A sentimental holiday appeal did not work.
The father of a girl missing since June confronted the girl’s mother at the Broward County jail, looking for answers in the disappearance of 10-year-old Gabrielle Terrelonge.
Paasha Davis received a jailhouse visitor, Gordon Terrelonge, on Thanksgiving Day. Gabby’s father said he was thinking he could get Davis, who is Gabby’s mother, to feel some emotion and understand the gravity of the situation.
“I was hoping that maybe, you know, she would care, that you know she’s out there and everyone’s worried, you know?” Terrelonge said.
Ten-year-old Gabby has been missing for months. She was last seen, with Davis, in Orlando last June. Davis is currently in jail on a child neglect charge. She was homeless, and Gabby was found sleeping in an alleyway last year. In his quest to find his daughter, Terrelonge is convinced Davis knows where she is.
“Well, I went there to try to get answers because I mean, I don’t really understand the holidays right now because things are not right,” Terrelonge said. “It actually ruined the day for me, to be honest, it was, like, terrible.”
The search for Gabby Terrelonge
Davis did not reveal any information that might be a clue about where Gabby might be.
“She showed emotion, she showed anger,” Terrelonge said.
Terrelonge was angry, too. He said he was furious when he left the jail after his visit.
“My anger is not gonna solve anything,” he said, adding that he had modest goals for his visit. “Hoping for me to find some truth, I just want to find something, anything.”
Davis has been uncooperative from the start, refusing to discuss where her daughter might be, and even refusing to give her name to police when she was arrested. The court ordered a psychiatric evaluation and is waiting for that report.
Terrelonge is wondering why Davis, who he says has always been overprotective of Gabby, is just shrugging off her disappearance.
“Like I don’t know how she’s not worried by her being in a dangerous situation and not saying anything, that wouldn’t make sense to me, and it still doesn’t, but you know, we live in a crazy world, who knows?” Terrelonge said.
He says Davis is sticking to her version of events, telling him she gave Gabby back to him in July, and Terrelonge said she told him he should be in jail, not her.
Margate Police, the FBI, and police in Orlando are investigating this case. They gave Terrelonge a polygraph exam, and so far, we are told they believe he is telling the truth.
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