html
FBI Joins Search for Missing East Bay Boy
5-year-old Hasanni Campbell was last seen Monday
By JESSICA GREENE and KIM TERE
Updated 11:18 AM PDT, Wed, Aug 12, 2009


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The intense search for a 5-year-old Oakland boy with cerebral palsy has intensified and gained a new tool: the FBI.

Hasanni Campbell was last seen Monday night in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood, where his foster father took him to see his foster mother.

Police say Hasanni's foster mother's fiance dropped the boy off at a shoe store where the foster mother works at about 4:20 p.m. He left the boy in the car and walked to the storefront to unlock the door, but when he returned, Hassani was gone.

FBI agents on Tuesday searched the Fremont home where Hasanni lives with his foster father and his aunt.

Hasanni's grandmother, Pamela Clark, said that about six months ago, a court removed the 5-year-old and his sister from their mother's home but she wouldn't say why.

Clark says the court then gave legal guardianship of the children to Hasanni's aunt and her fiance. The family says the arrangement was agreed upon and there are no custody issues.

Hasanni has cerebral palsy and wears braces on his legs to help him walk. His family says he has been making a lot of progress in physical therapy lately but they are worried about his health and special needs.

"He's only five years old. He does have some special medical conditions that need to be attended to on a consistent basis." The boy's godmother, Regina Douglas said. "The people who have him now may not have that information."

Family members on Tuesday passed fliers out with pictures and description of Hasanni in hopes it will help them reunite with the boy.

Police say they have interviewed Hasanni's biological parents, who live in San Francisco, and are keeping all investigative leads open.

Hasanni is African American with brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs 40 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray pants. He wears leg braces that have Spiderman on them.

I hope LE leaves no stone unturned.  I saw in one of the articles I posted this morning that the last time a witness saw Hassani  at the store was August 6th.  http://**/breakingnews/ci_13045028 

Park Search Comes Up Empty For Missing 5-Year-Old

Updated: 12:16 pm PDT August 12, 2009

OAKLAND, Calif. -- A search of a Fremont park Wednesday failed to uncover any new leads as to the whereabouts of a disabled five-year-old, who has been missing for more than two days, authorities said.

Fremont police, volunteers and tracking dogs spent more than three hours searching Nordvik Park, near the home of little Hasanni Campbell. But their efforts came up empty and attention returned once again to Oakland.

“We will also go back and re-search areas where we have already searched,” Oakland police Sgt. Ray Bachman told KTVU.

On Tuesday night, authorities searched the Fremont house where the five-year-old has been living with relatives.

The boy was reported missing from the area of 6000 College Avenue at around 4:15 p.m. Monday, according to the Oakland police youth services unit.

Campbell was last seen Monday afternoon sitting in the car parked outside a shoe store where his aunt and foster mother, Jennifer Campbell, works.

Hasanni's foster father Louis Ross told police he had driven to Shuz of Rockridge with the little boy and his one-year-old sister to drop them off with Jennifer Campbell.

Ross told police he left Hasanni in his BMW parked behind the shoe store and took Hasanni's little sister with him as he went around to open up the back door to get the boy. But when he got there, he said Hasanni was gone.

On Tuesday, authorities served search warrants at the home on the 5900 block of Roxie Terrace in Fremont's Hampton Place neighborhood, where the boy lived.

Earlier Tuesday evening, Jennifer Campbell told KTVU she's very distraught over Hasanni's disappearance and that she's asking for the public's help.

Hasanni is African American and suffers from cerebral palsy. He's described as three feet tall and weighing 40 pounds. He was last seen wearing grey sweatshirt and pants. Hasanni has braces with Spiderman stickers on both legs.

In the meantime, law enforcement spent hours at the couple's home looking for clues.

FBI spokeswoman Patti Hansen said she could not give details about the case but confirmed that FBI is helping search for five-year-old Hassani Campbell.

Tuesday afternoon, law enforcement officers removed items from the home, including what appeared to be a computer.

The Alameda County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Team used four dogs to search the premises.

"This dog is trained to find human scent of both alive and dead," said Rhonda Dyer of the Search and Rescue team. "We searched the home here and the area around it."

Earlier in the evening, Hasanni's grandmother talked about the boy. She said he speaks with a slight lisp and loves Spongebob Squarepants, the cartoon character.

"He's a sweet affectionate boy. He's very intelligent very smart," said Pamela Clark.

Grandmother Clark told KTVU her daughter Jennifer was awarded temporary custody of Hasanni by the courts eight months ago when another daughter, Hasanni's biological mother, couldn't care for the boy.

Police would not comment if a possible custody dispute may be a factor in the boy's disappearance.

"We've devoted a significant amount of resources to finding this young child because it's very important that we locate him as soon as possible," said acting Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan.

Grandmother Clark had a message for whoever may have the boy: "I just want my grandson back. If anybody has him please release him, please."

Police are asking that anyone who has information to call them right away.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20353090/detail.html

Thanks for all the updates this morning. :)

I wonder when the last time someone other than the foster parents saw the little dude. Another family member? A neighbor?

Sister is only 19 months old and can't talk.

It worries me about his "medical condition" I wonder if he needs medication on a regular basis.

I am glad they searched the park, next to the home. He may not be that close though.

Do BMW's have GPS? Is there anyway to track where that car has been? I hope they took his cellphone too.

Campbell is the boy's aunt. She became Hasanni's legal guardian after his mother, Shemika Campbell, who is also disabled, could not take care of him, relatives said.

The investigation jarred residents on quiet Roxie Terrace, where Ross and Campbell moved in less than a year ago and kept to themselves, neighbors said.

"We don't see them outside very much," said Ben Siu, adding, "I hope they find the boy."

http://bit.ly/tMcqT

I saw that article and I think it's posted here.  But I also saw this one:

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I agree but I also think there is lazy and crappy reporting nowadays that contribute to a lot of this confusion. They mess up the minor details or don't get them right and then later they are corrected, or corrected in some media but not in others. It makes it hard to separate facts and lies.

I definitely agree with you on the quality of reporting sometimes.  It's like they want to get the news out so fast, the facts aren't checked first.  And when mistakes are made, they aren't corrected and tend to be repeated and compounded.   ::MonkeyConfused::

I hope little Hassani is found soon.  In one of the articles, it's said "He's only five years old. He does have some special medical conditions that need to be attended to on a consistent basis." The boy's godmother, Regina Douglas said. "The people who have him now may not have that information." http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/FBI-Joins-Search-for-Missing-Oakland-Boy-53045372.html

He might take medication to help with spasticity. He may also take medication for seizures, as some people with CP suffer from seizures. There is also regular physical therapy that has to be done. To keep him flexible and stretch the muscles. There is also feeding, digestion and breathing problems that people with CP can suffer from.

I am praying so hard for him.

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Bio mom speaks out. She also has CP, heath and drug problems. http://cbs5.com/video/?id=53961@kpix.dayport.com

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The search for Hasanni was underway in the Rockridge area for the second day in a row. Wednesday evening, detectives were handing flyers out to people in the neighborhood hoping to find someone who saw something. So far, the last person to see Hasanni was his foster father.

48 hours after Hasanni went missing the search for him continues. Search teams canvassed the Fremont neighborhood where Hasanni lives with his aunt Jennifer Campbell and her fiancé. Dogs searched a park near their house for the little boy's scent but investigators called off the search when they came up empty handed.

Oakland police Sgt. Ray Blackman told ABC7 Wednesday that they did not have any solid leads or suspects.

Louis Ross told police he left Hasanni alone in his car parked behind the Rockridge neighborhood shoe store where Hasanni's aunt works. He went inside briefly to drop Hasanni's sister off. When he returned to the car Hasanni was gone.

Authorities towed the car. Police and FBI agents have searched the couple's Fremont home and the neighborhood surrounding the shoe store but some family members question the Ross's story.

"It appears somewhat strange and I don't know. So, I don't really want to speculate," said Hassani's godmother Regina Douglas.

The family is pleading for the boy's safe return.

"We're pleading and appealing to their sensibilities, to their conscience, to return this innocent little boy to his family," Douglas told ABC7.

Police say the couple is cooperating with the investigation but they will not say whether they have taken a polygraph test. Investigators plan to search the Rockridge area for a second day in a row hoping for new leads.

"Primarily, this is a missing person's case. But, we would be neglecting in our duties if we discounted that foul play may have occurred," said Ray.

Jennifer Campbell's sister told ABC7 Wednesday that Jennifer is 5-months pregnant and devastated by what has happened to her family. The family that is worried and waiting for Hasanni to come home, is now also very concerned about his foster mother's well-being.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6961528

http://www.youtube.com/v/6jcQnunrX50&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1

Please just let them bring Hasanni home safe and sound.

I'll be praying for him non-stop.

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Aug 12, 2009 7:21 pm US/Pacific
Missing E. Bay Boy's Foster Dad Speaks Out
Reporting Joe Vazquez

The foster father of a a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy made an emotional plea Wednesday evening for the boy's return and denied any involvement in his disappearance.

"We love him and we miss him and we won't stop looking for him," Louis Ross, foster father of missing Hasanni Campbell, told CBS 5 in an interview from his Fremont home.

Ross' comments came as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local police conducted searches in the Oakland Hills on Wednesday related to the boy's disappearance. On Tuesday, police and the FBI had searched Ross' home.

Authorities declined to comment on the searches and Ross denied a report that investigators had seized a computer from his home.

Earlier Wednesday, prominent Bay Area civil rights attorney John Burris said Ross had agreed to take a polygraph test as requested by police.

Ross later told CBS 5 that while he consulted with Burris, he had not hired the lawyer to represent him. Ross also maintained that he was "cooperating 100 percent" with police and the FBI.

The foster father was the last person to see Hasanni, who has been missing since Monday afternoon.

Ross said he left Hasanni outside his car parked around the corner from an Oakland shoe store where Jennifer Campbell, who is Ross's fiancee and the boy's foster mother, works.

Ross said he was unlocking the store door to give the boy, who wears braces on his feet, easier access. He said the boy was gone when he returned.

In his interview with CBS 5, Ross stressed that the boy's braces were not easily noticeable and urged the public to focus on other features of the boy's description.

Hassani is described as a black boy with light complexion, brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs around 30 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray pants.

Anyone with information regarding Hassani's whereabouts was urged by authorities to call Oakland police youth services at (510) 238-3641, or 911.

http://cbs5.com/local/oakland.missing.boy.2.1126255.html
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Video
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=54001@kpix.dayport.com

Missing boy's foster dad pleads for his return

Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

(08-12) 20:03 PDT FREMONT -- The foster father of a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy pleaded for the child's safe return Wednesday, saying the family is going through a "nightmare beyond belief" that includes scrutiny from police and the FBI.

Louis Welton Ross of Fremont said he and his fiancée, the boy's aunt, have cooperated "100 percent" with authorities who are trying to find Hasanni Campbell.

An attorney consulting with the couple said Ross took a polygraph test Wednesday, one day after police and FBI investigators with search dogs went through the family's home for several hours.

Ross fears that Hasanni was kidnapped. "If I could talk to anyone who may have taken him, I would say, 'Drop him off and go - but don't hurt him. You have done enough,' " Ross, 38, said in an interview in the family's home on Roxie Terrace.

Ross told police Monday that Hasanni disappeared that afternoon when Ross briefly left him in a car in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood outside the College Avenue shoe store where his fiancée, Jennifer Campbell, works.

The computer engineer said he had left the boy while he unlocked a door to the store, and that when he returned, Hasanni was gone.

Ross said he now understands that authorities must look into family members out as part of their investigation, but that police initially seemed to assume that the couple had done something wrong.

"We were not involved in my son's disappearance in any way," Ross said. "We are cooperating with the police and with the FBI 100 percent."

Campbell, 33, who is six months pregnant, remained upstairs in their home during the interview. Relatives said she gained custody of Hasanni after her sister, the boy's mother, was unable to care for him.
Polygraph test

Ross said he would not talk about the details of the investigation, saying he wanted to make sure he did nothing to jeopardize it. He would not comment on the account by attorney John Burris of Oakland that he had taken a polygraph test Wednesday after initially refusing.

Burris said he was consulting with the couple and had urged them to cooperate with authorities.

"I suggested to them, they need to be candid and truthful with the police," Burris said. "The police should look at them - they need to rule him and her out."

He added, "I don't see anything that suggests anything negative about these individuals."

An FBI expert administered the polygraph to Ross, law enforcement sources said. Special Agent Joseph Schadler, a spokesman in the FBI's San Francisco office, would not comment on the matter.

Campbell did not agree to a polygraph exam out of concern for how the it might affect her unborn child, Burris said.
No sightings

There have been no reports of sightings of Hasanni since Ross says he vanished. Ross said Hasanni would "never have walked off" by himself.

He said the boy wears arch-support braces because of his cerebral palsy, not full leg braces, and that the public may have the idea that he needed the braces to get around. "They are to reshape his foot, give him an arch," Ross said. "He doesn't need them to walk."

After he reported Hasanni missing, Ross said, police seemed to blame the family first. Authorities removed Hasanni's 1-year-old sister and put her in another foster home, he said.

"We were very upset," he said. "We were dealing with a loss of a child, and the other child was taken from us.

"All of a sudden it was like we were thrown against the wall," Ross said. "We had to prove we were not responsible - but our son is out there missing. We cannot be part of the search."

He said family members have distributed flyers in the Rockridge area with Hasanni's photo and other information. The family did not go to the media immediately because "our first and primary concern is the return of our son," Ross said.

"This has been a nightmare beyond belief," he said.
Grandmother's account

Campbell's mother, Pamela Clark, 62, of San Francisco, said she doubted Ross or Campbell were responsible for Hasanni's disappearance. Ross, she said, is "a very professional man. He has a good job, he is very hard-working, a good provider."

Clark added, "I don't think the family's involved at all."

Campbell became Hasanni's legal guardian after her sister, 25-year-old Shemika Campbell of San Francisco, could not take care of him, relatives said.

Clark said Shemika Campbell is "just devastated" by the boy's disappearance.

Court records show that San Francisco officials sued Shemika Campbell and Hasanni's father, Ronald Hughes, starting in 2005, claiming they were unable to support Hasanni.

The actions, one against Hughes and the other against Campbell, were apparently resolved last year with a default judgment entered on behalf of the city. They could not be reached for comment.

The investigation into Hasanni's disappearance has jarred residents on quiet Roxie Terrace, the street in Fremont's Ardenwood neighborhood where Ross and Campbell moved in less than a year ago and kept to themselves. Many in the community of two-story, well-kept homes said they had not seen the boy at the corner house.

"We don't see them outside very much," said Ben Siu, adding, "I hope they find the boy."

http://sfgate.info/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/12/BA2U197IUU.DTL&tsp=1

Foster Father Of Missing 5-Year-Old Submits To Polygraph Test

Posted: 10:44 pm PDT August 10, 2009Updated: 7:08 pm PDT August 12, 2009
OAKLAND, Calif. -- The foster father of the five-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who disappeared Monday afternoon have agreed to undergo a lie detector test, according to authorities.

Both foster parents were requested to take a polygraph test regarding their version of the events leading up to the disappearance of Hassani Campbell, but only his foster father Louis Ross consented to undergo the test the day after the couple Fremont home was extensively searched for evidence.

Hassani’s foster mother Jennifer Campbell is six months pregnant and reportedly declined the test out of concerns for her unborn child.

More than 48 hours have passed since the little boy disappeared. Ross reportedly left him standing beside his car in a driveway behind the College Avenue shoe store that Hassani’s foster mother Jennifer Campbell managed

Ross said he took the boy's 18-month-old sister with him as he went inside the store to drop her off. When he returned to the car just minutes later to get the boy, he was gone.

Store owner John Riker said he was surprised to learn that Campbell ever had her foster children with her at work.

"Jen's six months pregnant, She has an 18-month-old and a handicapped son," said Riker. "This is not a day care center; it's a shoe store."

However, Riker said he didn’t have a problem with Campbell having the children at the store on rare occasions and described her as “a good mom.”

"I can't imagine any foul play from her end," said Riker.

Police told KTVU that -- despite combing the Rockridge area for witnesses two nights running -- they still have not found anyone who saw Ross with the little boy before he disappeared.

On Wednesday, the foster parents did not open the door of their home in Fremont that police searched the previous night, nor did they return phone calls.

Fremont police spent Wednesday morning searching with dogs within a mile of the house for any sign of Hasani Campbell. They looked in parks, drainage ditches, abandoned houses and dumpsters.

One officer told KTVU police have alerted landfills in Alameda County to be alert for a body. Hasani Campbell is just three feet tall and weighs only 30 pounds.

"These things can go in a variety of directions," said Oakland police Sgt. Ray Backman. "We're hoping and praying it doesn't go off into the direction we're no longer trying to find a missing child but to recover a body. That is our worst nightmare."
::MonkeyNoNo:: ::MonkeyNoNo::
Oakland police returned to canvassing the streets in the Rockridge area Wednesday night in hopes of finding a lead in the case. Anyone with information regarding the boy or his whereabouts is asked to call authorities immediately.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20353090/detail.html
video http://bit.ly/2UK9q

Alright so I decided to do a YouTube PSA to help find Hassani Campbell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PynY9O-ewwc

Hassani desreves to be found. I'm praying for him.

 ::MonkeyNoNo::  ::MonkeyNoNo::

I don't think little dude was ever with the "step dad - boyfriend" at all on the day in question. I'm having de ja vu about Jada. I don't recall reading the dogs picked up any scent, did I miss it or they just didn't say?

And I'm wondering why the step dad - boyfriend left him at the car, yet took the baby. I'm not saying he should have left both at the car. He should have walked with both children! I wonder if this was a normal way to drop them off?

I just don't feel as tho Hassani was even there that day, and I'm really hoping that I'm wrong!  ::MonkeyAngel::



                                                               

Jada, Nevaeh, Robert...too many. I think all here agree with you, though we are all praying that we are wrong. It's a shame that we can predict the ending to so many of these cases, once we read the first few articles about them.

Search dogs have been being used since the beginning and again last night and today at the park. Other than not finding little dude, not much has been mentioned regarding if they picked up any scent or not.


One officer told KTVU police have alerted landfills in Alameda County to be alert for a body. Hasani Campbell is just three feet tall and weighs only 30 pounds.

This article was updated to add this.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/20353090/detail.html

Thanks Pink, I was reading thru some of the comments at that link, and seems like a lot don't believe this man's story.

Is he the father of the 18 mo old I wonder? It's not adding up for me. What risks would come to the foster mother by taking a lie detector test, do you know?

Something happened to this child, and it's not good! IMO  ::MonkeyNoNo::  ::MonkeyNoNo::

The 18 month old is Hassani's little sister. They (the aunt and the BF) are foster parents to both of them. DCFS took custody of the little girl yesterday. His story was he was carrying them in one at a time. There is a video link of him being interviewed either on this page or a page back.

Under most states rules and regulations, pregnant women cannot be examined regardless of where they are in the pregnancy.
http://www.floridapolygraphliedetector.com/faq.htm

I imagine if she had a history of miscarriage or her doctor advised her because of the stress of a high risk pregnancy, she might not take one.

Ooo, I didn't know that,  thank you!

I do remember now reading that they both were foster children. Some of these articles are really bad with their reporting!

Thanks again Pink!

I hope they find this child safe, and soon!  ::MonkeyAngel::

As others have mentioned, the reporting on this case is deplorable.  Why can't the media get the story straight! 

We've had the male caretaker described in at least three different ways, father - friend - foster father... Hassani described as being left sitting in the car as well as being left standing outside of it... and the car being parked behind the store as well as around the corner from the store.  Sheesh. 

Am in agreement with those who have wondered if Hassani was ever in that car at the store at all.  Seems we only have the male caretaker's word that he was, no one saw him.   ::MonkeyNoNo::   ::MonkeyRoll::  This doesn't look good on the male caretaker, IMO.   Am sure hoping that LE is looking long and hard at him, along with his activities earlier in the day. 
 

I don't think he was there that day either. This feels like it was set up to look like someone took him.

Could the stress of having a disabled child to care for been too overwhelming or was there an accident? I can't decide, but tomorrow is day 3 in the search and the first 72 hours are crucial in a missing child's case.

This does not look good.

I'm praying for Hassani

http://www.amw.com/missing_children/brief.cfm?id=67565
Hassani's American Most Wanted profile

http://p.castfire.com/oglmm/video/139467/139467_2009-08-12-215327.flv

This video is pretty interesting. It shows the exact area where he "disappeared" from. The officer says he "is NOT" surprised that no one saw anything.

Here is the story that goes with the video in my above post

Police Say It's Not Unusual No One Saw Hassani Campbell's Disappearance

Created by Brian Shields on 8/12/2009 6:45:00 PM

OAKLAND (KRON) -- Oakland police say there's no evidence five-year old Hassani Campbell's disappearance is the result of any kind of domestic dispute.

KRON 4's Mark Jones talked with a neighbor who says he was home at the time the child vanished from behind the "Shuz of Rockridge" shoe store on College Avenue.  The neighbor says he didn't see or hear anything.

Police say it's not that unusual to have no witnesses to this kind of incident.

"We have had cases before in the past, not just in Oakland but in other jurisdictions, where abductions have occurred and no one saw it even in very populated areas," Oakland Police Sgt. Raymond Backman told KRON 4's Mark Jones.

Police and the FBI have searched the home of Hassani's guardians but insist they are not targeting Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell.

"We have not identified any suspects at this point," Sgt. Backman said. "The foster parents are cooperating in the investigation."

"Have you talked to the biological mother?" Mark asked.

"We've identified the biological parents and I believe we have spoken to all of them," Sgt. Backman said.

Backman says the relatives are in San Francisco but there's no evidence this is the result of a domestic dispute.

http://kron.com/News/ArticleView/tabid/298/smid/1126/ArticleID/2614/reftab/36/t/Police%20Say%20Its%20Not%20Unusual%20No%20One%20Saw%20Hassani%20Campbells%20Disappearance/Default.aspx

Homicide Detectives Working On Missing 5-Year-Old Case

Updated: 10:29 pm PDT August 12, 2009

OAKLAND, Calif. -- A source told KTVU Wednesday night that homicide detectives have been brought into the investigation of five-year-old Hassani Campbell’s disappearance Monday afternoon.

Wednesday night, six Oakland police homicide detectives and other uniformed officers canvassed the area where the boy with cerebral palsy was last seen according to his foster father, 38-year-old Louis Ross.

Ross reportedly left Hassani standing beside his car in a driveway behind the College Avenue shoe store that Hassani’s foster mother Jennifer Campbell manages.

Ross said he took the boy's 18-month-old sister with him as he went inside the store to drop her off. When he returned to the car just minutes later to get the boy, he was gone.

Prominent Oakland attorney John Burris told KTVU by phone Wednesday evening that the couple consulted with him the day before.

They were initially dismayed, explained Burris. They were trying to handle the emotions of not having the child, but then at the same time police was targeting their house.

Burris described the couple as being surprised by the focus of the investigation as law enforcement conducted an extensive search of their Fremont home Tuesday.

Burris said Ross agreed to take a polygraph test scheduled for sometime Wednesday, while Campbell would not take the take one because of concerns that the test could affect her pregnancy.

"He was more than willing to take a polygraph, but I did advise him that taking the polygraph is not necessarily foolproof," said Burris. "It is not uncommon to have a false negative."

More than 48 hours have passed since the little boy disappeared.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/20353090/detail.html

So sweet of you Tina, thank you. I wish I could watch it but frankinputer hates the youtube for some reason.

Foster father: Hasanni has no leg braces
Thursday, August 13, 2009 | 1:33 AM

OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- Family members of a missing disabled Fremont boy are hoping someone can help find him. Police say 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell was last seen in Oakland two days ago. He has cerebral palsy, but family members say he doesn't have leg braces on the outside of his pants.

