Tangena Hussain, 2, MI- Amber Alert: Missing 2 Year Old Girl

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Amber Alert: Missing 2 Year Old Girl

Oct 3, 2008
Last Update: 5:27 am

Detroit Police issued an Amber Alert for a missing 2 year old girl who was last seen at 9pm Thursday.

Tangena Hussain was last seeen at the Marathon Station at Greenfield and 8 Mile Rd.

The girl's mother says her boyfriend was watching Tangena while she was at work.

He says he was on his way to pick up her mother from work when he stopped at the gas station in Northwest Detroit to buy gum.

The boyfriend says he left the girl in the car, a 1997 red Geo Prizm, for 3-4 minutes and when he came out of the store, the girl was missing.

Witnesses say the boyfriend did not spend time looking for the girl, but that he went to pick up her mother from work and brought her back to the station to search.

Witnesses described the mother as being "hysterical," screaming "I was at work!" while she searched.

Tangena is 3'2" tall and weighs 34lbs.

The 2 year old has brown hair and eyes.

She was wearing a brown long sleeved shirt with white cargo pants and gold sandals.

If you know anything, you're asked to call 911 or the Detroit Police Violent Crimes Task Foce at (313) 596-2300, ask for Sgt. McClure.

http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=c1f966fa-b615-4d10-b7ea-460bebca37b7

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Police search for 2-year-old girl

October 3, 2008
Detroit Police searching for a missing 2-year-old girl are also desperately seeking someone who speaks Bengali, the main language of Bangladesh.
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An Amber Alert has been issued for Tangena Hussain, who was last seen at the Marathon gas station at Greenfield and 8 Mile roads at 9:30 p.m. Thursday.

Police are having a problem communicating with the last person to see Tangena, her mother’s boyfriend, who’s from Bangladesh, Detroit Police Sgt. Maquis Scott said this morning. All three live together in Hamtramck, he added.

“We need a Bangladesh interpreter,” Scott said. “We’re having a language problem, so we’re having a hard time communicating with him.”

Tangena’s mother was at work and her boyfriend was watching the little girl when she disappeared, Scott said. The boyfriend told investigators he left Tangena in the car with the doors locked in the gas station parking lot while he went inside to make a purchase, but she was missing when he came back out. A search around the gas station has proved fruitless, but investigators are focusing on other areas in the city, Scott said this morning.

Tangena has chin-length black hair, brown eyes, is about 3 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 34 pounds. She has a scar from a burn on her upper lip and chin. She was wearing a brown, long-sleeved T-shirt with a cartoon picture on the front, white nylon cargo pants and gold sandals.

Anyone with information about the little girl or who can speak Bengali is asked to call the Detroit Police at 313-596-1240.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081003/NEWS01/81003016/1003

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Police arrest boyfriend of missing girl's mother

10/4/2008, 6:58 p.m. EDT
The Associated Press       

DETROIT (AP) — Police have arrested a man who they say was the last person to see a missing 2-year-old Hamtramck girl.

The Detroit News reports police won't say what felony the 27-year-old man is accused of committing except that it was reported several months ago.

An Amber Alert has been issued in the disappearance of Tangena Hussain, who was last seen Thursday night. The man says he went into a gas station store to buy gum and the girl was missing from his car when he returned.

The man is dating Tangena's mother.

Tangena is described as 3-foot-2 and 34 pounds with brown eyes, black hair and a burn scar on her chin and lip.

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/news-58/1223161453302910.xml&storylist=newsmichigan

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Police arrest boyfriend of missing girl's mother

10/4/2008, 6:58 p.m. EDT
The Associated Press       

DETROIT (AP) — Police have arrested a man who they say was the last person to see a missing 2-year-old Hamtramck girl.

The Detroit News reports police won't say what felony the 27-year-old man is accused of committing except that it was reported several months ago.

An Amber Alert has been issued in the disappearance of Tangena Hussain, who was last seen Thursday night. The man says he went into a gas station store to buy gum and the girl was missing from his car when he returned.

The man is dating Tangena's mother.

Tangena is described as 3-foot-2 and 34 pounds with brown eyes, black hair and a burn scar on her chin and lip.

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/news-58/1223161453302910.xml&storylist=newsmichigan

I find the whole scenario highly suspicious. Does the station have video . I bet they do because of the danger of gas thefts.

When are women going to learn to quit bringing these guys in to there children's lives?

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Good question about the video Sam, likely you are right.........it is just a matter of time for this guy.

