Shaniesha Forbes, 14, was killed by her 20 year old boyfriend who then burnt her body and dumped her remains on a beach just because he thought she was pregnant The NY Post is Reporting:
The family of the
14-year-old Brooklyn girl who was allegedly killed by her boyfriend and dumped
on a beach blasted him this morning for cowardly slaying her after he thought
she was pregnant.
Police had arrested
Christian Ferdinand, 20, in Maine on Tuesday, where he had fled after he
allegedly suffocated Shaniesha Forbes, 14, and burnt her body before dumping
the remains at Gerritsen Beach.
“On the record, she wasn’t
pregnant at all. As a 20-year-old man, that is something you could easily find
out,” said her devastated cousin Kerry-Anne Thomas. “You had the courage and
the balls to kill her and bring her body, and lay her on the beach. But you
couldn’t go to the pharmacy to buy a pregnancy test to find out if it was
actually true.”
Detectives yesterday drove
Ferdinand back to the 63rd Precinct station house in Brooklyn, where he
allegedly admitted to killing Forbes in January after coming to believe she was
pregnant.
He was charged with
second-degree murder, and has not been arraigned yet.
The victim’s weeping
mother Sandra Price thanked the police for catching the killer, as did her
grandmother Daisy Smith.
“I’m very grateful for the
job that the two main detectives have done,” she said. “They did a wonderful
job catching the killer and getting him for the street, and hopefully putting
him away for life. That’s what I think he deserves.”
Smith said the family
hadn’t been eating or sleeping since the girl’s death.
“I’m so happy they caught
this guy who killed my granddaughter,” she said. “There was nothing we could
do, only wait…Bring him justice.”
Sources said Ferdinand
suffocated the aspiring nurse — who was, in fact, not pregnant — in his
apartment.
He then kept her body in
his home for a couple of days, sources said.
Finally, he allegedly put
the corpse into a suitcase and brought it onto the beach, where he tried to get
rid of it by setting it on fire.
Cops recovered the
suitcase the killer used to transport Forbes’ body from his Maine hideout and
also took floorboards from his former Brooklyn apartment, the sources said.
Relatives said never met
Ferdinand, and was not sure how he met Forbes. Thomas speculated that they may
have met through social media.
“Honestly there shouldn’t
have been a relationship. He was a 20-year-old man and she was a 14-year-old
child,” she said. “As an adult, which he is, he should have known it was
inappropriate to have any type of a relationship with a 14-year-old.”
Forbes was a student at
the Academy of Young Writers in East New York.
How inhumane to kill
someone and then set their body on fire.
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