The search for Hasanni was underway in the Rockridge area for the second day in a row. Wednesday evening, detectives were handing flyers out to people in the neighborhood hoping to find someone who saw something. So far, the last person to see Hasanni was his foster father.

Louis Ross, the foster father of the missing 5-year-old boy, spoke to ABC7 Wednesday night and said a critical description of his son is wrong. He says Hasanni does not wear metal leg braces on the outside of his pants.

"So that story being put out there... think about the time that was lost. People could be looking at our son and not realizing it was him because the key discriminator was metal leg braces," said Ross.

Both Hasanni's aunt and Ross are frustrated about not having any time to organize a search for Hasanni. They say they are too busy cooperating with police -- talking to them for 12 hours the first night, and 17 hours the next.

48 hours after Hasanni went missing the search for him continues. Search teams canvassed the Fremont neighborhood where Hasanni lives with his aunt Jennifer Campbell and her fiancé. Dogs searched a park near their house for the little boy's scent but investigators called off the search when they came up empty handed.

Oakland Police Sgt. Ray Blackman told ABC7 Wednesday that they did not have any solid leads or suspects.

Louis Ross told police he left Hasanni alone in his car parked behind the Rockridge neighborhood shoe store where Hasanni's aunt works. He went inside briefly to drop Hasanni's sister off. When he returned to the car Hasanni was gone.

Authorities towed the car. Police and FBI agents have searched the couple's Fremont home and the neighborhood surrounding the shoe store but some family members question the Ross's story.

"It appears somewhat strange and I don't know. So, I don't really want to speculate," said Hassani's godmother Regina Douglas.

The family is pleading for the boy's safe return.

"We're pleading and appealing to their sensibilities, to their conscience, to return this innocent little boy to his family," Douglas told ABC7.

Police say the couple is cooperating with the investigation but they will not say whether they have taken a polygraph test. Investigators plan to search the Rockridge area for a second day in a row hoping for new leads.

"Primarily, this is a missing person's case. But, we would be neglecting in our duties if we discounted that foul play may have occurred," said Ray.

Jennifer Campbell's sister told ABC7 Wednesday that Jennifer is five-months pregnant and devastated by what has happened to her family. The family that is worried and waiting for Hasanni to come home, is now also very concerned about his foster mother's well-being.

FBI and Homicide Detectives Join Search For Missing Boy - Video
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=6960173

Louis Ross speaks to ABC7 and CBS5
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=6962712
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=53997@kpix.dayport.com


Aunt and BF's house.

It looks like it just wasn't  just between family members deciding on  taking in Hassani to care for him.  There was some legal intervention in 2005.  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/12/MN2U197IUU.DTL
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Grandmother's account

Campbell's mother, Pamela Clark, 62, of San Francisco said she doubted Ross or Campbell were responsible for Hasanni's disappearance. Ross, she said, is "a very professional man. He has a good job, he is very hardworking, a good provider."

Clark added, "I don't think the family's involved at all."

Campbell became Hasanni's legal guardian after her sister, 25-year-old Shemika Campbell of San Francisco, could not take care of him, relatives said.

Clark said Shemika Campbell is "just devastated" by the boy's disappearance.

Court records show that San Francisco officials sued Shemika Campbell and Hasanni's father, Ronald Hughes, starting in 2005, claiming they were unable to support Hasanni.

The actions, one against Hughes and the other against Campbell, were apparently resolved last year with a default judgment entered on behalf of the city. They could not be reached for comment.

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I guess I was under the impression family was just helping out, and that there hadn't been anything legal so far, except  there was mention of plans for the children to be adopted in the future.  But I realize now, the children would need to be fostered legally, in order for the caretakers to receive any monies for their care and especially for Hassani's medical expenses.  Providing a stable home for a child would just be the start of care. 

I pray little Hassani can be found soon.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/13/BAEP198360.DTL
Homicide cops join missing-boy investigation

Henry K. Lee,Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writers

Thursday, August 13, 2009

(08-13) 09:01 PDT OAKLAND --

Oakland homicide investigators have joined in the case of a 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who has been missing for three days, police said today.
 Six investigators joined officers from the Oakland police missing-persons unit in canvassing the area Wednesday outside the shoe store where Hasanni Campbell was reportedly last seen. Police passed out flyers along the 6000 block of College Avenue in the city's Rockridge district, urging anyone with information to contact them.

Oakland homicide Sgt. Mike Gantt, who was among those who visited the scene, said today that police wanted some of their more seasoned investigators to work the case and that no assumptions should be made because they had been brought in.

"It's still a missing-persons case," Gantt said.

The homicide squad's visit came as Hasanni's foster father, Louis Welton Ross, 38, of Fremont urged anyone with information about the boy's whereabouts to contact police.

Ross said Wednesday the family is going through a "nightmare beyond belief" that includes scrutiny from police and the FBI.

Ross said he and his fiancee, the boy's aunt, have cooperated "100 percent" with authorities.

An attorney consulting with the couple said Ross took a polygraph test Wednesday, one day after police and FBI investigators with search dogs went through the family's home for several hours.

Ross fears that Hasanni was kidnapped. "If I could talk to anyone who may have taken him, I would say, 'Drop him off and go - but don't hurt him. You have done enough,' " Ross, 38, said in an interview in the family's home on Roxie Terrace in Fremont's Ardenwood neighborhood.

Ross told Oakland police Monday that Hasanni disappeared that afternoon when Ross briefly left him in a car outside the shoe store where his fiancee, Jennifer Campbell, works.

The computer engineer said he had left the boy while he unlocked a door to the store and that when he returned, Hasanni was gone.

Ross said he now understands that authorities must look into family members as part of their investigation, but that police initially seemed to assume that the couple had done something wrong.

"We were not involved in my son's disappearance in any way," Ross said. "We are cooperating with the police and with the FBI 100 percent."

Campbell, 33, who is six months pregnant, remained upstairs in their home during the interview. Relatives said she gained custody of Hasanni after her sister, the boy's mother, was unable to care for him.

Ross said he would not talk about the details of the investigation, saying he wanted to make sure that he did nothing to jeopardize it. He would not comment on the account by attorney John Burris of Oakland that he had taken a polygraph test Wednesday after initially refusing.

Burris said he was consulting with the couple and had urged them to cooperate with authorities.

"I suggested to them, they need to be candid and truthful with the police," Burris said. "The police should look at them; they need to rule him and her out."

He added, "I don't see anything that suggests anything negative about these individuals."

An FBI expert administered the polygraph to Ross, law enforcement sources said. Special Agent Joseph Schadler, a spokesman in the FBI's San Francisco office, would not comment on the matter.

Campbell did not agree to a polygraph exam out of concern for how it might affect her unborn child, Burris said.

There have been no reports of sightings of Hasanni since Ross says he vanished. Ross said Hasanni would "never have walked off" by himself.

He said the boy wears arch-support braces because of his cerebral palsy, not full leg braces, and that the public may have the idea that he needed the braces to get around. "They are to reshape his foot, give him an arch," Ross said. "He doesn't need them to walk."

After he reported Hasanni missing, Ross said, police seemed to blame the family first. Authorities removed Hasanni's 1-year-old sister and put her in another foster home, he said.

"We were very upset," he said. "We were dealing with a loss of a child, and the other child was taken from us.

"All of a sudden, it was like we were thrown against the wall," Ross said. "We had to prove we were not responsible, but our son is out there missing."

Well it's still early here in Cali so maybe Hassani will be found by nightfall. I'm still hoping and praying for his safe return.

An FBI expert administered the polygraph to Ross, law enforcement sources said. Special Agent Joseph Schadler, a spokesman in the FBI's San Francisco office, would not comment on the matter.

Campbell did not agree to a polygraph exam out of concern for how it might affect her unborn child, Burris said.


Well there is a problem..
 That Polygraph would never effect a unborn child in my opinion..
Campbell makes herself look suspect. Using the unborn child as a shield protecting her from being asked questions..

Wyks! this is like old times! you and fatcat both on the same thread! where have ya been?? good to see you!

right there with ya on this Edward!  something is really wrong...

Who should and should not take a polygraph test?

Who should NOT take a polygraph test:

    * Anyone who is being forced to take it.
    * Any person with a serious heart condition, unless his doctor has given written approval. A pregnant women, unless her doctor has given written approval.
    * Any person who is determined to be mentally incompetent. Any person who has a respiratory illness or cold. Any person who has nerve damage or paralysis.
    * Any person who has had a stroke or is an epileptic. Any person who is in pain (i.e., toothache, headache or a recent injury).
http://www.accreditedpolygraphservices.com/polygraph-questions.php

Her doctor could have advised her against it.

Can a pregnant woman be tested?
We prefer not to test pregnant women. Some states make it illegal to test pregnant women. Also, depending on what trimester you're in, it may effect the outcome of the exam. There are some examiners in the industry that will test pregnant women, we're just not one of them.
http://www.pacificpolygraphs.com/pacific-polygraphs-faq.htm#32

thanks Pinky for the info on the lie detector/pregnant woman scenario...did not know that...

welcome cookie! neither did I.

Foster dad pleads for safe return of missing boy

By TERRY COLLINS (AP) – 2 hours ago

OAKLAND, Calif. — The tearful foster father of a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy said Thursday he believes the child was kidnapped and pleaded for his safe return.

Meanwhile, authorities intensified their round-the-clock search for Hasanni Campbell, who disappeared Monday in an upscale Oakland neighborhood.

His foster father, Louis Ross, the last known person to see Hasanni, said the boy disappeared after he briefly left him outside his car in the rear parking lot of a shoe store where Ross' fiancee, Jennifer Campbell, works.

Ross said he went to the store's front entrance to ask Campbell to open the back door, but when he returned to the parking lot, Hasanni was gone.

"We refuse to give up hope. We know he wouldn't walk away like that," Ross told The Associated Press Thursday. "Whoever has him, let him go. Please drop him off somewhere — the police, a hospital, a school. Somewhere. Please."

As many as 70 officers from several law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have joined the search for Hasanni. They scoured parts of Oakland and searched numerous areas, including nearby parkland and his foster parents' home in Fremont.

"It has been nonstop," Oakland police Sgt. Ray Backman said. "Given that it's a 5-year-old boy, time is a critical factor for us."

The boy is still considered a missing person, not a kidnap victim, Backman said. Investigators were working with no significant clues and a limited amount of tips, he said.

"There's always that possibility he will be found," the sergeant said.

Ross said his family was cooperating with authorities, although he felt police believed he and Campbell did something wrong.

Ross has taken a polygraph test, but Campbell declined because she is six months pregnant and worried about any adverse effects.

Ross declined to discuss the results of his test.

The couple, who also have custody of Hasanni's year-old sister, were seeking advice from John Burris, a civil rights attorney.

Burris said they were surprised about being the focus of the investigation. Their house was searched and Hasanni's sister was taken from them and placed in protective custody, he said.

"What I told them is their boy is missing and that you have to cooperate, assuming that you did nothing wrong," Burris said. "I told them, you were the last ones who saw him, so they are going to come to you."

Backman said he understood the family was going through a trying time.

"A lot of the questions that we have to ask during the course of investigation are very intrusive because we want to explore all possibilities, however remote they might be," Backman said. "We're trying to be as delicate as we can."

Ross said Hasanni wears arch-support braces to walk — not full leg braces as previously reported — because of his cerebral palsy.

Police said the boy is black, 3 feet tall, weighs 30 pounds and was last seen wearing a gray sweat shirt and gray pants.

He disappeared after Ross pulled his BMW into a rear parking lot behind the shoe store with Hasanni and his infant sister onboard. Ross said he was heading for an orientation at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto and then to his twice-weekly medical assistant class in Fremont.

Dropping the kids with Campbell is a family routine, Ross said. When he opened the rear passenger door for Hasanni, he said, the boy was unbuckling his seat belt.

"I said, 'Hasanni, go wait by the back door,' and he had already taken a first step out of the car," Ross said.

Ross said he grabbed Hasanni's sister and went to the front of the store and told Campbell to open the back door. He then went back to the parking lot.

"When I got to back there (Campbell) was already there. She says to me, 'Where's Hasanni?'" Ross said. "I said, 'What do you mean?' I look to see if he's standing along by the car, but he's not."

Ross said he and Campbell asked her co-worker if he had seen Hasanni. Ross then ran back to his car and called 911.

Now, he and his family wait, worry and plead for Hasanni's safe return.

"We just want him back home with us." Ross said. "Please."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hUXzIn-qwIqEY9RjeTeHqMRo83PgD9A27VI80

A lie detector test does not inject you with anything.
A lie detector test does not put electric shock into the body.
The only person who may have extreme anxiety or a heart attack is a guilty person in my humble opinion..

The test professionals are just trying to cover there own asses from potential lawsuits.
kinda like the spilled coffee lawsuit at McDonald's.. People want to find blame, why set your organization up.

The boy was not seen by anyone in Oakland. THAT says a lot.

We will see

Search for missing 5-year-old boy intensifies
Thursday, August 13, 2009 | 5:07 PM

OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- The Oakland homicide division is now involved in the search for 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell who has been missing since Monday. Police say it is because they need the additional personnel, and not because they consider it a murder case. A wrecking yard was the latest focus of their investigation.

The family has been passing out fliers in the Rockridge neighborhood and asking for the public's help.

The focus of the search returned to the Rockridge area Thursday afternoon. Police sent 30 officers back into the neighborhood to visit homes and businesses they may have missed in the past couple days.

The boy's faster father, Louis Ross, says the boy was last seen in the parking lot of a shoe store where the boy's foster mother, Jennifer Campbell, works.

Police say they still have eight detectives working full-time on the case, including one from the homicide division.

The FBI and Fremont police have also gotten involved, searching the family's home in Fremont and towing Ross' BMW. According to police that car has now been returned to him.

"We have not spoken to the media up until this point, not because we were shy or we're hiding," said Ross. "We're with the police and FBI giving them all the information. First day alone, we were with police for 17 hours straight."

"He has taken a polygraph but he didn't tell me what the results were, but he did tell me he spoke truthfully, answered all questions, but I haven't spoken to anyone about it," said attorney John Burris.

Police will not confirm whether Ross took or passed the polygraph.

ABC7 News has learned that detectives have visited an auto salvage yard in Hayward over the past two days. Employees there say Ross was there before the boy disappeared on Monday, and that the boy waited in the car while Ross searched the yard for car parts. Police confirm that they have been searching in that area as well as many others. They have also searched a levee behind the salvage yard.

Police have clarified that the boy is disabled, but does not wear leg braces, but instead wears orthotics inside his shoes. He is able to walk, although with some difficulty.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6964246

video
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=6964325

 Aug 13, 2009 5:14 pm US/Pacific
Police Go Door-To-Door In Search For East Bay Boy
OAKLAND (CBS 5 / AP) ―

Oakland police officers will be going door-to-door in the city's Rockridge neighborhood until the sun goes down today to search for information on the disappearance of a 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, police Sgt. Ray Backman said.

Hasanni Campbell was reported missing from the 6000 block of College Avenue at around 4:15 p.m. Monday, and investigators have been saturating the area since then to try to obtain information about the boy's disappearance, Backman said.

Backman said that there are about 300 homes and businesses in the area at which no one has been available to talk.

"We're going to go back out there, and the goal is maybe some of those people that weren't there, we can get a hold of," he said. "We're really trying to make sure that we're doing a really thorough canvas of the area."

Backman said a homicide detective has been assigned to the case along with eight special victims units.

"We're going to explore any and all possible outcomes of the case," he said.
Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell, the foster parents of Hasanni, have been cooperating with the investigation, Backman said.

(more at the link, repeated info)
http://cbs5.com/local/oakland.missing.boy.2.1127861.html
video w/foster dad
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=54010@kpix.dayport.com

Foster Dad Pleads for Safe Return of Missing Boy

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 13, 2009
Filed at 5:29 p.m. ET

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- The tearful foster father of a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy said Thursday he believes the child was kidnapped and pleaded for his safe return.

Meanwhile, authorities intensified their round-the-clock search for Hasanni Campbell, who disappeared Monday in an upscale Oakland neighborhood.

His foster father, Louis Ross, the last known person to see Hasanni, said the boy disappeared after he briefly left him outside his car in the rear parking lot of a shoe store where Ross' fiancee, Jennifer Campbell, works.

Ross said he went to the store's front entrance to ask Campbell to open the back door, but when he returned to the parking lot, Hasanni was gone.

''We refuse to give up hope. We know he wouldn't walk away like that,'' Ross told The Associated Press Thursday. ''Whoever has him, let him go. Please drop him off somewhere -- the police, a hospital, a school. Somewhere. Please.''

As many as 70 officers from several law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have joined the search for Hasanni. They scoured parts of Oakland and searched numerous areas, including nearby parkland and his foster parents' home in Fremont.

''It has been nonstop,'' Oakland police Sgt. Ray Backman said. ''Given that it's a 5-year-old boy, time is a critical factor for us.''

The boy is still considered a missing person, not a kidnap victim, Backman said. Investigators were working with no significant clues and a limited amount of tips, he said.

''There's always that possibility he will be found,'' the sergeant said.

Ross said his family was cooperating with authorities, although he felt police believed he and Campbell did something wrong.

Ross has taken a polygraph test, but Campbell declined because she is six months pregnant and worried about any adverse effects.

Ross declined to discuss the results of his test.

The couple, who also have custody of Hasanni's year-old sister, were seeking advice from John Burris, a civil rights attorney.

Burris said they were surprised about being the focus of the investigation. Their house was searched and Hasanni's sister was taken from them and placed in protective custody, he said.

''What I told them is their boy is missing and that you have to cooperate, assuming that you did nothing wrong,'' Burris said. ''I told them, you were the last ones who saw him, so they are going to come to you.''

Backman said he understood the family was going through a trying time.

''A lot of the questions that we have to ask during the course of investigation are very intrusive because we want to explore all possibilities, however remote they might be,'' Backman said. ''We're trying to be as delicate as we can.''

Ross said Hasanni wears arch-support braces to walk -- not full leg braces as previously reported -- because of his cerebral palsy.

Police said the boy is black, 3 feet tall, weighs 30 pounds and was last seen wearing a gray sweat shirt and gray pants.

He disappeared after Ross pulled his BMW into a rear parking lot behind the shoe store with Hasanni and his infant sister onboard. Ross said he was heading for an orientation at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto and then to his twice-weekly medical assistant class in Fremont.

Dropping the kids with Campbell is a family routine, Ross said. When he opened the rear passenger door for Hasanni, he said, the boy was unbuckling his seat belt.

''I said, 'Hasanni, go wait by the back door,' and he had already taken a first step out of the car,'' Ross said.

Ross said he grabbed Hasanni's sister and went to the front of the store and told Campbell to open the back door. He then went back to the parking lot.

''When I got to back there (Campbell) was already there. She says to me, 'Where's Hasanni?''' Ross said. ''I said, 'What do you mean?' I look to see if he's standing along by the car, but he's not.''

Ross said he and Campbell asked her co-worker if he had seen Hasanni. Ross then ran back to his car and called 911.

Now, he and his family wait, worry and plead for Hasanni's safe return.

''We just want him back home with us.'' Ross said. ''Please.''
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/08/13/us/AP-US-Missing-Boy.html?_r=1

Something that has kind of stuck with me is the fact Jennifer Campbell was working the night shift at Shuz of  Rockridge, and at the same time seemed to be keeping her 5 year old nephew with disabilities and her 18 month old niece at the store at the same time.  How many employers allow that?  I was trying to find an article or interview I thought I saw where  John Riker, the owner of Shuz made mention that he didn't realize she was keeping the kids there while she worked, but added it was okay if she did.  I looked through the articles posted here and didn't see it.  It may have been in another one elsewhere.  I' ll see if I can find. it.  Mr. Riker said good things about Jennifer Campbell:

"John Riker, owner of Shuz, called Campbell a "wonderful foster mother."

"I can tell when she talks about her kids, she's a very devoted mother," he said. "She's hysterical right now."

Some Rockridge residents and store employees said they have doubts about Ross' story."
http://**/breakingnews/ci_13036933

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=6958670

I wonder how much he really knew, if in fact he didn't even know the children were being kept at the shoe store during Jennifer Campbell's work shift?  As I said, I don't have a link for that, and hope to find it.  Mr. Riker would of course at this point say it was okay for her to have the children at the store, with little Hassani missing.  Maybe the store wasn't that busy in the evening shift, that the children could be taken care of well enough.  Was the store a safe place for an 18 mo. old?  I read in some of the articles posted here Campbell and Ross were seeking permanent custody of the children.  (Link http://**/breakingnews/ci_13045028 )

 Would keeping the children in a work place be okay?   It's not like Campbell was working in a day care and had the children there, nor was she working in a factory.  But why did the children need to be taken to her work place in the evening?  How long was her shift?  Where were the children during that time?  How did they spend their time?  How long had this arrangement been going on?  Campbell was the store manager.  What did the other employee's think about children brought to the store?  If Campbell came at 4:15 pm to work, how long was her shift?  When did she get off?  Wouldn't this be a long time for children to be at a store?  Just questions that I've had in the back of my mind.  I'm not trying to mean toward a folks that have a child they've taken in under their wing, but some things just make me wonder.

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Here it is Muffy.

He (the foster dad) was on Nancy Grace tonight. He said it was a routine the past couple months on the night he had classes, where the kids would hang out in the back room from 4:30 till she got off work at 6:00.

Thank you for finding this for me, pink angel.  The store owner WAS surprised to learn Campbell ever had her foster children with her at work, then.  And Mr. Riker says it's a shoe store, not a day care.  As a business owner, he might be concerned about liability and such, I suppose.  Not to mention his employee possibly being distracted by children and not caring for customers.  Or were the children not looked after?  Hard to do both, imo.   Mr. Riker was kind in saying it wouldn't be a problem for the children to be there on "rare occasion".  And then you have the foster dad saying the children staying at the store was routine the past couple months on the night he had classes.  Owner says "rare occasion", foster dad say "routine", over last couple months.  Wonder how often that was?  It was from 4:30 to 6:00, by his account. I wonder if those hours are truthful?  Or did he perhaps go run errands and etc. ?   But how does a 5 year old with health problems and disabilities and an 18 month old "hang out" in a shoe store back room for an hour an a half?  Still scratching head...  I suppose it's better than leaving them alone somewhere.  But not exactly ideal, imo.   I wonder how long this arrangement was to go on with the night classes?  I'm thinking about priorities.  Driving late model BMW, but no baby sitter...  Night classes for yourself, but children relegated to back room of shoe store.  JMHO

All the extra details in this case just feel like they're distracting from the task at hand. There's a little boy out there with special needs who is missing. The reporting on this case has been sub par to say the least and that only adds frustration to this whole ordeal IMO.

Hassani needs to be found. Let's sort the details out later.

I'm praying for his safe return.

Hi Tina Bee!

I'm not sure how we can research without looking at all the extra details.  Sometimes it's a little detail that solves a case.    ::MonkeyCool::

I wonder how often this child stays in a car while either caretaker goes in to a business?  Hot summer days are dangerous - within minutes - for children in a car.

http://www.parenthood.com/article-topics/summer_car_safety.html

Today Ross has said that the boy was OUT of the car and that he told him to get back in while he went around to the front of the store "approx 100 foot " and then came through the store and opened up the back door for the boy to come inside..

The boy was outside of the car.. !!!

No leg braces..


The story changed from the very beginning..
Why not just carry him in ? He only weighs in at 30 lbs.. ??????

Now Ross feels that the boy was abducted..

