Tangena Hussain,2,Detroit,MI,missing since 10/2/08

[PinkPony]

Amber Alert Issued For Missing Two-Year-Old
Michigan State Police Issue Amber Alert For Missing Two-Year-Old Girl

DETROIT, Mich -- Michigan State Police have issued an Amber Alert for a missing two-year-old girl who was last seen at a Marathon gas station around 8:45 p.m. Thursday in northwest Detroit.

Tangena Hussain, 2, was in the care of her mother's boyfriend while her mother was at work.

The boyfriend stopped at the gas station before picking the mother up from work, leaving the child in the car while he went inside to make a purchase, according to police.

When the man returned, the girl was gone.


The girl is described as East Indian with light brown complexion.

She is 35 lbs. with black shoulder length hair. She was last seen wearing a long sleeve brown t-shirt and white nylon cargo pants.

If you have any information call the Detroit Police Department at (313) 596-1240.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17613777/detail.html

[packy]

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081003/METRO01/810030421/1409/METRO (Picture at site)

A 27-year-old man said he left his girlfriend's daughter, Tangena Hussain, in the back seat of a red, 1997 four-door Geo Prizm while he went inside the Marathon gas station at 20500 Greenfield Road, near Eight Mile, to buy gum, according to a Michigan State Police Amber alert.

When he returned, the girl was gone, Detroit police said. The man did not check the area for the girl, according to the alert. The man told investigators his car was locked at the time the girl went missing.

[Breezy]

I never leave my children in the car alone! If I am going in then they are going in with me. It doesn't matter if I am parked in plain view...they go with me.

Why in the world would he not check the area? I would be in a massive panick...running around searching everywhere around the building and looking to see if she had ran down the road.

How long was he in the store??? I would hope that she was in a car seat. Wouldn't it have taken her a bit to undo the seat and unlock the door.....If he just ran in to get a pack of gum it shouldn't have taken him that long unless there was a line of customers.

[Roamer]

I don't believe his story. I hope I'm wrong. :frown:

[Breezy]

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081003/METRO01/810030421/1409/METRO (Picture at site)

A 27-year-old man said he left his girlfriend's daughter, Tangena Hussain, in the back seat of a red, 1997 four-door Geo Prizm while he went inside the Marathon gas station at 20500 Greenfield Road, near Eight Mile, to buy gum, according to a Michigan State Police Amber alert.

When he returned, the girl was gone, Detroit police said. The man did not check the area for the girl, according to the alert. The man told investigators his car was locked at the time the girl went missing.

Nope, something isn't right about his story....

Also at above link:
After discovering the girl was gone, the boyfriend drove to the mall and picked up Tangena's mother, according to the alert. The authorities were not contacted until the mother's boss told her she should do so, according to the alert.

[Breezy]

I hope I am wrong....and forgive me for saying this....but either this man is a complete idiot or something else has happened to this child.

[PinkPony]

I hope I am wrong....and forgive me for saying this....but either this man is a complete idiot or something else has happened to this child.


Mornin' Breezy and Roamer:happy0207:

Nope, don't think either of you are wrong.

When I first read the alert my *hinky* meter went off.

I hope the Marathon has cameras and they were able to capture this guys car to see if the little girl was with him. I don't think she was.mho

PP

[Amusedtdth]

I don't believe his story either..and the car was locked?? Puhleasse! I truly hope she is found soon and I really hope Mom had nothing to do with it either. People and their kids these days..like they're an accessory and discarded when the novelty wears off..
MOO

[PinkPony]

http://www.amberalertmichigan.org/

According to this Tangena was not restrained.

PP

[PinkPony]

I don't believe his story either..and the car was locked?? Puhleasse! I truly hope she is found soon and I really hope Mom had nothing to do with it either. People and their kids these days..like they're an accessory and discarded when the novelty wears off..
MOO

I don't think she will be found alive. Just My Honest Opinion.

PP

[Grande]

What a beautiful little girl!

http://i37.tinypic.com/vfla49.jpg
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081003/METRO01/810030421

[Grande]

http://i37.tinypic.com/2vijiuc.jpg

[Breezy]

http://www.amberalertmichigan.org/

It also says that she has a scar on her upper lip/chin from a new burn.

[PinkPony]

Thaanks for the pics, Grande. You're the bestest.

Yes, Tangena is a beautiful little girl and I truly hope that she is ok.

PP

[PinkPony]

http://www.amberalertmichigan.org/

It also says that she has a scar on her upper lip/chin from a new burn.


Wonder how she got a burn on her lip/chin?:waitasec:

PP

[Grande]

Thaanks for the pics, Grande. You're the bestest.

Yes, Tangena is a beautiful little girl and I truly hope that she is ok.

PP

YW! Awww shucks thanks... :redface:

She looks like an angel to me.

[PinkPony]

YW! Awww shucks thanks... :redface:

She looks like an angel to me.

Speaking of angels....does this handsome guy belong to you?

PP

[PinkPony]

Detroit, Hamtramck police search for missing 2-year-old girl

DETROIT -- Hamtramck police now are involved in the search for a 2-year-old girl missing since Thursday night. A 27-year-old Hamtramck man said he left his girlfriend's daughter, Tangena Hussain, in the back seat of a red, 1997 four-door Geo Prizm while he went inside the Marathon gas station at 20500 Greenfield Road, near Eight Mile in Detroit, to buy gum, according to a Michigan State Police Amber alert.

When he returned, the girl was gone, Detroit police said. The man did not check the area for the girl, police said. The man told investigators his car was locked at the time the girl went missing.

The man and Tangena were on their way to pick up Tangena's 24-year-old mother, also a Hamtramck resident, from work at Northland Mall. The boyfriend had the child when he dropped his girlfriend off at work about 2 p.m., police said.

Advertisement
After discovering the girl was gone, the boyfriend drove to the mall and picked up Tangena's mother, police said. The authorities were not contacted until the mother's boss told her she should do so, police said.

Hamtramck police detectives and Detroit police investigators are talking with the girl's mom and her boyfriend, Hamtramck police confirmed this afternoon.

After reporting the girl missing, the had gone back to the gas station and looked for the missing child, gas station patron Michelle King, told Detroit News reporting partner WXYZ-TV (Channel 7). King said the mother seemed distraught, but the boyfriend seemed calm.

"He had no expression on his face," King said of the boyfriend. "It was like nothing was wrong."

Investigators talked with area residents but have turned up no witnesses, police said.

The child is described as an East Indian girl, who weighs about 35 pounds and is about 3 feet tall. She has a light brown complexion and black shoulder-length hair. She has a scar on her lip from a recent burn.

Tangena was wearing a long-sleeved, brown T-shirt, white nylon cargo pants with multiple pockets and gold sandals.

Those with information should call Detroit police at (313) 596-1240.


http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081003/METRO01/810030421

[Grande]

Speaking of angels....does this handsome guy belong to you?

PP

You betchya! That's Bryson, my little buddy!

[packy]

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081004/METRO/810040371/1409/METRO

But the child's mother told The Detroit News' reporting partner WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) that might not have been the case.

"I asked him over and over how did (it) happen and everything," Begum said in the interview. "He said, 'I left her inside the car and I locked the front door.' He told me he locked the back door but he didn't. He said, 'I just went inside and (when) I came out she was not there. She's gone.' "

The boyfriend, whose name was not released by police, was given a lie detector test but the results were not in by Friday afternoon, police said.

The mother said the boyfriend told her he didn't do anything to the child and he thinks the child was abducted.

"He loves her like his own daughter," Begum told WXYZ-TV. "He really takes care of her."

The child is described as an East Indian girl, weighs about 35 pounds and is about 3 feet tall. She has a light brown complexion and black shoulder-length hair. She has a scar on her lip from a recent burn.

Tangena was wearing a long-sleeved, brown T-shirt, white nylon cargo pants with multiple pockets and gold sandals.

[Claycat]

There are a lot of pumps in that photo. If it was before 9 in the evening, there would have been numerous witnesses. The fact that he didn't start running around and looking and yelling the minute he realized she was gone is very suspicious! I don't believe she was even with him. I'll bet they have a camera at that station. I wonder if it is being checked. I don't believe him.

[packy]

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7578812&version=5&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

Police Arrest Last Man Seen With Missing Child

Last Edited: Saturday, 04 Oct 2008, 10:51 PM EDT
Created: Saturday, 04 Oct 2008, 5:26 PM EDT

Search Continues for Missing 2-Year-Old


Videos


By WJBK Web Team


Hamtramck Police tells FOX 2 News that the man last seen with the missing two-year-old girl is now in police custody.

Niiufa Begum's boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain, was arrested for sexual assault case against a minor. The assault victim spotted Hussain after seeing him on FOX 2 News. (More at link)

[PinkPony]

Man said girl was left in locked car

Detroit Police said late Saturday that they had no new information about 2-year-old Tangena Hussain's whereabouts. She was reportedly last seen at a Detroit gas station at Greenfield and 8 Mile on Thursday.


A 27-year-old man last known to be with the missing Hamtramck toddler was in custody Saturday, according to Free Press reporting partner WDIV-TV Local 4.

Jamrul Hussain, the boyfriend of the child's mother, was arrested on a separate assault charge involving a minor, WDIV reported. He cooperated with investigators after he was arrested at the house he shares with Nilufa Begum, 24, and her daughter, Tangena. He is not related to the child.

Hamtramck police, Detroit police and the FBI continued to investigate. Police searched Dumpsters with cadaver dogs outside her home on Saturday.

Hussain said Tangena was in the car with him Thursday night when he stopped at the gas station for a pack of gum.

He told investigators he left her in the locked car and that she was gone when he came back.

Instead of immediately searching for the toddler, he said he picked up Begum from work. He then told her what he said happened and the two returned to the station to search for her. At that time, they called police.

"I was asking, 'Where's my daughter? Tell me where's my daughter," Begum told WDIV.

"He said, 'I will tell you; just come with me,' and he took me to the gas station," she said.

Begum said Hussain told her that Tangena was gone when he came back outside.

There is video from the gas station showing Hussain was there, but no footage of the red 1990s Geo Prizm or Tangena at the station, WDIV reported.

Police said Tangena lived with Begum and her boyfriend, who have dated about five months, in Hamtramck. Begum has two other children, ages 8 and 7, who live with their father's family in metro Detroit. Tangena's father, who is also the father of Begum's other two children, lives in New York.

Anyone with information about Tangena is asked to call 313-596-1240.


http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081005/NEWS01/810050421/1003/NEWS01

[PinkPony]

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7578812&version=5&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

Police Arrest Last Man Seen With Missing Child

Last Edited: Saturday, 04 Oct 2008, 10:51 PM EDT
Created: Saturday, 04 Oct 2008, 5:26 PM EDT

Search Continues for Missing 2-Year-Old


Videos


By WJBK Web Team


Hamtramck Police tells FOX 2 News that the man last seen with the missing two-year-old girl is now in police custody.

Niiufa Begum's boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain, was arrested for sexual assault case against a minor. The assault victim spotted Hussain after seeing him on FOX 2 News. (More at link)

'Sexual assault' against a minor? This doesn't look good at all.imo

I continue to pray for Tangena's safe return.

PP

[PinkPony]

Hamtramck girl still missing; mom's boyfriend held on unrelated charge

The last man known to have seen a 2-year-old Hamtramck girl who is the subject of an ongoing Amber Alert remained in custody this afternoon on an unrelated criminal charge.


Hamtramck police said Jamrul Hussain, the boyfriend of Tangena Hussain's mother, was in custody on a separate assault charge stemming from an incident earlier this year with a minor. He has cooperated with investigators after he was arrested Saturday at the house he shares with Nilufa Begum, 24, who is the mother of the missing girl.

Hussain has not been charged in the case of Tangena. Police said he is expected to remain in police custody until at least Monday. Hamtramck police are working with Detroit detectives to solve the ongoing Amber Alert involving Tangena, who was last seen Thursday night at a Detroit gas station in a car that Hussain was driving. He is not related to the child.

Hamtramck and Detroit police joined the FBI in searching for the girl on Saturday. Police searched Dumpsters with cadaver dogs.

Anyone with information about Tangena is asked to call 313-596-1240.


http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081005/NEWS01/81005040/1003

[TigressPen]

This is so sad. I am suspicious of the boyfriend. And I am doubting the child was with him at that station. The reporter on the short news clip that interviewed the mother stated the child could and would unlock her seat and get out the car but never leaves her sandals behind. They were in the car. :(


http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17613777/detail.html?treets=det&tml=det_7am&ts=T&tmi=det_7am_1_06000710062008

[Faith]

Monday, October 6, 2008
Hamtramck man named as 'person of interest' in toddler's kidnapping

George Hunter / The Detroit News

A 27-year-old Hamtramck man who is being charged Monday with the kidnap and assault of a 15-year-old Detroit girl has also been named by police as a "person of interest" in the disappearance of his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter.



A spokeswoman for the Wayne County prosecutor's office said Jamrul Hussain is expected to be arraigned Monday afternoon in the alleged kidnap and assault of the teenage girl last February. Hussain also is the last person to have contact with Tangena Hussain, who is the daughter of Hussain's girlfriend, Nilufa Begum. Jamrul Hussain is not related to Tangena.



Hussain told police that Tangena was taken from his vehicle last Friday while he was shopping inside a gas station convenience store in Detroit. Hamtramck police arrested Hussain on the kidnap/assault charges on Saturday; he is in police custody.



