Missing 11-year-old North Carolina Girl Hasn’t Been Seen in Nearly 3 Weeks

[Sugar Cookie]

The Cornelius Police Department is searching for an 11-year-old girl who has been reported missing.

Police said they began investigating after the parents of Madalina Cojocari reported her missing to a school research officer at Bailey Middle School on Dec. 15.

Cojocari was last seen at her home on the evening of Nov. 23, according to police.

FBI, police search for 11-year-old; mom, stepdad accused of not reporting disappearance

In court Monday, prosecutors said school resource officers had reached out to find out where Madalina was three days before her mom reported her disappearance.

www.wsoctv.com

 

[thuumpr]

Summarizing...

Cojocari was last seen at her home on the evening of Nov. 23

Reported her missing to a school research(sp?) officer at Bailey Middle School on Dec. 15.

Let's now use our imagination about why it took so long to report her missing to the school 'resource' officer...

Maybe the school got a little concerned about the child's absentism.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Family didn't report anything???

 

[Sejanus]

Magic 8 Ball is she...

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A North Carolina man has been arrested after he waited three weeks to report the disappearance of his 11-year-old stepdaughter.

Madalina Cojocari has not been seen since the evening of 23 November when she was spotted at her home in Cornelius, North Carolina.


More than three weeks passed before the 11-year-old’s parents finally reported her missing to a school resource officer at Bailey Middle School on 15 December.

A huge manhunt is now underway to track down the missing girl with her whereabouts still unknown and fears mounting for her safety. The FBI and SBI have now joined the search.


On Saturday morning, Cornelius Police announced that they had arrested Madalina’s stepfather Christopher Palmiter on a charge of failing to report the disappearance of a child to law enforcement.

Mr Palmiter, 60, is being held on a $100,000 bond at Mecklenburg County Detention Center.


It is not clear why the family waited more than three weeks to raise the alarm about the girl’s disappearance or if Mr Palmiter is cooperating with the law enforcement investigation.

MSN

 

[DeeDee]

Maybe illegal immigrants afraid to call the police? Wonder how old mom is. 60 seems kind of old to be the parent of an 11 yr old.

Something very fishy is going on with the family. Why isn't mom arrested too? Why is it the stepdad's sole responsibility to report it when it's her kid?

 

[Handbag]

Maybe illegal immigrants afraid to call the police? Wonder how old mom is. 60 seems kind of old to be the parent of an 11 yr old.

Something very fishy is going on with the family. Why isn't mom arrested too? Why is it the stepdad's sole responsibility to report it when it's her kid?

The first link says as of 12/17 the mother was arrested too

 

[McDanel]

Her t-shirt slogan "I can change the world" is especially poignant.

 

[LateArrival]

We all know how this ends…every single time they wait weeks to report a missing child, it’s because they know where she is. Fuckers

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Mother and step-penis

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The mother and stepfather of missing North Carolina girl Madalina Cojocari are “clearly” withholding information about her disappearance, police said.

Cornelius Police Department Capt. Jennifer Thompson on Tuesday accused Diana Cojocari, 37, and her husband, Christopher Palmiter, 60, of failing to disclose everything they know about the disappearance of the sixth-grader, who was reported missing three weeks after her last sighting.

“This is a serious case of a child whose parents are clearly not telling us everything they know,” Thompson said in a video update on the investigation.


Cojocari and Palmiter have both been charged with failing to report a child as missing to law enforcement.

Both parents were scheduled to appear in court later Wednesday for a bond hearing.

According to court documents that emerged last week, Madalina’s mother told police she “believed her husband put her family in danger.”

In an affidavit obtained by Queen City News, Cojocari told detectives that on Nov. 23 — the night she claimed she last saw her 11-year-old daughter — the mom had gotten into an argument with her husband and he drove off to stay with family in Michigan.

Cojocari said she last saw Madalina going to her room at 10 that evening.