Well, I suppose so. Why no witness to that event ?  The ally is not hidden.
jmho
 

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I don't think the story has changed. I think the reporting has been crappy and the police did little to correct it at first. Which is why he has been out talking to the media the past couple days. He wanted to correct the facts. If you go back and listen to the interviews he has given in the past couple days. (I posted video) He says as much. They had been too busy with the FBI and police to see/hear what was being put out there in the media and once they did, they were upset that everyone was looking for a boy with silver leg braces, when he actually has braces on his ankles/feet that you wouldn't notice unless he had shorts on more than likely. That Hassani could have been seen and discounted because he didn't have silver braces on his legs disturbed them.

He didn't carry little dude because he was taking the sister in first and wanted the back door open so it would be easier for Hassani to get into the shop. It was routine. They had been doing the same thing 2 x a week for the past couple months since he started classes. He'd drop them off between 4:00-4:30 and they would hang out and play in the back room till she got off work at 6:00.

I still don't know what to believe. I know what my gut told me when I opened this thread and read the first few articles. I just pray I am wrong.

Thanks for the update Muffy. :)

http://p.castfire.com/oglmm/video/140551/140551_2009-08-14-011156.flv

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/13/ng.01.html
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/nancy.grace/

Nancy Grace interview transcript/video from last night.

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/14/california.missing.boy/
Missing 5-year-old last seen in store parking lot, caretaker says
By Philip Rosenbaum
CNN

(CNN) -- The foster father of a missing California boy with cerebral palsy says he left the child alone near his car before the child vanished five days ago from a shoe store parking lot.
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Campbell's foster dad, Louis Ross, says he voluntarily took a polygraph test, but did not disclose the results.

 Louis Ross told HLN's Nancy Grace that he left 5-year-old Hassani Campbell outside his BMW for two to five minutes Monday afternoon. Ross said he went to the front door of the store to ask his fiancee, Jennifer Campbell, who works there, to open the back door.

"By the time I got there, Jennifer is already out of the store, walking toward me, asking, 'Where is Hasanni?' And I say, 'What do you mean, where is Hasanni?' And I look around to the side, and he is no longer there."

Police in Oakland, California, and the FBI are searching for Hasanni and investigating his disappearance.

Ross said he voluntarily took a polygraph test, whose results have not been disclosed.

Campbell declined to take one because she is pregnant, he said. Video Watch Ross discuss why he took polygraph test »

According to Ross, Campbell routinely took care of Hasanni and his 19-month-old sister while Ross attended medical assistant classes twice a week in Fremont.

"They would stay in the back room and play with each other until she got off work, and they would all come home together, and I would see them at 9:30, 10 at night, when I got home from class," Ross said.

Asked what flashed through his mind at the time, Ross said, "Initially, it didn't hit me. He's probably standing around there. ... When Hasanni gets frustrated, he freezes.

"So I thought he would still be on the side. And we all thought -- even Jennifer thought he was probably just hiding and joking around."

Ross said he and Campbell -- who is the sister of Hassani's mother -- took the boy and his sister into their home because their biological parents are unable to take care of them.
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Hasanni, 3 feet tall and weighing 30 pounds, was wearing shorts and white braces on his ankles because of his cerebral palsy, a debilitating brain disease that inhibits motor skills.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/14/BAUH198ST0.DTL&tsp=1

Police question missing boy's foster father

Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer

Friday, August 14, 2009

08-14) 17:56 PDT HAYWARD -- The foster father of a missing 5-year-old boy was interviewed for about an hour Friday by Oakland police homicide investigators who brought him to a Hayward auto wrecking yard where he took the boy before the child vanished, authorities said.
Louis Ross agreed to accompany Sgt. Gus Galindo to the Pick Your Part wrecking yard on Winton Avenue, where Ross took Hasanni Campbell and the boy's 1-year-old sister Monday afternoon, hours before the boy disappeared, said John Burris, a lawyer whom Ross is consulting.

Monday night, Ross reported that the boy had vanished from outside a shoe store on College Avenue in Oakland where Ross' fiancee, Jennifer Campbell, was working. Ross said he had briefly left the boy outside while he went around to the front of the store.

Police have searched in and around the auto-parts yard and the store in recent days, along with a park near the family's home in Fremont. They say they still consider the case a missing person investigation.

Ross, 38, has said he is cooperating with officials "100 percent." He took a polygraph examination Wednesday, but federal authorities who administered the test will not discuss the findings.

Burris said police took Ross to the wrecking yard and spoke with him for about an hour Friday before returning him to his home on Roxie Terrace.

"They wanted to find out what he knows," Burris said. "He was very cooperative."

Ross told Burris that he had gone to the yard looking for a car part. He was taking care of the children before dropping them off at the shoe store so he could go to a job orientation at Stanford Hospital Medical Center and then a medical assistant's class in Union City, Burris said.

Alameda County sheriff's deputies will be searching Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont on Saturday and undisclosed locations in Hayward, authorities with knowledge of the case said. It is not clear why those areas were being targeted for more intensive searches.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6966166
Missing boy's foster father questioned again
Friday, August 14, 2009 | 5:50 PM
Five-year-old Hassani Campbell has not been seen since Monday afternoon. Detectives say the boy's foster father, Louis Ross, was the last person to see him before he disappeared.
 Ross was driven from his Fremont home in an unmarked police car and questioned by Oakland detectives for a time Friday afternoon.

Ross' advisor, attorney John Burris, detectives drove Ross around for about an hour. They want him to retrace his steps from Monday, the day the boy disappeared.

Initially, Ross told police that he left the boy for just a few minutes Monday afternoon in the parking lot of a Rockridge shoe store, and that the boy vanished.

A large scale search is scheduled for Saturday morning.

Oakland police returned to an auto scrapyard in Hayward Friday for a third time. Police are trying to determine if Ross was accompanied by the missing boy when he visited the scrapyard Monday morning.

There are some videos in this article.  Link at top of page.

I hope they plan on taking cadaver dogs to that scrapyard. And I wonder would he have any access to any drugs during that orientation. Being in a medical assistance class would give him access to some kinds of equipment. I'm mainly thinking syringes. I don't know, just random thoughts. He did seem sincere to me in the NG interview, but I know how that can go.

Gizzie~  It seems to me the police are trying to find a reliable witness that can say when they last saw Hassani.  (other than the person that says they saw him last, his foster father, Louis Ross)   It looks like they are making a time line and going over it with Louis Ross.  They've been to the salvage yard three times now, have searched the park near the house, searched the house, gone house to house, and what I think is good, they are going back over their search areas again.  They are going back to any houses they missed to talk to the occupants.  They took the foster father's car right away to process.  If nothing else, it rules these people, places out.   We will see tomorrow if there are cadaver dogs out.  I haven't read any where they have been used yet. 

I'm really afraid for Hassani right now.  At first I thought maybe a relative snatched him, maybe something to do with custody or money.  But I don't think so now.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

MuffyBee, Before I came to Scared Monkeys, for Caylee, I was ignorant to the many cases such as these. Sure I knew children went missing everyday, but I had no idea how many of them never made it past the first day. And I always was the type person to give the benefit of the doubt to, to everyone! Not anymore!!

My first instinct that Hassani was never missing, and I think the "parents" know exactly where he is!

I sure hope they prove me wrong!  ::MonkeyNoNo::

It breaks my heart to read this, over and over again, day after day!

http://www.kron4.com/News/tabid/36/Default.aspx

Scroll down and watch the video called:
Latest Details On The Search For 5-Year-Old Hassani Campbell

The tenant by the shoe store said he had never seen the kids dropped off there. If this was routine like Ross said, you would think??
The owner of the shoe store was surprised to hear that his store was being used as a daycare. What about the co-workers....what do they know??
The neighbors have never seen the children.
The last time anyone outside of the foster mom and dad that have seen these kids is at a family event on August 6th, according to all the reports out there unless LE knows something that we don't.


 ::MonkeyNoNo:: ::MonkeyWaa:: ::MonkeyNoNo:: ::MonkeyWaa::

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UPDATED: Foster Father Of Missing Boy Undergoes More Police Questioning
Posted: 4:38 pm PDT August 13, 2009
Updated: 11:32 pm PDT August 14, 2009

The foster father of a missing boy with cerebral palsy reportedly left his Fremont home with homicide detectives Friday afternoon for additional questioning.

Police said the detective involved had not spoken with Louis Ross directly and wanted to ask him some questions.

Oakland police said Ross has taken a lie detector test, but would not reveal the results.

Police plan a massive grid search of the area near Ross's home Saturday in Fremont. Authorities were also planning another search in Hayward.

On Thursday, Ross issued a emotional plea for the youth's safe return.

VIDEO:Investigation Into Missing 5-Year-Old Focuses On Foster Father
http://www.ktvu.com/video/20407544/index.html

Article:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/20390807/detail.html


Massive grid search, they are clearly looking for a body.
 ::MonkeyWaa::
God bless Hassani. I am praying for you little dude.

Maybe the reason the FBI and police are going to search all of those different locations is because his cell tracking indicates he might have driven around looking for a place to dump a body.

How sad. I also think they are looking for a body. I have had a bad feeling ever since this story came out. So many inconstancies. With cell phones, I am sure they can track exactly where he has been - look at Skanky.

This breaks my heart. Something definitely fishy here. I don't buy the "caretaker's" story for one minute. And I'm sure LE doesn't either.

Praying for your safe return, Little Guy.

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All of our Bay area police departments are top of the line.
 I have confidence that IF he can be found that they will find him.

IF Is a big word in this case as it appears that somebody took him or that he was never at the spot indicated by L. Ross in the first place. I am not accusing L.R. of anything, for all anyone knows at this moment the child was taken by other Evil being/s.. I just have some doubt.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/14/BAUH198ST0.DTL&tsp=1 (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/14/BAUH198ST0.DTL&tsp=1)

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I understand I'm just getting so frustrated with the way this story is being reported and all the inconsistencies. I just want Hasanni found so that at least one of the cases that I've been following could have a happy ending.

When we dig deeper into this case it becomes more and more obvious that Hasanni has most likely become the victim of foul play.

 ::MonkeyNoNo::

Search today yielded nothing.
Serarh for today is over.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6967132

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/14/BAUH198ST0.DTL&tsp=1 (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/14/BAUH198ST0.DTL&tsp=1)

http://www.kron.com/ (http://www.kron.com/)  (<----Self-Edit:  hope link is no longer broken!  Sorry.)

http://www.gawkk.com/raw-video-aerials-of-search-for-missing-boy/discuss (http://www.gawkk.com/raw-video-aerials-of-search-for-missing-boy/discuss)

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(Further self-edit:  Update per ANJ's last post -- todays searches appear to have been unsuccessful.)

by Katie Hammer

OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- About 100 volunteers searched for a missing disabled boy on Saturday. Hasanni Campbell was last seen Monday in the Rockridge district of Oakland. Efforts to find him have taken investigators all over the East Bay.

The latest point of interest has been the Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont. The area crews were searching was only about a half-mile from Hasanni's house, but far from the parking lot in Oakland where he is said to have disappeared on Monday. Crews searched the park from about 9 a.m. Saturday until 5 p.m. but they came up with nothing.

The volunteers spent most of the day searching through high brush at the park and marshlands in Hayward for any sign of the missing 5-year-old. Police say investigative leads led them to the search areas but they would not be any more specific.

"These weren't our most likely leads but now that we've pretty much saturated the area of disappearance, we're branching out to some of the less likely scenarios," said Oakland police Sgt. Raymond Backman.

Hasanni went missing Monday afternoon after his foster parent Louis Ross says he left the boy standing in an Oakland parking lot for just a few minutes. Since then, the police and FBI have searched Ross's home that he shares with Hasanni's aunt. Police have also spent hours questioning the couple.

On Saturday the family was not involved in the search.

"We are not actively soliciting their help they are dealing with enough right now so we're trying to limiting their involvement, particularly because the areas we're searching today, there's a lot of hazards," Backman explained.

The sight of search dogs surprised many who visited Coyote Hills Saturday afternoon.

"It's sad and shocking. I had no idea. I come to the park mostly once or twice a week for my walk. I just saw some activity and I was curious," said park visitor Gurjit Randhawa.

"We feel really sorry for that boy. It's really safe here," said Lizhen Wu.

With the days ticking by searchers know time is not on their side.

"The statistics show having a successful location of the victim without harm greatly diminishes. We're certainly acutely aware of that," Backman said.

Neigbors of Hasanni's step father say they have not seen anyone at the house in the last couple of days. Oakland police say it is back to the drawing board as far as where to begin searching next.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6967132

I saw the foster Dad on the NG show. He does seem sincere.
The media has been horrible lately in their details, look at the issue of the leg braces vs hardly visible ankle supports.

http://cbs5.com/video/?id=54123@kpix.dayport.com
Video 8/15

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Could little dude be in the bay and the junkyard was just an excuse for the cellphone pinging in the area or if someone saw the car in the area?

it is shallow water.. i doubt he is in the bay at this location.






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It struck me wrong how Louis Ross used the past tense to describe Hasanni in this video.


http://www.ktvu.com/video/20414777/index.html

Let me quote Mr. Ross during his interview with Nancy Grace......

".....lets begin with a where my son was when I left. Ummm......this is a routine that we've had for the past 4-5 months...." 

Does anyone find it odd that Mr. Ross mentions "routine" several times during the interview? If my son, or stepson, was missing, I would not be appearing on CNN establishing my defense. We have a little boy missing and it has only been a couple days. My time & energy would be entirely devoted to locating my little boy.
I'm sorry.....his comments regarding the disappearance of his son seem rehearsed. At least to me they do. I hope I am wrong

Hello and welcome to Scared Monkeys Bradyee  ::MonkeyAngel:: 

There was a post by pink angel that I'm pretty sure mentioned an interview with Louis Ross, (on video)  where it was said he left the children at 4:30 with Jennifer Campbell at work and they would stay in the back room until she got off at 6:00 p.m., and I think it was two days a week, for the last 2 months, while he went to evening classes.   I could scroll back and try to find the post/link.  And also, the owner of Shuz didn't know the children were being kept there, but did say it would be okay if it was on rare occasion, and that it wasn't a daycare. 

There have been some discrepancies, but some of that seems to be on the reporting end, which isn't helping matters, imo, Like the leg braces/no leg braces but smaller braces, Hassani left in the car, Hassani left outside the car and etc. 

Has anyone seen any discrepancies in the interviews on video?  I'm sure LE watch any taping very closely.  Louis Ross may be worried about people thinking he had something to do with Hassani's disappearance and is being defensive.  I see what you mean about "routine".  I think LE has been pressing hard for a time line.  They did drive him around to places like the salvage yard and such, where he had been earlier in the day before Hassani was reported missing.  So far, Louis Ross is the last person to have seen Hassani.  I think LE is trying to find a reliable person that can say when THEY last saw Hassani.

There hasn't been anything released about Louis Ross' car that was impounded, nor anything about what was taken from the home, or anything about the lie detector test.   I haven't heard anything about cell phones or anything.  In one comment in an article, someone asked why Louis Ross didn't just call Jennifer Campbell on his cell phone when he arrived at the shoe store, so she could go around and open the back door?   Good question.  There just isn't any news, except that Louis Ross is cooperating, and there has been searching. Hoping little Hassani is found soon. 

One more thing- I wonder where LE are getting tips/ideas on where to conduct the searches?  Cell phone pings? 

Thank you, and hello to you too!

I am new here, have a question, and don't mean to derail the topic. Specifically, what is with the constant popup ads?

 ::MonkeyNoNo::

EDIT:  I don't get constant popup ads so it may has something to do with the browser you're using or your security setting.  There are ads and sometimes popups but nothing constant.

What is the proper spelling of little Hasanni's name?

I'm seeing it spelled two ways whenever I do google searches and I think that just shows the horrible news reporting that's going on in this case.

Is it spelled, Hassani or Hasanni?

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/One-Week-Later-Hasani-Still-Missing-53422342.html
One Week Later: Hasanni Still Missing
By JESSICA GREENE
Updated 10:32 AM PDT, Mon, Aug 17, 2009
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The family of the East Bay boy who has been missing for one week is holding a vigil tonight in Oakland.

Hasanni Campbell is just five years old.  His foster father said he left the little boy in his car while he walked around to the front a shoe store where the boy's foster mother worked last Monday afternoon.

Louis Ross said when he got back to the car, Hasanni was gone.
The vigil is scheduled to start at 4 p.m. near the Shuz shoe store where his foster mother worked.

As in all missing child cases, the family has been questioned several times by police. Ross told NBC Bay Area that he and the boy's foster mother, Hasanni's aunt, are fully cooperating with investigators. He also told NBC Bay Area by phone that he had nothing to do with Hasanni's disappearance and that he and the boy's foster mother have agreed to take lie detector tests.

Ross took the polygraph test last week but the foster mother, Jennifer Campbell, is pregnant and didn't want to take the test for fear it would harm her unborn child, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Police are not commenting about the polygraph test.

Police also towed Ross' car but have not said yet whether they have found anything important to the case. FBI agents have also searched the Fremont home where Hasanni lives with his foster parents.

Hasanni has cerebral palsy and wears braces on his feet to help him walk. The prosthetics, adorned with Spiderman logos, would not be visible because they are fitted just for his feet. While he can walk, Hasanni's disability prevents him from running or jumping.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has also joined the search.

Hasanni is African American with brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs 40 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray pants.

This afternoon friends, family and strangers will gather in Rockridge to remember Hasanni and try to bring attention to the case.

(There are three videos in this article that can be watched)

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6968900
Vigil to be held for missing boy
Monday, August 17, 2009 | 9:08 AM

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OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- A candlelight vigil is set for Monday to mark exactly one week since a five-year-old East Bay boy vanished.
 Over the weekend, about 100 volunteers searched through the high brush of Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont, and marshlands in Hayward for any sign of Hasanni Campbell.

 

OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- A candlelight vigil is set for Monday to mark exactly one week since a five-year-old East Bay boy vanished.

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Over the weekend, about 100 volunteers searched through the high brush of Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont, and marshlands in Hayward for any sign of Hasanni Campbell.
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Police say investigative leads led them to the search areas, but they would not be any more specific.

Hasanni went missing Monday afternoon after his foster parent, Louis Ross, says he left the boy standing in an Oakland parking lot for just a few minutes. Since then, the police and FBI have searched Ross's home that he shares with Hasanni's aunt. Police have also spent hours questioning the couple.

With the days ticking by, searchers know time is not on their side.

It's Hassani. I agree the reporting on his disappearance has been CRAPPY since the beginning. The police or their public information officer did little to clear up discrepancies early on either.

Thank you MuffyBee for the updates. Praying for little dude to be found today.

pink angel~  I keep checking and there doesn't seem to be any new information being released at this time.   There was the big search on Saturday, but the articles and videos reported nothing found. 

I hope the vigil marking the date of one week since Hassani was reported missing will help get his name and face out in the news.  Maybe some new tips or leads will come in.  I too am praying for little dude to be found. 

I keep checking too. :(

I hate when it gets quiet. I feel like they have forgotten the child, ya know? It makes me sad.

Why has no one but the aunt and uncle seen this little guy since a family outing on
Aug 6th, this really bothers me. You would think that neighbours would have seen him
getting in and out of the car or something.

Very good point Mary..

Investigators should be out looking for others who have seen him all the way up to the point where he disappears..

Thanks for clearing that up.

I was hoping Hassani would be found by now.  ::MonkeyNoNo::

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The reward is a good thing. Anything to keep his name and face in the news. Perhaps it will bring in some tips.

I thought I read an article where it says an employee from the auto place saw Hassani in the car crying. I can't find it though. Did they actually see him or just hear crying? This is what I want to know. They could have heard the baby crying and assumed it was Hassani because Ross said it to be so.

Thanks for the updates Ms. MuffyBee. :)

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20437763/detail.html
$10,000 Reward Offered For Missing Fremont Boy

Posted: 5:42 pm PDT August 17, 2009Updated: 6:55 pm PDT August 17, 2009OAKLAND, Calif. -- Oakland police and Crime Stoppers announced a $10,000 reward Monday for information leading to the whereabouts of Hassani Campbell, a 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who disappeared a week ago.

Hassani, who lived in Fremont with his foster parents, Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell, was reported missing from the parking lot of the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store in the 6000 block of College Avenue in Oakland about 4:15 p.m. on Aug. 10.

Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said, "We definitely need the public's help" in finding Hassani.

Thomason said police have only received about 50 tips, which he said is unusually low for a week-old missing child case.

He said police are following all the leads but haven't turned up anything so far.

A vigil for the little boy Monday afternoon brought well wishers to the Rockridge District shoe store where Hasanni's foster father said he last saw the child.

Ross has been questioned by police and given a lie detector test. On Monday, Ross angrily addressed speculation that he might be involved in the disappearance of his foster son.

"'Oh, they were foster parents. Did they really care?' Well, you go talk to social services,” said Ross. “You wanna find the record straight? You go to them and ask them why they placed them with us. Because we gave a damn! These were our children. Don't try to take that from us. This wasn't a situation where we didn't care about those children. We've fought every inch for both of them."

Hasanni's foster family is also grappling with the loss of their one year-old foster daughter who has been removed from their care.

"All we want is our children home. We want Hasanni found and Aaliyah with us," said the boy’s foster mother Campbell.

Police indicated there were no new searches Monday amid concerns that time could be running out to find the boy unharmed.

Thomason said police are still treating Hassani's disappearance as a missing persons case but as time goes on the chances of finding him alive may be dwindling.

"As time goes on, that is going to be our fear; that this will be a recovery," said Oakland police spokesman Jeff Tomason. "But right now, we are still treating it as trying to find a little five year-old boy."

He said on Saturday law enforcement officials and volunteers searched marshland and shoreline areas at the tip of West Winton Avenue in Hayward as well as Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont but didn't find anything significant.

Police describe Hassani as being a black boy with medium complexion, brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs around 30 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and grant pants.

Police said he has difficulty walking because he is disabled and has leg braces.

Thomason said people with information on the case should call the Oakland Police Department or Crime Stoppers at (510) 777-8572 or (510) 777-3211.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/17/BAB5199Q74.DTL

Missing boy's parents plead for his return

Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer

Monday, August 17, 2009

(08-17) 18:31 PDT OAKLAND -- The foster parents of a missing 5-year-old boy stood Monday at the spot in Oakland where Hasanni Campbell vanished a week ago to the minute, tearfully asking for the public's help as police announced a $10,000 reward for information on his whereabouts.

"If you have him, let him go!" Louis Ross, the boy's foster father, urged at the side entrance of the Rockridge neighborhood shoe store where Hasanni vanished at 4:18 p.m. Aug. 10. "This is our son!"

"I just want him home," added the boy's aunt and foster mother, Jennifer Campbell. "I just want him safe. I want him in our bed. Our home is empty. ... All we want is to have him home, safe, loved and cared for."

The Fremont couple wore T-shirts with photos of the youth, whose name is also spelled Hassani. The couple, along with relatives and friends, brought red candles and a balloon of the boy's beloved SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon character.

Police and the Crime Stoppers organization announced the reward Monday for help finding Hasanni, who has cerebral palsy.

Ross says he last saw Hasanni at a rear entrance of Shuz of Rockridge at 6012 College Ave., where Campbell works. Oakland police and the FBI have interviewed both Ross and Campbell, and Ross has taken a polygraph test.

Law enforcement sources say Ross reported taking the boy with him earlier that day to the Hayward Pick Your Part auto salvage yard.

The trip was unusual, authorities said, because even though Ross said he was looking for a particular part, witnesses told authorities that he had left without getting out of the car to look for it. \

Ross said Monday that he went back to the yard with police last week as part of an effort to retrace his steps on the day the boy disappeared.

Police and sheriff's have searched the yard and local parks in recent days, authorities say, but found no sign of the missing boy.

Officer Jeff Thomason, an Oakland police spokesman, said police have fielded fewer than 50 tips on Hasanni's disappearance.