"We're waiting for the warrant to go before a judge this afternoon," said Hamtramck police Det. Jacqueline Crachiola.
"The victim was kidnapped from her home; she heard a knock at the door late that night. That's when he grabbed her, put a hand around her mouth and put a gun to her head. He then drove her to a nearby house in Hamtramck and assaulted her in the basement."
Crachiola said the victim was watching TV recently and saw a news report about the disappearance of Tangena. During the broadcast, the girl saw Tangena's mother make a tearful plea for the return of her daughter. The 15-year-old victim also spotted Hussain during the same broadcast.
"She saw Hussain on TV and the girl told her father that he was the man that 'took me,' " Crachiola said.
"Her father called Detroit police, who then contacted Hamtramck police."
Begum defended Hussain, saying that he and the 15-year-old girl had a relationship.
"It wasn't a kidnapping," Begum said.



"Hussain was a boyfriend of the girl; he didn't have anything to do with the girl being kidnapped. They were together for a week and then she said she wanted to go back home and he took her home. That relationship has been over for eight months now and for the past five months he's been with me. When she saw that my daughter was missing, she became jealous and called the police."



Begum said Hussain couldn't have had anything to do with the disappearance of Tangena.



Hussain "took care of her and was with her all the time," Begum said.
"It's been five days now and I'm just hoping that someone can bring my daughter back to me. I really miss her. We can't sleep, we can't eat, we can't do anything. I keep thinking of someone beating her up.



"I think they are monsters; they don't know how a mother feels."



http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081006/METRO/810060421

[Faith]

FBI Raids Home Of Missing Child; Boyfriend Charged

Reward Offered For Information On Girl's Dissappearance

POSTED: 6:09 pm EDT October 6, 2008
UPDATED: 8:49 pm EDT October 6, 2008


HAMTRAMCK, Mich. -- The FBI raided the Hamtramck home of a missing 2-year-old girl Monday.

The girl, Tangena Hussain, was last seen in the care of her mother’s boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain, Thursday night.

Although they share the same last name, Jamrul is not the girl’s father.

Jamrul, 27, was arrested Saturday by Hamtramck police in connection with the separate assault case. He remained jailed Monday after being charged by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy with kidnapping, two counts of criminal sexual conduct and felony firearm for a case that happened in February.

Jamrul is accused of keeping a 15-year-old girl in the basement of a house and assaulting her for a week.

Police said the teen came forward when she saw Jamrul’s picture on TV after an Amber Alert was issued for Hussain.

He will be arraigned Tuesday.

Police and federal agents continue to search for Hussain, who was last seen at a Marathon gas station in Detroit.

Police and Hussain’s mother, Nilufa Begum, said Jamrul told them he stopped at the gas station to buy candy and juice for the girl at about 9 p.m., and left her strapped in his locked car while he went inside.

Jamrul said when he came out of the gas station the child was gone.

Jamrul did not immediately report the girl missing and drove to pick up Begum from work at the Northland Mall.

Begum said when she saw her daughter’s sandals in the back of the car, she began to question Jamrul.

"I was asking, 'Where's my daughter; tell me where's my daughter?' and he couldn't even say anything," said Begum.

Begum said Jamrul drove her to the gas station.

"I said, 'What do you mean she's not inside; why didn’t you call the cops?'" said Begum. "He said, 'I was scared, and I wanted to get you first.'"

Surveillance tapes from the gas station were handed over to authorities, but investigators said a technical glitch prevented Jamrul’s car and the child from being seen. Investigators said Jamrul was filmed entering the store.

Investigators said without seeing the girl on tape, they cannot confirm that she was even taken from the gas station.

A source close to the investigation said Jamrul had been given a polygraph test Friday, but could not confirm results.

Begum said Monday that her daughter knows how to get out of the car, but she doesn't think she would have left without her sandals.

Begum said her motherly instincts tell her someone took her daughter.

When asked about the teen's allegations against Jamrul, Begum said Jamrul told her that he and the 15-year-old went to visit his uncle in Atlanta for a week, and the 15-year-old girl wanted to get married.

Also on Monday, the FBI searched the home of Hanna Begum, a former co-worker of the girl’s mother.

"They were just doing their job. I didn’t mind them," said Hanna. "I really feel bad about the little girl. But I don’t know about him that much."

Police and federal authorities have been searching the metro Detroit area, fearing the worst and going through Dumpsters, alleys and even a Detroit incinerator.

The missing girl’s father lives in New York and has offered a $5,000 reward for information on the girl's disappearance.

Images:Search For Tangena Hussain

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17637458/detail.html

[Faith]

Prosecutors charge boyfriend of missing girl's mom (http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/news-58/122333102227160.xml&storylist=newsmichigan)
MLive.com, MI - 3 hours ago
The FBI and police searched the house Monday in the disappearance of Tangena, who was with Jamrul Hussain when last seen Thursday. ...



Hamtramck teen: Man who molested me is last person to see missing ... (http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081006/NEWS02/81006075/1004)
Detroit Free Press, United States - 3 hours ago
Jamrul Hussain, the boyfriend of Tangena's mother and who is not related to the child, is expected to be arraigned at 8:30 am Tuesday at 31st District Court ...



Police Arrest Boyfriend of Missing Michigan Toddler's Mother (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,433362,00.html)
FOXNews - 5 hours ago
Police say 27-year-old Jamrul Hussain was arrested Saturday at the Hamtramck house he shares with 24-year-old Nilufa Begum, the mother of 2-year-old Tangena ...

[TigressPen]

I am so suspicious of this man and fear he has harmed Tangena. I pray he hasn't and she is safe.

[Grande]

Hamtramck teen: Man who molested me is last person to see missing toddler
By Tammy Stables Battaglia • Free Press Staff Writer • October 6, 2008

A 15-year-old Hamtramck girl told police there that the last person to see missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain is also the man who kidnapped the teenager for six days in February and molested her.

Jamrul Hussain, the boyfriend of Tangena’s mother and no relation to the child, is expected to be arraigned at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at 31st District Court in Hamtramck on a kidnapping charge and two counts of sexual conduct.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy this afternoon said Jamrul Hussain faces up to life in prison if convicted. Police arrested him over the weekend at the Hamtramck house he shares with Nilufa Begum, 24, and her daughter.

FBI agents and police obtained a warrant and searched that home, at 3893 Trowbridge near Conant, this afternoon for evidence in connection with the disappearance of Tangena Hussain, who has been the subject of an Amber Alert since she was reported missing Thursday night.

Jamrul Hussain told police the 2-year-old disappeared from his parked car when he went inside a gas station convenience store at Greenfield and 8 Mile.

Hamtramck Police detective Jackie Crachiola said the 15-year-old girl, fearful that she and her family would be killed, originally told police she ran away. But the teen changed her story and alerted police after she saw Hussain on television in connection with the Amber Alert issued for Tangena.

“While she’s sitting at home the other night, she sees him on TV, and she told her father, ‘Oh, that’s the guy that took me!’ ” Crachiola said. “She’s worried about the 2-year-old.”

“He’s not talking,” Crachiola said today about Hussain’s cooperation with police. “He’s not talking about anything, denies wrongdoing of any kind.”

Instead of immediately searching for the toddler, Hussain originally told police he picked up Begum from work. He said he then told his girlfriend what happened and the two returned to the station to search for the missing girl. That’s when they called police.

The 15-year-old, whose family hails from Bangladesh like Hussain, said her assailant kidnapped her and held her at another couple’s Hamtramck home, Crachiola said.

“She was threatened by her assailant. If she said anything, he would kill her and her family,” Crachiola said. “They told her they’d let her go if she went to the police station and said she ran away.”

After six days, the woman who lives at that home accompanied the 15-year-old to the Hamtramck Police Department to make sure she claimed to be a runaway, Crachiola added. The case had been closed until the teen came forward again Friday, Crachiola said.

The 15-year-old told investigators she knew Hussain because he had repeatedly tried to befriend her as she walked to and from school, police said.

Detroit Police spokesman James Tate said today that his department is working with the FBI and Hamtramck Police in the search, which has covered numerous areas throughout metro Detroit. An Amber Alert remains in effect.

Anyone with information about Tangena is asked to call 313-596-1240.

Contact staff writer TAMMY STABLES BATTAGLIA at 313-223-4456 or tbattaglia@freepress.com.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081006/NEWS02/81006075/1001/NEWS

[nanabillie]

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081007/METRO01/810070421/1408/LOCAL



Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Hamtramck home searched in case of missing 2-year-old

George Hunter and Tom Greenwood / The Detroit News

HAMTRAMCK -- Evidence technicians for the FBI, Michigan State Police and the Hamtramck Police Department Tuesday afternoon searched a home on Lumpkin Street where "a person of interest" in the case of missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain allegedly took a 15-year-old girl and raped her.
The investigators carried boxes from the home but would not reveal what was in them.
Also, arrest warrants for unlawful imprisonment also were issued Tuesday for Mammur Khan and his wife, Hena Begum, who owned the house where the girl was allegedly kept. The couple turned themselves in on Tuesday.


The Federal Bureau of Investigation has officially handed over the search of a missing two-year-old girl to the Hamtramck Police Department after determining that Tangena went missing in that city, Hamtramck police said Tuesday.
Earlier on Tuesday, Jamrul Hussain, the man investigators describe as a "person of interest" in Tangena's disappearance, was arraigned in Hamtramck's 31st District Court on charges that he kidnapped and raped a 15-year-old Hamtramck girl in February.
Hussain, who is not related to Tangena Hussain, said he did not understand the charges when he appeared before District Court Judge Paul Paruk this morning. After explaining the charges to him, Hussain said "I didn't kidnap nobody."
Hussain, who appeared in handcuffs and wasn't represented by an attorney, had a not guilty plea entered for him by Paruk, who set bond at $500,000 cash or surety and demanded that Hussain, a citizen of Bangladesh, surrender his passport.
Hussain, 27, is being held in the Hamtramck jail.
According to Hamtramck Detective Jacqueline Crachiola, Hussain kidnapped the 15-year-old girl from her home at gunpoint on Feb. 1. He allegedly transported the girl to a house on Lumpkin Street, where he held her in the basement for five days and raped her twice before releasing her.
Hussain was arrested on Saturday after the victim was watching a television broadcast about the disappearance of Tangena Hussain that showed the girl's mother, Nilufa Begum, begging for the return of her daughter. The broadcast also showed Jamrul Hussain, Begum's boyfriend.
The 15-year-old told her father that Hussain was the man who kidnapped and assaulted her; the father called Detroit police, who arrested Hussain and turned him over to the Hamtramck police. According to Crachiola, Hussain failed a polygraph test concerning the disappearance of Tangena Hussain.
In an earlier interview, Begum defended Hussain against the kidnapping/assault charges and also insisted that he had nothing to do with the disappearance of her daughter. According to Begum, Hussain and the 15-year-old girl had a relationship and that the girl willingly went with Hussain last February.
According to Begum, the relationship between the 15-year-old and Hussain ended eight months ago. Begum said she and Hussain have been in a relationship for the past five months.
Begum said the girl had only said Hussain had kidnapped her because she was "jealous" of Hussain's relationship with Begum. Hamtramck police have also issued a warrant for a man and his wife who reportedly are the owners of the home on Lumpkin Street, charging them with being accessories to the kidnapping/assault.
Hussain became the focus of suspicion in the disappearance of Tangena Hussain after he reported that the girl had been kidnapped from his car while he was shopping in a gas station convenience store on Oct. 3. Hussain reportedly told police he was on his way to pick up Begum from her job at a Northland Mall clothing store when he stopped at the gas station on Greenfield Road.
Hussain told police he went into the store and discovered that Tangena was missing when he returned to his automobile. According to Hamtramck police, the FBI has determined that the child went missing in Hamtramck and not at the gas station in Detroit.
On Monday, the FBI and police searched Begum's home for anything related to the disappearance of the 2-year-old. Begum has reportedly been staying at another home in Detroit.
Begum has asked to take a polygraph test to prove she had nothing to do with her daughter's disappearance.
"Police were asking if I had anything to do with my daughter's being missing, so I begged for them to give me a lie-detector test," Begum said.
"This will show everyone I had nothing to do with it."
Begum is slated to undergo an FBI polygraph test on Tuesday afternoon.
The child's mother held a news conference Tuesday outside the gas station where the child allegedly was last seen.
"I still think that my daughter is still alive somewhere," she said. "I want people in this neighborhood ... to please go out there and look for my daughter"
You can reach Tom Greenwood at (313) 222-2023 or tgreenwood@detnews.com (tgreenwood@detnews.com).

[Faith]

Boyfriend of missing girl's mom charged in rape

WOOD-TV, MI - 21 minutes ago
Hussain's arrest Saturday followed an intense two-day search for Tangena Hussain, the daughter of 24-year-old Nilufa Begum. Jamrul Hussain lives with Begum ...

DETROIT -- A man who has been questioned in the disappearance of his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter has been charged in the unrelated rape and kidnapping of a 15-year-old acquaintance.

Jamrul Hussain was arraigned Tuesday on two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping and using a firearm during a felony. The Bangladesh native is accused of forcing the teenager to have sex with him last February in the Detroit-area community of Hamtramck.

District Court Judge Paul Paruk ordered the 27-year-old to surrender his passport.

Hussain's arrest Saturday followed an intense two-day search for Tangena Hussain, the daughter of 24-year-old Nilufa Begum. Jamrul Hussain lives with Begum in her Hamtramck home.

Hussain reported the girl missing Thursday. He told police Tangena was in his car when he stopped at a Detroit gas station to get chewing gum. She was gone when he returned to the car, Hussain told police.