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Police still looking for missing toddler
Man said girl was left in locked car

Detroit Police said late Saturday that they had no new information about 2-year-old Tangena Hussain's whereabouts. She was reportedly last seen at a Detroit gas station at Greenfield and 8 Mile on Thursday.
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A 27-year-old man last known to be with the missing Hamtramck toddler was in custody Saturday, according to Free Press reporting partner WDIV-TV Local 4.

Jamrul Hussain, the boyfriend of the child's mother, was arrested on a separate assault charge involving a minor, WDIV reported. He cooperated with investigators after he was arrested at the house he shares with Nilufa Begum, 24, and her daughter, Tangena. He is not related to the child.

Hamtramck police, Detroit police and the FBI continued to investigate. Police searched Dumpsters with cadaver dogs outside her home on Saturday.

Hussain said Tangena was in the car with him Thursday night when he stopped at the gas station for a pack of gum.

He told investigators he left her in the locked car and that she was gone when he came back.

Instead of immediately searching for the toddler, he said he picked up Begum from work. He then told her what he said happened and the two returned to the station to search for her. At that time, they called police.

"I was asking, 'Where's my daughter? Tell me where's my daughter," Begum told WDIV.

"He said, 'I will tell you; just come with me,' and he took me to the gas station," she said.

Begum said Hussain told her that Tangena was gone when he came back outside.

There is video from the gas station showing Hussain was there, but no footage of the red 1990s Geo Prizm or Tangena at the station, WDIV reported.

Police said Tangena lived with Begum and her boyfriend, who have dated about five months, in Hamtramck. Begum has two other children, ages 8 and 7, who live with their father's family in metro Detroit. Tangena's father, who is also the father of Begum's other two children, lives in New York.

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Police Arrest Boyfriend of Missing Michigan Toddler's Mother
Monday , October 06, 2008


A Michigan man remains in custody while police continue looking for the toddler who was last seen with him.

Police say 27-year-old Jamrul Hussain was arrested Saturday at the Hamtramck house he shares with 24-year-old Nilufa Begum, the mother of 2-year-old Tangena Hussain.

An Amber Alert has been issued in the disappearance of Tangena, who was last seen Thursday night in Detroit in Hussain's car.

Jamrul Hussain, who is not related to Tangena, has not been charged in the girl's disappearance. He was being held on a separate assault charge stemming from an incident earlier this year with a minor

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Hamtramck teen: Man who molested me is last person to see missing toddler

October 6, 2008
A 15-year-old Hamtramck girl told police there that the last person to see missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain is also the man who kidnapped the teenager for six days in February and molested her.

Jamrul Hussain, the boyfriend of Tangena’s mother and no relation to the child, is expected to be arraigned at 8:30 a.m. today at 31st District Court in Hamtramck on a kidnapping charge and two counts of sexual conduct.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy this afternoon said Jamrul Hussain faces up to life in prison if convicted. Police arrested him over the weekend at the Hamtramck house he shares with Nilufa Begum, 24, and her daughter.

FBI agents and police obtained a warrant and searched that home, at 3893 Trowbridge near Conant, this afternoon for evidence in connection with the disappearance of Tangena Hussain, who has been the subject of an Amber Alert since she was reported missing Thursday night.

Jamrul Hussain told police the 2-year-old disappeared from his parked car when he went inside a gas station convenience store at Greenfield and 8 Mile.

Hamtramck Police detective Jackie Crachiola said the 15-year-old girl, fearful that she and her family would be killed, originally told police she ran away. But the teen changed her story and alerted police after she saw Hussain on television in connection with the Amber Alert issued for Tangena.

“While she’s sitting at home the other night, she sees him on TV, and she told her father, ‘Oh, that’s the guy that took me!’ ” Crachiola said. “She’s worried about the 2-year-old.”

“He’s not talking,” Crachiola said today about Hussain’s cooperation with police. “He’s not talking about anything, denies wrongdoing of any kind.”

Instead of immediately searching for the toddler, Hussain originally told police he picked up Begum from work. He said he then told his girlfriend what happened and the two returned to the station to search for the missing girl. That’s when they called police.

The 15-year-old, whose family hails from Bangladesh like Hussain, said her assailant kidnapped her and held her at another couple’s Hamtramck home, Crachiola said.

“She was threatened by her assailant. If she said anything, he would kill her and her family,” Crachiola said. “They told her they’d let her go if she went to the police station and said she ran away.”