"That's very unusual," Thomason said. "In a high-profile case, we usually get hundreds.'
Missing boy

Hasanni Campbell is African American, 3 feet tall and weighs 30 pounds. Anyone with information about him is asked to call Oakland police or Crime Stoppers at (510) 777-8572 or (510) 777-3211.

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http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6968900
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OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- The grandmother of a missing disabled boy from Fremont, is holding a vigil for him in Oakland. It's near the shoe store where he was reported missing a week ago. A $10,000 crime stoppers reward is now being offered for information leading to the whereabouts of Hasanni Campbell.
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Crime Stoppers of the Bay Area is also willing to add up to $2,000 for information that will help solve this case.

Burny Matthews is a former East Palo Alto police chief. He also worked in Oakland and Alameda.

"It gives a reason for somebody that may be on the edge, they may need the money really badly and he or she is willing to give some information to police to just give that one little brick that will finish the wall in that investigation," said Matthews.
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There also is a lack of community support for the search for the missing boy with cerebral palsy. There were just a handful of people at a vigil Monday.


I personally am feeling a little guilty about the lack of involvement for this sad little soul. From what little I have read about the bio mom and dad, foster homes and so on, it appears this poor child didn’t have much of a chance of growing up and living a fulfilling life.  Now I sense something is way off with the foster family and people seem to know it and are avoiding getting close to this case. That includes searching for a child that may not have gone missing from where we have been told he was left. I for one learned a real lesson on reality with the Caylee case and am now automatically suspicious whenever a child goes missing.  It appears the general population may be becoming as skeptical as I……..

Regardless of that fact, it is not the boys fault that this happened to him.  The lack of compassion for Hassani angers me to no end.  The vigils aren't for the family, they are for the missing person!  I'm thinking about going and buying my own candle for my home, to light for this little boy.

The media should be turning up the heat on this, but unfortunately people of color tend to get less coverage, even in missing person cases. There are studies and articles on that. It's unfortunate, because Hassani could use all the help he can get right now.

It is just sooo sad. He's such a little dude. Such a sweet face. My heart is broken.

No matter what happened or who is responsible, he deserves to be looked for, he deserves community support and he NEEDS to be found.

ITA  Hoping and praying little dude Hassani is found soon.

http://www.unsolvedcases.net/

This website has virtual candles that one can light for the missing.

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The lack of support in this case is so sad. I really do not care the race or creed of the child - the fact is a small child is missing. He deserves to be found.  ::MonkeyNoNo::

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ITA theboyzmom.   ::MonkeyAngel::

I can feel this case getting cold.

I know I already posted this, but I do have youtube I made for little Hassani. I'm hoping the more I spread it around the more word will get out and he'll come home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PynY9O-ewwc&feature=player_embedded

Thank you Tina Bee.  I'm glad you're posting the youtube you made for Hassani again.  His case needs all the publicity it can get.  ::MonkeyAngel:: 

I have not seen the "foster mother" speak. I did see her in the background of an interview with the "foster father" but have not seen her speak. If she has not spoken out, why not? Would her speaking harm her unborn child too? I did not get a good feeling about her body movements/facial expressions or lack of .

The lack of community involvement and media coverage is very troubling. Are some people becoming desensitized by all of the horrific crimes we see now? I know I personally will never accept what has been happening to so many children.

The foster mom hasn't done much speaking. It's mostly been the foster dad. I think it's because Hassani went missing on his watch and he knows the answers that the media is asking.

Here is an interview with her and she spoke at the vigil and she has given comments that were in articles.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=6962708

Thank you MuffyBee and everyone for the articles/updates. I wish that the community would come together and find this little dude.

I don't know what to think. I go back and forth about what happened to Hassani. I don't think the outcome will be a good one. Which makes me sad. I don't want to give up hope and I so want to be proven wrong. Nothing would make me happier.

You are in my prayers little dude. Please god watch over him and bring him home.

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LOL

Well this is the Oakland crowd..

When 2 police officers were shot dead in the streets of Oakland, residents stood around and heckled other police that came to the scene of the crime..
There in the streets lies there friends who were fathers and husbands and worked on the right side of the law..
 On the sidewalks average Oakland citizens call them names and laughed and then rallied in support of the criminal for weeks afterwords.. even though the culprit had raped various females in the area and robbed them..

Oakland is a strange place and I can guarantee you this reporter is just looking for some racial issue that has caused people to not show up in support of searching for this boy..

This is the real situation... 67 murders so far this year in Oakland..most all street gang related. People are afraid to walk on the streets because of drive by shootings..
so searching and passing out fliers door to door does not sound like a good idea to most bay area residents..

The San Francisco bay area has close to 8 million people living in it and cameras are everywhere !!! If this little boy was taken, the culprit should be on camera at any given stop light... People are not calling in leads out of fear of reprisal..


California has a really messed up political situation.. The Governor, although a nice guy can make no progress for change as he is blocked at every turn by unions.. The mayor of San Francisco should be in jail along with his close followers yet nobody has arrested him..
Then Oakland has ex Governor Jerry Brown as its Mayor.. A dope smoking idiot in my humble opinion.. enough said  ::MonkeyJnBox::

Jerry Brown is Attorney General of CA and Ron Dellums is mayor of Oakland

I am sorry you are correct..

Jerry was the mayor of Oakland ...
In 1998, Brown ran for mayor of Oakland against 11 other candidates and won in the primary with 59% of the vote. Before taking office, he successfully passed a voter initiative, changing the ceremonial office of mayor to that of a “Strong Mayor” form of city government. Brown was re-elected in 2002 with 64% of the vote.




Now it is the other fellow..

Crime in oakland in either case is high..

San Francisco is also High crime since fools were elected by the people.


San Jose and surrounding cities is a very low crime area..   

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/18/crimesider/entry5250324.shtml
Clock is Ticking for Missing Disabled Boy Hassani Campbell
August 19, 2009 10:25 AM
Posted by Sammy Rose Saltzman

(video avail. at link)

NEW YORK (CBS) “The longer he’s out there and not found, it doesn’t look good,” Louis Ross says, choking up, in an interview about his missing foster son, 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell.

Campbell disappeared Aug. 10 in Oakland, Calif. when Ross left him in standing near the family car in the parking lot behind the shoe store where his fiancée, Campbell’s biological aunt and foster mom, Jennifer Campbell works. Upon seeing that their son had disappeared Ross and Campbell called 911 and began frantically searching.

“Hasanni does not wander away,” Ross told CBS 5 San Francisco.

How can Ross be so sure?

Hasanni was born with Cerebral Palsy, a type of permanent disorder that inhibits development of movement and posture, i.e., he had trouble walking, and according to Ross, could do so with concentration.

Contrary to early reports that described him wearing metal braces on his legs, Ross told reporters he wears plastic braces on his feet, which would not be visible over his clothes. He also said that if his son’s braces were removed he would still be able to walk, but would be looking down at the ground in focus.

Hasanni was left alone for “about five minutes, probably less,” Ross said in the same interview.

When asked what he think did happen in those five minutes, Ross tears up: “as a father, those are thoughts you don’t want to entertain.”



Jeff Thomason says Ross is mostly likely correct in his assumption that Hassani did not walk away: “anything’s possible but it’s not likely…right now no witnesses saw Hassani walking away from that area.”

The FBI has joined the search, along with several other local agencies. On the day of his disappearance a massive search was launched, including the use of a California Highway Patrol airplane and the K-9 unit. In the past eight days they have gone door-to-door in parts of Oakland and searched numerous locations, including a regional park and his foster parents’ home in Freemont.
The police have only received around 50 tips, which Thomason told reporters is an unusually low number for a week-old missing child case.

“We definitely need the public’s help,” Thomason said to CBS 5.

A $10,000 reward was offered Monday by Oakland Police and Crime Stoppers for information leading to the whereabouts of the boy.

“This is a continuous investigation that will be conducted day and night,” Officer Seth Neri said in a press conference.

The Oakland PD has been in touch with the biological mother, who lives in San Francisco, and told Crimesider that she is not a person of interest at this point.

Hasanni was removed from his 25-year-old mother’s home because she had physically abused him. Shemika Campbell, who also has Cerebral Palsy, says she thinks someone kidnapped him. In an exclusive interview with CBS 5 she says, “I always had a feeling that he would be gone from me one day.”

I was born and raised in CA and Oakland is one place I made a point to avoid. This is going back to the 60's. Way dangerous place in my eyes........

Yes you pretty much summed up the city of Oakland. What's worse is there trash is starting to spill over into other cities and they are running them down with crime (drug dealing, gang activity, and prostitution which is a big problem).

It used to be that they never went passed Fairfield, but then they seeped into Vacaville and have gone even further now. All those Bay Area crooksters are turning nice neighborhoods into wastelands.

The Bay is a wonderful place to visit, but like I've said get out of there when the sun goes down.

Little Hassani deserves to be found and as the days go on that becomes less and less likely the outcome.

I'm wondering though, do the foster parents have any type of Life Insurance out on Hassani and his little sister?

Life Insurance ??


Good point..

Bought my candle today, going to get it blessed.

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Aug. 19, 2009 3:35 pm US/Pacific
Concern Growns Over Missing Fremont Boy
OAKLAND (CBS 5 / BCN) ―

Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said Wednesday that police are "very concerned" about a 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who has now been missing for nine days.

Hasanni Campbell, who lives in Fremont with his foster parents, Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell, was reported missing from the parking lot of the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store in the 6000 block of College Avenue in Oakland about 4:15 p.m. on Aug. 10.

Thomason said police are still treating Hasanni's disappearance as a missing persons case and that there is no evidence a crime has been committed.

"We're asking the public to call if they have any credible tips," Thomason said.

He said police have followed up on all of the approximately 50 tips they've received so far but none have panned out.

On Monday, Oakland police and Crime Stoppers announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Hassani.

Thomason said one caller left about 40 unhelpful messages with Crime Stoppers and clogged its voicemail box. But the voicemail box is now open again, he said.

Thomason said police talk to Hassani's foster parents every day and that they are being cooperative.

On Saturday, law enforcement officials and volunteers searched marshland and shoreline areas at the tip of West Winton Avenue in Hayward as well as Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont but didn't find anything significant.

Thomason said police have also searched North Oakland thoroughly.

Police describe Hasanni as a black boy with medium complexion,
brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs about 30 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray pants.

Police said he has difficulty walking because he is disabled.

Thomason said people with information on the case should call the
Oakland Police Department or Crime Stoppers at (510) 777-8572 or (510) 777-3211.

http://cbs5.com/local/fremont.missing.boy.2.1135832.html

Thanks for the insight into the mindset of this community. It really scares the hell out of me that people have become so numb to what goes on around them. Sounds like Oakland is some "third" world country, WTH...... ::MonkeyNoNo::

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This does NOT look good at all. Not that it ever did, but I think little Hassani might be gone forever.

 :sad:

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20467597/detail.html
New Details Emerge In Search For Missing Boy

Posted: 3:37 pm PDT August 19, 2009Updated: 10:50 pm PDT August 19, 2009
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- KTVU has uncovered new details about the ongoing police search for a five-year-old boy who disappeared in Oakland’s Rockridge district over a week ago, including what authorities were looking for when they searched the home where the boy lives on Tuesday, August 11.

Hasanni Campbell, who lives in Fremont with his foster parents, Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell, was reported missing from the parking lot of the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store in the 6000 block of College Avenue in Oakland about 4:15 p.m. on Aug. 10.

One new item that surfaced Wednesday was a copy of the original search warrant issued last week to search the Fremont home of Ross and Jennifer Campbell.

The warrant was issued at 5:45 a.m. on the day after Hasanni went missing. The warrant allowed police to search inside the house where Hasanni lived as well as a 2002 BMW belonging to Ross

According to the warrant, police searched for biological evidence belonging to Hasanni, and a sword or cutting instrument.

On Wednesday, KTVU also obtained the inventory sheet that listed what officers took during the search. The list included one pair of latex gloves taken from the vehicle as well as eight DNA swabs and four fingerprint lifts taken from the car.

The inventory sheet shows no items were taken from the home, though Ross has said officers took a cell phone and paperwork.

KTVU also learned from authorities that certain evidence indicates it is unlikely Hasanni wandered off.

Law enforcement sources told KTVU that search dogs never led their handlers on what's called a "hot trail" on the afternoon Hasanni disappeared, meaning the dogs never picked up a scent that led handlers away from the lot.

Sources said the dogs did pick up Hasanni's scent inside Ross's BMW. They said the boy was either snatched by someone as he was standing by the car or he was never in the back lot that day.

Law enforcement sources confirmed to KTVU Wednesday that Ross failed a polygraph test given by the FBI last week. During previous interviews, Ross has told KTVU he answered all questions during the polygraph honestly.

KTVU also learned that the boy's foster mother Jennifer Campbell arrived at the shoe store where she works sometime between 8:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. on the day Hasanni went missing.

Additionally, two workers at an auto salvage yard in Hayward reported seeing Ross and Hasanni in the BMW that same morning.

On Wednesday, KTVU spoke with the father of two young daughters who lives adjacent to the lot. He says it's hard to fathom how a child could go missing without anyone seeing him.

"There's so much traffic. There's a lot of pedestrian traffic; cars coming and going at all times. There's restaurants right across the street," said Rockridge resident Steve Shochet. "It's hard to understand how someone could potentially kidnap a child with so many people who could be witnesses."

Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said Wednesday that police remain "very concerned" about a 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who has now been missing for nine days.

Thomason said police are still treating Hasanni's disappearance as a missing persons case and that there is no evidence a crime has been committed.

"We're asking the public to call if they have any credible tips," Thomason said.

He said police have followed up on all of the approximately 50 tips they've received so far but none have panned out.

On Monday, Oakland police and Crime Stoppers announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Hasanni.

Thomason said one caller left about 40 unhelpful messages with Crime Stoppers and clogged its voicemail box. But the voicemail box is now open again, he said.

Thomason said police talk to Hasanni's foster parents every day and that they are being cooperative.

On Saturday, law enforcement officials and volunteers searched marshland and shoreline areas at the tip of West Winton Avenue in Hayward as well as Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont but didn't find anything significant.

Thomason said police have also searched North Oakland thoroughly.

Police describe Hasanni as a black boy with medium complexion, brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs about 30 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and grant pants.

Police said he has difficulty walking because he is disabled.

Thomason said people with information on the case should call the Oakland Police Department or Crime Stoppers at (510) 777-8572 or (510) 777-3211.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6972897
Police search for a sword in Hasanni's case
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 | 11:47 PM
By Alan Wang and Cecilia Vega
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OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- After nine days of intensive searching, police are down to their last few leads in the disappearance of young Hasanni Campbell and they need the public's help. There are new details about a search warrant served the day after Hasanni went missing.
According to the warrant, police were looking for a sword or cutting instrument, biological evidence, and his foster's father's BMW.
 Nine days ago Hasanni was last seen by his foster father behind a Rockridge neighborhood shoe store.

Through all of his pleas, Louis Ross -- Hasanni's foster father -- remains under a cloud of suspicion because he's the only one who can place Hasanni behind the store the day he disappeared.

"I was absolutely under a cloud of suspicion," says Mark Klass.

Klaas says the investigation for his daughter, Polly, who was abducted and murdered in 1993, could not go forward until he was cleared. The same for Ross.

"And I think at that point, the people will buy into his story a little more and you'll see a lot more public involvement in trying to recover little Hasanni," says Klaas.

Despite the cloud of suspicion, police say Hasanni's foster parents have been cooperating.

The desperate search for a missing Fremont boy suffered a glitch after someone who police say is "mentally unstable" clogged the tip line with useless calls. 5-year-old Hasanni disappeared more than one week ago and as more time goes by, the odds of finding him alive get worse.

The fliers police have been handing out across the Bay Area for the last week and a half show the Crime Stoppers phone number. Police say they check this voicemail every day. It is supposed to be a way for people to leave anonymous tips for investigators, but as of Wednesday morning, people could not leave any messages at all.

If they called the number they got a message saying, "Thanks for calling the Crime Stoppers Hotline. No messages may be taken for this mailbox. It is full. Thank you for calling."

Police say part of the problem is that one person has been calling the voicemail and clogging it with messages unrelated to the missing boy. They also say fliers passed out to the media have two other numbers listed including numbers for investigators and police dispatch. They hope people will call those.

Searches in the neighborhood and around the East Bay have come up empty and so far, fewer than 50 tips have come in.

"We do need the public's help in locating this young boy and hopefully as time goes on, we'll be able to find him. Time is against us right now. This is the ninth day that he's been missing. As time goes on, it's less likely we're going to find him alive," Oakland police officer Jeff Thomason told ABC7.

Police are still calling this a "missing person's case." They say they have a few more small leads to follow up on, but they do not have any more searches planned because they just do not have any large tips to go on.

The Crime Stoppers Hotline number is now up and running. But, police say the best number for people to call is 510-777-3211, which is Oakland Police Dispatch, a number manned around the clock.

There is alot of hope to go around in the Rockridge neighborhood, but police are saying that because they have no new leads they have no new searches planned for Hasanni.

There is now a memorial for Hasanni in the parking lot where he was last seen. Passersby like Toni Sands and her daughter cannot help but stop and wonder.

"I just wanted to go by and say a prayer, and hope that God answers it," she told ABC7.

There is a $10,000 reward in the case. Authorities hope that dollar amount is enough to convince someone to come forward with new information.

What Marc Klaas says makes a lot of sense. Until and if Hasanni’s foster parents are cleared the community is holding back supporting them having learned a lesson from the Caylee Anthony and Robert Manwill cases just to name a few. The facts are just not there for an abduction at this time and there is a cloud hanging over the foster father’s head. 


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KTVU also learned from authorities that certain evidence indicates it is unlikely Hasanni wandered off.

Law enforcement sources told KTVU that search dogs never led their handlers on what's called a "hot trail" on the afternoon Hasanni disappeared, meaning the dogs never picked up a scent that led handlers away from the lot.

Sources said the dogs did pick up Hasanni's scent inside Ross's BMW. They said the boy was either snatched by someone as he was standing by the car or he was never in the back lot that day.

Law enforcement sources confirmed to KTVU Wednesday that Ross failed a polygraph test given by the FBI last week. During previous interviews, Ross has told KTVU he answered all questions during the polygraph honestly.

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Here is an article from 8/17/09, and updated 8/19/09 (yesterday), but is interesting to me, because of the part bolded:
Notice also at end of article, it's still being reported Hassani wore "leg braces", which to my knowledge was initially reported in error and STILL hasn't been corrected.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/20437763/detail.html
More Questions For Foster Father Of Missing Boy

Posted: 5:42 pm PDT August 17, 2009Updated: 5:15 pm PDT August 19, 2009
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Tuesday night, police in Oakland had more questions for the foster father of a Fremont boy with cerebral palsy who has been missing for over a week.

Hasanni Campbell's foster father Louis Ross said he last saw the boy when they were in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood on Monday, August 10th.

Police confirmed to KTVU that Tuesday morning, officers brought Ross back to the driveway where Hasanni disappeared for further questioning and to retrace his steps.

Hasanni, who lived in Fremont with his foster parents, Ross and Jennifer Campbell, was reported missing from the parking lot of the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store in the 6000 block of College Avenue in Oakland about 4:15 p.m. last Monday.

The little boy's grandmother, godmother, other relatives and volunteers were once again in the neighborhood Tuesday to hand out flyers with the boy's picture, hoping someone might have seen something that would help find him.

Police told KTVU there has not been any confirmed sighting of the boy since Ross reported him missing.

When asked if she thought Ross had anything to with Hasanni's disappearance, the boy's grandmother Pamela Clark replied “No. No, absolutely not. I trust him completely."

On Monday, Oakland police and Crime Stoppers announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Hasanni.

Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said, "We definitely need the public's help" in finding Hasanni.

Thomason said police have only received about 50 tips, which he said is unusually low for a week-old missing child case.

He said police are following all the leads but haven't turned up anything so far.

A vigil for the little boy Monday afternoon brought well wishers to the Rockridge District shoe store where Hasanni's foster father said he last saw the child.

Ross has been questioned several times by police and given a lie detector test. On Monday, he angrily addressed speculation that he might be involved in the disappearance of his foster son.

"'Oh, they were foster parents. Did they really care?' Well, you go talk to social services,” said Ross. “You wanna find the record straight? You go to them and ask them why they placed them with us. Because we gave a damn! These were our children. Don't try to take that from us. This wasn't a situation where we didn't care about those children. We've fought every inch for both of them."

Hasanni's foster family is also grappling with the loss of their one year-old foster daughter who has been removed from their care.

"All we want is our children home. We want Hasanni found and Aaliyah with us," said the boy’s foster mother Campbell.

Ross told KTVU he has been voluntarily speaking with police daily and that on Friday he retraced his steps with investigators, showing them the auto salvage yard he had driven to with Hasanni hours before the boy disappeared.

Ross said he went there to locate a part for an old vehicle he's working on and that he had Hasanni with him the entire time.

He insisted Hasanni wouldn't have wandered off and suspects someone kidnapped him.

Hasanni's foster parents said they will hold a vigil here in the Rockridge neighborhood every Monday at 4:15 p.m. -- to coincide with the time and day of the boy's disappearance -- until he is found.

Police indicated there were no new searches Monday amid concerns that time could be running out to find the boy unharmed.

Thomason said police are still treating Hasanni's disappearance as a missing persons case but as time goes on the chances of finding him alive may be dwindling.

"As time goes on, that is going to be our fear; that this will be a recovery," said Oakland police spokesman Jeff Tomason. "But right now, we are still treating it as trying to find a little five year-old boy."

Police describe Hasanni as being a black boy with medium complexion, brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs around 30 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and grant pants.

Police said he has difficulty walking because he is disabled and has leg braces.

Thomason said people with information on the case should call the Oakland Police Department or Crime Stoppers at (510) 777-8572 or (510) 777-3211.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20467597/detail.html
AUTHORITIES: Missing Boy’s Father Failed Lie Detector Test

Posted: 3:37 pm PDT August 19, 2009Updated: 9:01 am PDT August 20, 2009

AKLAND, Calif. -- KTVU has uncovered new details about the ongoing police search for a five-year-old boy who disappeared in Oakland’s Rockridge district over a week ago, including the fact that his father has failed a FBI lie detector test.

Hasanni Campbell, who lives in Fremont with his foster parents, Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell, was reported missing from the parking lot of the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store in the 6000 block of College Avenue in Oakland about 4:15 p.m. on Aug. 10.

Law enforcement sources have confirmed to KTVU that Ross failed a polygraph test given by the FBI last week. During previous interviews, Ross has told KTVU he answered all questions during the polygraph honestly.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/20/BA9419BA1A.DTL

Missing boy's foster dad's angry text message

Henry K. Lee,Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writers

Thursday, August 20, 2009

(08-20) 11:01 PDT FREMONT --

The foster father of a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy sent an angry text message threatening to leave the child alone at a BART platform just 10 days before Hasanni Campbell vanished, according to court documents released today.

 In addition, Louis Ross "voiced some misgivings" about caring for a disabled child when he talked to officers investigating the child's Aug. 10 disappearance, according to a statement that Oakland police submitted to justify obtaining a search warrant of Ross' Fremont home.

According to the police account, Ross sent an expletive-laden text message July 31 to Jennifer Campbell, his fiancee and the aunt and foster mother of Hasanni.

"This is f- over, I will watch her but he will be out on the BART and its your responsibility to hey (sic) him so f - you," Ross texted at 9:50 a.m., police said. The references appear to be to Hasanni and his 1-year-old sister.

Ross reported Aug. 10 that the boy had vanished from outside a shoe store on College Avenue in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood where Campbell was working. Ross said he had briefly left the boy outside when he went around to the front of the store.

