Madalina Cojocari vanished after getting off her school bus in 2022 and her mother didn’t report her missing until nearly a month later. Diana Cojocari was found guilty of failure to report her child missing and spent over 500 days in jail before being released. While investigators still believe Madalina is alive 19 months later, she has yet to turn up. Diana was recently named a suspect in the 13-year-old’s disappearance and allegedly fled the country just days after police announced their suspicions. Diana has yet to be charged. Law&Crime’s Sierra Gillespie breaks down the latest development in Madaline’s investigation.
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What kimd of parents dont notice their child missing. Unless her daughter has been known to sleep elsewhere because shes uncomfortable in her own home
So they just let this evil scumbag leave the country. Wow!
Who else believes that this mother sold her daughter? That's where all the cash came from imo. So disgusting, wtf is wrong with this mom?
If it was the stepfather who took her, the mother would have contacted police right away but she didn't. Red flags on the mom
24 days or so and Mother does not report it?
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Soon as i heard Step-dad 🚩🚩🚩!! took 3 weeks then the mom dips yea no something sketchy is going on
And the cops dont detain the parents!
I don't understand why authorities didn't at least detain her because they had reason to, according to the stepfather, during his own hearing. Justice for Madalina!!❤
never talk to the cops without a lawyer
The incompetence of the law in this case is out of this world.
Where is the birth father???
Romania is considered one of the origin or at least a gateway for majoy human trafficking in Europe. Hope there is a happy ending here but seems unlikely.
8:23 did she get a random person in her photo? It’s more other lady than her 😂 what a weirdo
I believe that she was sold. Are these people gypsies?
I don’t think I’ve ever heard such a unique speech impediment. Bobs Burgers sounding mfer
She's definitely a suspect no real mother is leaving until they find their kid
Screams quilty just like in Sébastien rogers case
I blame the cops they always are the problem
I hate this world we live in!! 😢why do these things have to happen to children, why do people want to hurt them. I do t understand 😭 please stop hurting these children. I want off this planet. Prayers she gets justice and is found.
She doesnt report her daughter missing then flees the country? Seems she definitely knows what happened.
She had a cellphone. I’m wondering if they even bothered to do a trace.
Women are never treated like a threat even after deleting their children
The local news reported that she would be deported when she was released from jail. North Carolina does not care about kids being in school, look into it. We fight schools to go check on kids all the time. I’ve seen kids pulled out of public school to be homeschooled and they are never checked on.
Poor sweet little girl. I hope they find her safe but I know very sadly it’s not looking that way. I have a strong feeling her mom is involved. It’s beyond imaginable that her mother could be involved but that’s how it seems.
Don’t pmo!
You parents need to STOP packing up your children and sending them off to grandma for the summer🚩🚩🚩
She looks like she did it, just from her first few pics in the video😭looks hella off
When my daughter didn't get off from school bus one day (she was in elementary), I ran behind bus all the way to the next stop with my heart exploding from fear "where is my daughter? " . And she just got distracted and missed her stop. Driver laughed, and said "I would bring her back after I drop off all the other kids in their stops". I know it looked funny, maybe crazy, but that's what mothers do, and how quickly they react when their child is not there. I would not have health to wait another 30-40 minutes just to see if my daughter will appear or not. I better died right there. I would run again, I don't care what others think.
This case in the news is definitely sad one and heart breaking. No child should go through pain and fear. 😢
Mother was most definitely involved nobody just flees
She's been d3@d for like a year now.😢
Breaks my heart 💔 how they even considered selling their children…what is worng with ppl..😢.. she is so beautiful too reminds me of my own daughter…and now the mother escaped…
It just doesn't make sense, 3 weeks ?!
That's why you shouldn't let people come to our country now . She probably did something to her daughter and ran back to her country. Now she is safe 😡
She’s on a mission to find the real killer and clear her name.
I hate the question, "is it possible " which this channel is notorious for. Most things are possible. In my head while listening I'm always saying "obviously "
This video sucked.
Absolutely 🗑️ parents. How was she even able to walk free while she and her spouse are suspected of causing harm to their child 😡
The mom obviously knows what happened. She’s dead. Disgusting.
Poor little girl. What a terrible so called mom. 😢 and that so called man is evil
Multiple selfies = sick narcissist.
The mother knows where she is. IMO she had her smuggled out of the country
I pray she has not been Trafficked 😢
People don’t realize how many children don’t go to school regularly, and as a social worker, in many of more abusive or neglectful situations, I see terrible school attendance.They probably held the meeting to try and figure out why attendance is so bad. Schools have a delicate balance of support and responsibility without being too intrusive as this pushes people away. Here in Canada, not going to school doesn’t even meet the threshold for a referral for follow up. But, we know it’s usually a sign of issues. How bad or how intense, becomes clearer through investigations.
These type cases make me look at all those milk carton disappearance in the 80s and 90s so much differently! There has to be many of those children that weren't killed by serial killers or abductions but the family!! Alot of killers walking around before surveillance cameras and ring doorbell cameras!
School “so where’s your daughter “ “idk I havent seen her in almost a month” that’s how I see they conversation going 🤦♀️
Sounds like something that won’t be solved.