"We don't have any suspects," Detroit police spokesman James Tate said Tuesday afternoon. "We're still checking out his story. We have to continue to look into whether it's credible or not."

Detroit police and FBI agents searched Begum's home Monday, but found nothing that would lead to locating Tangena, Tate said.

Hussain has submitted to a lie detector test, and Begum has offered to take one, defense attorney Shawn Patrick Smith said.

Detroit police would not disclose results of the lie detector test given to Hussain. Smith said he didn't know the results of the test.

The rape and kidnapping charges are an effort by investigators to continue questioning Hussain about Tangena's disappearance, Smith added.

"The police, in their zeal to solve a mystery, have taken a person completely innocent of one crime and get him in jail," Smith said. "They want to find the missing child. That's on all of our minds, on all of our hearts."

But "he has told people repeatedly that he had nothing to do with the disappearance."

Paruk set Hussain's bond at $500,000. He was expected to be transferred from the Hamtramck police lockup to the Wayne County Jail. An Oct. 16 preliminary examination has been scheduled.

Smith said he expected the case eventually to be dismissed.

"In February, the girl who is allegedly to have been raped, went to the police and told them her dad had made up the kidnapping thing," Smith said. "Now, she comes forward and says `By the way, he did kidnap me in the basement of this lady's house.'"

Detroit police plan to continue talking to Hussain about Tangena's disappearance while he is jailed, Tate said.

Hussain has been in the United States about four years on a temporary visa and works in a sandwich shop, Smith said.

He didn't call police or search the area around the gas station after learning Tangena was not in his car. Instead, Hussain drove to a nearby shopping mall in Southfield to pick her mother up from work.

"He drove five minutes to where she worked and drove back, immediately," Smith said. "He was literally in a state of shock."

Witnesses and a surveillance camera prove that Hussain was in the gas station at the time he claimed Tangena disappeared, and witnesses have told police his car was outside, Tate said.

But the car was not parked in an area picked up by external surveillance cameras, Tate said.

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9138866&nav=0RceSQtT

[Faith]

Authorities dig up couple's yard in search for toddler

• October 7, 2008


http://cmsimg.freep.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C4&Date=20081007&Category=NEWS02&ArtNo=81007026&Ref=AR&Profile=1001&MaxW=320&Border=0
A poster of Tangena Hussain hangs in the window of the Marathon gas station at Greenfield and 8 Mile in Detroit.

http://cmsimg.freep.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C4&Date=20081007&Category=NEWS02&ArtNo=81007026&Ref=V2&Profile=1001&MaxW=320&Border=0
Jamrul Hussain, 24, was charged today with kidnapping and molesting a 15-year-old girl. Hussain was the last person believed to have been seen with 2-year-old Tangena Hussain.


FBI agents and police crime scene investigators were digging this evening in the backyard of a Lumpkin Street home owned by a couple identified as friends of the man who reported he last saw missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain.



Hamtramck police arrested Hena Begum on kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment charges, and her husband, Mamunur Rahman Khan, on unlawful imprisonment charges today in connection with the alleged abduction in February of a 15-year-old Hamtramck girl.

Jamrul Hussain, 24, who was arraigned today on kidnapping and sexual misconduct charges in connection with the alleged abduction, is the last person to have seen Tangena, police said.

Hussain, the boyfriend of Nilufa Begum but no relation to the missing girl, is being held in jail on $500,000 bond. He formerly worked at a Ferndale sub shop with Hena Begum, who is not related to the missing girl’s mother, police said.

This afternoon, Nilufa Begum again pleaded with the public for her daughter’s life, speaking from the Detroit gas station where her boyfriend told police the toddler was taken from his locked vehicle Thursday night while he was inside.

“I’m still hoping that my daughter’s still alive somewhere,” Nilufa Begum, 24, said in a barely audible voice, almost expressionless, outside the Marathon gas station on Greenfield at 8 Mile. “Please, go out there and look for my daughter.”

When asked if she thought her boyfriend had anything to do with her daughter’s disappearance, she replied: “I don’t know.”

Investigators and Shawn Patrick Smith, an attorney who is acting as a family spokesman and representing Hussain, said Hussain failed a polygraph or lie detector test. NilufaBegum is scheduled to undergo a polygraph exam Thursday, Smith said.

Hussain, a native of Bangladesh who has lived in the United States for four years, was arrested Saturday and forced to surrender his passport during his arraignment appearance today in 31st District Court in Hamtramck.

Hussain repeatedly told Magistrate Philip Tomaszewski he didn’t understand the charges. He said he had attended school through the 10th grade in Bangladesh, then said he hadn’t gone to school before moving to the United States.

“Who’s kidnapped?” he asked the magistrate. “I didn’t kidnap nobody, sir.”

Afterward, Smith said Hussain and the 15-year-old girl were “friends, very good friends.” He called the age difference a “cultural thing.”

Smith, who had a picture of Hussain and the teenage girl posing with her arms casually wrapped around Hussain’s shoulders, called the kidnapping and other charges against his client “a tool to put a squeeze on the guy.”

After initially telling them she ran away from home, Hamtramck Police said the 15-year-old girl told police she came forward when she learned of the missing 2-year-old. She alleged that the couple hid her in their basement for six days in February while Hussain attacked her. She alleged that Hussain threatened to kill her and her parents if she didn’t claim she ran away.

http://www.freep.com/article/20081007/NEWS02/81007026/1001/news

[chefann]

From WDIV Channel 4/Detroit News (http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17637458/detail.html)

Investigators Start Dig In Search For Missing Girl
Reward Offered For Information On Girl's Dissappearance

POSTED: 6:09 pm EDT October 6, 2008
UPDATED: 9:09 pm EDT October 7, 2008

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. -- FBI agents and police investigators were seen apparently digging in the backyard of a house on Lumpkin Street Tuesday evening in connection with the disappearance of 2-year-old Tangena Hussain.

Tents covering the area investigators were interested in were seen in the driveway and backyard of the house.

The house is owned by Hena Begum and her husband Mamunur Rahman Khan.

Begum is a former co-worker of Jamrul Hussain and still works with his brother.

Jamrul is reportedly the last person to see the little girl who disappeared from a Marathon gas station in Detroit last Thursday.

Jamrul, the boyfriend of the missing girl’s mother, Nilufa Begum, was arraigned earlier Tuesday after being charged by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy with kidnapping and 2 counts of sexual assault in connection with an unrelated case.

Jamrul, 24, was arrested Saturday by Hamtramck police for the case that happened in February.

Jamrul is accused of keeping a 15-year-old girl in the basement of Hena and Khan’s house and assaulting her for a week.

He repeatedly told a magistrate at his arraignment on Tuesday he did not understand what was going on.

"Who's kidnapped?" I didn't kidnap nobody, sir," Jamrul said in court.

Police said the teen came forward when she saw Jamrul’s picture on TV after an Amber Alert was issued for the child.

His attorney said the 15-year-old is not telling the truth and it is purely a case of a jealous ex-girlfriend.

He is being held on a $5,000,000 bond.

Although they share the same last name, Jamrul is not the girl’s father.

Officials Continue Search For Missing Girl

Police and Hussain’s mother said Jamrul told them he stopped at the gas station to buy candy and juice for the girl at about 9 p.m. last Thursday, and left her strapped in his locked car while he went inside.

Jamrul said when he came out of the gas station the child was gone.

Jamrul did not immediately report the girl missing and drove to pick up Begum from work at the Northland Mall.

Begum said when she saw her daughter’s sandals in the back of the car, she began to question Jamrul.

"I was asking, 'Where's my daughter; tell me where's my daughter?' and he couldn't even say anything," said Begum.

Begum said Jamrul drove her to the gas station.

"I said, 'What do you mean she's not inside; why didn’t you call the cops?'" said Begum. "He said, 'I was scared, and I wanted to get you first.'"

Surveillance tapes from the gas station were handed over to authorities, but investigators said a technical glitch prevented Jamrul’s car and the child from being seen. Investigators said Jamrul was filmed entering the store.

Investigators said without seeing the girl on tape, they cannot confirm that she was even taken from the gas station.

Begum said Monday that her daughter knows how to get out of the car, but she doesn't think she would have left without her sandals.

Begum said her motherly instincts tell her someone took her daughter.

When asked about the teen's allegations against Jamrul, Begum said Jamrul told her that he and the 15-year-old went to visit his uncle in Atlanta for a week, and the 15-year-old girl wanted to get married.

Local 4 reported Hussain failed the polygraph test he took Friday.

Police and federal authorities have been searching the metro Detroit area, fearing the worst and going through Dumpsters, alleys and even a Detroit incinerator.

The FBI raided the Hamtramck home of the missing girl on Monday and said they have found nothing that helps in finding the child.

"The whole family is torn to pieces. There is a missing two-year-old out there somewhere. They're searching everywhere trying to find her.," said Hussain's attorney Shawn Patrick Smith. "They are tracking down every lead they can to find her. As you know, there is a language barrier which is making it difficult."

The missing girl’s father lives in New York and has offered a $5,000 reward for information on the girl's disappearance.

====
According to the morning news broadcast today, the couple who owns the home where the 15-YO was allegedly kept turned themselves in and the FBI has been active searching that home for evidence of both that case and the missing toddler. They have found physical evidence relating to the teen, but are not releasing information about it.

I'm slightly familiar with the area where that home is, and where the suspect lives, as a friend of mine used to live in that city and still teaches there. Hamtramck is a small city, populated mostly by recent immigrants. While some neighborhoods are very close-knit, there is also a lot of tension between groups that don't traditionally get along.

[Amusedtdth]

Welcome to HFTM Chefann!

Tangena is in my prayers. I pray for a safe return but my heart is telling me otherwise.. I hate even thinking those thoughts but it's not sounding good at all for her. I'm also praying the "Mom" had nothing to do with this.

[Claudia]

Seems almost too obvious to me what has happened to that poor little girl. How the hell he thought he would get away with it is beyond me.

[Claycat]

If this man had not been protected in the other case, Tangena would probably be alive.

[PinkPony]

Welcome chefann!!

I am looking forward to your input on this.

I, like Amused, pray that Tangena is found safe but I have a bad feeling this won't be the case.

PP

[Grande]

Chefann!

It's so nice to see you, it's been too long!

Thanks for the link. Such a sad case isn't it?

[Faith]

Couple Charged in Kidnapping Case

http://wxyz.img.cdn.dayport.com/img/dp_thumbs/thumb_1223482919625_0p7114276521021153.jpg

(WXYZ) - A Hamtramck couple with ties to Jamrul Hussain has been charged with kidnapping and unlawful abduction in connection with the February abduction of a 15 year old girl.

BILL PROCTOR REPORTS IN THE VIDEO PLAYER ON THE RIGHT

Hussain is the boyfriend of Tangena Hussain's mother. The two year old has been missing since last week. Jamrul Hussain has also been charged in connection with the February case.

Mamunur Rahman Khan and his wife Hena Begum were both arraigned this morning in 31st District Court in Hamtramck. They stood mute, and not guilty charges were entered on their behalf. Hussain was charged yesterday, and was not in court today. A preliminary exam in the case has been set for October 16 at 8:30 AM.

Khan and Begum have not been linked to the disappearance of Tangena Hussain. Jamrul Hussain is the last person known to have seen Tangena. He told police she disappeared from his car when he went into a gas station to buy juice and gum. Anyone with information about Tangena is asked to call (313) 596-1240.

http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=a50d62b1-09f6-403b-9dca-645a703905cc

[chefann]

Hey, everyone. Thanks for the welcome.

Grande, it is very sad. (Long time no see!)

The gas station at the heart of the case is about 3 miles from my home, and Hamtramck is about 9 miles beyond that - so it's all very close. I thought of this site as soon as I saw the Amber Alert on the morning news last Friday.

I, too, fear the worst has happened to that little girl. There's just too much about the boyfriend's reaction that's hinky.

And a sad side effect will be the further polarization of the area. There is a lot of diversity in the Detroit area, with many ethnic neighborhoods and clusters of immigrants. There's frequently an undercurrent of mistrust, as immigrants bring emotional, political and religious baggage with them from the motherland. I think these 2 cases (the 15 YO and Tangena) aren't going to endear the Bangladeshi community any.

And, crud - I just realized that I don't have the morning news on to catch any updates.

6:57 am: Local news just said there were no new developments.

[RayStar]

A lack of American education is the reason some groups don't know they are breaking the law of our land. If they knew our law, they would not think it is ok to hold anyone against their will.
There is no way this story makes sense. The mother is to take a polygraph test today. Something really stinks here. That is a very busy gas station all day and night. It is also well lit. I do believe that the mother does not know where her daughter is. The boyfriend failed his poly test.:0009:

[Breezy]

A lack of American education is the reason some groups don't know they are breaking the law of our land. If they knew our law, they would not think it is ok to hold anyone against their will.
There is no way this story makes sense. The mother is to take a polygraph test today. Something really stinks here. That is a very busy gas station all day and night. It is also well lit. I do believe that the mother does not know where her daughter is. The boyfriend failed his poly test.:0009:

Oh, so they did release the results on the boyfriends Poly test? I was looking for info on that. Thanks!

[Grande]

UPDATE: Tangena's Mom to Take Polygraph
Last Update: 8:24 am

http://i33.tinypic.com/2nbg28k.jpg

(WXYZ) - The mother of missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain says she will take a polygraph test today to prove her innocence.

Meanwhile, videotapes from area retailers are being reviewed by investigators searching for Tangena after witnesses reported seeing her on two separate occasions.