Police have searched the neighborhood, Ross' home, a Hayward scrap yard that he visited earlier in the day and local parks, but have not found the boy.

A neighbor in Fremont told police that Hasanni had not been seen for about two weeks before Ross reported him missing.

Oakland police Officer Ross Tisdell wrote in the court papers that the relationship between Ross, 38, and Campbell, 33, "appeared to have some instances of domestic violence."

Police said they had heard reports of a "sword being brandished at Ross by Campbell," but did not elaborate.

A "sword or cutting instrument" were among the items that police sought in a search of his 2002 BMW and the home on Roxie Terrace in Fremont where Ross lives with Campbell and the two children.

Nothing was seized from the home, but Ross voluntarily gave his cell phone to police, court records show.

In addition to the text message, police described an instance in which Ross apparently left the two children alone in the home "while he went to the bank to conduct a transaction."

"He had also voiced some misgivings about caring for a developmentally disabled child during the interview," Tisdell wrote.

Ross, reached by phone today, downplayed any domestic disputes with Campbell.

He said he had sent the text message in frustration at a time when he planned to break up with Campbell.

"It was me venting about a situation in our past that had come back up," he said. "I was ending the relationship at that point."

He said he had not left Hasanni alone at BART. He said he had wanted Campbell to pick up the children, but that she had been unable to do so. The dispute quickly cooled, Ross said.

As for the sword, Ross said he had told police about it and that officers had later returned and picked it up. He said he kept it under a mattress.

"It wasn't a big deal," he said.

Ross has said he is cooperating with officials "100 percent" and that he told the truth when he took a polygraph examination last week.

Law enforcement sources close to the case say, however, say he failed the polygraph. Such tests are not admissible in court.

John Burris, an attorney who has consulted with the couple, emphasized today that Ross has always cooperated with the investigation.

"He's very responsive," Burris said.

The case has been puzzling to authorities in part because bloodhounds could not detect Hasanni's scent outside the Rockridge shoe store where Ross says he left the boy.

In the search warrant affidavit, police said it was a mystery that Hasanni could disappear from "a crowded business district with no witnesses."

There is a $10,000 reward for information leading to the boy's whereabouts. Officer Jeff Thomason, an Oakland police spokesman, said the department still considers the case a missing person investigation. However, a homicide investigator has been put in charge of the case.

I understand that children with disablilities can be difficult, but there is no excuse for leaving a child alone.  This speaks volumes for me.  God bless Hasanni.

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"This is f- over, I will watch her but he will be out on the BART and its your responsibility to hey (sic) him so f - you," Ross texted at 9:50 a.m., police said. The references appear to be to Hasanni and his 1-year-old sister.

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It sounds like the little boy was a handful for Ross.

I can understand adults getting frustrated at times and blowing off some steam.. BUT, This is where blowing off some steam will come back to bite you Ross.

What has really happened ?? 

 

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A neighbor in Fremont told police that Hasanni had not been seen for about two weeks before Ross reported him missing.


Just how long has Hasanni really been missing?

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20467597/detail.html

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KTVU also learned that the boy's foster mother Jennifer Campbell arrived at the shoe store where she works sometime between 8:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. on the day Hasanni went missing.

Additionally, two workers at an auto salvage yard in Hayward reported seeing Ross and Hasanni in the BMW that same morning.

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It would appear Hassani has been missing since 8/10/09, by this account.

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http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6974839
Search for Hasanni Campbell intensifies
Thursday, August 20, 2009 | 12:42 PM
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OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- We're learning new details on what kind of evidence investigators had searched for at the Fremont foster home of a missing 5-year-old boy.
Hasanni Campbell disappeared from an Oakland shoe store 10 days ago.
 The search warrant that was issued the day after Hasanni Campbell disappeared shows that police were looking for biological evidence as well as a sword.

That search warrant was served on by the boy's foster parents Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell at their Fremont home. They took some latex gloves, DNA samples as well as some fingerprints from the car.

ABC7 received a text message from Ross regarding the sword that read: "The subject of the sword came up before the search warrant. It is the only weapon we have at the house, and was discussed with police during day one of the search during questioning."

The Oakland Tribune reported that Ross failed his polygraph test, but authorities declined to confirm that he failed it.

lol good catch. Ok, I'll rephrase my question.....Where was Hasanni left? Doesn't appear to be behind the shoe store.

This article says LE is still looking for the sword. I'm confused.....


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Search of Hasanni Campbell's Foster Father's House Fails to Turn Up Sword
Created by Brian Shields on 8/20/2009 9:47:00 AM


 OAKLAND (KRON) -- Police are still searching for a sword or other cutting object that they say could lead to the discovery of five year old Hasanni Campbell.


http://www.kron4.com/News/ArticleView/tabid/298/smid/1126/ArticleID/2719/reftab/506/t/Search%20of%20Hasanni%20Campbells%20Foster%20Fathers%20House%20Fails%20to%20Turn%20Up%20Sword/Default.aspx

They didn't find the sword or cutting instrument when they did search.

Wonder where it is? My guess it's tossed and might have been used on little dude.

Where is Hassani? Where did he dump him?

N2WISHN~  I see the discrepancy about the sword.  I'm still mulling this one over.  Louis Ross is doing some strange things.  The article I posted said "ABC7 received a test message from Ross regarding the sword that read: "The subject of the sword came up before the search warrant" (snip) http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6974839 

First, why is Louis Ross texting news agencies?  He must be reading forums and blogs.  LOL   Wonder what John Burris his attorney makes of that?  But most of all, if Louis Ross and LE discussed the sword BEFORE the search warrant, did he fail to tell LE where it was?  Or did LE miss it in the search?  I find the latter hard to believe, since hiding things under a mattress is a lot like hiding a door key over the jamb of the front door, under the mat or under the flower pot, imo.  Question is, where is the sword?  Does LE in fact have it? Did they come back later and get it?  And Louis Ross is mistaken if he says the sword is the only weapon in the house.  With Louis Ross saying the sword is the only weapon in the house, it gets me wondering what other weapons may have been there.  And besides, a weapon could be many things, imo.  Something isn't sounding right here.

I agree "hinky meter" beeping LOUDLY ::MonkeyMad::

I am guessing the news agency texted Ross a question about the sword and he texted back.

True dat about the sword being the only "weapon" in the house. Any object can be a weapon if thrown. It doesn't need a sharp edge to be a weapon. Plus, I am sure there were knifes, scissors, etc in the house. Not to mention lamps, knick-knacks, pens, pencils, forks....you get my drift.

If they talked about the sword before the search warrant and they DIDN'T find it in the search. That speaks volumes to me. jmo

Interesting:  Notice it's said here that Jennifer Campbell "brandished" the sword at Louis Ross  ::MonkeyEek::

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/20/BA9419BA1A.DTL#ixzz0OkrvZNNS
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Police said they had heard reports of a "sword being brandished at Ross by Campbell, Campbell by Ross" but did not elaborate.
This has been corrected.  Hat tip to Pink Angel.
A "sword or cutting instrument" were among the items that police sought in a search of his 2002 BMW and the home on Roxie Terrace in Fremont where Ross lives with Campbell and the two children.

Nothing was seized from the home, but Ross voluntarily gave his cell phone to police, court records show.
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::MonkeyEek::
Defending herself possibly?

They corrected it Ms. Muffy.

Now it reads...
 Police said they had heard reports of a "sword being brandished by Ross at Campbell," but did not elaborate.

Thank you, pink angel.  That makes more sense.

I guess with the lack of leads the police are trying to get someone who may have seen something suspiscious away from the purported crime scene to come forward.  The police say that he is cooperating a lot.  I have my own opinion as to why they are saying this though I don't think it wise to post it at this point.   

Seems to be a thing that LE does anyways.  In Robert Manwells case they didn't want anyone coming to any conclusions about his mom and her bf.  I don't think this was for worry about vigilante attacks either.

Good questions!! One thing I am starting to see is that LE is putting the pressure on him with all the little leaks we're seeing. I hate to see where this ends up.......

LE Briefing Today 8/20/09
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=54310@kpix.dayport.com

Family Of Hassani Campbell Not Giving Up Search
http://www.ktvu.com/video/20466359/index.html

From what I could gather, the case is still being considered a missing person's case.  When asked about the sword,  he said he couldn't comment because  the search warrants were sealed.  Was there a leak then?  :smt102

http://cbs5.com/video/?id=54310@kpix.dayport.com

The video labelled: "Cutting Instrument Focus in Search in Missing Boy" Dated 8/20/09, 10:53 a.m.  pt,
it's being reported  "Oakland Police have no evidence the boy was in Rockridge nine days ago" and " investigators saw no sign of him in surveillance videos they've watched"

 Very odd briefing. The reporters all seemed to have a copy of the search warrant for the house and  spokesperson wasn't taking credit for having given it to them. Have to admit, there were more " I don't knows" in this briefing than I have ever heard before.

I hope they are focusing on where his phone pinged that day. If little dude was last seen by the witnesses at the junkyard in the car. (did you catch a time? I had just read morning or earlier in the day)

Something happened between there and when he went "missing" at 4:30 outside of the shoe store.

He can't be far.

From what I have heard, not fact, there is more than one gas station with cameras that the car would have passed when going to the shoe store.

If the search warrant wasn't sealed, the media can obtain them once they are filed at the court house. They fill out a form and wala.

The reporting on Hassani has been sucky. imo
They only spell his name correctly half the time. They don't ask the right questions or follow up like they should. They got a lot of details wrong and continue to mis-report. As Muffy pointed out earlier. It's still be reporting he has leg braces which isn't true. He has braces on his feet that wouldn't be seen since unless he was wearing shorts.

What was he doing wearing a sweatshirt and pants when it was so HOT out that day?

Since we know foster father has a cell phone it makes me wonder why he didn't just call foster mother from the ally and have her open the back door rather than carry the baby to the front of the store. Not adding up here.......

From what we have learned in Lindsey Baum's case, gas station cameras are usually focused on the pump area and door area, so unless he stopped at the gas station, I doubt the car would show up on camera.

jmo

N2WISHN
It hasn't added up from day one. I agree with you.

Spokesman for Oakland PD stated in the briefing that the search warrants were suppossed to be sealed. Wonder what happened?

It appears, whether anyone says so or not, that there is one certain person under the radar

I wondered the same thing.  If he had a cell, he could have called.  I wonder if the back door had a buzzer for deliveries?  Also, it was said he opened the trunk, and left it open, because the baby's stroller was in there.  Couldn't he have put the baby in the stroller and pushed it with one hand and carried Hassani in the other arm, on his hip?  I've done this as a mom... Or if it was other than an umbrella or tiny infant stroller, he could have put the baby in the stroller and let Hassani ride on the back.  How did Jennifer Campbell catch a bus with Hassani and the baby to go home?   How far did she have to go?  And she was six months pregnant.  Did the bus stop right in front of the store?  A lot of questions, not enough straight answers, imo.

LE is not telling us anything in their briefings but somehow info is being leaked to the media. LE was asking for tips because somebody out there knows where Hasanni is according to the spokesperson. I have the feeling that tip or no tip, we will have an arrest before long.......

There must have been a leak, Ms. Muffy. There were "sources" that also said he failed the lie detector test, that was later confirmed.

I think sometimes they "leak" for a reason.

To put pressure on someone to talk.

I am thinking Foster Mom may have a clue or knowledge of abuse but perhaps has been threatened. She is carrying a baby. He could have easily threatened to kill her and the baby if she says a word to LE. It could be why she avoided the lie detector test too. She knew she wouldn't be able to pass.

Hassani was a tiny guy. He could have stuck him in the stroller and carried the baby even, if Hassani had difficulty walking.

I agree a lot of questions not asked or answered. I wish we were the reporters because Oakland reporters SUCK!


:)

BBM

ITA with you on that, pink angel. 

pink angel, I thought of something else just after I posted.  I agree with you that the leaks may be a way of putting the pressure on.  I just thought about Louis Ross texting the news station about the sword.  Maybe the leaks are having the desired effect.  Texting the news station?  Does this mean Louis Ross isn't doing any more interviews or doesn't want to be recorded?  Not making any more statements?   I guess by texting he thinks he's covering himself (defensive), but to me, it could still be some sort of evidence.   I wonder if Louis Ross got himself a prepaid cell, since his other one was taken?  Did anyone see that a computer was removed from the home?  Maybe it was gone before the warrant was served?  Still shaking my head at Louis Ross's need to text the media.  Maybe they're getting too close?  Just thoughts....


 

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Wonder why so many media trucks are set up outside the house today......

http://twitpic.com/en7wa

They are there and no one is talking. He's refused anymore interviews MuffyBee. I am guessing that is why he answered the question via text.
video of media circus at Hasanni Campbell's house at http://www.qik.com/baguirre

Because of all the news about the Ross's text message and the "sword". They all want an interview and he ain't talking.

Thanks MuffyBee. That answers our question about the search warrants. They were not sealed immediately but are now.

Intentional? hmmmmmmmm ;)

They probably returned his phone pretty quickly. They have a device that can download all the information from the phone. Address book, text messages, photos, all numbers called etc.

If I recall, they did it for the witnesses in Casey's case. They said we can do it while you are being interviewed. Zapped the phone and then returned it right there.

They also will "copy" the hard drives of the computer rather than remove the whole computer.

Even if he got a pre-paid cell phone, I bet police know. Something tells me they have been watching him and I wouldn't rule out they have been following him. jmo

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Foster Father of Missing Boy Defends Self in Interview, Says Focus of Investigation Should Be on the Child
Created by Kimberlee Sakamoto on 8/20/2009 5:20:00 PM
http://p.castfire.com/oglmm/video/144439/144439_2009-08-20-204455.flv
FREMONT (KRON) – The foster father of a missing 5-year-old with cerebral palsy is defending himself, saying the focus of the investigation should not be on him, but on his missing boy.

Hasanni Campbell disappeared August 10th after the foster father, Louis Ross, says he left him in a car near an Oakland shoe store where Jennifer, the boy’s aunt and foster mother, works.

While Ross may not want too much focus on himself, information in a search warrant regarding a sword, a heated text message recovered from phone records and possible instances of domestic violence against Jennifer, his fiancée, has put him in the spotlight.

KRON 4’s Haaziq Madyun spoke to Ross, who says he has an explanation for all of the above, including the sword, “Jennifer is uncomfortable with the sword,” he said. “I think that may have been one of my text messages, that she didn’t like the sword in the house and I kept the sword underneath my bed for protection, it is the only weapon in the house.

Regarding the text message laced with profanity sent to Jennifer, where he threatens to leave Hasanni at a Bay Are Rapid Transit station, Ross says he never left the boy at a train station, “I said get the f-out. At the time I am responding to a comment she made and I am venting. Do I regret it? I regret it not that the world knows about it, I regret that I said it.”

With Jennifer by his side, Ross tells Haaziq there has never been any domestic violence in their relationship. Jennifer stresses that none of these things are important right now, “It doesn’t matter what you think of us, or our relationship, or anything else. Just find Hasanni.”

The Oakland Police Department and Crime Stoppers are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the child’s whereabouts.

Hasanni is described as a black boy with light complexion, brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs around 30 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray pants and braces on both legs.

Anyone with information regarding the child's whereabouts should call Oakland police youth services at (510) 238-3641, or call 911 if he is believed to be in immediate danger.

http://www.kron4.com/News/ArticleView/tabid/298/smid/1126/ArticleID/2736/reftab/36/t/Foster%20Father%20of%20Missing%20Boy%20Defends%20Self%20in%20Interview%20Says%20Focus%20of%20Investigation%20Should%20Be%20on%20the%20Child/Default.aspx

New interview with foster father

http://cbs5.com/video/?id=54318@kpix.dayport.com

**Something about Louis Ross is bothering me. For some reason I think I have seen this person before (Louis). Anyone else think he looks familiar? I know this sounds off the wall....but I thought I would ask if anyone else had the same feeling. (I doubt he is a former "reality" star, but hell it does happen..) I always remember a face and for some weird reason I can not shake the feeling I have seen him before this case.

Also, I have not been able to locate much of anything on "who" this man is, where he is from, other family members etc. I am thinking he is not even from California.

Maybe someone here with better resources than I could shed some light on his background.

SEARCH WARRANT
http://llnw.static.cbslocal.com/station/kpix/docs/2009/campbell_warrant.pdf (http://llnw.static.cbslocal.com/station/kpix/docs/2009/campbell_warrant.pdf)

The warrant is about 7 pages long so I only posted the link.

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Was? Was? All the past tense.
 ::MonkeyNoNo::

investigators said they were mystified that Hasanni could disappear from "a crowded business district with no witnesses."


Apoint to ponder.mo.

This has probably been posted....I have not had the time to read everything.....

The San Francisco Chronicle (California)
August 21, 2009 Friday
 
Foster father's angry text said he'd strand boy;

The foster father of a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy sent an angry text message threatening to leave the child alone at a BART platform just 10 days before Hasanni Campbell vanished, according to court documents released Thursday.

In addition, Louis Ross "voiced some misgivings" about caring for a disabled child when he talked to officers investigating the child's Aug. 10 disappearance, according to a statement that Oakland police submitted to justify obtaining a search warrant of Ross' Fremont home.

According to the police account, Ross sent an expletive-laden text message July 31 to Jennifer Campbell, his fiancee and the aunt and foster mother of Hasanni.

"This is f- over, I will watch her but he will be out on the BART and its your responsibility to hey sic him so f- you," Ross texted at 9:50 a.m., police said. The references appear to be to Hasanni and his 1-year-old sister.

No trace of boy

Ross reported Aug. 10 that the boy had vanished from outside a shoe store on College Avenue in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood where Campbell was working. Ross said he had briefly left the boy when he went around to the front of the store.

Police have searched the neighborhood, Ross' home, a Hayward auto wrecking yard that he visited earlier in the day and local parks, but have not found the boy.

A neighbor in Fremont told police that Hasanni had not been seen for about two weeks before Ross reported him missing.

Oakland police Officer Ross Tisdell wrote in the court papers that the relationship between Ross, 38, and Campbell, 33, "appeared to have some instances of domestic violence."

Police said they had heard reports of a "sword being brandished by Ross at Campbell," but did not elaborate.

A "sword or cutting instrument" were among the items that police sought in a search of his 2002 BMW and the home on Roxie Terrace in Fremont where Ross lives with Campbell and the two children.

Nothing was seized from the home, but Ross voluntarily gave his cell phone to police, court records show.

'Misgivings' about care

In talking to police, Ross "voiced some misgivings about caring for a developmentally disabled child," Tisdell wrote.

Ross says Hasanni wears arch-support braces because of his cerebral palsy, but that he can walk on his own.

Ross, reached by phone Thursday, downplayed any domestic disputes with Campbell. He said he had sent the text message in frustration at a time when he planned to break up with her.

"It was me venting about a situation in our past that had come back up," he said. "I was ending the relationship at that point."

Ross said he never left Hasanni alone at the BART station. He said he had wanted Campbell to pick up the children, but that she had been unable to do so. The dispute quickly cooled, Ross said.

Sword under mattress

As for the sword, Ross said he had told police about it and that officers had later returned and picked it up. He said he kept it under a mattress.

"It wasn't a big deal," he said.

Campbell, who is six months pregnant, has declined interview requests.

Ross has said he is cooperating with officials "100 percent" and that he told the truth when he took a polygraph examination last week.

John Burris, an attorney who has consulted with the couple, emphasized Thursday that Ross has always cooperated with the investigation.

"He's very responsive," Burris said.

The case has been puzzling to authorities, in part because bloodhounds could not detect Hasanni's scent outside the Rockridge shoe store where Ross says he left the boy.

In the search warrant affidavit, police said it was a mystery that Hasanni could disappear from "a crowded business district with no witnesses."

There is a $10,000 reward for information leading to the boy's whereabouts. Officer Jeff Thomason, an Oakland police spokesman, said the department still considers the case a missing person investigation. However, a homicide investigator has been put in charge of the probe. 
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020825&docId=l:1026420166&start=3

Aug 21, 2009 12:13 am US/Pacific
 Missing Boy's Foster Dad Fails Polygraph
http://cbs5.com/local/fremont.missing.boy.2.1137432.html

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20486996/detail.html
Couple Discusses Troubling Investigation Details

Posted: 9:34 pm PDT August 20, 2009Updated: 12:42 am PDT August 21, 2009
FREMONT, Calif. -- The foster parents of Hasanni Campbell on Thursday addressed some of the disturbing details that have surfaced during the investigation into the five-year-old’s disappearance while calling for a renewed focus in the search for the missing boy.

Louis Ross and and his fiancé, Jennifer Campbell, allowed KTVU into their Fremont house Thursday to show what Hasanni’s living situation was like. The couple said they moved into the residence less than a year ago to make a home for him and his 18-month-old sister Aaliyah.

Ten days have passed since Ross reported him missing. Earlier in the day, there were new revelations about Ross and details the police investigation had uncovered.

According to court documents released Thursday, Ross sent a text message days before the boy’s disappearance threatening to leave the youngster unattended at a BART station,

In an affidavit filed to obtain a search warrant of the home where Hasanni lives in Fremont with Ross and Jennifer Campbell, Oakland police said they found an expletive-laced text message on Ross’ cell phone.

According to the document, the message sent to Jennifer Campbell said: “This is [expletive] over. I will watch [Hasanni’s sister] but he will be on the BART…”

The investigating officers also told the court that Ross had “also voiced some misgivings about caring for a developmentally disabled child” and added that neighbors had not seen Hasanni for about two weeks.

The latest revelations came less than 24 hours after authorities confirmed to KTVU that Ross had failed a FBI lie detector test.

During the interview at their home, Campbell and Ross told KTVU Thursday they want to refocus attention on trying to find the missing boy. The couple denied allegations Ross may have had something to do with the disappearance.

They said when they gave police permission to access their phone records more than a week ago, they told investigators about the angry, obscenity-laced text Ross sent Campbell about ten days earlier during an argument.

"It's like we had an argument and we worked through it. And now it's like the argument is being twisted and turned into something it isn't," said Campbell.

"The situation resolved," explained Ross. "I calmed down and never left the house."

They also said they were the ones who told police Ross kept a sword under his bed. That sword was among the times included in the police search warrant of the home and, according to the couple, was taken by authorities last week.

Campbell and Ross showed KTVU a list of items police took from Ross's car. However, there was no mention of latex gloves disclosed in court documents as one of the items taken from the vehicle.

The couple said they volunteered to give DNA samples to police who visited the house Thursday morning so that they could be ruled out as suspects.

"I'm cooperating with police every day," said Ross.

During the interview, the foster parents said they love Hasanni deeply and would never harm him.

"It felt just as real as this baby feels," said the six-months pregnant Campbell. "My love for him is the same."

"I know the truth," said Ross. "I am cooperating with police. so if false info is being leaked, I don't care. This isn't about me. It's about finding Hasanni.

Campbell said it was Ross, not her, who first suggested taking in the children. According to Campbell, Ross said his own parents died when he was five and that he and his siblings were raised by his aunt and uncle.

The couple also mentioned to KTVU that on Friday, child protective services would be allowing them to visit Hasanni’s little sister Aaliyah for the first time since the boy disappeared.

Earlier Thursday, Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said there aren't any new developments in the case and there still aren't any "credible" leads.

He said police are still processing the information they received when they searched the Fremont home of Ross and Campbell.

FBI spokeswoman Patti Hansen declined to comment on the investigation Thursday, saying that the Oakland Police Department is the lead agency in the case.

Thomason said police are still treating Hasanni's disappearance as a missing persons case and not a crime.

Oakland police and Crime Stoppers have announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to Hasanni.

Police describe Hasanni as a black boy with a medium complexion, brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs about 30 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and grant pants.

Police said he has difficulty walking because he is disabled.