After six days, the woman who lives at that home accompanied the 15-year-old to the Hamtramck Police Department to make sure she claimed to be a runaway, Crachiola added. The case had been closed until the teen came forward again Friday, Crachiola said.

The 15-year-old told investigators she knew Hussain because he had repeatedly tried to befriend her as she walked to and from school, police said.

Detroit Police spokesman James Tate said today that his department is working with the FBI and Hamtramck Police in the search, which has covered numerous areas throughout metro Detroit. An Amber Alert remains in effect.

Anyone with information about Tangena is asked to call 313-596-1240.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081006/NEWS02/81006075

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FBI Raids Home Of Missing Child; Boyfriend Charged

UPDATED: 7:12 pm EDT October 6, 2008
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. -- The FBI raided the Hamtramck home of a missing 2-year-old girl Monday.

The girl, Tangena Hussain, was last seen in the care of her mother’s boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain, Thursday night.

Although they share the same last name, Jamrul is not the girl’s father.

Jamrul, 27, was arrested Saturday by Hamtramck police in connection with the separate assault case. He remained jailed Monday after being charged by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy with kidnapping, two counts of criminal sexual conduct and felony firearm for a case that happened in February.

Jamrul is accused of keeping a 15-year-old girl in the basement of a house and assaulting her for a week.

Police said the teen came forward when she saw Jamrul’s picture on TV after an Amber Alert was issued for Hussain.

He will be arraigned Tuesday.

Police and federal agents continue to search for Hussain, who was last seen at a Marathon gas station in Detroit.

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http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17637458/detail.html

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Backyard dig in Tangena Hussain search nets items

October 8, 2008
Police crime scene investigators and FBI agents took items Tuesday evening from the property of a Hamtramck couple identified as friends of the man who reported he last saw missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain.

Hamtramck police arrested Hena Begum on kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment charges, and her husband, Mamunur Rahman Khan, on unlawful imprisonment charges, Tuesday in connection with the alleged abduction in February of a 15-year-old Hamtramck girl.

Jamrul Hussain, 24, who was arraigned Tuesday on kidnapping and sexual misconduct charges in connection with the alleged abduction, is the last person to have seen Tangena, police said.

The items taken Tuesday from the Lumpkin Street home and the backyard seemed to confirm statements by the 15-year-old, said Hamtramck Detective Mike Szymanski.

"We're confident we have the right person in custody," said Szymanski, who declined to identify what investigators found. The evidence will be sent to the Michigan State Police crime lab, he said.

Hussain, the boyfriend of Nilufa Begum but no relation to the missing girl, is being held in jail on $500,000 bond. He formerly worked at a Ferndale sub shop with Hena Begum, who is not related to the missing girl's mother, police said.

On Tuesday afternoon, Nilufa Begum again pleaded with the public for her daughter's life, speaking from the Detroit gas station where her boyfriend told police the toddler was taken from his locked vehicle Thursday night while he was inside.

"I'm still hoping that my daughter's still alive somewhere," Nilufa Begum, 24, said in a barely audible voice, almost expressionless, outside a Marathon gas station on Greenfield at 8 Mile. "Please, go out there and look for my daughter."

When asked if she thought her boyfriend had anything to do with her daughter's disappearance, she replied, "I don't know."

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http://www.freep.com/article/20081008/NEWS05/810080339

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Man charged with rape, kidnap

HAMTRAMCK, Mich., Oct. 8 (UPI) --

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A Detroit-area man suspected in the disappearance of his girlfriend's daughter was formally charged Tuesday with a February kidnapping and rape.

Bail was set at $500,000 for Jamrul Hussain, a citizen of Bangladesh in his 20s, The Detroit News reported. He was arrested Saturday after the 15-year-old alleged rape victim saw him on the news and told her father he was the man who held her prisoner and sexually assaulted her.

Hussain was the last person known to have seen 2-year-old Tangena Hussain, no relation, of Hamtramck. He told police he left the girl in his car briefly Thursday night while he made purchases at a gas station, and she vanished.

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UPDATE: Tangena's Mom to Take Polygraph

October 9, 2008
Last Update: 12:33 pm
(WXYZ) - The mother of missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain says she will take a polygraph test today to prove her innocence.

Meanwhile, videotapes from area retailers are being reviewed by investigators searching for Tangena after witnesses reported seeing her on two separate occasions.

Attorney Shawn Patrick Smith says police were looking at tapes from a nearby Home Depot store and from Northland Mall for evidence of the whereabouts of the little girl, who has been missing from her Hamtramck home since Thursday.