Attorney Shawn Patrick Smith says police were looking at tapes from a nearby Home Depot store and from Northland Mall for evidence of the whereabouts of the little girl, who has been missing from her Hamtramck home since Thursday.

Smith is the attorney for Jamrul Hussain, no relation to the girl, who is being held on an unrelated rape charge. Jamrul Hussain, who is the boyfriend of Tangena's mother, Nilufa Begum, has denied any connection to the girl's disappearance but is the last person known to be with her.

Police said Hussain failed a lie detector test, but Smith would not confirm or deny that.

Hussain has been in the United States about four years on a temporary visa and works in a sandwich shop, Smith said. As part of his bond, Hussain must surrender his passport.

http://www.wxyz.com/news/story.aspx?content_id=9a2a1aff-5e82-4b85-a664-094cc6536fec

[Grande]

Hey, everyone. Thanks for the welcome.

Grande, it is very sad. (Long time no see!)

The gas station at the heart of the case is about 3 miles from my home, and Hamtramck is about 9 miles beyond that - so it's all very close. I thought of this site as soon as I saw the Amber Alert on the morning news last Friday.

I, too, fear the worst has happened to that little girl. There's just too much about the boyfriend's reaction that's hinky.

And a sad side effect will be the further polarization of the area. There is a lot of diversity in the Detroit area, with many ethnic neighborhoods and clusters of immigrants. There's frequently an undercurrent of mistrust, as immigrants bring emotional, political and religious baggage with them from the motherland. I think these 2 cases (the 15 YO and Tangena) aren't going to endear the Bangladeshi community any.

And, crud - I just realized that I don't have the morning news on to catch any updates.

6:57 am: Local news just said there were no new developments.

I can't imagine what must go through your mind as you drive around that area knowing that poor little girl is out there somewhere. Hopefully all of the issues you speak of don't come into play and the community will have closure here soon.

Thanks for joining us and provide that insight!

[Grande]

Thursday, October 9, 2008
Hunt for missing girl takes several twists
Disappearance of Hamtramck toddler leads to multiple felony charges in a separate case.
George Hunter / The Detroit News

HAMTRAMCK -- What started as a missing child case has developed into a confusing whirlwind of parallel investigations, multiple criminal charges, and intensive searches of homes, backyards and stores.

At the center of it all is a 2-year-old girl whose disappearance is entering its second week.

The case, which involves at least four police agencies and several people who are unrelated but share a last name, has taken numerous twists since Tangena Hussain was reported missing the night of Oct. 2.

"We've done multiple searches," Detroit Police spokesman James Tate said. "We'll search a home, and then go back to the same place and double- and triple-check. We want to make sure we're covering every possible angle."

Police on Wednesday reviewed videotapes from area retailers for clues that might point to Tangena's whereabouts, after witnesses reported seeing her on two separate occasions.

Investigators looked at tapes from an area Home Depot store and from Northland Mall, said Hamtramck Detective Jacqueline Crachiola and attorney Shawn Patrick Smith.

Smith is the attorney for Jamrul Hussain, no relation to the toddler, who is being held on an unrelated kidnapping and rape charge involving a 15-year-old girl. Hussain, who is the boyfriend of Tangena's mother, Nilufa Begum, has denied any connection to the girl's disappearance.

Smith also is representing the missing girl's mother, who declined to discuss the case Wednesday.

"I have nothing to say," she said. "If you have questions, talk to my lawyer."

Smith said he was retained to represent Hussain, but is also serving as the family's spokesman.

"They are from a different culture, and they don't understand our way of doing things, so they get confused easily," Smith said of the Bangladeshi immigrants.

Police arrested Hussain shortly after he reported Tangena missing, in connection with the kidnapping and sexual assault case.

In that case, for which Hussain is still being held in the Hamtramck police lockup, police say he kidnapped the victim at gunpoint, took her to a home on Lumpkin in Hamtramck, and raped her repeatedly in the basement.

Smith said that arrest was an attempt to "squeeze him" about Tangena's disappearance.

"Instead of looking for the little girl, they're concentrating on my client," Smith said. "I know exactly what this is: They're trying to make him look guilty. They're thinking, 'Everyone knows the boyfriend did it; it's just a matter of time before he confesses.' "

Tate called Smith's statements "unfortunate."

"I don't know why Mr. Smith feels the need to defend his client on the Tangena case," the Detroit Police spokesman said. "One case has nothing to do with the other."

Meanwhile, prosecutors charged a man and his wife on Wednesday morning with kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment because police say they owned the home where the 15-year-old girl reportedly was held, but did nothing to help her.

Mammur Khan and his wife, Hena Begum -- no relation to Nilufa Begum -- were arraigned on the felony charges in 31st District Court. Khan is being held in the Hamtramck lockup in lieu of $500,000 cash surety bond. Bond for his wife, also incarcerated temporarily in Hamtramck, was set at $50,000.

According to Crachiola, Hussain kidnapped the teen from her home at gunpoint Feb. 1. He allegedly took the girl to the house on Lumpkin, where he held her in the basement for five days and raped her, she said.

Police say Khan and his wife knew about the girl being in the basement.

"Jamrul ... took (the victim) to his friend Khan's house on Lumpkin and put her in the basement, at which time she started yelling," Crachiola said. "Khan then grabbed her by the neck and choked her and told her to be quiet. Then Jamrul came down and both Khan and Jamrul threatened her that they would kill her and her family."

Crachiola said Hena Begum fed the girl and allowed her to shower, but did nothing to help her escape.

Nilufa Begum, who talked to The News on Monday, disputed that story.

The 15-year-old "and Jamrul were dating, and she ran away with him," Nilufa Begum said. The teen's "father called the police, and then she went to the police station and told them she wasn't kidnapped. The police let (Hussain) go."

Crachiola said the girl was afraid to report the kidnapping. Hussain "told her he would kill her and her family if she told," she said.

After Tangena disappeared, the 15-year-old girl saw Hussain on a television news report about the case and went to police to tell them what really happened, Crachiola said.

Hamtramck Police on Wednesday dropped off several pieces of evidence to the State Police forensic laboratory in Sterling Heights. That evidence was taken Tuesday night from the home on Lumpkin where the 15-year-old girl was allegedly held.

For more than seven hours Tuesday, evidence technicians from the FBI and Hamtramck, Detroit and State Police searched the home in the 11300 block of Lumpkin.

Investigators also spent several hours digging in the backyard.

Police insisted the search had nothing to do with Tangena's disappearance, although it was unclear why they would be digging in the backyard seeking evidence in an 8-month-old kidnapping and rape case.

http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081009/METRO/810090428

[Grande]

Police say Tangena Hussain not on video
BY NAOMI R. PATTON and LATESHIA DOWELL • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS • October 9, 2008

Detroit Police flatly refuted a defense attorney's claim Wednesday that police are reviewing video from a store and a mall that might have images of a 2-year-old girl missing since last week.

Shawn Patrick Smith, the Bloomfield Hills-based attorney who calls himself Shawn (the Law) Smith on his Web site, called various news media outlets Wednesday, telling them police were reviewing "potential sightings" of Tangena Hussain.

Smith said he heard about police reviewing video from a Home Depot and Northland Mall from Hamtramck Police. Hamtramck Police detectives could not be reached Wednesday. Detroit Police said they are handling Tangena's case because she was reportedly last seen in the city, at a gas station one week ago.

James Tate, Detroit Police spokesman, said Detroit investigators have no video featuring Tangena, or anyone who looks like her. Investigators have reviewed video from Northland, Tate said, because Jamrul Hussain, who is the boyfriend of Tangena's mother, Nilufa Begum, but no relation to the child, was there the night Tangena disappeared.

Hussain, 24, told police that while he was in a gas station at 8 Mile and Greenfield at around 9:30 p.m. Oct. 2, the toddler was taken from his locked vehicle.

Hussain is being held in jail on $500,000 bond in connection with the alleged abduction of a Hamtramck teen in February.

A Hamtramck couple, whom authorities identified as friends of Hussain, were charged in 31st District Court on Wednesday with kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment for allegedly holding the teen in their basement.

Mamunur Rahman Khan and his wife, Hena Begum, no relation to Nilufa Begum, stood mute in court, allowing the magistrate to enter not guilty pleas.

They are to have no contact with the victim and must turn over their passports. Khan's bail was set at $500,000 and Begum's at $50,000. The couple are to appear for a preliminary exam Oct. 16.

Anyone with information about Tangena's disappearance should call Detroit Police at 313-596-1240.

Contact NAOMI R. PATTON at 313-223-4485 or npatton@freepress.com.

http://www.freep.com/article/20081009/NEWS01/810090379

[Grande]

Thursday, October 9, 2008
Mom of missing Hamtramck girl to take lie detector test today
Santiago Esparza and George Hunter / The Detroit News

HAMTRAMCK -- The mother of a 2-year-old girl last seen a week ago will voluntarily submit to a lie detector test today.

Nilufa Begum believes her daughter Tangena Hussain is alive and wants to do what she can to help find her, according to statements she made to The Detroit News' reporting partner WXYZ-TV (Channel 7).

Begum's boyfriend Jamrul Hussain, who is no relation to the missing child, is jailed on unrelated charges of kidnapping and sexual assault involving a Hamtramck teen. In court, Hussain denied those charges.

Hussain said he and Tangena dropped her mother off at work at Northland Mall Thursday afternoon. On Thursday evening, they went back to the mall to pick her up after work and stopped at a gas station in northwest Detroit, Detroit police said. Surveillance tape shows him walk in and out of the gas station, but not Tangena, police said.

Hussain told investigators he left the girl in his car and when he returned, she was gone, police said. Hussain did not immediately call police. Instead he went to the mall and got his girlfriend and brought her back to the gas station and then police were called.

A Hamtramck couple has been charged with kidnapping and forced imprisonment in connection with Hussain's case. Authorities spent more than seven hours Wednesday searching the couple's home on Lumpkin Street for clues, but the evidence being sought was in connection with the teen's case and not Tangena's disappearance, Hamtramck police said.

Hamtramck investigators took several pieces of evidence to the Michigan State Police forensic laboratory in Sterling Heights.

The case is confusing for police and involves at least four people with shared surnames who are not related. Hussain and Begum are from Bangladesh. Hussain said in court he did not understand the charges leveled against him.

His attorney, Shawn Patrick Smith, said there is a language barrier. He declined to confirm police statements and published media reports that Hussain failed a lie detector test.

You can reach Santiago Esparza at (313) 222-2127 or sesparza@detnews.com.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081009/METRO01/810090450/1361

[Breezy]

I remember a time when I was in Wal-Mart, way back before ours became a Super Wal-Mart. The registers were alot closer to the doors and there was a young boy, about 3 years old, about to go out the doors. There was noone around him and it appeared that I was the only one who noticed him, despite all the people who were entering and exiting, as he was about to go out. I stopped him from going out and tried asking him his name... he wouldn't talk so I took his little hand and was just about to walk him to the customer service counter when his mother approached me. She had been looking for him. I explained to her what had happened and she was very thankful.

I'm hoping if this little girl had been in that car and exited it on her own...someone would have seen her and done the same thing. Sadly, I don't think this is the case nor do I believe the little girl was in that car. If she was, I think he may have gotten rid of her before he picked the mom up.

I'm know LE has the time that he was in the store from the video surveillance. I'm sure they have been able to determine how much time had lapsed between then and picking up the mom.

I would love to know "what" the "video" shows him purchasing at the store. Did he actually purchase suckers/juice (IIRC) for the little girl? If he did, was that planned ahead of time, for his cover up story? Had she been in the car crying and maybe that is why he stopped to get her candy/juice in hopes to quiet her down? Maybe that didn't work and he couldn't handle it.....

JMO~

I hope she is found soon!

[Faith]

I pray Tangena is found soon. :1222423:

[TigressPen]

Tangena's mom is to take a polygraph test today. I really don't feel she was involved in her daughther's disappearance. Her crime was trusting Jamrul


Article about it is here: http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17637458/detail.html?treets=det&tml=det_12pm&ts=T&tmi=det_12pm_1_10500710092008

[chefann]

From another local station:
(The bizarre quotes about 2/3 through the article are as posted on their site. Since the quoted items are the names of the parties and the name of the city, I don't know why someone was compelled to put them in quotes. - Ann)

Search Still On
10/8/2008

The search for a missing girl. And the search for answers regarding the man police call a "person of interest". It's tonight's top story.

The Detroit Police department sent out an Amber Alert update on two-year-old Tangena Hussain. She's been missing since last Thursday. Her mother's boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain, says she disappeared when he went inside a gas station.

Hussain is no relation to the girl. Tonight, he sits in jail --charged with an unrelated crime...the rape and imprisonment of a 15-year-old girl. Police say it happened at Mammur Kahn and his wife, Hana Begum's home. The couple was charged today for kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment.

Police say the 15 year old was held at the home on "Lumpkin" street in "Hamtramick" for a week before she escaped. Investigators were back there today, digging for more clues on both cases.

Some Metro Detroit residents claim they recently saw Tangena near the area where she disappeared. My TV 20's Jorge Avellan has the story.

Shawn Patrick Smith, who is Jamrul Hussan's lawyer, told TV 20 that local residents have claimed to have seen two year old Tangena Hussain.

Shawn Patrick Smith
"I talked to the detective at Hamtramck police today and he told me that their have been two sightings in the last twenty-four hours of Tangena. One was at a Home Depot and one was at Northland Mall. They are now in the process of going out and getting the video tapes to track those leads down."

Detroit police, who are the main investigators in the Tangena case, insist that they have not recieved any credible leads.