Thomason said police are asking the public to call if they have any credible tips.

He said people who have information on the case should call the Oakland Police Department or Crime Stoppers at (510) 777-8572 or (510) 777-3211.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,541344,00.html
Police Dogs Find No Sign of Missing 5-Year-Old Disabled Boy Outside Store
Friday, August 21, 2009

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OAKLAND, Calif. —  Police bloodhounds were unable to detect the scent of a missing 5-year-old boy outside an upscale shoe store where his foster father says he last saw him, according to a police search warrant affidavit.

Police were mystified as to how Hasanni Campbell could have vanished Aug. 10 from a "crowded business district with no witnesses," said the document, which supported a warrant to search the home of the boy's foster father, Louis Ross, in Fremont.

Ross, the last known person to see Hasanni, said the boy disappeared after he briefly left the boy outside his car in the rear parking lot of a shoe store where Ross' fiancee, Jennifer Campbell, works. Ross said he went to the store's front entrance to ask Campbell to open the back door, but when he returned to the parking lot, Hasanni was gone.
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http://www.eastbayexpress.com/blogs/no_wonder_there_isn_t_a_stronger_outcry_about_the_missing_boy/Content?oid=1179650
No Wonder There Isn't a Stronger Outcry About the Missing Boy
August 21, 2009

The Oakland Tribune's Tammerlin Drummond complained in a piece yesterday that people weren't out searching for 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell, who allegedly went missing in Rockridge, suggesting that it was because the boy isn't white. Drummond also argued that there was no evidence to suspect Campbell's foster father was involved in the child's disappearance. But of course, there has been ample reason to suspect the foster father from early on in the case, and now there's even more. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, newly released court documents show that Louis Ross threatened to abandon the child just ten days before the boy supposedly went missing.

The Chron, quoting a police search warrant affidavit, reported that Ross had sent his fiancée an angry text message, threatening to leave the disabled boy by himself at a BART station. Ross has maintained he did nothing wrong, but KPIX TV also reported that Ross said he had failed a police lie-detector test. And the Associated Press reported that a police hound could not pick up the boy's scent in Rockridge.

But more to the point, people have been justified for the past week for not partaking in a massive search of the boy. Drummond compared Hasanni's disappearance to the case of Sandra Cantu who went missing in Tracy. But there is one major difference that explains people's reactions. There was never any question about Sandru's parents being involved in her disappearance, but from the beginning, police questioned Ross' version of events — and rightly so. Investigators searched his home and a junkyard that Ross said he took the boy to before going to Rockridge. Indeed, there is reason to question whether the little boy was ever in Rockridge the day Ross reported him missing. So why should people be blamed for not embarking on what could be a wild goose chase, when police themselves are not doing it?

— Robert Gammon
READER COMMENTS

Editor's Note: Comments are not edited or fact-checked by the East Bay Express.

The issue is really that people should still be looking for him diligently, regardless of whether a caregiver/family member is involved or lying or whatever. If he's dead/murdered, he still deserves to be searched for and found.

The search for Sandra was widespread on the assumption that a stranger did it, but in the end that wasn't true. It was a family acquaintance and she was dead f/ the beginning, so essentially that was a "wild" chase as well.

Comment by khulac - August 21, 2009 @ 10:21 AM

ITA with the Reader Comment I have bolded in red.  MuffyBee

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Why did Ross NOT call from his cell phone to have his other half open the back door to the store ?
Ross can sure send text messages pretty well. A simple phone call was not thought of..



People need to have an idea where to search.. Apparently the employee at the auto junk yard had seen the boy..
Is Ross an auto mechanic ? An auto enthusiast ?
Why was Ross at the junk yard ? What did he purchase ?

Anyway.It is apparent that the area where the boy went missing is very busy and it would have been hard for somebody to get away without being noticed at some point.

Is it possible that Ross wants people to focus and search for the boy because he believes that the boy can't be found ?

People in this area want to know one thing.. Where is Hassani ?
The explanation given by Ross does not add up in local citizens minds..
Why didn't somebody see him ? Are there ANY witness to the 2002 BMW driving in the driveway ? Police need to at least identify any witness who had seen Ross prior to Ross driving into that driveway..
What course of driving did Ross take just prior to the incident ? What witness to him driving his car with Hassani in it will show up ? I say traffic cams that sit on top of stop lights will give that answer and also surveillance video from any gas station or convenience store Ross may have stopped at..


First it has to be established that Hassani was in the car with Ross before anything and or any place can be searched..

WHY ?
 Because of many cases where parents have lied after committing atrocities towards there children in past history..
Sorry Ross you are a victim of historical fact.

Edward~  To answer some of your questions:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/17/BAB5199Q74.DTL
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Law enforcement sources say Ross reported taking the boy with him earlier that day to the Hayward Pick Your Part auto salvage yard.

The trip was unusual, authorities said, because even though Ross said he was looking for a particular part, witnesses told authorities that he had left without getting out of the car to look for it. \

Ross said Monday that he went back to the yard with police last week as part of an effort to retrace his steps on the day the boy disappeared.

Police and sheriff's have searched the yard and local parks in recent days, authorities say, but found no sign of the missing boy.
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Also, it was said Louis Ross needed the part for another (I think older) car he was working on.  Don't have link to that right now, but I'm sure I read that.

I am familiar with the junk yard.

It is self service, and that means you have to pay a fee to go inside, $2.00 each person.
 Once inside you have to find and pull your own parts.. WHO could the witnesses be ? As most of the time all employees are inside of the yard and not out in the parking lot..
 So if he never got out of his car how did he ask anyone questions as to particular parts ?

I have been there ..The employees have no answers..You have to go look around for the vehicle yourself and look in it to see if parts are available.. Then you have to pull them off so you had better brought tools with you, as Pick Your Part does not loan tools..
Also how in the world would you bring Hassanni into that environment?
The liability is on Pick Your Part if the child gets hurt ? ....  ???????????????????
There are cameras all over that yard..
THIS is why police know he never got out of the vehicle.. The cameras must be the witness.
Is it possible there was OTHER buisness going on in that parking lot ???? Ross?
mo.
 

(http://www.ktvu.com/2009/0821/20487433_320X180.jpg)

Picture of Jennifer Campbell and Louis Ross on the couch at their home, during an interview.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20486996/detail.html

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Louis Ross Ktvu.com Image http://www.ktvu.com/image/20407545/detail.html

That last picture he looks very angry.  Did anyone else notice that inthat article with him in the interview he kept referring to Hassani in the past tense.  "Hassani 'did' like to play the guitar" etc.  If he didn't do anything to Hassani he has apparently lost any hope of him being alive.

omg!!!!!! you guys this is not gonna turn out good at all...this is gonna end up being the foster dad..i just know it..did anyone notice the picture with the foster dad and foster mom sitting on the couch? it looked like she was scared to death. to me it looks like she is scared and she knows something is not right..she either really knows what happen the hassani or she thinks and feels like the foster dad did something to that poor little boy...i really don't know if i can personally take another very very bad outcome as we all did with little robert manwill..because when it was told what happen to him..it was all i could do to hold my head up i was so sick..i think i had a nervous break down..i might have to take a week or so away from the news..i don't know if i can handle anymore horrible stories about the children of our future being cut so short. i hope i am wrong about this whole foster dad...but i just feel very strongly he did it..i am praying i am wrong..   

I agree, I think foster dad knows where Hassani is
1.  The dogs couldn't find any scent of him.
2.   He failed the Poly.
3.   No one has seen this little guy at all except Foster parents.
4.   She did look scared or guilty sitting on the couch.
5.   He has had lots of time to hide his remains, I don't think Hassani
      went missing the day they said he did.
6.   She won't take a poly and I don't think it has anything to do with baby.
7.   The tex that he sent to wifey dearest, and what is the bart?
8.    He must think that LE is stupid, they are not and are only starting to
       let him know.
9.    Her boss was not aware the kids where ever in the store and no one else
       has ever seen them there.
10.   All in All these people are lying through their teeth and I hope LE gets them
       soon. This sweet little guy did not deserve the life he has had.

OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- Oakland police continue to ask for the public's help in finding a 5-year old disabled boy who was reported missing nearly two weeks ago.

It has been 11 days since Hasanni vanished. The balloons at an impromptu memorial are starting to deflate.

 "We want to focus on Hasanni," his foster father Louis Ross said.
Ross and his girlfriend Jennifer Campbell tell ABC7 the only thing they want is to have the 5-year-old back home.
Campbell, who is Hasanni's aunt, says it was Ross who insisted on raising Hasanni and his 1-year-old sister.
Authorities say the children's biological mother has drug and health problems.
"Louis's parents died when he was younger, his aunt and uncle stepped in and raised him, he felt I should do the same thing," Campbell said.
"I was upset with her, how could you let them sit there, you, yourself had mentors, you, yourself had your grandmother, how would you feel if you were in foster care," Ross said.
Ross says he left Hasanni standing by the car alone for a few minutes in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood while he went around the corner into the shoe store where Campbell works. It was there Ross told police he last saw the boy.
Ross reported Hasanni missing around 4:15 p.m., usually a busy time of day in the area.
"People are shopping and they want to get their dinner ready, a lot of people are getting things done before they go home," one Rockridge resident said.
The man, who did not want to be identified, lives in an apartment near the driveway. He says that particular day; part of the street was void of parked cars.
"It was street sweep day, so half the street was shut down for no parking," he said.
If the child was kidnapped, his abductor could have done it without witnesses.
But the neighbor also says because of the limited parking, people were driving around looking for spaces.
"It was much busier than normal," he said.
There is a $10,000 reward for information that will bring Hasanni Campbell home. There will also be a fundraiser Saturday to raise money for the reward fund.
Find Hasanni Campbell Reward Fundraiser
12-3 p.m.
Tone's Auto Detail
411 West MacArthur Boulevard
Oakland

People with information on the case are asked to call the Oakland Police Department (510) 777-8572 or Crime Stoppers (510) 777-3211.


http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6977402

The above link also had a video about a fundraiser for finding the boy.  If people wouldn't come to a vigil why would they give their money?  I have no sound so I didn't watch the video.
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Missing 5 year olds father fails polygraph test
August 21, 6:07 PMSan Diego Headlines ExaminerJerrie D
 

Hassani CampbellLouis Ross, the foster father of Hassani Campbell tells the media that he failed the polygraph test.  Ross said, "they said I was 99% deceptive.  That means I did not pass the control test questions, either."
A statement submitted by Oakland police to justify obtaining a search warrant for Ross' home came to light on Thursday.  The document stated that 10 days before the boy disappeared, Ross sent a text message that said,  "This is f*****g over, I will watch her, but he will be out on the BART and its your responsibility to hey (sic) him so f***  you."  (BART is the Bay Area Rapid Transit)

Ross told CBS5 in a video interview that he did not mean Hassani, he meant he was ending the relationship with Jennifer.  Jennifer is Ross' fiancé and Hassani's Aunt. 

The document also stated that Ross brandished a sword at Campbell, that he left Hassani and Hassani's  one year old sister alone in the home while he went to the bank, and that he had some misgivings about caring for a disabled child.

Ross response was that the sword is ornamental, that he left the napping kids home for 5 minutes while he went to the bank, and that he never said he had misgivings about caring for a disabled child.

It was also noted in the documents that a neighbor said that they had not seen Hassani for 2 weeks.

On Thursday, police search dogs were unable to detect Hassani's scent in the parking lot of the shoe store.

"In any case we keep an open mind. Whether it's a missing persons case, whether it's a criminal case, in any type of case we try to keep an open mind and we try to cover all of our bases. And that's why the search warrant was done last week," said Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason.

There is a $10,000 reward for information leading to the boy's whereabouts. Officer Jeff Thomason, an Oakland police spokesman, said the department still considers the case a missing person investigation, but a homicide investigator has just been put in charge of the case.
http://www.examiner.com/x-18953-San-Diego-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m8d21-Missing-5-year-olds-father-fails-polygraph-test

Mary -

The BART is the Bay Area Rapid Transit; it connects Oakland/East Bay area to San Franciso via an underground tunnel beneath the SF Bay / Bay Bridge.

The points you make all ring so very true . . . I tend to agree on all counts. Our country is becoming so weary of and desensitized by the onslaught of highly publicized cases of 'parents' crying wolf after they have done something irresponsible or heinous to their own children. It is despicable and wastes time and resources - and I think many are just saying "enough already" - thus the perceived lack of public support for this poor little guy. JMHO.

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http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6977402
Fundraiser for missing 5-year-old
Friday, August 21, 2009 | 7:17 PM
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Find Hasanni Campbell Reward Fundraiser
12-3 p.m.
Tone's Auto Detail
411 West MacArthur Boulevard
Oakland

People with information on the case are asked to call the Oakland Police Department (510) 777-8572 or Crime Stoppers (510) 777-3211.

MuffyBee thanks for all the info. and links.

When is the last time Hassani was seen? 

I fear for this little boy.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20467597/detail.html

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KTVU also learned that the boy's foster mother Jennifer Campbell arrived at the shoe store where she works sometime between 8:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. on the day Hasanni went missing.

Additionally, two workers at an auto salvage yard in Hayward reported seeing Ross and Hasanni in the BMW that same morning.

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It would appear Hassani has been missing since 8/10/09, by this account.

Also I found this:
http://**/breakingnews/ci_13045028
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The FBI and police on Tuesday searched the Fremont home of 5-year-old Hassani Campbell, who his caregivers say vanished from behind a Rockridge district shoe store Monday afternoon. However, there haven't been any witnesses who saw the boy that day, police said. Authorities said the last time a witness saw the boy at the store was Aug. 6.
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Louis Ross said he left both children at home napping on August 10th while he went to the bank.  He says he offered this information willingly to LE.  I think he did that because he KNEW he would be seen on tape at a bank, and the children wouldn't be.  Were they at home?  Link to where he said he went to the bank and left children at home: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/20/BA9419BA1A.DTL

The two workers say they saw Hassani at Pick A Part on August 10th.  Could they be mistaken?  It was said a child was heard crying that day at Pick A Part.   LE has said Hassani hasn't been seen in any videos that have been reviewed. 

Also:  "A neighbor in Fremont told police that Hasanni had not been seen for about two weeks before Ross reported him missing." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/20/BA9419BA1A.DTL

And: "The case has been puzzling to authorities in part because bloodhounds could not detect Hasanni's scent outside the Rockridge shoe store where Ross says he left the boy." (same link as above)

Thanks Muffy. 
It's possible the workers @ the auto yard saw the little girl in the car seat.
I'm sure they have been questioned again. 
As others have pointed out, too many inconsistencies. 
 

BBM

You are wondering the same thing I've been wondering.  Could the workers be mistaken? Did Hassani even get out of the car?  If Hassani was actually seen, was he crying?  Injured and no one could tell?  That was why I was wishing there was a video.  I have also read a child was heard crying at Pick A Part.   Which child was crying?  Was it Hassani?  Or little sister?  Did Louis Ross get out of the car?  If so, did he leave the children in the car and how long?  Lots of questions.    ::MonkeyNoNo::
Sometimes it's hard to sort out some of the poorer reporting, the changing stories and then there is human error. 

Muffy, indeed there are a lot of questions. 
I don't think Hassani was even in the car @ the back of his foster Mother's store.
I would love to know what Jennifer Campbell said when asked (surely she was asked) when was the last time she saw Hassani.
 

Hi folks!  Been reading here every day, mostly silent and praying for this darling little boy, but it doesn't look good, does it?

Decided to speak up just for this:  I was wondering about school. 

LR said "Hasanni does okay in school" per a recent article. 
Hasanni's current age is 5, right?  So would he have been in preschool last year? 

Would he have been starting Kindergarten this year?  Just wondering about possible triggers, if something bad has happened to him as I fear.  There was that fight between LR and JC, and the ugly text message.  Last date the child was seen in the neighborhood, etc.

And if it turns out he was actually "missing" for a couple of weeks before August 10, why the need to finally stage a "kidnapping" scenario at that time?

Was thinking about school starting up as a possible trigger for something.  Sorry if this doesn't make much sense.  Probably won't mean anything, but it was something that occurred to me, so I thought I'd put it out there.

Kindergarten through Sixth Grade Registration 2009, Fremont Unified Public Schools
http://www.fmtusd.org/168110928113242853/blank/browse.asp?a=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&c=61947&1681Nav=|&NodeID=209 (http://www.fmtusd.org/168110928113242853/blank/browse.asp?a=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&c=61947&1681Nav=|&NodeID=209)

Desi

Hmm.. one more thing I just saw.  Was Hasanni possibly attending Summer School?  Does anyone remember hearing anything about this?

Last day of Summer School for Fremont Unified Public Schools was August 6.

http://www.fremont.k12.ca.us/fusd/icalSW/calendar.asp?cal=em (http://www.fremont.k12.ca.us/fusd/icalSW/calendar.asp?cal=em)

Desi

You raise some interesting questions about Hassani's education, Desdemona.  I don't know the answers, but I hope another monkey will be able to help us.  I had thought I read something about his having been in some sort of classes when he was in his other foster home, but I can't remember much about it.  If I find something, I'll post it. 

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6978312
Car wash raises funds for missing 5-year-old
Saturday, August 22, 2009 | 4:52 PM
(video at link)

 A special car wash was held Saturday afternoon along MacArthur Boulevard to help raise money in the search for the 5-year-old disabled boy. Organizers said they planned to donate 50 percent of the profits to Hasanni's foster parents.


"I hope today is the day that they see that this little boy has love from his foster family, his biological family, but from the community," one person told ABC7.

The boy's foster parents Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell attended the fundraiser but did not want to speak to the media. Ross has told police he last saw Hasanni outside a shoe store in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood 12 days ago.

People with information on the case are asked to call the Oakland Police Department (510) 777-8572 or Crime Stoppers (510) 777-3211.

Why give them the money? 

Hi Ariana.  It looks like this auto detail place gave Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell  (Hassani's foster parents) half (50%) of the profits today:

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6977402
Fundraiser for missing 5-year-old
Friday, August 21, 2009 | 7:17 PM
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Find Hasanni Campbell Reward Fundraiser
12-3 p.m.
Tone's Auto Detail
411 West MacArthur Boulevard
Oakland

People with information on the case are asked to call the Oakland Police Department (510) 777-8572 or Crime Stoppers (510) 777-3211.

I just don't understand why though?  If it is supposed to be for searches, etc.  Shouldn't the money go to the agency that is going to assist with the searches?  Once the money is handed over to the foster parents there is no way to know where it goes for sure.  I would hate to think that money that is supposed to go towards Hassani goes to pay their rent or car notes.

It is rather confusing, isn't it?  I am looking at the two articles I posted about this fundraiser.  One article says the fund raiser is for the reward fund.  The second article says the fund raiser is to help raise money in the search for Hassani and the organizers planned to donate 50 per cent of the profits to the parents. 







One article said "Find Hasanni Campbell Reward Fundraiser"
"There is a $10,000 reward for information that will bring Hasanni Campbell home. There will also be a fundraiser Saturday to raise money for the reward fund. I had snipped a lot out when I posted the article, because it was repeat.  I should have included the part about the fundraiser was for the reward fund.  http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6977402

The other article I posted said: "A special car wash was held Saturday afternoon along MacArthur Boulevard to help raise money in the [/b]search for the 5-year-old disabled boy .Organizers said they planned to donate 50 percent of the profits to Hasanni's foster parents.
 

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ChaChing

Thank you MuffyBee.

I think there could be some confusion regarding the fund raising due to the way the articles are written.  Maybe tomorrow we will get clarification. 

Good question! 
I would like to know how much was raised and what was put to the reward fund and to a search for Hassani. 
I believe all donations should be put toward the effort of finding Hassani - whether it is a reward incentive or search effort.

Ross= professional at stripping society of $$$$
Poor Ross..

I think Ross is raising the bar for disgusting!  ::MonkeyNoNo::

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http://www.kcbs.com/Fundraiser-Held-for-Missing-Boy/5060225
Posted: Saturday, 22 August 2009 2:28PM
Fundraiser Held for Missing Boy
OAKLAND, Calif. (KCBS)  -- Motorists took time out Saturday in Oakland to help in the efforts to find 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell.

A car wash fundraiser was held on the corner of MacArthur and Webster and was an upbeat scene, with people washing and vacuuming cars and grilling chicken and ribs.

Antonio Anabo donated his auto detailing shop for the event.
I just want to get a lot of people out here to support the kid," Anabo said. "I feel real bad for him, and as you can see, everybody's supporting. We're just trying to bring everybody together and try to help find this little boy."

They held hands in a circle and prayed for the safe return of the disabled 5-year-old.

Teray Frederick led the prayer circle.

"This is an innocent child, a child that did not deserve to be gone from two people that love him," Frederick said.

Campbell's foster parents declined comment to the media as organizers said they are not happy with the accusatory tone of recent news reports.

The 5-year-old Campbell has been missing since August 10.

I am glad to hear that the money is going for Hassani, that was my only concern.  Thanks again. ::MonkeySlide::

What bothers me about foster fathers story is he says he leaves Hassani at the back door in the back parking lot, goes around to the front of the store with the little girl, hands the child off to the foster mom and instead of going through the store to the back door to get Hassani, he goes back outside down the street around the building to the back door. If you are in a hurry why double back, why not use the shortest distance? ::MonkeyConfused:: ::MonkeyConfused:: ::MonkeyConfused:: ::MonkeyConfused::

Why not just call his wife on her cell phone and have her open the back door ?

I agree Edward. 

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http://www.ktvu.com/news/20538270/detail.html
Vigil For Hasanni Campbell Will Be Held Tonight

Posted: 4:42 pm PDT August 24, 2009
OAKLAND, Calif. -- There will be a candlelight vigil in Oakland at 6:30 p.m. Monday night for Hasanni Campbell, a 5-year-old boy who disappeared two weeks ago, according to his aunt.

Trinity Schwabacher, Hasanni's aunt, said the vigil will be in the parking lot of the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store in the 6000 block of Rockridge Avenue in Oakland, which is where his foster mother, Jennifer Campbell, works.

Hasanni was reported missing from the store's parking lot at about 4:15 p.m. on Aug. 10. His foster father, Louis Ross, was the last person to see him, according to authorities.

Hasanni, who has cerebral palsy, lived in Fremont with Campbell and Ross.

Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said Monday day that police are still searching for Hasanni but there aren't any new developments in their investigation.

Schwabacher said Campbell and Ross will be at the vigil and the organizers of the event will be selling T-shirts with Hasanni's picture.

She said Hasanni's family members are trying to raise money to increase the reward for information leading to Hasanni.

Oakland police and Crime Stoppers have announced a $10,000 reward, but Schwabacher said, "$10,000 is nothing" and family members would like to have the amount increased.

She said there also will be a sign-up sheet for volunteers who want to help find Hasanni.

I wondered the same thing too unless she kept her cell phone in her purse while working or was not allowed to have it on while working. Either way, if this was routine, you would think that calling on the cell phone to have her open the back door would be common place.

Another thing I still can not understand is why that same day he made a trip to the bank and left the children at the home alone. Who does that??  ::MonkeyConfused::

I feel like LW did something careless and Hassani had some sort of accident while unsupervised. I do not feel like he would intentionally hurt the child. I also feel like foster mom is aware of what happened and the two of them panicked and made this whole thing up.

She does not appear too stable mentally either. She reminds me of a weak, stray, beaten down animal. Almost as if he controls everything she does. They seem like quite the odd couple. JMO.... ::MonkeyConfused::

http://www.amw.com/missing_children/case.cfm?id=67565

America's Most Wanted
Hassani Campbell File

Overview
FBI Joins The Search For Hasanni Campbell

The search for 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell continues in Northern California as the FBI has joined the search for the missing boy.

