School bus video shows missing 11-year-old girl just days before her disappearance, police say - CNN

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Authorities released a schoolhouse  autobus  surveillance video they accidental    shows missing 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari conscionable  days earlier  she was past  seen.

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Authorities successful North Carolina person released a schoolhouse autobus surveillance video they accidental shows missing 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari just days earlier her parent and stepfather said they past saw her.

“Today, we are releasing surveillance video from her schoolhouse autobus arsenic Madalina got disconnected astatine her halt connected November 21, 2022, astatine 4:59 p.m.,” a Tuesday connection from the Cornelius Police Department said. “This is the past clip we person autarkic confirmation of erstwhile she was past seen.”

The video was taken 2 days earlier November 23 – the time her parent and stepfather accidental they past saw Madalina.

Police said her parents waited until December 15 to study her missing to a schoolhouse assets serviceman astatine Bailey Middle School, wherever Madalina is simply a student.

Madalina’s parent Diana Cojocari, 37, and her stepfather Christopher Palmiter, 60, were arrested Saturday for nonaccomplishment to study the disappearance of a kid to instrumentality enforcement, constabulary said. Both are being held astatine the Mecklenburg County Detention Center, according to records.

“We are seeking further witnesses extracurricular of the household to constrictive down the nonstop timeline of erstwhile she disappeared,” a connection from Cornelius constabulary added.

Madalina was past seen wearing jeans; pink, purple and achromatic Adidas shoes and a achromatic T-shirt and jacket, authorities said. The FBI described her arsenic 4 feet 10 inches and 90 pounds. A photograph released to the nationalist shows a smiling miss wearing a garment that reads, “I tin alteration the satellite with love.”

CNN has attempted to interaction Cojocari and Palmiter for comment. A spokesperson for a instrumentality steadfast representing Palmiter said they were incapable to remark astatine this time.

Cornelius is astir 20 miles northbound of Charlotte, North Carolina.

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