James Tate
"We are taking every bit of infromation we get and we are trying to determine if it's credible or not. I can tell you this, all the information that we have recieved until now, none of it has lead to the location of where she is. Including the Home Depot and Northland Mall? Any of the information that we have recieved."

The case took a turn yesterday when "Mammur Khan" and his wife "Hena Begum", were arrested for allegedly permitting Jamrul Hussain to keep hostage and raping a 15 year old girl last winter in their "Hamtramck" home.

Shawn Patrick Smith.
"This woman made this charges back in February through her father, said she was kidnapped and then back tracked and told the police I was not kidnapped and then this story pops out and she comes out and says oh by the way that is the guy who kidnapped and raped me. None of that was evern spoken about before."

Call the Detroit police if you have any information at 313-596-1240.
Again, 596-1240.

http://www.tv20detroit.com/30685219.html

[chefann]

Per this morning's news, officials are still waiting for results of the mother's polygraph test.
=====

Other news:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081010/METRO/810100385/1409/METRO

Friday, October 10, 2008
Girl went missing in predator-filled area
Neighborhood where Tangena Hussain, 2, was reported last seen has 128 registered sex offenders.
George Hunter / The Detroit News

DETROIT -- The neighborhood where 2-year-old Tangena Hussain was last reported seen is home to numerous sex offenders, sparking concern among relatives that the girl may have been abducted by a child predator, a family spokesman said.

The 48235 ZIP code, near the Mobil gas station at Eight Mile and Greenfield where the girl was reported to have disappeared Oct. 2, has 128 registered sex offenders on the Michigan State Police list, far more than the number of sex offenders who live in neighboring ZIP codes.

"You couldn't have picked a worse neighborhood for her to wander off in," said attorney Shawn Patrick Smith, who is representing Tangena's mother, Nilufa Begum, and her boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain, who remains in jail on an unrelated sex offense and kidnapping charge involving a 15-year-old girl.

"It's something you don't want to think about, but with a lot of sex offenders around there, there's a possibility someone picked her up and did something terrible to her," Smith said.

Hussain told police he was on his way to pick up Begum Oct. 2 from her job in a Northland Mall clothing store, with Tangena in the backseat of his 1997 Geo Prizm. Just before 9 p.m., he claims he went into the gas station to purchase a pack of gum, leaving the girl in the car. When he returned to the car a moment later, she was gone, he told police.

Hussain -- no relation to Tangena -- was later arrested and charged with the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 15-year-old Hamtramck girl in February. Police say he abducted the girl from her home and imprisoned her in the basement of a home on Lumpkin in Hamtramck, where he repeatedly raped her. The homeowners, whom police say knew about the situation but did nothing, were also charged and are incarcerated in the Wayne County Jail with Hussain.

The teenage girl recognized Hussain from a television news report about Tangena's disappearance and told police about her ordeal. She said she hadn't come forward earlier because Hussain threatened to kill her and her family if she told police what happened, authorities said.

Smith claims police are merely holding his client in an effort to get more information about the missing girl. "They should be out looking for Tangena instead of worrying about Jamrul," Smith said. "Anything could have happened to her."

Smith said Hussain had a relationship with the 15-year-old girl, although he said it was not sexual. "There's nothing illegal about having a 15-year-old girlfriend," he said. "They are from Bangladesh, and that's common in their culture."

The 48235 ZIP code, bordered by Eight Mile to the north, Puritan to the south, Meyers to the east, and Southfield to the west, has a higher count of registered sex offenders than nearby neighborhoods. For instance, the 48234 ZIP code has 94 registered offenders; while the 48236 ZIP code has only six people on the State Police sex offender list.

No new clues to the girl's whereabouts surfaced Thursday, police said.

Detroit Police spokesman James Tate said police are checking "every possible lead" in the search for the girl.

Begum took a polygraph test Thursday at her request. She spent about three hours at the Oak Park Michigan State Police post. "She cooperated fully," Smith said.

Begum told The Detroit News on Monday that she asked to be given the test because police had asked her if she was involved in her daughter's disappearance.

"Police were asking if I had anything to do with my daughter being missing, so I begged for them to give me a lie-detector test," Begum said. "This will show everyone I had nothing to do with it."

Begum said her daughter's disappearance was "all we can think about. We can't sleep, we can't eat, we can't do anything. I keep thinking of someone beating her up."

Smith is organizing a search at 5 p.m. Saturday, beginning at the gas station where Tangena came up missing. "We'll go out and hand out leaflets, and check everywhere we can think of," Smith said.

You can reach George Hunter at (313) 222-2134 or ghunter@detnews.com.

[chefann]

http://www.freep.com/article/20081009/NEWS01/810090379/1003/news

Police say Tangena Hussain not on video

BY NAOMI R. PATTON and LATESHIA DOWELL • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS • October 9, 2008

Detroit Police flatly refuted a defense attorney's claim Wednesday that police are reviewing video from a store and a mall that might have images of a 2-year-old girl missing since last week.

Shawn Patrick Smith, the Bloomfield Hills-based attorney who calls himself Shawn (the Law) Smith on his Web site, called various news media outlets Wednesday, telling them police were reviewing "potential sightings" of Tangena Hussain.

Smith said he heard about police reviewing video from a Home Depot and Northland Mall from Hamtramck Police. Hamtramck Police detectives could not be reached Wednesday. Detroit Police said they are handling Tangena's case because she was reportedly last seen in the city, at a gas station one week ago.

James Tate, Detroit Police spokesman, said Detroit investigators have no video featuring Tangena, or anyone who looks like her. Investigators have reviewed video from Northland, Tate said, because Jamrul Hussain, who is the boyfriend of Tangena's mother, Nilufa Begum, but no relation to the child, was there the night Tangena disappeared.

Hussain, 24, told police that while he was in a gas station at 8 Mile and Greenfield at around 9:30 p.m. Oct. 2, the toddler was taken from his locked vehicle.

... article continues with repeats of information previously posted

[chefann]

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9154553&nav=menu44_2
also posted at http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/news-58/1223583567150380.xml&storylist=newsmichigan

Child's disappearance spawns charges in 2nd case

DETROIT -- Reported sightings of girls resembling 2-year-old Tangena Hussain have started, as have callous crank calls from people claiming to have found the girl's body.

Now, Nilufa Begum _ a soft-spoken 24-year-old immigrant from Bangladesh _ is caught up in multiple police investigations, FBI searches, polygraph tests and separate sexual assault charges against her boyfriend, who reported Tangena missing after a late night stop at a Detroit gas station.

Begum was being questioned by police Thursday afternoon, attorney Shawn Patrick Smith said. He was not sure if she was going to be given a polygraph.

Begum had earlier said she would voluntarily take a lie detector test.

Smith speaks for the family whose culture typically shuns outside intrusions. He also represents Begum's 27-year-old boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain, on charges that he kidnapped and raped a 15-year-old girl in February.

A Bangladeshi couple also have been charged with helping Hussain keep the teen locked in their Hamtramck basement.

The separate investigations have one common denominator: a child who hasn't been seen in seven days.

"Everybody wants to find that little girl," Hamtramck police detective Jacqueline Crachiola said.

But Smith said not everyone has had good intentions.

"Strangers have been calling her house every day saying they've found the baby and she's dead, and then they are hanging up," he told The Associated Press this week.

Crachiola said she was not aware of the crank calls to Begum. Reported sightings of Tangena at a mall and home improvement store also turned up nothing.

Tangena, who shares the same last name as Jamrul Hussain but is not his child, was reported missing the night of Oct. 2.

Hussain told police he was going to pick up Begum from her clothing store job at a suburban shopping mall when he stopped to buy chewing gum and juice. He claimed Tangena was gone when he returned to the red Geo Prizm.

Instead of immediately calling police, Hussain picked up Begum. Only after the couple drove back to the gas station and searched for Tangena was 911 called.

Hussain and Begum are not being called suspects and neither has been charged in the disappearance, but their Hamtramck home has been searched at least three times.

"We're questioning everyone, working to decipher any information that will help us find this little girl," Detroit police spokesman James Tate said.

Police dogs and officers scoured alleys, fields and vacant houses in Hamtramck, a historically working-class Polish community surrounded on all sides by Detroit. It's also home to growing communities of Yemeni, Bangladeshi, Bosnian and Serbian Muslims.

A twist in the case came over the weekend when the 15-year-old girl and her father called police after seeing Hussain on television news reports.

"She said 'Oh my God, dad! That's the same man who took me. We have to call police because he may have done that to the little girl,'" Crachiola said.

An earlier investigation into kidnapping allegations made against Hussain in February had been dropped after the girl told police she had run away. She now claims to have been taken at gunpoint from her home to another Hamtramck house where she was raped and locked in the basement for six days.

Hamtramck police have excavated parts of that home's yard for evidence. Crachiola would not say what was found, only that it was being analyzed.

Hussain was charged Tuesday with kidnapping and sexual assault. Mamunur Rahman Khan and his wife, Hena Begum, are accused of keeping the teen locked in their home. They have been charged with kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment.

Hussain, Khan and Hena Begum have been ordered to turn over their passports.

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[chefann]

And she's now on the AMW site: http://www.amw.com/missing_children/case.cfm?id=59869

[chefann]

http://www.freep.com/article/20081010/NEWS01/810100363/?imw=Y

Tangena Hussain's dad: This case doesn't make sense
He adds $5,000 to reward for girl

BY NAOMI R. PATTON • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • October 10, 2008

When Mohammed Ahmed -- the father of missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain of Hamtramck -- first heard his daughter had disappeared Oct. 2, he thought it was a joke.

Ahmed, 38, of New York said his ex-wife, Nilufa Begum, 24, was crying when she called him the night Tangena was reported abducted from the locked car of Begum's boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain.

She told Ahmed what Hussain, 24, no relation to the missing girl, also told Detroit police: Hussain stopped at a gas station at 8 Mile and Greenfield in Detroit and went inside. When he returned to the car from the store, the little girl was gone from the car.

"Honestly, no, I don't believe his story," Ahmed told the Free Press in a telephone interview Thursday from New York. "It doesn't make sense."

Ahmed has contributed $5,000 to a total $6,000 reward now being offered by Michigan Crime Stoppers for information leading to Tangena's recovery.

Ahmed said he talks to Detroit police and to Begum daily for word about Tangena.

The two were married for five years and divorced in 2006. They have two other children, ages 7 and 8, who live with Ahmed's parents in Bangladesh.

Ahmed said he asked Begum if she knew anything about Tangena's disappearance. She replied that she knew what she had told him.

"I'm just waiting," Ahmed said Thursday about news of Tangena. "Allah knows."

In the latest twist in the case, Detroit police confirmed Begum voluntarily submitted to questioning Thursday afternoon for a polygraph test administered by the Michigan State Police. Police would not discuss the results of the test, which are not admissible in court.

Shawn Patrick Smith, the Bloomfield Hills-based attorney who is representing Hussain and has been acting as a spokesman for the family, could not be reached for comment.

James Tate, Detroit Police Department spokesman, said Begum has told investigators that only she and Hussain saw Tangena for up to a week before her alleged Oct. 2 disappearance.

...<snip> (article continues with previously reported info about the assault case against the boyfriend)

[Grande]

Ann, thanks for all the updates!!

[chefann]

Just trying to give back a little.

I have no connection to this little girl nor her family community. But for some reason the thought of that beautiful angel suffering at the hands of some monster (who her mother may have let into their lives) just makes me cry.

[Grande]

Just trying to give back a little.

I have no connection to this little girl nor her family community. But for some reason the thought of that beautiful angel suffering at the hands of some monster (who her mother may have let into their lives) just makes me cry.

Well thank you Ann, that's sweet.

I know what you mean, it's very sad. I'll never grow accustomed to the feeling I get when I see a precious little girl like Tangena is missing. The same goes for all the legitimate missing person's cases. Initially, I feel grief, then helplessness and just an overwhelming desire to help.

Thanks for being here and supporting this cause! Hopefully, one day we will have closure on the case that brought us together initially!

For Paige, Tangena and all the other missing person's :1222423:

[Faith]

Polygraph given to mother of missing 2-year-old

10/10/2008, 4:19 p.m. EDT
The Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) — A Hamtramck, Mich., mother has taken a lie detector test by police investigating the disappearance of her 2-year-old daughter.

Detroit police spokesman James Tate says the polygraph was given Thursday afternoon to 24-year-old Nilufa Begum. Tate declined to give results of the test.

Police in Detroit, Hamtramck and the FBI continue to search for Tangena Hussain who was reported missing Oct. 2.

Jamrul Hussain has said he left Tangena in his car as he went into a gas station to buy chewing gum and juice. Hussain says she was not in the car when he returned.

The 27-year-old is Begum's live-in boyfriend and is not related to Tangena.

Hussain is jailed on separate kidnapping and sexual assault charges involving a 15-year-old girl.

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/news-58/1223670251203010.xml&storylist=newsmichigan

[Faith]

Detroit Police searched the area surrounding a northwest area gas station Friday, looking for Tangena Hussain, the 2-year-old girl who's been missing since Oct. 2.

Police, distributing leaflets from Michigan Crime Stoppers, searched several blocks around the Marathon gas station on Greenfield at 8 Mile where Tangena was reportedly last seen.

Jamrul Hussain, 24, no relation to Tangena, told Tangena's mother, Nilufa Begum, 24, and police that he had Tangena in the car when he stopped at the gas station. Hussain is Begum's boyfriend.

He told investigators he left Tangena in the car, in the station parking lot, with the doors locked while he went inside to buy gum. Tangena was gone when he came back.