The following morning, she went to check on Madalina and realized she was not home, but she waited three days to tell her husband about the child’s disappearance.

Police “asked Diana why she did not report Madalina missing until” mid-December, and she “stated she was worried it might start a ‘conflict’ between her and Christopher,” officials wrote in the affidavit.

In Tuesday’s update, Thompson said officials at Madalina’s school had made repeated attempts to contact her family to ask about her absences. But it was not until Dec. 15 that Diana went to the school to report her daughter as missing.

Missing Madalina Cojocari’s parents ‘clearly’ concealing information: police

Diana Cojocari, 37, and her husband, Christopher Palmiter, 60, are facing charges for waiting three weeks to report Diana’s 11-year-old daughter, Madalina, missing, and police believe the cou…

nypost.com

 

[HEREIBE22]

I got that feeling... It's the step dad and he likely molested her. The mom was afraid to report the child missing because it might upset the step dad smh...

 

[Blizzard]

There is an evilness, there. I wonder what they did to her. I have the feeling it will eventually be known because they're not so smart. Whatever happened seems somewhat unplanned-for.

 

[Blunderbuss Firozabad]

Maybe illegal immigrants afraid to call the police? Wonder how old mom is. 60 seems kind of old to be the parent of an 11 yr old

@DeeDee.@Handbag. @thuumpr


From the NYP article cited above when you go to the link:

" The mom also admitted ignoring pleas from relatives in her native Moldova to call the police, the report said..."

Moldova/Moldavia was part of Romania, then the Soviet Union, now it's independent, and it's the poorest nation in Europe.

The internet is bursting with sites under the Google search:
"Moldovan Mail-order brides".

And she brought her child?
That Moldovan link information tells me leagues more about what circumstances were in that house.
I'm more apt to believe Palmiter (step-dad) took her to punish and upset Cojocari (mom) and something happened subsequently.
Madalina (step-daughter) tried to make a dash for it, and was killed accidently/on purpose?

I think that would explain the delay for mom to report her missing, the stepfather no doubt being evasive or angrily deflecting questions over the phone with her about the circumstances?

 

[thuumpr]

... and NC authorities waited 3 weeks to do this!

Madalina Cojocari: Missing North Carolina girl's mom, stepdad indicted under post-Casey Anthony case statute​

Charlotte-area sixth-grader's parents indicted for failing to report Madalina Cojocari missing for 3 weeks​

The parents of North Carolina 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari were formerly indicted by a grand jury Tuesday for failing to report the girl missing for more than three weeks, as prosecutors reportedly pointed to a statute enacted in response to the 2008 Casey Anthony case in Florida years ago.

Cojocari’s been missing for 45 days as of Thursday after the girl was last seen on video exiting a school bus with other children on Nov. 21 by her home in the upscale Charlotte suburb of Cornelius.

Her mother, 37-year-old Diana Cojocari, and the girl’s stepfather, 60-year-old Christopher Palmiter, each were indicted by a grand jury Tuesday on the charge of failing to report the disappearance of a child to law enforcement. That’s the same charge the pair were first arrested for nearly three weeks ago on Dec. 17, but prosecutors reportedly newly pointed to a state statute known as Caylee’s Law Tuesday. The indictment now advances the case to superior court.

Madalina Cojocari: Missing North Carolina girl's mom, stepdad indicted under post-Casey Anthony case statute

The parents of Madalina Cojocari, a North Carolina sixth grader who vanished after exiting a school bus in November, were indicted for waiting three weeks before reporting her missing.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Satanica]

I'm sure they know exactly where she is.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure at this point she not going to be "seen" but viewed.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Police seize cell phone from mother of missing North Carolina girl Madalina Cojocari​

Cops in North Carolina have seized multiple cell phones and a mountain of evidence from the family of missing 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari, court documents show.