Authorities say that Hasanni, his foster father, Louis Ross, and Hasanni's 1-year-old sister were headed to a shoe store, Shuz of Rockridge, on Aug. 10, 2009.

Ross was at the shop to meet with Hasanni's aunt, who was going to take the children for the evening.

Ross told police he left Hasanni in his late-model BMW while he took Haasanni's sister with him towards the shop.

When he returned to the car, Hasanni was gone.

Police say Hasanni suffers from cerebral palsy and has trouble walking.  He uses leg braces to get around.

Authorities have confiscated Ross' BMW and are now looking at Hasanni's Fremont, Calif. home for clues. Cops have also been searching fields and wetlands in nearby Hayward and Fremont.  So far, they say there have been no substantial leads.  Police say that the family have been cooperating with the investigation.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6980923
Another vigil held for Hasanni Campbell
Monday, August 24, 2009 | 11:57 PM
(Video at Link)

By Alan Wang and Vic Lee

OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- A vigil is just getting underway in Oakland tonight to focus the public's attention on Hasanni Campbell, the five year old boy who's now been missing for two weeks

Police is not talking about any new leads, but we do know that police said that there were no new searches and no new search warrants filed. A vigil is took place at the rear driveway of the shoe store where Hasanni's foster dad told police the child was last seen.
his is one of those stories that has a lot of people speculating and the couple realizes many people think Louis Ross, the foster father, had something to do with it.

About 20 people showed up at Monday night's vigil for missing 5-year-old Hasanni, which is twice as many as the turnout last week.

"If we got the public out here, wouldn't that save on manpower and wouldn't the truth come out then once he's found?" said Ross.

Police said they are doing everything they can to find the boy, but Hasanni's foster parents say they realize public support is not on their side.

"You have to justify all of your actions. Everything you do you have to justify," said Ross.

Ross is dogged by the fact that he's the only one who can place Hasanni behind the Rockridge shoe store the day the boy disappeared.

Also, a police affidavit obtained by ABC7, shows a text message from Ross to Jennifer Campbell, the foster mother. Regarding Hasanni and his one year old sister, Ross wrote: "This (expletive) is over. I will watch her [his 1 year old daughter] but he [Hasanni] will be out on the BART and it's your responsibility to hey [sic] him, so (expletive) you."

"I understand, again, the police have to do their job, but if you're going to leak information, leak it all," said Ross.

Ross says it was an impassioned text message exchange, but he says it was taken out of context from the full message. Aside from that, the couple says the pressures of being under public and police scrutiny have been intense.

"On the BART, as I'm going up the escalator, on the loudspeaker, 'I hope they throw you in jail,'" said Ross.

When asked if Campbell could tell she was being monitored, she replied, "Yes. You're phone doesn't dial, like it doesn't pick up a signal as well. When you go out, there's certain cars that you keep seeing over and over again," said Campbell.

At the vigil, several volunteers signed up to help search for Hasanni. Also, organizers say a website called FindHasanni.com will be launched in two days.

The couple says a vigil will be held behind the shoe store every Monday at 6:30 p.m.

The organizer of the vigil is a seasoned volunteer who has helped a lot of causes.

Sherri-Lyn Miller makes custom t-shirts for a living from her small shop in San Leandro. Little Hasanni's face is now featured on her newest t-shirts.

"You have to keep the child's face up there and t-shirts are a big way to do it. People walk past you on the streets. They're going to look at your t-shirt before they look at a flyer," said Miller. "Somebody needs to step up and help and I have a platform where I'm able to do that."

On Saturday, Miller helped organize a fundraiser to increase the reward money. She says the event netted $600.

"We're just a small one person business and if we can do it, then there's large corporations out there that I know can step up and help," said Miller.

Miller has volunteered her time and effort for other high profile cases. She made t-shirts and printed 10,000 flyers when 8-year-old Sandra Cantu of Tracy went missing in March.

Miller raised $4,000 for the search effort from the sale of those t-shirts.

"It was an amazing experience for me just to see how a community can come together to look for a child," said Miller.

Sadly, Sandra's body was found after a 10-day search. Miller hopes this time her efforts will produce a different outcome.

"This poor little boy just needs to come home. He deserves to come home," she said.

Miller also sold close to 800 t-shirts that raised $7,500 for a fund that helps the widows of the four Oakland police officers who were killed March 21st.

Her t-shirt hangs prominently on the wall of her store.

"That's where I get my reward. Just to know that I was able to help somebody," said Miller.

Miller is helping to find little Hasanni and the vigil is underway in the Rockridge District in Oakland.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20553498/detail.html
Store Owner Calls For Help In Hasanni Campbell Search

Posted: 3:08 pm PDT August 25, 2009
OAKLAND, Calif. -- San Leandro business owner Sherri Miller said today that she's looking for more businesses to step forward and help raise money to increase the reward for information about Hasanni Campbell, a 5-year-old Fremont boy who disappeared more than two weeks ago.

Oakland police and Crime Stoppers have announced a $10,000 reward in the search for Hasanni, who was reported missing from the parking lot of the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store in the 6000 block of College Avenue in Oakland at about 4:15 p.m. on Aug. 10.

Hasanni's aunt and foster mother, Jennifer Campbell, works at the store. His foster father, Louis Ross, was the last person to see Hasanni alive, according to authorities.

Miller, who owns the All in One Stop store in San Leandro, said she would like to increase the reward by at least $5,000, to a total of at least $15,000.

She said she's planning to organize an auction to raise money but is waiting for more businesses to donate items.

Miller said Highline Custom Jewelry in Hayward has donated a watch worth $1,900 and Tone's Auto Detail in Oakland raised $650 at a car wash on Saturday.

She said she's printed about 2,000 missing-persons fliers at her shop and has also donated T-shirts to raise awareness about Hasanni's disappearance.

In addition, Miller said a Web site, www.findhassani.com, is expected to be up by Wednesday.

A vigil for Hasanni was held in the shoe store's parking lot Monday night and Miller said vigils will be held there every Monday night until the boy is found.

She said about two dozen people attended the vigil Monday night, which she said was twice the number of people who showed up the previous Monday night.

Miller said she got involved in the search for Hasanni after she saw his foster parents on TV and noticed that they didn't have any T-shirts with Hasanni's picture. She said her business makes business cards, banners and custom clothes, including T-shirts.

Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said today that police are still searching for Hasanni but that there aren't any new developments in the case.

People who want to donate items for the fundraising auction may call Miller at (510) 276-9090.

People who have information about the case can call Crime Stoppers at (510) 777-8572 or (510) 777-3211.

Things look grim for Hassani.

This is just my theory, but I believe he was killed by his foster father and then dumped into the bay. He then took Hassani's little sister to his wife's job and then faked a kidnapping to cover his tracks.

The water in the Bay is terribly cold and there are sharks out there. I'm hoping maybe Hassani's remains will wash up in the next few weeks (if this is what happened).

I believe the reason for murder is life insurance money or some type of payment that would be made in the event of Hassani's death. I'm glad CPS has taken his sister away from these two.

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It is just my opinion that Too many people live in this area for some other person to have not seen Hassani or the vehicle Hassani would/Could Have been inside of /or May have been taken away in.
If Hassani was carried away by some person on foot then for sure somebody would have seen it..

I have a good mind to go up there today and take pictures of this area so everyone can see for themselves the situation..

I also notice that the shoe store owner is not standing up to help..Why Is That ?

Anyways.. I am just sayin and not discounting the efforts of a good citizen who is stepping up to try and help find a child.

Edward if you do take those pictures, I would very much look forward to seeing them.
I know if you're there you'll also look for store cameras.

or simply call the store phone and ask to speak with Jennifer. 

Hassani where are you????? ::MonkeyMad::

It looks like the website is up now: http://www.findhasanni.com/  but seems a work in progress.

I didn't find much news today about Hassani. 

On Nancy Grace's Facebook page it's reporting that Hassani's foster parents have been arrested, but I'm finding nothing on Google about that.

Hopefully it's true. Hassani deserves to be found.

I just saw that too!

Aug 28, 2009 4:39 pm US/Pacific

Missing East Bay Boy's Foster Parents Arrested

The foster parents of a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy were arrested Friday afternoon on suspicion of murder in his disappearance, Oakland police said.

A lawyer who had been advising Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell also confirmed their arrests but did not know further details.

Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said the couple were being questioned by investigators after being taken into custody.

Hasanni Campbell's been missing since Aug. 10, when his foster father left him in a car parked outside a Rockridge neighborhood shoe store where his foster mother works.

Ross told authorities that he left the car to unlock the store door to give Hasanni, who wears braces on his legs, easier access. Hasanni was gone when he returned.

http://cbs5.com/crime/foster.parents.arrested.2.1150728.html

Missing 5-Year-Old's Foster Parents Held for Murder

Hasanni Campbell's aunt and fiancee are being held by Oakland Police

The foster parents of a missing 5-year-old Fremont boy were arrested for murder Friday afternoon in connection with his disappearance, Oakland Police said.

Oakland Police spokesman Jeff Thomason said Friday that Hasanni Campbell's aunt Jennifer Campbell and her fiancee Louis Ross were arrested. Oakland attorney John Burris, who has been advising the couple,  said he was notified of the arrests this afternoon but he did not know what the couple was being held for.

Hasanni was reported missing from the parking lot of the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store in the 6000 block of College Avenue in Oakland at about 4:15 p.m. on Aug. 10.

Campbell works at the store and police say Ross was the last person to see Hasanni before he disappeared.


Police have served multiple search warrants as part of the investigation into the disappearance of the boy and the boy's foster father turned over a sword to investigators, a police spokesman and an Oakland attorney said last week.

Hasanni had been living with his foster parents, Ross and Jennifer Campbell -- who is also  Hasanni's aunt -- at a home on Roxie Terrace in Fremont before he was reported missing.

Police spokesman Officer Jeff Thomason said last week at least one of the search warrants was served at the Roxie Terrace home, but he declined to disclose what police were looking for there.

"The sword is something I keep underneath my bed." Ross told NBC Bay Area earlier. "The sword was initially put in the closet, to be honest. But we had some incidents, a couple of incidents where somebody was setting off our alarm while it was in our garage."

Investigators gave Ross a polygraph test but he failed it. He says the test was fraudulent.

Ross initially responded to the polygraph result by calling them a fraud.

"They gave me five questions. Three were controls. The controls was: Is my name Loius Ross? Am I 38-years-old? Do I live in Fremont? Then they asked two other questions around the case. They showed me results that said I was 99 percent deceptive." Ross detailed. "So he told me I didn't even get my name right."

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/Hasannis-Foster-Parents-Arrested-55906027.html

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=6988627

Live video of the search.


My poor little dude. I knew he was gone. :(

I have been so sad avoiding the boards. Nevaeh, Jada, Robert, it's just been so much sadness lately. I needed a break.

The day I "come back" and they are arrested for his murder.

I am so sorry Hassani. I hope that the police can find you so you get the funeral that every angel gone too soon deserves.

Same here. I've made a few posts, but I was feeling so down about little Hassani still being missing that I hadn't posted much and now this.

I can't believe this little boy is gone forever. I truly can not believe his foster parents (his own aunt and uncle) could do this to him. What a betrayal. :(

Thank you for the updates, Tina Bee.  I'm so sad.  I really felt our little dude  was gone from this Earth, but hoped I was wrong.  There was a couple of days with no news, and I can see now it was the calm before the storm.   ::MonkeyNoNo:: 

 ::MonkeyWaa::

Praying for closure and the truth.

God Bless You, little Hasanni. 
You were an innocent, courageous little boy, and so sweet and cute.
You should be safe in bed tonight, after spending a happy day in a kindergarten classroom with your little friends, learning to read and write, playing on the playground...

not rotting away somewhere awaiting a grisly discovery... never to have the chance to grow up and lead a happy life.

May you rest in peace, little guy, and may justice prevail.

Desi
 ::MonkeyAngel::

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20606391/detail.html
Foster Parents Of Missing 5-Year-Old Arrested

Posted: 3:25 pm PDT August 28, 2009Updated: 4:02 pm PDT August 28, 2009
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell, the foster parents of missing 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell, were arrested Friday afternoon on suspicion of murder, according to Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan.

Chief Jordan told KTVU the couple was arrested at their Fremont home on the same murder charge and that the warrants for the Ross and Campbell were sealed.

Louis did not react as the couple was taken into custody, according to Chief Jordan, who said that the foster father seemed to be awaiting arrest.

The murder charges were made despite the fact that police have still not found the boy's body.

Oakland police and Crime Stoppers had announced a $10,000 reward in the search for Hasanni, who was reported missing from the parking lot of the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store in the 6000 block of College Avenue in Oakland at about 4:15 p.m. on Aug. 10.

Hasanni's aunt and foster mother Campbell works at the store. His foster father Ross was the last person to see Hasanni alive, according to authorities.

Ross and Campbell have been the focus of much speculation throughout the investigation into the disappearance of the boy.

Last week, Ross and Campbell addressed some of the disturbing details that have surfaced during the investigation into the five-year-old’s disappearance while calling for a renewed focus in the search for the missing boy.

Ross and Campbell, allowed KTVU into their Fremont house on August 20 to show what Hasanni’s living situation was like. The couple said they moved into the residence less than a year ago to make a home for him and his 18-month-old sister Aaliyah.

That same day, there were new revelations about Ross and details the police investigation had uncovered.

According to court documents released August 20, Ross sent a text message days before the boy’s disappearance threatening to leave the youngster unattended at a BART station.

In an affidavit filed to obtain a search warrant of the home where Hasanni lives in Fremont with Ross and Jennifer Campbell, Oakland police said they found an expletive-laced text message on Ross’ cell phone.

According to the document, the message sent to Jennifer Campbell said: “This is [expletive] over. I will watch [Hasanni’s sister] but he will be on the BART…”

The investigating officers also told the court that Ross had “also voiced some misgivings about caring for a developmentally disabled child” and added that neighbors had not seen Hasanni for about two weeks.

Those revelations came less than 24 hours after authorities confirmed to KTVU that Ross had failed a FBI lie detector test.

During the interview at their home, Campbell and Ross told KTVU they want to refocus attention on trying to find the missing boy. The couple denied allegations Ross may have had something to do with the disappearance.

They said when they gave police permission to access their phone records more than a week ago, they told investigators about the angry, obscenity-laced text Ross sent Campbell about ten days earlier during an argument.

"It's like we had an argument and we worked through it. And now it's like the argument is being twisted and turned into something it isn't," said Campbell.

"The situation resolved," explained Ross. "I calmed down and never left the house."

They also said they were the ones who told police Ross kept a sword under his bed. That sword was among the items included in the police search warrant of the home and, according to the couple, was taken by authorities when their house was first searched the day after Hasanni’s disappearance..

Campbell and Ross showed KTVU a list of items police took from Ross's car. However, there was no mention of latex gloves disclosed in court documents as one of the items taken from the vehicle.

The couple said they volunteered to give DNA samples to police who visited the house Thursday morning so that they could be ruled out as suspects.

"I'm cooperating with police every day," said Ross.

During the interview, the foster parents said they love Hasanni deeply and would never harm him.

"It felt just as real as this baby feels," said the six-months pregnant Campbell. "My love for him is the same."

"I know the truth," said Ross. "I am cooperating with police. so if false info is being leaked, I don't care. This isn't about me. It's about finding Hasanni.

On Tuesday of this week, Thomason said there weren't any new developments in the case.

The live feed of the search stopped. It looked like they were searching along the marsh and by the park -n-pull auto place again.

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Foster parents arrested in boy's killing

Jaxon Van Derbeken,Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writers

Friday, August 28, 2009
(08-28) 16:52 PDT Fremont -- The foster parents of a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy were arrested today at their Fremont home on suspicion of homicide and police were conducting a search of their property, authorities said.

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Louis Ross, 38, is being held on suspicion of murder and Jennifer Campbell, 33, was being held on charges related to homicide, Oakland police said. The body of the child, Hasanni Campbell, has not been found.

Oakland police investigators were questioning the couple and searching their Fremont home Friday afternoon. John Burris, an attorney who has been consulting with the couple, confirmed the arrests.

Hasanni was reported missing Aug. 10 after Ross said he vanished at the rear door of a Rockridge neighborhood shoe store in Oakland where Campbell worked.

Burris said he was told of the couple's arrest this afternoon. He said he does not know what basis police have to hold the couple.

"I'm not aware of what evidence, if any, that police have that supports the detainment or the arrest," Burris said. "I know that they have been questioned extensively by the police over the last several days."

Investigators had long focused their attentions on the foster parents, scouring their Fremont home with dogs two days after Hasanni vanished and questioning Ross and Campbell, who is Hasanni's aunt and Ross' fiancee. Ross also was given a polygraph examination; Campbell, who is more than six months pregnant, declined to take one, saying she feared it might harm her fetus.

Police had said the dogs were unable to detect Hasanni's scent outside the shoe store where Ross said he last saw the boy. Hasanni wears arch-support braces because of his cerebral palsy, but he can walk on his own, Ross said.

Court documents also showed Ross sent Campbell an angry text message 10 days before Hasanni vanished, threatening to leave the boy alone on a BART platform. Ross has described the message as part of a dispute with his fiancee that quickly passed.

Throughout the investigation, the couple said they were cooperating as they continued to ask for the public's help in finding Hasanni. Police offered a $10,000 reward for information on his whereabouts.

"If you have him, let him go!" Ross pleaded at an Aug. 17 event outside the shoe store, when both foster parents wore shirts bearing pictures of the missing child. "This is our son!"

Friends and family members had defended the couple against police scrutiny, with Campbell's mother, Pamela Clark, saying in an interview with The Chronicle a few days after the disappearance that Ross was a professional man and a good provider.

"I don't think the family's involved at all," she said.

 ::MonkeySlide:: Muffy! I was ready to post! LOL!  ::MonkeyBike:: YIPPEeeeeeeee....

      

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I wonder if they are going to use luminal.

I really do not want to seem stupid. But in the text that louis sent to jennifer saying you can find hassani at the bart. Is a bart have something to do with water.  I am thinking it does. And if I am right. Wouldn't it make the police think that hassani really is in the bart. Oh my I hope not. But it would make since considering the text. Imo

BART = "Bay Area Rapid Transit"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit)

On the BART probably means "on the bus,"  as in sent away... IMO

The inevitable came sooner rather than later. I'm glad to know that Oakland PD was working hard to bring those to justice that have harmed little Hasanni. I hope they can find and bring him home soon. Rest in Peace.........

Oh, WAIT!  I just read my own link... and it's NOT the bus.

"The heavy-rail public transit system connects San Francisco with cities in the East Bay and suburbs in northern San Mateo County."

It is the TRAIN.  And BART is based in San Francisco, where Hasanni's biological mother lives ---
Where Hasanni lived before he was sent to stay with his aunt and Ross in Fremont in December (IIRC) of last year. 

There is a Fremont route; Fremont is the 'end of the line' on that route.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Revised_BART_map.svg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Revised_BART_map.svg)

It almost looks like he was threatening here to put Hasanni on the train and sent him back where he came from!!  Fremont is 50 miles away from San Francisco.

Wow.  ::MonkeyEek::

Oh ok I gotcha.so the police just don't have any idea where hassani is? I am thinking that maybe jennifer will cave. And start talking. 

 ::MonkeyWaa::  ::MonkeyWaa::  I wonder if something happened to Hassani at the time of the angry text messages, when neighbors last saw him, and they waited to report him missing? Would explain no one seeing him in the 2 week prior.

  ::MonkeyAngel:: Boy, this is getting to be too much! It really breaks my heart. Such a cute little boy too!  ::MonkeyAngel::

Justice for Hassani!

I haven't been this wrapped up in a case since Sandra Cantu, but maybe that's because these two horrific tragedies have happened near me.

I just can't believe the foster father was all over television proclaiming his innocence. How sick is that? I know I need to chill, but I feel so emotional over this. It feels like this world is just getting worse and worse by the day.

It's like an epidemic with the caretakers of innocent children sending them to their death and then trying to place the blame anywhere else they can think of. Look at the Robert Manwill case or Caylee Anthony and something unholy is going on with Haleigh Cummings. It's almost too much to deal with at times...........

I do not know if Ross or Campbell guilty of anything... I am not pointing a finger..
Dat Is My Disclaimer.. ::MonkeyGavel:: and this is the bike I rode in on.. ::MonkeyBike::

It is just from a drive by inspection alone of this area it would appear to be pretty hard to steal a live child without somebody from some direction seeing something, if ya know what I mean. ::MonkeyRoll::
BUT People even adults do strange things at times and who would ever think that a person could steal a child that quickly in broad daylight and nobody see's anything.. Strange but possible...So I give Ross that one..
The Dogs not scenting ..??? Dat tis a problemo.. ::MonkeyRoll::
Why not just call of Text your wife ?.. Or call her to open up the back door ? What is the answer to that question ?
 They just need the TRUTH to move forward. Mr.Ross something is missing in this story.. That is all..
 
 Arrest and conviction without a body will never work in this case....mo... This will become a racial thing before ya know it..
Also and more-some To many cases of children in the news with abductions or attempted abductions.. jmho

What they need is some neighbors to speak up and all cameras in that vicinity for 14 blocks to see who was in that vehicle as it approached its destination at the shoe store that the boys Aunt "By Blood?? or Campbells sister ? anyways his foster mother is Campbell and they both work there at the shoe store.. People should google up the intersection and take a look..
 
They need a real live Eye witness to anything strange on that street and College ave. at that time of day within 6 blocks A Witness and or better yet a camera witness of Ross approach to that driveway..
 When WAS the last time anyone had seen Hassini ?
Where is a photo of the vehicle in question that belongs to Ross ?
 so that people in the neighborhood can remember the vehicle and who was in it and any other vehicles in the area..
Time passes and average people lose there memory. Was Hassani in the vehicle ?

Possibly they obtained "traffic signal" Images from cameras that have been set up by big brother everywhere in the San Francisco bay area. Possible those images show that ONLY Ross was in that vehicle. Or some other driver that was driving next to Ross..
Or Cameras images from the wrecking yard. Cameras from the coyote park that he may have went to close to the wrecking yard..Who Knows .. gas station video.. anything..

One Thing is for sure.. Oakland is no hick town and they would not arrest them without some real evidence.. 

I think alot of us understand your emotions TinaBee. Every day I think "I have heard it all, nothing else could shock me" and then something else pops up in the news to prove me wrong. It is so truly heart breaking to hear of case after case of children being subjected to so many horrors.

**I am considering purchasing a small island to move the family to so we can escape all of this madness. Maybe we can call it Monkey Island.... ::MonkeyLaugh::

What I found strange is that they took the sister away from them so quickly (glad they did).  Don't think I have ever heard about other children being removed from the parent(s) (foster or natural) as soon as another child in the house goes missing.  Didn't they take her away the very same day or the next?  They sure knew something very early on for them to do that IMO.

And what did Ross do for a living?  Why does it seem that only one working was the pregnant woman?  How was he able to drive around in a 'late model BMW'?

Guess they got some evidence via the test results in order to obtain the arrest warrants. 

May they rot in jail for the rest of their life...poor child sure couldn't get a break in this world.  First 4 yrs. with a drug addicted mother ..then these monsters.  Hopefully, his sister will fare better and get loving parents and maybe his death won't be in vain.  God Bless Him and surround him with His Angels.



   

 

Yes, he was on Nancy Grace rightaway, said he had taken a polygraph, offered to do it as he had nothing to hide, and went into details about how the boy disappeared. Nancy seemed convinced by him. The details didn't make sense though, and when they don't make sense we all struggle to figure it out- without listening to our gut feelings that say-  when it does'nt make sense it is because IT ISN"T TRUE!