Tangena was last seen wearing a brown, long-sleeve T-shirt with a cartoon picture on the front, white nylon cargo pants and gold sandals. She is around 3 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 34 pounds, has black hair and brown eyes, and has a scar from a burn on her upper lip and chin.

Anyone with information should call Detroit Police at 313-596-1240.

http://www.freep.com/article/20081011/NEWS05/810110313/1007

[Faith]

Saturday, October 11, 2008
Family keeps up hope in search for missing girl, 2
Attorney says there is ample precedent in past cases to show child will soon be discovered alive.
George Hunter / The Detroit News

DETROIT -- Tangena Hussain's relatives are looking to past missing person cases to buoy their hopes that the 2-year-old girl will be found alive.

The search is in its second week, and no new clues to her whereabouts have surfaced. Detroit Police spokesman James Tate said investigators have searched several homes multiple times, along with other spots in and around Detroit since Tangena came up missing the night of Oct. 2.

"We're out there looking, but there's nothing new," Tate said.

Tangena's family continues to hold out hope that she will soon be found, said Shawn Patrick Smith, an attorney who is acting as the family spokesman. Smith said there is ample precedent to show the girl will turn up alive.

"Look at the Elizabeth Smart case," Smith said of the 14-year-old girl who was kidnapped in June 2002 from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah, and was recovered nine months later.

"There are literally dozens of other cases where missing people turn up eventually. That's why it's important to keep this case in the public eye."

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reports that 96 percent of missing children are eventually recovered.

"Time is the enemy in these cases, but it appears the Detroit police are working the case aggressively," said Ernie Allen, president of the group.

Smith is organizing a search at 5 p.m. today near Eight Mile and Greenfield, where the girl was last reported seen by her mother's boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain.

Hussain told police he was on his way to pick up Nilufa Begum from her job at a Northland Mall clothing store with Tangena in the back seat of his car when he ran into a Mobil station to buy a pack of gum. When he returned to the car, he said, Tangena was gone.

Hussain, 27, remains incarcerated in the Wayne County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bond after he was charged last week with an unrelated kidnapping and sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl. Begum, claims Hussain did not kidnap the girl, but that they had a relationship.

Begum took a polygraph test at the Oak Park state police post Thursday at her request, after police questioned her. She said she asked for the test to remove any suspicion from her.

"She's holding out as well as she can," Smith said. "She is a very religious person, and she's drawing from her faith to give her strength."

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081011/METRO/810110357/1409/METRO

[Pandabear]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27057460/

Authorities Search Home Of Man Who Last Saw Missing Child
Mother's Boyfriend Remains Jailed



HAMTRAMCK, Mich. - FBI and police are searching a third home in hopes of finding clues into the disappearance of missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain.

A search warrant is being executed at the Hamtramck home of the girl's mother's boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain, who is the last person to have seen Tangena Hussain more than a week ago.

The home was voluntarily searched a week ago, but agents have a search warrant to look through the home again.

Agents were looking for Jamrul Hussain’s laptop computer. His attorney, Shawn Patrick, Smith later turned it over to police when he arrived at the home.

Smith is representing both Tangena’s mother, Nilufa Belgum, as well as Jamrul Hussain.

An organized volunteer search is set to take place this weekend. The child's father is also expected to fly in from New York Saturday night to help search for Tangena Hussain.

Local 4 has learned Tangena Hussain's mother has passed a polygraph test administered on Thursday.

Police sources told Local 4 they do not believe Nilufa Begum has anything to do with her daughter's disappearance.

Attorney Shawn Smith said testing began just after 2 p.m. at the Michigan State Police post in Oak Park and that he was not allowed to accompany her inside.

Begum was seen leaving the building just after 5 p.m.

“I told her the FBI doesn’t have any faith in polygraphs,” said Smith. “She said, ‘If they want me to take it, I’ll take it. I don’t have anything to lose. I just want them to find my daughter.’”

Meanwhile, on Friday an army of Detroit police officers continued to search the area where the young girl was reported to be last.

The 2-year-old has been missing since last Thursday when she disappeared while in the care of Begum’s boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain.

Jamrul, who has no relation to the missing girl, said he stopped at a Marathon gas station in Detroit at about 9 p.m. and left the girl strapped in the car while he went into the store.

Jamrul said when he returned, the girl was gone.

Jamrul did not immediately report the girl missing and drove to pick up Begum from work at the Northland Mall.

Begum said when she saw her daughter’s sandals in the back of the car, she began to question Jamrul.

"I was asking, 'Where's my daughter; tell me where's my daughter?' and he couldn't even say anything," said Begum.

Begum said Jamrul took her back and recounted the incident to her.

"I said, 'What do you mean she's not inside; why didn’t you call the cops?'" said Begum. "He said, 'I was scared, and I wanted to get you first.'"

Surveillance tapes from the gas station were handed over to authorities, but investigators said a technical glitch prevented Jamrul’s car and the child from being seen. Investigators said Jamrul was filmed entering the store.

Investigators said without seeing the girl on tape, they cannot confirm that she was even taken from the gas station.

Begum said that her daughter knows how to get out of the car, but she doesn't think she would have left without her sandals.

Begum said her motherly instincts tell her someone took her daughter.

The FBI raided the Hamtramck home of the missing girl on Monday.

Over a dozen bags of physical evidence from the two homes, such as soiled blankets and baby bottles were brought to the Michigan State Police forensic lab in Sterling Heights Wednesday.

Police told Rescue 4 investigators on Thursday they are also looking at a digital camera, a piece of carpeting, and some hand-written notes taken from the homes.

Police and federal authorities have been searching the metro Detroit area, fearing the worst and going through Dumpsters, alleys and even a Detroit incinerator.

On Wednesday, police followed several leads from people claiming to have spotted the girl around metro Detroit. After watching surveillance tapes from several stores, police confirmed that the child seen in the tapes was not Hussain.

"The whole family is torn to pieces. There is a missing two-year-old out there somewhere. They're searching everywhere trying to find her," said Smith. "They are tracking down every lead they can to find her. As you know, there is a language barrier which is making it difficult."

Thursday, Local 4 spoke with the girl’s father on the phone from New York. He is working with Crime Stoppers, offering a $6,000 reward.

"I just want to know the people in Detroit and people in Michigan if you have any information please, I'm begging them, to call 911,” said Mohammod Amgo.

Amgo said he is hoping to come to Michigan in the next few days to help in the search for his daughter.

Boyfriend Of Missing Girl's Mother Arraigned On Rape Charges

While authorities search for the missing girl, Jamrul is engaged in a separate legal battle for an unrelated assault case.

Jamrul, 24, was arrested Saturday by Hamtramck police for the case that happened in February.

He was arraigned Tuesday after being charged by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy with kidnapping and two counts of sexual assault.

Smith is representing Jamrul.

Jamrul is accused of keeping a 15-year-old girl in the basement of Hena Begum and her husband Mamunur Rahman Khan’s house and assaulting her for a week.

He repeatedly told a magistrate at his arraignment on Tuesday he did not understand what was going on.

"Who's kidnapped? I didn't kidnap nobody, sir," Jamrul said in court.

Police said the teen came forward when she saw Jamrul’s picture on TV after an Amber Alert was issued for the child.

His attorney, Smith, said the 15-year-old is not telling the truth and it is purely a case of a jealous ex-girlfriend.

He is being held on a $500,000 bond.

Sources close to the investigation said Jamrul failed a polygraph Friday.

Couple With Ties To Missing Girl Arraigned On Kidnapping Charges

Hena Begum, who shares the same last name as the missing girl’s mother but is not related, is a former co-worker of Jamrul and still works with his brother. Hena and her husband, Khan said they gave Jamrul a job two years ago, and took he and the 15-year-old girl, who he said was his girlfriend, into their home February, because that's what they do – they are all from Bangladesh.

Investigators said evidence was found at the couple's home to support the 15-year-old girl's claim that she was held hostage in the couple's home and raped by Jamrul.

The couple was arraigned Wednesday in 31st District Court on charges of kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment in connection with the alleged kidnapping of the teen.

The couple pleaded not guilty, and bond was set at $500,000 for Khan and $50,000 for Hena.

A preliminary exam was set for 8:30 a.m. Oct. 16.

"The female did try helping her (the 15-year-old girl) by feeding her and allowing her to take showers while at that residence, but the problem is that they did not come forward when she was being held there," said Detective Jacqueline Crachiola.

The couple reportedly voluntarily went to police after they learned the girl's age.



FBI agents and police investigators were seen digging in the back yard of the Bangladeshi couple's home on Lumpkin Street Tuesday evening in connection with the Thursday disappearance of 2-year-old.

[Faith]

Detroit police, family still searching for missing 2-year-old
The Detroit News

DETROIT -- Police still have no clues to the location of a missing 2-year-old girl and no suspects in the case after nearly two weeks.

James Tate, spokesman for Detroit police, said Saturday morning that the department has searched for Tangena Hussain everyday since she went missing, but there have been no developments leading to the girl.

"We're still investigating it as a missing persons case," he said.

On Saturday evening, an attorney for the boyfriend of Tangena's mother, who reportedly was the last person to see Tangena, will lead a search for her at Eight Mile and Greenfield. The boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain, who is not related to Tangena, told investigators he left the child in a 1997 Geo Prizm on Oct. 2 while he ran inside a gas station at the intersection to buy gum, police said.

Shawn Patrick Smith, Hussain's attorney, said volunteers will hand out fliers in hopes that someone remembers something that can lead to Tangena. Smith said he and others will also spread the word about her disappearance because he said some in the community still don't know she is missing.

"Not everyone reads the papers," Smith said Saturday morning. "Not everybody watches TV. Not everyone knows about this."

Smith said he is also the spokesman for Nilufa Begum, Tangena's mother.

A week ago, Hamtramck police arrested Hussain on an unrelated felony. Hussain, 27, remains incarcerated in the Wayne County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bond after he was charged last week with an unrelated kidnapping and sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl. Begum has said Hussain did not kidnap the girl, but that they had a relationship.

Hussain told police he was on his way to pick up Begum from her job at a Northland Mall clothing store with Tangena in the back seat of his car when he ran into a Mobil station to buy the gum. When he returned to the car, he said, Tangena was gone.

Begum took a polygraph test at the Oak Park state police post Thursday at her request, after police questioned her. She said she asked for the test to remove any suspicion from her.

"She's holding out as well as she can," Smith said earlier in the week. "She is a very religious person, and she's drawing from her faith to give her strength."

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081011/METRO/810110417

[Amusedtdth]

The longer it is the worse it gets. I don't have good feelings about this and pray to God I'm wrong. My gut feeling is this "boyfriend" sold her for whatever reasons. Given the present charges against him w/the 15 yr old only gives me more reason to think this. Again, I pray I'm wrong and hope she turns up fine and well.
IMOO]
:1222423: for Tangena

[chefann]

I have that same feeling, Amused.

*sigh* So very sad...

[Faith]

Police, family still searching for missing 2-year-old
The Detroit News

DETROIT -- Volunteers along with a couple family members of missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain held a vigil Saturday evening at the Mobil station at Eight Mile and Greenfield where the girl went missing 10 days ago.

Nilufa Begam, the girl's mother, said volunteers are helping pass out fliers to track down information on the girl who disappeared after her mother's boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain, said he left her in a 1997 Geo Prizm Oct. 2 while he ran inside to buy gum, police said. Hussain is not related to the girl.

"Everything is going great," Begam said Saturday around 5:30 p.m. "We're just staying here giving out fliers to people. I don't know what we're going to do next."

James Tate, spokesman for Detroit police, said Saturday the department has searched for Tangena everyday since she went missing, but there have been no developments leading to the girl.

"We're still investigating it as a missing persons case," he said.

Shawn Patrick Smith, Hussain's attorney, said volunteers will hand out fliers in hopes that someone remembers something that can lead to Tangena. Smith said he and others will also spread the word about her disappearance because he said some in the community still don't know she is missing.

"Not everyone reads the papers," Smith said Saturday morning. "Not everybody watches TV. Not everyone knows about this."

A week ago, Hamtramck police arrested Hussain on an unrelated felony. Hussain, 27, remains incarcerated in the Wayne County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bond after he was charged last week with an unrelated kidnapping and sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl. Begum has said Hussain did not kidnap the girl, but that they had a relationship.

Hussain told police he was on his way to pick up Begum from her job at a Northland Mall clothing store with Tangena in the back seat of his car when he ran into a Mobil station to buy the gum. When he returned to the car, he said, Tangena was gone.

Begum took a polygraph test at the Oak Park state police post Thursday at her request, after police questioned her. She said she asked for the test to remove any suspicion from her. Tate said the results of the test have come in, but refused to disclose the results.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081011/METRO/810110417&imw=Y

[TigressPen]

I don't trust Jamrul Hussain. I think he did something to or with the baby and pray LE finds the answers to all the puzzles.

[PinkPony]

Mother's Boyfriend Remains Jailed

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. -- Several new tips have been reported to police about the disappearance of a 2-year-old Hamtramck girl.

"This is too important. This is a little girl that needs our help," said John Broad of the Crime Stoppers organization. "We've gotta find her."

Monday, Broad said Crime Stoppers received nearly a dozen confidential tips over the weekend about Tangena Hussain. "I'm sure there are more tips on the way," Broad said.

Last week, the FBI and police searched a third home in hopes of finding clues about Hussain's disappearance.

Detectives also executed a search warrant at the Hamtramck home of the girl's mother's boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain. Hussain, who is not related to the missing girl, is believed to be the last person to have seen Tangena more than a week ago.

