Teenage Babysitter Caught After Kidnapping Baby
A teenage babysitter who was on the run with a 9-month-old baby she was looking after has been caught.
Renesha Shante Griner, 17, was looking after the baby girl in North Carolina while her mother was away during Memorial Day weekend.
Griner had contacted Victoria Purcell last week to ask if she could look after baby Saniya.
According to investigators, she had convinced an ex-boyfriend that the baby was his. She then travelled 675 miles to a small town close to Florida to be reunited with her ex-lover.
“Apparently she’s been telling the young man for about a year that first she was pregnant, then she had the child, sending him pictures through the computer of the baby saying it was their child,” Sheriff Hubert Peterkin said.
“We found out that the family [of the man] were expecting the baby…they had embraced this child as their own and so did the young man, him being the father.”
Griner has now been arrested. The family of her ex-boyfriend are very upset, they had welcomed the child into their family and had made arrangements to support the mother and baby.
The Purcell family are making plans to travel to collect their baby.
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kim on Mon, 15th Jun 2009 3:30 pm
Shante Griner is NOT a bad person,she made a really bad choice .What I’m saying is that almost every female has at one point or another told some ex-boyfreind that they were having his child to get back with him.So please don’t be so quick to jugde her!!!She is a real sweet person and would never hurt a child.Think about we are all human and make mistakes.I pray that the parent’s will forgive her.But you can not alwayz beleive everything you hear from people.OH yeah where was the mother at that she couldn’t call and check up on her child????I hope and pray for the best out come for Shante…