Smith is the attorney for Jamrul Hussain, no relation to the girl, who is being held on an unrelated rape charge. Jamrul Hussain, who is the boyfriend of Tangena's mother, Nilufa Begum, has denied any connection to the girl's disappearance but is the last person known to be with her.

Police said Hussain failed a lie detector test, but Smith would not confirm or deny that.

Hussain has been in the United States about four years on a temporary visa and works in a sandwich shop, Smith said. As part of his bond, Hussain must surrender his passport.

http://www.wxyz.com/news/story.aspx?content_id=9a2a1aff-5e82-4b85-a664-094cc6536fec

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Rape hearing delayed for boyfriend of missing toddler's mom
October 16, 2008

A judge rescheduled a court hearing on rape charges against the boyfriend of the mother of missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain, after two witnesses came forward questioning the alleged victim’s credibility.

“Two witnesses confirmed there was a relationship prior to this,” said the lawyer for Jamrul Hussain, 24, who is charged with kidnapping and raping the 15-year-old girl. Attorney Sean Patrick Smith, as well as the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office and the Hamtramck Police agreed in 31st District Couort in Hamtramck this morning to reconvene Nov. 6 after further investigation of the claims.

Tangena’s mother, Nilufa Begum, whose daughter is still missing, was also in the court this morning, her eyes tearing while Jamrul Hussain stood in front of the judge, crying as he looked back at her and at least six relatives in the courtroom.

Jamrul Hussain said Tangena disappeared from his parked car while he shopped in a Detroit gas station store. The man and girl are not related, but lived together with Tangena’s mother in Hamtramck.

Also appearing in court this morning were his friends, Hena Begum and her husband Mamunur Rahman Khan, accused of keeping the 15-year-old in their Hamtramck basement for six days in February. Arriving with them at the court building at about 8:30 a.m., Begum's lawyer, Whitney Lemelin, confirmed he'll argue with Jamrul Hussain's attorney that the 15-year-old is a disgruntled ex-girlfriend.

"That's what the evidence is looking like," Lemelin said this morning before the court hearing.

The judge reduced Khan's bond to a personal recognizance bond, with the stipulation he surrender his passport. Hena Begum has been free on bond pending trial.

The 15-year-old victim was set to testify that Jamrul Hussain attacked her twice while she was being held against her will for six days in his friends’ Hamtramck basement. Working with her is an assistant from the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office's child abuse division, Lora Weingarden.

The girl had originally claimed to be a runaway. But she changed her story when she saw Jamrul Hussain on television after Tangena disappeared on Oct. 2.

The Amber Alert for Tangena remains in effect. Tangena is around 3 feet, 2 inches tall, weighs 34 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes. She has a scar on her upper lip and chin. Call Detroit police at 313-596-1240 if you have information.

Hamtramck home searched
Investigators from the FBI and local police confiscated blankets, cameras and other household items from the Hamtramck home where the 15-year-old claims the boyfriend of missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain’s mother kept her in the basement and raped her, according to search warrants.

Investigators found nothing when they dug up a 2-foot-by-4-foot garden plot in the backyard during a search of the house where she said she was kept prisoner for six days in February.

The 15-year-old told police for the search warrant that she was acquainted with Jamrul Hussain, 24, who is waiting to appear in 31st District Court in Hamtramck this morning on charges he took the girl from her home at gunpoint in February.

But she told investigators she did not know his friends Hena Begum and her husband, Mamunur Kahn, until she was held in their Lumpkin Road home for six days, according to the search warrant.
http://www.freep.com/article/20081016/NEWS05/81016040/-1/RSS07

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Tangena Hussain has been missing since Thursday, October 2, 2008.

10/31/08
by Dan Medow
Publisher

Tangena Hussain has been missing since Thursday, October 2, 2008. In an effort to find her, Crime Stoppers is now offering a cash award of up to $6,000 to anyone who provides information leading to the felony arrest of the person or persons responsible for the crime.

You can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-773-2587.

In an effort to reach out to as many people as possible, flyers in five languages have been prepared. Please download and post these flyers wherever it seems appropriate.

http://www.hamtramckcitizen.com/news/crime-stoppers-offer-6000-reward

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Rape charges may be reduced; toddler still missing
Teen's story doubted
November 7, 2008

An unrelated rape case against the last man to see missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain of Hamtramck, who disappeared more than a month ago, appears to be unraveling.