Officials removed three cell phones belonging to Maladina’s mother, Diana Cojocari, and stepfather, Christopher Palmiter, during a December search warrant execution, filings obtained Tuesday by WCCB Charlotte show.

According to the documents, investigators are combing through the pair’s T-Mobile call detail records and paying particularly close attention to Palmiter’s phone.

The investigators removed at least two dozen other items from the home that were not listed in the heavily redacted warrants. Charlotte police feared an unrestricted release of the warrants could interfere with the department’s ability to find Madalina, as well as Palmiter and Cojocari’s right to a fair trial, the filing states.

Both Palmiter and Cojocari are behind bars. They were arrested Dec. 17 for waiting three weeks to report Madalina missing and indicted by a grand jury last week. Neither was able to make bail, set at $200,000 and $250,000, respectively.

Police seize cell phone from mother of missing North Carolina girl Madalina Cojocari

Investigators are combing through the pair’s T-Mobile call detail records and paying particularly close attention to Palmiter’s phone.

nypost.com

 

[Blunderbuss Firozabad]

"Surveillance photos obtained by North Carolina police showed a man and girl who was "physically consistent with" a description of missing 12-year-old Madalina Cojocari after her disappearance, according to recently unsealed search warrants."

" On December 16, 2022, Sugar Mountain Police Department provided surveillance photographs of a man and a young female. The man in the surveillance images was physically consistent in appearance with Octavian Cebanu, the only blood relative known to live in the United States. The young female in the surveillance images was physically consistent with the missing child, Madalina Cojocari."

" During a recorded jail call between Christopher Palmiter, his brother and sister in law [sic], Palmiter mentions Cojocari had a lot of cash with her and he didn't know where it came from... "

"In another recorded jail call between Cojocari and her mother, "the women discuss a bag with money, withdrawing cash, and a theory that Chris gave the girl away for money..."

Madalina Cojocari: Surveillance photos appeared to show missing North Carolina girl alive

Surveillance photos obtained by police in December 2022 apparently showed a girl consistent with the description of missing North Carolina girl Madalina Cojocari.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Missing 11-year-old girl's stepdad insists he has no idea where she is as he appears in court nine months after she disappeared​

Palmiter and the girl's mother Diana Cojocari, 38, were charged with failure to report a missing child on December 17 the same year, after waiting nearly a month before alerting authorities to her disappearance.

Appearing in court nine months after she vanished, Palmiter's attorney Brandon Roseman said he wanted to bring Madalina home as much as 'everyone else' but he didn't know where she was.

He pleaded not guilty to the charge and the judge agreed to lower his bond from $200,000 to $25,000, continuing to be held at the Mecklenburg County jail where he has been since December.

Cojocari, who pleaded not guilty to the charge against her at an earlier hearing on Thursday, will continue to be held at the jail on a $200,000 bond.

Missing 11-year-old girl's stepdad insists he has no idea where she is

Christopher Palmiter, 61, said he didn't know where 11-year-old stepdaughter Madaline Cojocari was, who went missing in Cornelius, North Carolina, on November 21 2022.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[thuumpr]

... and NC authorities waited 3 weeks to do this!

Madalina Cojocari: Missing North Carolina girl's mom, stepdad indicted under post-Casey Anthony case statute​

Charlotte-area sixth-grader's parents indicted for failing to report Madalina Cojocari missing for 3 weeks​

The parents of North Carolina 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari were formerly indicted by a grand jury Tuesday for failing to report the girl missing for more than three weeks, as prosecutors reportedly pointed to a statute enacted in response to the 2008 Casey Anthony case in Florida years ago.

Cojocari’s been missing for 45 days as of Thursday after the girl was last seen on video exiting a school bus with other children on Nov. 21 by her home in the upscale Charlotte suburb of Cornelius.