"The feeling is that the dad or mom, or whoever, has a really hard feeling for this baby (Tangena)," said Hamtramck resident Mohammed Kamal.

The 2-year-old has been missing since Oct. 2 when she disappeared while in Jamrul Hussain's care.

Jamrul Hussain told police he stopped at a Marathon gas station in Detroit at about 9 p.m. and left the girl strapped in the car while he went into the store.

He said when he returned, the girl was gone.

Jamrul Hussain did not immediately report the girl missing and drove to pick up the child's mother, Nilufa Begum, who works at the Northland Mall.

Begum said when she saw her daughter’s sandals in the back of the car, she began to question Jamrul.

"I was asking, 'Where's my daughter; tell me where's my daughter?' and he couldn't even say anything," said Begum.

Begum said Jamrul took her back and recounted the incident to her.

"I said, 'What do you mean she's not inside; why didn’t you call the cops?'" said Begum. "He said, 'I was scared, and I wanted to get you first.'"

Surveillance tapes from the gas station were handed over to authorities, but investigators said a technical glitch prevented Jamrul’s car and the child from being seen. Investigators said Jamrul was filmed entering the store.

Investigators said without seeing the girl on tape, they cannot confirm that she was even taken from the gas station.

Boyfriend Of Missing Girl's Mother Arraigned On Rape Charges



While authorities search for the missing girl, Jamrul Hussain is engaged in a separate legal battle for an unrelated assault case.

The 24-year-old was arrested by Hamtramck police and charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl who was allegedly kept in a friend's basement.


http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17637458/detail.html

[Faith]

Judge to rule if man linked to Tangena will stand trial
He's accused of raping teen

• October 15, 2008

While the search continues for 2-year-old Tangena Hussain, a judge will decide Thursday whether to send an unrelated rape case against her mother’s boyfriend to trial.

Jamrul Hussain, 24, who said Tangena disappeared from his parked car while he shopped in a Detroit gas station store, is set to appear Thursday for a preliminary exam in 31st District Court in Hamtramck on criminal sexual conduct and unlawful imprisonment charges. Hussain and Tangena are not related, but lived together with Tangena’s mother in Hamtramck.

The 15-year-old victim is set to testify that Jamrul Hussain attacked her twice while she was being held against her will for six days in his friends’ Hamtramck basement, Hamtramck Police Detective Jackie Crachiola said today. The teen had originally claimed to be a runaway, but she changed her story when she saw Jamrul Hussain on television after Tangena disappeared on Oct. 2.

The friends, Mamunur Rahman Khan and his wife Hena Begum, are also expected in court for their exams on unlawful imprisonment chargesThursday.

Jamrul Hussain’s lawyer Shawn Patrick Smith says the victim is Jamrul Hussain’s ex-girlfriend and was willingly with him.

The Amber Alert for Tangena remains in effect. Tangena is about 3 feet, 2 inches tall, weighs 34 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes. She has a scar on her upper lip and chin. Call Detroit police at 313-596-1240 if you have any information.

http://www.freep.com/article/20081015/NEWS02/81015047/1004/NEWS

[chefann]

Sadly, this seems to have fallen off the local news priority list. I've got the evening news on now, and there wasn't anything about it (unless it was a minute or two while I was in the kitchen).

[Nut44x4]

Rape hearing delayed for boyfriend of missing toddler's mom
October 16, 2008

A judge rescheduled a court hearing on rape charges against the boyfriend of the mother of missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain, after two witnesses came forward questioning the alleged victim’s credibility.

“Two witnesses confirmed there was a relationship prior to this,” said the lawyer for Jamrul Hussain, 24, who is charged with kidnapping and raping the 15-year-old girl. Attorney Sean Patrick Smith, as well as the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office and the Hamtramck Police agreed in 31st District Couort in Hamtramck this morning to reconvene Nov. 6 after further investigation of the claims.

Tangena’s mother, Nilufa Begum, whose daughter is still missing, was also in the court this morning, her eyes tearing while Jamrul Hussain stood in front of the judge, crying as he looked back at her and at least six relatives in the courtroom.

Jamrul Hussain said Tangena disappeared from his parked car while he shopped in a Detroit gas station store. The man and girl are not related, but lived together with Tangena’s mother in Hamtramck.

Also appearing in court this morning were his friends, Hena Begum and her husband Mamunur Rahman Khan, accused of keeping the 15-year-old in their Hamtramck basement for six days in February. Arriving with them at the court building at about 8:30 a.m., Begum's lawyer, Whitney Lemelin, confirmed he'll argue with Jamrul Hussain's attorney that the 15-year-old is a disgruntled ex-girlfriend.

"That's what the evidence is looking like," Lemelin said this morning before the court hearing.

The judge reduced Khan's bond to a personal recognizance bond, with the stipulation he surrender his passport. Hena Begum has been free on bond pending trial.

The 15-year-old victim was set to testify that Jamrul Hussain attacked her twice while she was being held against her will for six days in his friends’ Hamtramck basement. Working with her is an assistant from the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office's child abuse division, Lora Weingarden.

The girl had originally claimed to be a runaway. But she changed her story when she saw Jamrul Hussain on television after Tangena disappeared on Oct. 2.

The Amber Alert for Tangena remains in effect. Tangena is around 3 feet, 2 inches tall, weighs 34 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes. She has a scar on her upper lip and chin. Call Detroit police at 313-596-1240 if you have information.

Hamtramck home searched
Investigators from the FBI and local police confiscated blankets, cameras and other household items from the Hamtramck home where the 15-year-old claims the boyfriend of missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain’s mother kept her in the basement and raped her, according to search warrants.

Investigators found nothing when they dug up a 2-foot-by-4-foot garden plot in the backyard during a search of the house where she said she was kept prisoner for six days in February.

The 15-year-old told police for the search warrant that she was acquainted with Jamrul Hussain, 24, who is waiting to appear in 31st District Court in Hamtramck this morning on charges he took the girl from her home at gunpoint in February.

But she told investigators she did not know his friends Hena Begum and her husband, Mamunur Kahn, until she was held in their Lumpkin Road home for six days, according to the search warrant.
http://www.freep.com/article/20081016/NEWS05/81016040/-1/RSS07

[TeeOne]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27225857/

[chefann]

That guy makes me sick. urgh...

[Faith]

Story Published: Oct 17, 2008 at 10:40 AM PDT

Story Updated: Oct 17, 2008 at 10:40 AM PDT

Watch video (javascript:openPopup('%2Fr%3F19%3D950%2632%3D4282 %267%3D229067%2640%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.tv20de troit.com%252Fnews%252F31172029.html%253Fvideo%253 DYHI%2526t%253Da%2641%3DVideo%2BHussain%2BCourt%2B Appearance%2618%3D0.7533878615729547','video','scr ollbars=yes,width=800,height=700,screenx=15,screen y=15');)

Jamrul Hussain, who was last seen with missing two-year old Tangena Hussain appeared in court on a different case today. Both the defendent and prosecutors agreed to reschedule the preliminary hearing to Novemeber sixth. This after new evidence, which was not revealed in court, surfaced in the last few days.

SHAWN PATRICK SMITH HUSSAIN'S LAWYER

"The question is whether or not there was really a kidnapping here. Enough has been provided to the prosecutor that they have to look into this because they do not want to harm innocent people."

Hussain's bond was lowered from 500 thousand to 250 thousand dollars.

Hussain is a person of interest in the disppearnace of 2-year-old Tangena Hussain. It's been over a week since anyone has seen her. A six-thousand dollar reward is now being offered to anyone who provides information leading police to the missing girl.

http://www.tv20detroit.com/news/31172029.html

[Faith]

Saturday, October 18, 2008
Man last seen with missing 2-year-old too upset to take lie detector test

Santiago Esparza / The Detroit News

HAMTRAMCK -- The man last seen with a missing 2-year-old Hamtramck girl was too distraught to take a lie detector test on Friday, his attorney Patrick Shawn Smith said.



"He is very afraid...he broke down," Smith said Saturday. "He is under intense pressure."



Jamrul Hussain, 27, of Hamtramck, was with 2-year-old Tangena Hussain on Oct. 2 at 9 p.m. at a gas station in northwest Detroit. They are not related. Hussain is the boyfriend of Tangena's mother.



He told Detroit police investigators he left the toddler in the car while he went into the gas station to buy gum. When he returned, the child was gone, police said Hussain told them.



But Hussain did not immediately call authorities. Instead, he went to Northland Mall in Southfield to get Nilufa Begum, Tangena's mother, and then police were called.
Hussain has not been named a suspect in Tangena's disappearance, Detroit and Hamtramck police have said. He is jailed on $250,000 bond in an unrelated case in which a 15-year-old Hamtramck girl said Hussain kidnapped and raped her earlier this year.



Smith said a rape kit was not conducted on the girl and that she changed her story after initially telling police Hussain was her boyfriend. A Hamtramck couple have been jailed for allegedly providing a place for Hussain to rape the girl and not helping or allowing her to leave.



Blood samples have been collected from Tangena's home and tests show the blood was not the toddler's, Smith said.



Hussain, a native of Bangladesh, can speak English, but does not fully grasp complicated matters, such as asking for an attorney during police interrogations, Smith said. Detroit police have said that Hussain was able to communicate in English.
Hussain already has taken one polygraph test. Smith would not say how Hussain did on that first test. He said Hussain could not take the second test on Friday because Hussain was too emotional.



"The person who administers the test said he (Hussain) was too upset," Smith said. "I calmed him down, but not enough to take the test."



Detroit police on Saturday declined to comment on the case.



http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081018/METRO/810180411

[chefann]

Sadly, this case has all but fallen off the local radar.

The only new things I found are:
http://www.hamtramckcitizen.com/news/10-29-08-zilch

10/29/08 Zilch

All Things Hamtramck

Update … As we went to press on Tuesday afternoon, there was nothing new in the case of missing 2-year-old, Tangena Hussain.

The Hamtramck girl disappeared on Oct. 2 when she was allegedly left alone for a minute or two in a car. Her mother’s boyfriend said he pulled into a gasoline station on Greenfield near Eight Mile to get some gum.

Tangena was left alone in the car, the boyfriend said. When he came out, the girl was gone.

Privately, investigators question whether Tangena was really ever in that car. Anyone who has information is asked to call 911.

http://www.hamtramckcitizen.com/news/crime-stoppers-offer-6000-reward
10/31/08 Crime Stoppers offer $6000 reward

Tangena Hussain has been missing since Thursday, October 2, 2008.
by Dan Medow

Tangena Hussain has been missing since Thursday, October 2, 2008. In an effort to find her, Crime Stoppers is now offering a cash award of up to $6,000 to anyone who provides information leading to the felony arrest of the person or persons responsible for the crime.

You can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-773-2587.

In an effort to reach out to as many people as possible, flyers in five languages have been prepared. Please download and post these flyers wherever it seems appropriate.
Flyers mentioned in the text of the article are available at the link in English, Bengali, Arabic, Polish and Bosnian.

[PinkPony]

Thanks chefann

I've been scouring the different news links hoping to find something.

I'm so worried about Tangena.

PP

[Faith]

I pray the reward will bring answers to what happened to Tangena.

[TigressPen]

I have doubts that Tangena was in that car when he stopped at that convenience store. The buying gum was a ruse and a means to report her missing to her mother.

[chefann]

Sadly, I think you're right, Tigress. During the course of a conversation with a dear friend (Hi, KG!) yesterday, he suggested that this may be somehow tied to payment for immigration services rendered, since all the players are foreign-born. That theory hadn't occurred to me, but it makes a lot of sense.

[packy]

Sadly, I think you're right, Tigress. During the course of a conversation with a dear friend (Hi, KG!) yesterday, he suggested that this may be somehow tied to payment for immigration services rendered, since all the players are foreign-born. That theory hadn't occurred to me, but it makes a lot of sense.

That's interesting and I would not have thought of that either. Hope the flyers in the different languages reach out to someone who knows something, and the reward my be a good incentive for someone to come forward.

[TigressPen]

Sadly, I think you're right, Tigress. During the course of a conversation with a dear friend (Hi, KG!) yesterday, he suggested that this may be somehow tied to payment for immigration services rendered, since all the players are foreign-born. That theory hadn't occurred to me, but it makes a lot of sense.



Which means if it is a viable answer that she may still be alive, but I don't want to contemplate what she may be enduring.

[chefann]

No links yet, but the local news just anounced that Jamrul Hussain will be in court today for a preliminary hearing for the kidnapping case (the 15 year old). But still nothing directly pertaining to Tangena.

Praying for Tangena :1222423:

[Amusedtdth]

No links yet, but the local news just anounced that Jamrul Hussain will be in court today for a preliminary hearing for the kidnapping case (the 15 year old). But still nothing directly pertaining to Tangena.

Praying for Tangena :1222423:

I wish this man would just tell the truth...he sounds like he's taking lessons from Casey A. My belief is that he's seen that case and figures he can do the same thing. Meanwhile another precious little angle suffers...where and when does this end? :cray:
moo

[PinkPony]

Thanks chefann

I also continue to pray for Tangena and her safety.

PP

[Faith]

Charges Dropped Against Couple Linked To Missing Girl Case

POSTED: 2:26 pm EST November 6, 2008
UPDATED: 2:58 pm EST November 6, 2008

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. -- All charges have been dropped against a couple accused of helping a 24-year-old man kidnap and rape a 15-year-old girl.

Charges were dropped against two of the three people accused in the case.