Jamrul Hussain, 24, who is the boyfriend of Tangena's mother but no relation to the girl, remains behind bars today on $250,000 bond. He is charged with raping a 15-year-old girl in a Hamtramck basement in February, but that may change.

Judge Paul Paruk of 31st District Court on Thursday dismissed kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment charges against Jamrul Hussain's friends and the owners of the home, Hena Begum and her husband, Mamunar Rahman Khan.

The judge said Thursday's dismissal was based on questions surrounding the 15-year-old girl's credibility.

The rape charges against Hussain may be changed to a lesser charge involving sexual contact with a minor, according to statements made in court by his defense attorney.

Sean Patrick Smith has contended that the rape case against his client was bogus and that the teen was actually an ex-girlfriend of Hussain.

Witnesses were prepared to testify that Hussain and the 15-year-old girl were seen kissing and holding hands around Hamtramck. The judge set another hearing for Nov. 20 to revisit the charges in the case.

"The only reason my client's still in jail is because 2-year-old Tangena is still missing," Smith said after the hearing.

Smith said he believes the teenage girl is using Tangena's disappearance as an opportunity to regain her reputation in the Bengali community in the Hamtramck area.

Many in the Bengali community strictly forbid sexual relations outside of marriage because they believe it permanently damages a person's reputation, Smith said. But that doesn't apply if a person is attacked or raped, he said.

Hussain told authorities that Tangena was taken from his locked, parked car on Oct. 2 while he was shopping inside a Detroit gas station.

He said he was on his way to pick up Tangena's mother, Nilufa Begum, his girlfriend at the time and no relation to Hena Begum.
In February, the 15-year-old girl arrived at the Hamtramck Police department with Hena Begum, claiming she had run away for six days. But her story changed in October after Tangena disappeared. After seeing Hussain on TV reports about the missing toddler, she contacted the Hamtramck Police again, claiming she was kidnapped, raped and held in the basement.

While the kidnapping charges were dismissed against Khan, he remained in custody and is facing deportation back to Bengal under a 2006 administrative order, U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement spokesman Mike Gilhooly said Thursday. As she left the courtroom, a tear fell from Hena Begum's eye. She told a reporter afterward that the case has been a "huge nightmare."

Her lawyer, Daniel Finwall, called the dismissal of the charges "bittersweet." Finwall said the case has presented problems for the couple -- operators of a Ferndale sub shop where Hussain was an employee -- as well as thousands of dollars in legal bills.

Nilufa Begum, Tangena's mother, was among those in the courtroom Thursday. As she waited for the hearing to begin, she told the Free Press she just wants her missing daughter back.

"I just want to say, whoever has my daughter, please turn her in," she said.

http://www.freep.com/article/20081107/NEWS02/811070400/1001/RSS01

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Charges Dropped Against Couple Linked To Missing Girl Case

POSTED: 2:26 pm EST November 6, 2008
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. -- All charges have been dropped against a couple accused of helping a 24-year-old man kidnap and rape a 15-year-old girl.

Charges were dropped against two of the three people accused in the case.

The teenage girl told police Jamrul Hussain, 24, kidnapped and sexually and physically assaulted her.

The girl went to police about the incident after she saw Hussain on television in a missing 2-year-old girl case. An Amber Alert is still in effect for Tangena Hussain. Jamrul Hussain was dating the missing child's mother, but is not related to the child. He was the last person to see the child on Oct. 2 at a Detroit gas station, police said.

Hussain's attorney, Patrick Smith, said he predicts the criminal sexual charges will be dropped against his client. However, he remains jailed on kidnapping charges for the missing child.

According to court documents, the 15-year-old told police earlier in the year Hussain kidnapped her at gunpoint from her parents' Hamtramck home, drove around for several hours, then held her hostage for one week in a Hamtramck home.

The charges were dropped against the homeowners, Hussain's friends, Mammur Khan and his wife, Hena Begum. However, Khan remains in an immigration holding cell until the case is cleared up.

Begum said the last month has been a nightmare for her and her family.

Khan and Begum's attorney Whitney Lemelin said, "My clients simply had nothing to do with the kidnapping whatsoever."

Lemelin added the Indian couple moved here in search of the American dream. They have an 8-month-old child and are trying to buy a business.

Smith said the teen has accused Hussain of kidnapping and rape as a spurned ex-lover and new evidence has been revealed that questions the teen's credibility.