Her mother, 37-year-old Diana Cojocari, and the girl’s stepfather, 60-year-old Christopher Palmiter, each were indicted by a grand jury Tuesday on the charge of failing to report the disappearance of a child to law enforcement. That’s the same charge the pair were first arrested for nearly three weeks ago on Dec. 17, but prosecutors reportedly newly pointed to a state statute known as Caylee’s Law Tuesday. The indictment now advances the case to superior court.

Madalina Cojocari: Missing North Carolina girl's mom, stepdad indicted under post-Casey Anthony case statute

The parents of Madalina Cojocari, a North Carolina sixth grader who vanished after exiting a school bus in November, were indicted for waiting three weeks before reporting her missing.

www.foxnews.com

Madalina Cojocari: Missing North Carolina girl's mom, stepdad indicted under post-Casey Anthony case statute​

Here's hoping the minimum is 25 to life.

 

[Josh P]

They seem guilty to me.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Madalina Cojocari's grandmother believes missing girl, 12, was trafficked for $5M​

A missing North Carolina girl's grandmother appeared outside a courthouse last week and told reporters she believes her 12-year-old granddaughter was kidnapped and trafficked.

Outside a Mecklenburg County courthouse last week, Diana's mother, Rodica Cojocari, told WCNC with help from a translator that her "granddaughter is alive, but she's been kidnapped."

Rodica, who hails from Moldova, along with her daughter, proceeded to accuse her daughter's husband of trafficking Diana and Madalina for $5 million.

"Chris Palmiter is the instrument," Rodica told WCNC. "He stalked them for two years. [He] had no documents in his home. He stole their documents and held them in the home ... like prisoners."

The grandmother added, through tears, that she loves Diana and Madalina "very much" when asked if she had a message for the 12-year-old girl.

Madalina Cojocari's grandmother believes missing girl, 12, was trafficked for $5M: report

Missing Madalina Cojocari's grandmother told local news she believes the 12-year-old North Carolina girl was trafficked for $5 million by her stepfather, Christopher Palmiter.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Turd Fergusen]

North Carolina girl Madalina Cojocari missing for one year: ‘Not going to stop until we find her’​

A preteen North Carolina girl has been missing for over a year since she was last seen getting off a school bus in her hometown of Cornelius, just north of Charlotte, Nov. 21, 2022.

“It’s hard to believe that a year has already passed since she was last seen getting off the school bus,” Cornelius Police Chief David Baucom told Fox News Digital. “And … in just a few short weeks is the anniversary of when our investigation actually began.”

Madalina Cojocari’s mother and stepfather, Diana Cojocari and Christopher Palmiter, did not report the 11-year-old girl missing to police until weeks later on Dec. 15, 2022, despite telling police the last time they saw their daughter was at home the evening of Nov. 23, 2022.

Baucom, who hosted a town meeting to remember Madalina Tuesday, said the weeks-long delay in reporting Madalina’s disappearance initially hindered his department’s investigation.

“It slowed [the investigation] down initially,” Baucom said. “We spent a lot of time trying to go back through the records we had available early on and (tried to) find her that way. And then … we had to, of course, obtain search warrants and start looking at other records, trying to find other avenues to locate her.”

North Carolina girl Madalina Cojocari missing for one year: ‘Not going to stop until we find her’

A preteen North Carolina girl has been missing for over a year since she was last seen getting off a school bus in her hometown of Cornelius, just north of Charlotte, Nov. 21, 2022.

nypost.com

 

[thuumpr]

 

[Crazy Cat Lady]

From February 26th:

Diana Cojocari, Madalina's "mom," refused to leave her jail cell to attend her arraignment on charges that she failed to report Madalina missing. Too bad they can't force defendants to attend their hearings and trials. Adam Montgomery did the same thing.

N.C. Girl Hasn't Been Seen Since 2022. Her Mom Refused to Leave Jail Cell for Court Date

The mother of missing 12-year-old Madalina Cojocari reportedly "refused" to attend her scheduled court date on Friday, where she was set to be arraigned on a charge of failing to report her daugther missing.

people.com