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20606391/detail.html
Police: Missing 5-Year-Old Was Killed; Foster Parents Arrested

Posted: 3:25 pm PDT August 28, 2009Updated: 11:44 pm PDT August 28, 2009
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Oakland police said Friday night that they believe Hasanni Campbell is dead, and that his foster parents, Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell, are responsible.

Ross and Campbell were arrested Friday afternoon on suspicion of murder, according to Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan.

"This investigation [is] not a missing persons case anymore," police spokesperson Jeff Thomason said. "It is a homicide investigation."

Jennifer Campbell, Hasanni's aunt and foster mother, was arrested on suspicion of murder at about 1:50 p.m. at the Union City BART station, Thomason said. At about 2:45 p.m., Louis Ross was arrested on the same charge at his Fremont home. Warrants for their arrest remain sealed.

Louis did not react as he was taken into custody, according to Chief Jordan, who said that the foster father seemed to be awaiting arrest.

"We believe Hasanni Campbell is no longer alive and we have the people responsible," Thomason said.

Hasanni, who has cerebral palsy, was last seen Aug. 10 in the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store in the 6000 block of College Avenue and his disappearance prompted a multi-agency investigation. On Aug. 20, police served multiple search warrants in connection with the case, including one at Ross' home.

Thomason said investigators have not located Hasanni's body and declined to comment on specific evidence in the case that led to Friday's arrests.

"This investigation is still ongoing and very complex," Thomason said.

He said Ross and Jennifer Campbell were being interviewed by detectives Friday evening.

A law enforcement source told KTVU that a compelling piece of evidence is that no one ever saw the little boy in the busy Rockridge neighborhood where his foster father reported him missing 18 days ago.

The source also says that the fact that very few tips have come in point to the couple as being the only ones who really know what happened to their foster son.

KTVU has learned that Ross has waived his right to remain silent, and has been talking to police.

“It would not surprise me in any way that the police is seeking to divide and conquer by arresting and seeing if they have something to say that they haven't already said,” said the couple’s legal advisor John Burris.

Burris told KTVU that the district attorney has until next Tuesday to decide whether to bring charges against Louis Ross and Jennifer Cambpell.

Oakland police and Crime Stoppers had announced a $10,000 reward in the search for Hasanni, who was reported missing from the parking lot of the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store in the 6000 block of College Avenue in Oakland at about 4:15 p.m. on Aug. 10.

Hasanni's aunt and foster mother Campbell works at the store. His foster father Ross was the last person to see Hasanni alive, according to authorities.

Ross and Campbell have been the focus of much speculation throughout the investigation into the disappearance of the boy.

Last week, Ross and Campbell addressed some of the disturbing details that have surfaced during the investigation into the five-year-old’s disappearance while calling for a renewed focus in the search for the missing boy.

Ross and Campbell, allowed KTVU into their Fremont house on August 20 to show what Hasanni’s living situation was like. The couple said they moved into the residence less than a year ago to make a home for him and his 18-month-old sister Aaliyah.

That same day, there were new revelations about Ross and details the police investigation had uncovered.

According to court documents released August 20, Ross sent a text message days before the boy’s disappearance threatening to leave the youngster unattended at a BART station.

In an affidavit filed to obtain a search warrant of the home where Hasanni lives in Fremont with Ross and Jennifer Campbell, Oakland police said they found an expletive-laced text message on Ross’ cell phone.

According to the document, the message sent to Jennifer Campbell said: “This is [expletive] over. I will watch [Hasanni’s sister] but he will be on the BART…”

The investigating officers also told the court that Ross had “also voiced some misgivings about caring for a developmentally disabled child” and added that neighbors had not seen Hasanni for about two weeks.

Those revelations came less than 24 hours after authorities confirmed to KTVU that Ross had failed a FBI lie detector test.

During the interview at their home, Campbell and Ross told KTVU they want to refocus attention on trying to find the missing boy. The couple denied allegations Ross may have had something to do with the disappearance.

They said when they gave police permission to access their phone records more than a week ago, they told investigators about the angry, obscenity-laced text Ross sent Campbell about ten days earlier during an argument.

"It's like we had an argument and we worked through it. And now it's like the argument is being twisted and turned into something it isn't," said Campbell.

"The situation resolved," explained Ross. "I calmed down and never left the house."

They also said they were the ones who told police Ross kept a sword under his bed. That sword was among the items included in the police search warrant of the home and, according to the couple, was taken by authorities when their house was first searched the day after Hasanni’s disappearance..

Campbell and Ross showed KTVU a list of items police took from Ross's car. However, there was no mention of latex gloves disclosed in court documents as one of the items taken from the vehicle.

The couple said they volunteered to give DNA samples to police who visited the house Thursday morning so that they could be ruled out as suspects.

"I'm cooperating with police every day," said Ross.

During the interview, the foster parents said they love Hasanni deeply and would never harm him.

"It felt just as real as this baby feels," said the six-months pregnant Campbell. "My love for him is the same."

"I know the truth," said Ross. "I am cooperating with police. so if false info is being leaked, I don't care. This isn't about me. It's about finding Hasanni."

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I had seen in other articles John Burris was giving legal advice to Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell.  In this article it states" “It would not surprise me in any way that the police is seeking to divide and conquer by arresting and seeing if they have something to say that they haven't already said,” said the couple’s legal advisor John Burris.  I wonder if both Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell can/will keep the same attorney? 

http://www.ktvu.com/video/20612196/index.html
OAKLAND: Police Say Missing 5-Year-Old Is Dead; Foster Parents Responsible [Amber Lee]

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Foster parents arrested in boy's killing

Jaxon Van Derbeken,Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writers

Saturday, August 29, 2009
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(08-28) 18:08 PDT Fremont -- The foster parents who tearfully pleaded for the public's help in finding their missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy were arrested Friday on suspicion of killing the boy, authorities said.
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Jennifer Campbell is also Hasanni's aunt.Police gather outside the home of missing 5-year-old Hasa...Hasanni Campbell has cerebral palsy.

Louis Ross, 38, and his fiancee, Jennifer Campbell, 33, the boy's aunt, were taken into custody on suspicion of murder, said Officer Jeff Thomason, an Oakland police spokesman.

The boy, Hasanni Campbell, was reported missing Aug. 10 after Ross said he vanished at the rear door of a Rockridge neighborhood shoe store in Oakland where Campbell worked. His body has not been found.

Oakland homicide investigators were questioning the couple Friday night and conducted a search of the couple's Fremont home in Hampton Place, a tidy community of two-story stucco homes with wide streets and rose bushes.

Campbell was arrested at the Union City BART Station shortly before 2 p.m. after being questioned earlier by police, Thomason said. Ross was arrested at the Fremont home about an hour later.

"This is not a missing persons case anymore, this is a homicide investigation," Thomason said. "And we are talking to the people responsible." The officer said the investigation was "very complex."

John Burris, an attorney who has been consulting with the couple, said he was told of the couple's arrest on Friday afternoon.

"I'm not aware of what evidence, if any, that police have that supports the detainment or the arrest," Burris said. "I know that they have been questioned extensively by the police over the last several days."

Absent a body, Burris said the arrests were probably a police tactic designed to pressure the couple to talk and turn on each other.

"That's how police work," Burris said. "Divide and conquer."

Prosecutors will have 48 hours from the arrests, not including the weekend, to decide on charging the couple.

Investigators had long focused their attention on the foster parents, scouring their Fremont home with dogs two days after Hasanni vanished and questioning Ross and Campbell. Ross also was given a polygraph examination; Campbell, who is more than six months pregnant, declined to take one, saying she feared it might harm her fetus.
Dogs don't pick up scent

Police had said the dogs were unable to detect Hasanni's scent outside the shoe store where Ross said he last saw the boy. Hasanni wears arch-support braces because of his cerebral palsy, but he can walk on his own, Ross said.

Court documents also showed Ross sent Campbell an angry text message 10 days before Hasanni vanished, threatening to leave the boy alone on a BART platform. Ross has described the message as part of a dispute with his fiancee that quickly passed.

Throughout the investigation, the couple said they were cooperating as they continued to ask for the public's help in finding Hasanni. Police offered a $10,000 reward for information on his whereabouts.

"If you have him, let him go!" Ross pleaded at an Aug. 17 event outside the shoe store, when both foster parents wore shirts bearing pictures of the missing child. "This is our son!"

Friends and family members had defended the couple against police scrutiny, with Campbell's mother, Pamela Clark, saying in an interview with The Chronicle a few days after the disappearance that Ross was a professional man and a good provider.

"I don't think the family's involved at all," she said.

Friday afternoon, yellow crime scene tape blocked the street about a half block from the family's home, and Oakland police officers were seen going in and out of the backyard while Fremont police stood guard. A light could be seen on in the second story window, but it did not appear that anybody was at home. The search of the home wound down about 7 p.m.

Neighbors were shocked to see police cars and news helicopters descend on Hampton Place, a neighborhood they regard as free of crime.
Low-crime area

"It's surprising for this neighborhood. There's not much crime here. We have had some break-ins, but nothing really serious," said one neighbor, Anton Ko. "It makes you feel afraid."

Entrances to the neighborhood were temporarily blocked by police, who were allowing only residents to enter.

"We're all talking about it, me and my friends, on Facebook," said one 15-year-old neighbor, Arvind Mahesh, who said he heard the helicopters arrive about 3 p.m. and rode his bicycle to watch the police search the home that Ross and Campbell share on Roxie Terrace.

Neighbors who had been following the story said they were dismayed at the latest twist in the case.

"All along, we heard the foster parents were upset about being interviewed, and asked a lot of questions. Now today, we found out they got arrested," said Alok Verma, who lives about a block and a half away from the family's home. "It's shocking."

Thanks for the info. Muffy.

I agree with your take on some of the community.  Where is the outrage, that a little boy who lived among them, is missing?! ::MonkeyMad::

Prayers for Hassani.  What a sweet looking boy.  ::MonkeyGavel:: ::MonkeyGavel:: ::MonkeyGavel:: ::MonkeyGavel:: ::MonkeyGavel::

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I'd love to purchase some land from you and build my house on that island and get away from all this maddness.

Haleigh Cummings is the next story that I believe will only end in misfortune for a small child who never got a chance to live. Misty is lying through her teeth about everything.

These children deserve justice.

I believe this part of the article is so telling. Poor Hassani, I don't even want to imagine his last moments.  ::MonkeyNoNo::

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Ross reported Hasanni missing Aug. 10 outside the Rockridge shoe store where Campbell worked.

Ross and Campbell, who is also the boy's aunt, were active in searching for Hasanni and pleading for his safe return. Ross defended himself after word leaked he had failed a polygraph test and after the content of a damaging text message about the children he sent to Campbell went public.

Campbell, who is six months pregnant, has declined to take a polygraph test.

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Soooo, ::MonkeyRoll:: Campbell IS the aunt.. Did I miss something I thought the aunt was a separate person who also worked there..[/color]

You must have missed something Edward. Jennifer Campbell has always been the foster mom /aunt.

She took her sister's children in.

I agree with you and the others on this.  With two children, one would think he would have just stayed with both of em until she opened the backdoor.  Honestly, from the start of this, I've had the sinking feeling like several of you, it seems.   No surprise here that he didn't pass the poly.  And no surprise the foster mom bailed out on the poly, using pregnancy for her reason.  Am also in agreement with those of you that have said nothing dangerous to a pregnancy about a poly.  For pete's sake.  Wonder what LE thought of that as her answer?   ::MonkeyNoNo::

As others have pointed out, BART is the Bay Area Rapid Transit.  Emphasis on RAPID.  It's a train.  For those who take their children on these, it can be frightening getting them on and off. 

In the Sacramento area, there is a Rapid Transit minirail, (called the lightrail), a bit different from BART, in that it runs on tracks above ground, instead of thru a tunnel underground/under water.  BART connects Oakland to San Fran thru the tunnel. 

In Sacramento, parents need to have their children IN their arms or firmly holding onto each hand while boarding.  That's because the conductor is at the very front of the first car, and does not see those who are boarding at each door, of each car behind him/her.  Many's the time that a parent wasn't paying attention, and stepped onto the lightrail thinking their child/ren was right behind them.  The doors snap shut and the lightrail leaves.  Child/ren still standing near the boarding area, parents on lightrail frantic.  I've actually seen one man jump off at the next stop and start running all the way back to where the kids where left.   There's no way to get the attention of the conductor, unless one is in the first car right behind him/her. 

Then there are the tracks themselves, a clear and present danger for child or adult.  One must stand well behind "the line" painted next to the tracks.  A young child standing there alone very likely wouldn't realize the danger.  In other cities/states, rapid transit such as these, folks have accidentally or on purpose fallen down into the tracks, right into the path of a soon to arrive train. 

BART has loading areas, am wondering if there are tracks at the beginning and end.  There is no stopping in between the loading areas, it's like a one-way trip.  Get on at one end, get off at the other. 

But for this man to threaten to leave the little dude either AT the BART or ON the BART, either one (I've read it reported both ways), no matter that it was said in an angry moment, this is horrible horrible awful.  An instant and clear danger to the little dude had he gone thru with that.  Am positive that LE did not shrug off the statement in that text message.

where is her sister ?  ross and campbell married ?

They probably thought that she could run but she can't hide.  She will not be pregnant forever.

Am thinking someone else mentioned already.  My first thought when I read that the man had left the children at home when he went to the bank, was that he probably didn't want anyone in the bank (or cameras) see him with only the baby girl. 

The man may have thought he'd rather face being in trouble for briefly leaving the kids alone, (if LE believed his having gone missing later in the day story), than to have proof positive at the bank that Hassani had been injured/abused, or not even with him as early as that. 

I hate to say this, yet it sure sounds to me like this guy didn't want to deal with having a disabled child.  Poor Hassani.  Not his fault people failed him right and left.   

Wonder if we'll be privy to any further details that may come out? 

Hi Edward,
From what I read, the sister (bio mom) lives in San Francisco and suffers with cerebral palsy and other ailments. The bio dad is supposed to be incarcerated somewhere in the area. Ross and Campbell are supposedly engaged. I think there is more info on the earlier post about the family. I hope this helps.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20606391/detail.html
Volunteers Continue Search Despite Foster Parents' Arrest

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I don't know if we're allowed to say where we live, but I'm in Sacramento, Ca and what you've said about the lightrail is very true! You also have to keep your eye on any children with you because of all the transients that ride of the lightrail all day long who are up to no good.

Often times a drunk homeless person (or someone with a mental illness) will get onto the lightrail, sit down, and then start acting belligerent spewing out cuss words at no one, but the open air. It's bizarre to say the least.

I imagine that would be frightening to a little child, especially a 5 year old. The foster dad saying he was going to leave Hassani at the BART station is a bad parenting (to put it nicely). Whenever I drop my family members off at the lightrail station I sit and wait until their train comes to pull off. I also make sure they actually got on.

Yes, the lightrail system is used by everyday working people, but it is NO place for an unattended child.

I had a friend who's brother is mentally disabled. He's a year older than her and they're both adpoted (raised by their aunt and uncle). It's a very daunting task, but I feel that if you take on that challenge you should stick through it.

I believe these two were in it entirely for the money and nothing more.

I don't think I can say this enough, but I feel that Hassani was killed for life insurance money.

Blame my theory on Law & Order.  ::MonkeyHaHa::

Sometimes TV is good for something.

Hi Tina Bee -

I am in Sacramento as well! Wyks and I have talked about the fact that she used to live out here, too. I also lived in the bay area for a couple of years when I went back to school recently - and used the BART to commute into San Francisco for classes. I can tell you that even as a 40-something adult, the BART was always scary to even me! Good heavens - very crowded, people going every which way, loud, etc. etc.  I always dreaded it and NEVER got used to it; it made me very anxious and nervous. (Clearly I am not a big city girl!) But the point is - for goodness sakes - a small child should never ever ever be left alone for even a minute in that setting! Never never. Ever! To even make such a threat is heinous to me! Makes me shudder . . .

Hey neighbor!

I've personally never been on the BART, but with all the people the commute every single day from the Bay to Sacramento (and beyond) I'd imagine that system would be VERY crowded! There's no telling who's coming on and off so the foster dad was probably trying to scare his fiance by saying he was going to leave Hassani at one of those stations.

Now with the Sacramento lightrail all I can say is try to avoid it between the hours of 4 PM to 7 PM. Each cart is jam packed (something like sadines in a can) and people have fallen over one another when the train goes forward or stops abruptly.

There hasn't been many details about this case since the arrests, but I hope they both confess and tell what truly became of Hassani that day.

Sadly I don't believe this little boy is here on Earth with us  ::MonkeyNoNo::

Yep, we can say the town/state where we're at if we want to share.  Wouldn't get more detailed than 'the north area' or 'the south area' in our towns tho.  Cuz this is an open forum, anyone on the net can read here. 

My sons and I lived in Rancho, and most days miss Cali dearly.  I even miss the lightrail, as much as I used to cuss it, back in the day.  lol  Transportation like that is unheard of here in rural Nebraska, where even "heavy traffic" consists of a hay-baler mosyin' down the middle of a two-lane road and slowing 3 or 4 cars, tops.   ::MonkeyHaHa::  Large cities here (vs small towns) actually do have a bus or two.  A lot of rural folks would have no clue the dangers that exist with rapid transit.  So I was just trying to put it into perspective for everyone with the example of the lightrail in Sac. 

What you've described, a drunken homeless or mentally challenged person etc, being onboard public transportation (or even in the waiting area), it DOES happen, and I shudder to think of a child alone in such a situation.   The severe dangers that can exist on any given day/night, is why I'm thinking that LE surely sat up and took notice when they read the text message about BART that the foster father wrote.  IMO, it shows his character as being very different from the way it seems he is trying to portray himself to the media.  Folks say things such as, "Well, it was said in anger, I didn't really mean it."  When often much of what is said in anger is the truth, just something the person hadn't intended to ever say. 

Things like his text message gives us clues to what this guy is really like.  I didn't hear or read much from the foster mother herself.  Seems right from the start we've heard from him him him.  While she sat or stood nearby, mostly looking down.     

LE must have something on both of these people, more than what has been released to the public.  I was expecting the guy to be arrested, and surprised that she was too.  Guess we'll learn more as time goes by. 

Am curious to know if the baby sister can talk well enough yet, if maybe she said something about what happened?    ::MonkeyEek::   
     

Something is curious to me.... Maybe someone can help me out with this.

From what I've read, the woman is Hassani's birth aunt.  She took over the raising of her sister's son.  Do I have that right?  Cuz it's been freakin confusing from the start!  So if that is correct, I can understand why she is referred to as his "foster mother".   Wonder if that is just what she refers to herself as, or if she is legally his foster mother, with a caseworker and all.   

Here's the curious part... IMO

She's engaged to this guy, not yet married.  So........ technically, in a legal sense.... he is not the "foster father".  He basically is the live-in boyfriend of the foster mother.  Right? 

And if all that is correct, then... does it seem to anyone else like this guy is trying to make himself more than he really is .. to Hassani?  And if so, why would he do that? 
   

Your theory could very well be true!  From the first time I heard this guy on the news 'splainin .. I have thought, 'hmmmmm... something's not right here'.  The more he explained, the worse it all got.  Not sure but that could partly be due to sloppy media reporting tho.  Still and all, some things I directly heard from him during interviews on TV, just didn't make sense.  Have thought from the start that Hassani was nowhere near the shoestore that day, certainly not left inside the car or standing beside it. 

Just my gut feeling.  Guess I can blame it on ... being old.   ::MonkeyHaHa::
 

 

Hi Tams!   :2waver:

I agree with you..... A threat of something like this, is... well heinous does fit, yep. 

Since you've ridden BART into San Fran, let me ask you something.   At the station, is the train level with the boarding area.... or is there a waiting area and then an edge that drops down to where the tracks are? 

Didja go to the state fair?  Nebraska's idea of a state fair pales in comparison to Cali's!!
 ::MonkeyHaHa::   ::MonkeyEek::   ::MonkeyWaa::

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"'Oh, they were foster parents. Did they really care?' Well, you go talk to social services,” said Ross. “You wanna find the record straight? You go to them and ask them why they placed them with us. Because we gave a damn! These were our children. Don't try to take that from us. This wasn't a situation where we didn't care about those children. We've fought every inch for both of them."

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20437763/detail.html

Hiya Wyks - great to see you again!  :smt006  Hope all is well with you up in good old NE.

To answer your question: Yes, there is a dropoff from the boarding areas down to the actual tracks/rails. After the train pulls away, you are standing on the precepice of a 'ditch' of approx. 2-3 feet deep - with absolutely no protection to keep you from falling in. Being the clumsy person that I am, it always made me a bit nervous; I always stood back a bit to wait for the train. I always marveled at how very easy it would be to slip & fall in - where you would either get electrocuted or squished by the next oncoming train. The thought of a child wandering around by this alone takes my breath away! As I mentioned - can't even fathom how one could ever even verbalize such a thing. And as well - yes, as you mentioned, there is a HUGE population of homeless/addicts/dealers/pandering/unsavory element in SF - it has gotten really bad . . . and they are everywhere around the BART.

Haven't been to the state fair yet this year - a couple of years actually, sadly. Always love going though! It has just become so very expensive, unfortunately - entrance tickets alone are $12 now - ugh. And you always have to plan on spending alot on all of the fun food - LOL. (LOVE the cinnamon rolls!)

The Alameda County district attorney will not file charges against Hasanni Campbell's foster mother in the 5-year-old's presumed slaying, prosecutors said today.

The boy's foster father remains in custody on suspicion of murder.

Jennifer Campbell, 33, who is also the boy's aunt, was arrested Friday on suspicion of being an accessory after the fact in a homicide.

"We are not charging her; there is insufficient evidence at this time," Assistant District Attorney Tom Rogers said.

Her fiance, Louis Ross, 38, remains in custody on suspicion of murder pending a decision Tuesday by the district attorney's office on whether to file charges.

Rogers said he is reviewing the evidence against Ross today.

Oakland police arrested Ross at the couple's Fremont home Friday. They said the case had been reclassified from a missing person investigation to a homicide probe, although no body has been found.

Ross reported Hasanni missing Aug. 10, saying the boy had vanished from outside a back entrance to the shoe store in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood where Campbell works.

John Burris, an attorney who has been consulting with the couple, said after Ross and Campbell were jailed Friday, "It would not surprise me in any way that the police were seeking to divide and conquer by arresting them, to see if one or more of the persons has something to say that they haven't already said."

Burris added, "I don't know if there's any additional evidence, and would be very surprised that there is physical evidence that ties them to Hasanni."



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/31/BA1919GD4D.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0PmpgFNNE

Thanks for these quotes and links, pink angel.   ::MonkeyAngel::

Things are just humming right along, thanks!  Hope the same for you. 

Thanks for explaining about the tracks and such.  What you've described is as I imagined it would be.  I'd be a nervous wreck!  Seems even more horrific that he would use something like that as a threat to the aunt.  Wonder if the rest of their relationship was like that, with him issuing horrid threats to her.   Also makes me wonder what kind of treatment Hassani and sis may have had with him in the home, before all this happened.   ::MonkeyMad:: 

I hear ya about the cost of the fair, then the food.  One year I went just for the cinnamon rolls, then took plenty of em home.  lol  What I'd give to taste just one of em right now. 
 

Thanks Edward! 

Hmmm.. Seems for them to charge Ross with homocide, they must have found SOME indication of that, somehow.  Certain evidence or something that was said, etc.  Guess we may know soon what they aren't talking about yet. 

I wasn't blessed with patience.   ::MonkeyJnBox::

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I moved to North Carolina for six months last year and I went crazy because I missed Sacramento soooo much. I'm glad to be back. Country living is not for me!

I think the foster father is a monster. Those text messages exposed him for what he really is.

I say searchers need to comb the beaches to see if anything suspicious has washed up. I'm channeling the Laci Peterson case now.