"The whole case has been gutted. They have a complaining witness who has apparently lied about somebody kidnapping them, she lied about somebody holding a gun to her head and she lied about being held in a basement. I mean, that's the majority of the case," said Smith.

Smith has asked a judge for a postponement in Hussain's case so he can sort out the teen's story. The judge agreed and set another hearing for Hussain on Nov. 20.
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Police continue to search for missing 2-year-old

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 11:33 a.m.
Over a month later, Detroit police are still searching for answers in the disappearance of Tangena Hussain. The 2-year-old girl was reported missing by her mother's boyfriend, 27-year-old Jamrul Hussain, on October 3. He says that he left Tagena in his car, a a red, 4 door, 1997 Geo Prizm. Hussain says he entered a gas station store to buy gum and that she was missing when he returned. Police say Hussain didn't search the area for the girl but instead drove to her mother's workplace and picked her up.

Since the disappearance, Hussain has been charged in the kidnapping and rape of another girl not related to this case. Tangena’s mother, 24-year-old Nilufa Begum, has been given a lie-detector test by police involving the disappearance of her daughter, but they have not released the results of that test.

Police are asking for the public to continue looking for 2-year-old Tangena Hussain. Tangena is described as:

    * East Indiana with a brown complexion
    * 3-foot 2-inches
    * 34 pounds
    * Brown eyes
    * Shoulder lenght black hair
    * A burn scar on her chin and lip
    * She was last seen wearing a long sleeve brown t-shirt and white nylon cargo pants.

If the child is located or to provide information please contact the Detroit Police Department Western District's Detective Bureau at (313)-596-1240.

http://www.nbc25online.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=220290

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I am familiar with the area of where Tangena was so called to disappear. I am as well familiar with the area and community in which she resided with her Mother.
I say this missing baby is never going to be found. I do not want to say this nor wish it. But many things are of this case are ?????? and there is so many people that live illegally within this area ..and cultural issues.

She is a Beautiful Child. I will continue to pray for her safe return.
Please keep posting Tangena's Information
Thank you

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Teen's testimony unravels Jamrul Hussain rape case

November 21, 2008
The unrelated rape case against the last person to see missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain fell apart Thursday after his 16-year-old accuser gave conflicting statements during her testimony against him.

Jamrul Hussain, 24, of Hamtramck now faces reduced charges that he twice had sex with a minor -- far less serious than the original rape, kidnapping and gun charges.

"The case is fundamentally done," Hussain's lawyer, Sean Patrick Smith, said after the hearing in 31st District Court in Hamtramck. He maintained from the beginning that the girl was an ex-girlfriend who willingly had sex with Hussain and lied to restore her virtue.

Judge Paul Paruk agreed. "My gut feeling tells me this is a boyfriend-girlfriend type of thing," he said.

Smith asked the judge to dismiss the case entirely, but Paruk declined. Instead, he sent the case to Wayne County Circuit Court, where Hussain is set to appear Dec. 9.

Paruk is expected to decide today whether Hussain should be released on personal bond while the new case proceeds.

Hussain is the boyfriend of Nilufa Begum, mother of Tangena. He is the last person to see the girl, who is no relation to him, before she disappeared Oct. 2 at a Detroit gas station.

The Hamtramck girl, then 15, originally told police she ran away in February. But she accused Hussain of rape after seeing him on television pleading for Tangena's return.

In court Thursday, the petite teen, who is barely 5 feet tall, wore a white hijab, a pink and brown striped sweater and jeans. She testified she had sex twice with Hussain, but vacillated on how it happened.

Initially, she testified that he was a stalker who took her at gunpoint from her parents' Hamtramck home in February and raped her while she was imprisoned in the basement of a Hamtramck home owned by his friends.

The teen later testified she willingly checked in and spent time with Hussain at a hotel. She admitted she posed for pictures showing her hugging and kissing him in her aunt's Hamtramck attic.

Smith said the girl was trying to restore her reputation within Hamtramck's Bengali community, which frowns on intimate relationships between people who are unmarried.

After her testimony, the prosecution agreed to replace the charges against Hussain. Kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment charges were dismissed two weeks ago against Hussain's friends, Hena Begum and her husband, Mamunar Rahman Khan.

But because of the case, Smith said, the couple lost their Ferndale sub shop and Khan is jailed on an immigration issue and faces possible deportation.

"This is the most terrible thing a person can do -- fabricate things, ruin people's lives," Smith said.

http://www.freep.com/article/20081121/NEWS02/811210349