Teen Girl’s Body Finally Found, Parents Say Police Treated Her Like A Runaway

Imagine not being able to find your teenage daughter knowing it was not like her to just disappear out of nowhere. Now imagine, going to the police terrified that your baby was in danger, and they just tell you that she probably ran away.  

Meanwhile, your baby's body was in the woods for weeks. This is what exactly happened to Jholie Moussa. Fairfax, Virginia police had to explain to her parents that she was dead. 

NBC 4 Washington reported that authorities initially told Jholie's parents that Jholie probably ran away and registered her into the National Crime Information Center database as a runaway juvenile.

“Based on the facts of the case, there is nothing that indicates that Moussa is in any danger,” county police previously said in a statement.

Now they are singing a different tune. This is most likely a homicide. 

So what happened? No one knows for sure, but Jholie's twin sister, Zhane, told the news station that the day her sister went missing, she seemed extremely distracted. 

“She was doing my hair [after school] and then she stopped, for a good minute, to text some more. Then, out of nowhere, she was like, ‘I gotta go, I gotta go!'” she said.

After she left, Zhane said she sent her a text message to see if she was OK and got a strange reply. “She texted me that she was going to Norfolk,” Zhane said. “And I’m, like, isn’t that more than 3 hours away?”

Her mother, Syreeta Steward, added that she missed a phone call from what appeared to be Jholie, but never heard from her again.

“Normally, she would have responded back to me. If she calls me and I don’t answer, she always follows it up with a text,” Steward explained. 

One day after Jholie's mom and sister took to Facebook to plea for Jholie to come home, the FBI swooped in to lend a hand:

The police haven't shared any leads they have or the results of the teen's autopsy. 

But what we do know is that nationwide, police have a tendency of downplaying the danger when Black girls go missing. There seems to be a trend of saying that they "ran away," when in fact, like Jholie, that most likely wasn't the case. 

No doubt, Twitter had some words for the Fairfax police:

Of course Fairfax police are pushing back on the parents' claim that they didn't take their daughter's disappearance seriously. 

Julie Parker, a their spokeswoman, claims that the parents are wrong about the police not taking this case seriously from the beginning.

“Our understanding was that she had voluntarily left home and there were no signs of foul play,” she said. Sigh....

We just hope that they find whoever killed this young girl so that her parents can somehow find some peace. That, and we want the Fairfax police to do a better job the next time a young Black girl goes missing.