The teenage girl told police Jamrul Hussain, 24, kidnapped and sexually and physically assaulted her.

The girl went to police about the incident after she saw Hussain on television in a missing 2-year-old girl case. An Amber Alert is still in effect for Tangena Hussain. Jamrul Hussain was dating the missing child's mother, but is not related to the child. He was the last person to see the child on Oct. 2 at a Detroit gas station, police said.

Hussain's attorney, Patrick Smith, said he predicts the criminal sexual charges will be dropped against his client. However, he remains jailed on kidnapping charges for the missing child.

According to court documents, the 15-year-old told police earlier in the year Hussain kidnapped her at gunpoint from her parents' Hamtramck home, drove around for several hours, then held her hostage for one week in a Hamtramck home.

The charges were dropped against the homeowners, Hussain's friends, Mammur Khan and his wife, Hena Begum. However, Khan remains in an immigration holding cell until the case is cleared up.

Begum said the last month has been a nightmare for her and her family.

Khan and Begum's attorney Whitney Lemelin said, "My clients simply had nothing to do with the kidnapping whatsoever."

Lemelin added the Indian couple moved here in search of the American dream. They have an 8-month-old child and are trying to buy a business.

Smith said the teen has accused Hussain of kidnapping and rape as a spurned ex-lover and new evidence has been revealed that questions the teen's credibility.

"The whole case has been gutted. They have a complaining witness who has apparently lied about somebody kidnapping them, she lied about somebody holding a gun to her head and she lied about being held in a basement. I mean, that's the majority of the case," said Smith.

Smith has asked a judge for a postponement in Hussain's case so he can sort out the teen's story. The judge agreed and set another hearing for Hussain on Nov. 20.


Previous Stories:

October 18, 2008: Man Linked To Missing Girl Takes 2nd Polygraph Test (http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17637458/detail.html)
October 11, 2008: Vigil Held For Missing Child (http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17693958/detail.html)
October 6, 2008: Girl, 2, Missing; Mother's Boyfriend Arrested (http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17613777/detail.html)

[Faith]

Rape charges may be reduced; toddler still missing
Teen's story doubted

• November 7, 2008

An unrelated rape case against the last man to see missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain of Hamtramck, who disappeared more than a month ago, appears to be unraveling.

Jamrul Hussain, 24, who is the boyfriend of Tangena's mother but no relation to the girl, remains behind bars today on $250,000 bond. He is charged with raping a 15-year-old girl in a Hamtramck basement in February, but that may change.

Judge Paul Paruk of 31st District Court on Thursday dismissed kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment charges against Jamrul Hussain's friends and the owners of the home, Hena Begum and her husband, Mamunar Rahman Khan.

The judge said Thursday's dismissal was based on questions surrounding the 15-year-old girl's credibility.

The rape charges against Hussain may be changed to a lesser charge involving sexual contact with a minor, according to statements made in court by his defense attorney.

Sean Patrick Smith has contended that the rape case against his client was bogus and that the teen was actually an ex-girlfriend of Hussain.

Witnesses were prepared to testify that Hussain and the 15-year-old girl were seen kissing and holding hands around Hamtramck. The judge set another hearing for Nov. 20 to revisit the charges in the case.

"The only reason my client's still in jail is because 2-year-old Tangena is still missing," Smith said after the hearing.

Smith said he believes the teenage girl is using Tangena's disappearance as an opportunity to regain her reputation in the Bengali community in the Hamtramck area.

Many in the Bengali community strictly forbid sexual relations outside of marriage because they believe it permanently damages a person's reputation, Smith said. But that doesn't apply if a person is attacked or raped, he said.

Hussain told authorities that Tangena was taken from his locked, parked car on Oct. 2 while he was shopping inside a Detroit gas station.

He said he was on his way to pick up Tangena's mother, Nilufa Begum, his girlfriend at the time and no relation to Hena Begum.

In February, the 15-year-old girl arrived at the Hamtramck Police department with Hena Begum, claiming she had run away for six days. But her story changed in October after Tangena disappeared. After seeing Hussain on TV reports about the missing toddler, she contacted the Hamtramck Police again, claiming she was kidnapped, raped and held in the basement.

While the kidnapping charges were dismissed against Khan, he remained in custody and is facing deportation back to Bengal under a 2006 administrative order, U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement spokesman Mike Gilhooly said Thursday. As she left the courtroom, a tear fell from Hena Begum's eye. She told a reporter afterward that the case has been a "huge nightmare."

Her lawyer, Daniel Finwall, called the dismissal of the charges "bittersweet." Finwall said the case has presented problems for the couple -- operators of a Ferndale sub shop where Hussain was an employee -- as well as thousands of dollars in legal bills.

Nilufa Begum, Tangena's mother, was among those in the courtroom Thursday. As she waited for the hearing to begin, she told the Free Press she just wants her missing daughter back.

"I just want to say, whoever has my daughter, please turn her in," she said.

http://www.freep.com/article/20081107/NEWS02/811070400/1004/news02

[chefann]

Update from local news, Nov. 13
http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/17970719/index.html

Interesting info in the story, including the fact that the boyfriend left Tangena alone at home for 2-3 hours the day she disappeared while he ran errands. As far as I'm concerned, he should be put away for child neglect for that.

There's just so much that's hinky about this whole situation.

[Amusedtdth]

I don't buy this guys story for a minute. I don't believe that Tangena was ever in his car that day. I feel so bad for this child, its heartbreaking what is happening in todays world and what some parents and caregivers are doing.
moo

[Faith]

Charges Reduced For Man Connected To Missing Girl Case

POSTED: 1:50 pm EST November 20, 2008
UPDATED: 2:12 pm EST November 20, 2008

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. -- Kidnapping and sexual assault charges have been dropped against a Hamtramck man who in an unrelated case reported his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter missing.

Jamrul Hussain on Thursday was bound over to Wayne County Circuit Court for trial on two reduced charges of having sex with a minor. Arraignment is set for Dec. 9.

The 24-year-old initially was charged with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping and felony firearm involving a 15-year-old victim.

According to court documents, the 15-year-old told police earlier in the year Hussain kidnapped her at gunpoint from her parents' Hamtramck home, drove around for several hours, then held her hostage for one week in a Hamtramck home.

Kidnapping charges were dropped against the Hamtramck homeowners, Hussain's friends, Mammur Khan and his wife, Hena Begum, where the girl claims she was held.

Khan and Begum's attorney Whitney Lemelin said, "My clients simply had nothing to do with the kidnapping whatsoever."

Hussain's attorney, Patrick Smith, unsuccessfully sought to have the case dismissed entirely.

Smith said the teen has accused Hussain of kidnapping and rape as a spurned ex-lover and new evidence has been revealed that questions the teen's credibility.

"The whole case has been gutted. They have a complaining witness who has apparently lied about somebody kidnapping them, she lied about somebody holding a gun to her head and she lied about being held in a basement. I mean, that's the majority of the case," said Smith.

Hussain was the last person seen with Tangena Hussain, no relation, who has been missing since Oct. 2. No one has been charged in that case.

The mother of the missing child wants Hussain to take a second lie detector test about the missing child. He failed the first one but Smith credits the Indian man's language barrier.

Smith said his client would take another test, but only if it was administered properly and there was an interpreter.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/18025484/detail.html

[Faith]

Thursday, November 20, 2008
Mom of missing Hamtramck girl now doubts boyfriend
George Hunter and Doug Guthrie / The Detroit News

HAMTRAMCK -- The mother of a 2-year-old girl missing for seven weeks now believes her former boyfriend may know more about Tangena Hussain's disappearance than he's revealed.

Nilufa Begum said today that her doubts have grown since Jamrul Hussain, 27, told authorities the girl vanished from his car when he stopped on Oct. 2 at a Detroit gas station for chewing gum.

After watching today as 31st District Judge Paul Paruk ordered Jamrul Hussain to stand trial for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old girl, Begum said she'd like to see him answer questions about her daughter's disappearance while his reactions are recorded by a lie detector.

"He doesn't even ask about my daughter when he calls (from jail)," Begum said. "That's why I don't believe him right now. And I want him to take a polygraph for my daughter."

Hussain was the last person to see Tangena, and police say they have no new clues to her whereabouts.

Hussain, who is no relation to the missing girl, was bound over for trial today on charges of third-degree criminal sexual conduct stemming from his relationship with the 15-year-old. The judge dismissed kidnap and a rape charge, concluding after hearing the girl's testimony today that she appeared to be involved in a relationship with Hussain. The new charge carries a maximum penalty of up to 15 years in prison.

The judge was shown photographs of the two hugging and apparently happy together. The girl said she was forced to pose for the pictures. Regardless, it is illegal in Michigan for an adult to have sex with anyone under 16.

The 15-year-old girl insisted today in her testimony that she was kidnapped, raped twice and held against her will for a week by Hussain. She said he stalked her for months before he imprisoned her in the basement of a Hamtramck home in February.

"He used to follow me and I tried to ignore him," the girl testified.

She said the couple who owned the house where she was held aided in the kidnapping. But charges against Mamunur Rahman Khan and his wife, Hena Begum, recently were dismissed by prosecutors.

The 15-year-old admitted on the witness stand today that she lied to police in February, explaining her own week-long disappearance by saying she ran away from home. She said she changed her mind and called authorities in October after recognizing Hussain on television, talking about Tangena's disappearance.

You can reach Doug Guthrie at (313) 222-2548 or dguthrie@detnews.com.

http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081120/METRO/811200442

[Claudia]

It took her THIS LONG to realize that his story was suspicious??? :doh:

[Claycat]

In her culture, the women don't have much say. They find it very difficult to question the males. I feel sad for her. She will probably never see Tangena again. :(

[emmeblu]

Amber Alert Issued For Missing Two-Year-Old
Michigan State Police Issue Amber Alert For Missing Two-Year-Old Girl

DETROIT, Mich -- Michigan State Police have issued an Amber Alert for a missing two-year-old girl who was last seen at a Marathon gas station around 8:45 p.m. Thursday in northwest Detroit.

Tangena Hussain, 2, was in the care of her mother's boyfriend while her mother was at work.

The boyfriend stopped at the gas station before picking the mother up from work, leaving the child in the car while he went inside to make a purchase, according to police.

When the man returned, the girl was gone.


The girl is described as East Indian with light brown complexion.

She is 35 lbs. with black shoulder length hair. She was last seen wearing a long sleeve brown t-shirt and white nylon cargo pants.

If you have any information call the Detroit Police Department at (313) 596-1240.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17613777/detail.html


Well, here's my problem ...
Tangena Hussain, 2, was in the care of her mother's boyfriend while her mother was at work.

I would not believe anything this guy said, period! Hope that LE is looking at him closely as a person of interest.
What a shame. When are women going to stop leaving their babies with the boyfriend?

Still hope this child is found safe but it does not look very hopeful.

[MrzEzell]

I really wish there was some news on this case. I just don't understand how there is nothing. I can only pray for the best of outcomes.

[Amusedtdth]

I really wish there was some news on this case. I just don't understand how there is nothing. I can only pray for the best of outcomes.

Another one...where the crack is widening to swallow this child...This story and this child IMO is screaming to be kept in the forefront for all to see.. I want to bring her home, prefrebly alive. I pray that the boyfriend opens up and spills what happened.

[sarahhod]

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081226/METRO/812260367/1410/METRO01

Culture barriers stall search for girl
Police say suspicion of outsiders among Bengali immigrants a factor in hunt for missing toddler.

George Hunter / The Detroit News
Friday, December 26, 2008

HAMTRAMCK -- Nearly three months after 2-year-old Tangena Hussain disappeared, police acknowledge thorny cultural differences are complicating their investigation.

The probe involves immigrants from Bangladesh, who police say are close-knit and often suspicious of outsiders.

"A lot of times, the only people we can interview are children, because they're the only ones in the family who speak English," said Hamtramck Detective George Voight, a 21-year veteran. "And when you're dealing with people from Bangladesh, or others who are Muslims, a lot of times the women won't talk to the police, because a lot of times women in Muslim communities aren't allowed to talk to men."

Tangena, whose mother is a Bengali immigrant, was reported missing in Detroit on Oct. 2 by her mother's boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain, who shares the girl's last name but is not related. Hussain, 27, is also from Bangladesh.

Shortly after the disappearance was reported, Detroit Police and FBI investigators enlisted the aid of the Wayne State International Student Affairs Department to help understand the Bengali culture, said Wayne State Police Chief Tony Holt.

"They wanted to get the lay of the land, so some students from Bangladesh gave the detectives some tips on dealing with people from that culture," Holt said.

The same day Hussain reported Tangena missing, he was arrested in an eight-month-old kidnapping and rape case involving a 15-year-old girl. Prosecutors dropped the charges after the girl admitted she lied about being kidnapped. Instead, prosecutors charged Hussain with criminal sexual conduct

Hussain's attorney, Shawn Patrick Smith, insisted from the start that his client hadn't kidnapped the girl, but instead was involved in a romantic relationship with her.

"There's nothing unusual in Bengali culture for a 27-year-old man to have a relationship with a 15-year-old girl," Smith said. "What is frowned upon in that culture is having premarital sex, which is why the girl lied; she had to say it was a kidnapping because it's taboo to have sex before marriage in their Islamic culture."

Hamtramck Police are used to dealing with those different cultural mores -- and, Voight said, there's also a challenge as immigrants get used to the American way of life.

Students in the city's schools speak 27 languages, as immigrants from the Balkans, Middle East and Asia have joined Hamtramck's most famous immigrant group, the Polish.

Hamtramck's population is 24,000, and Voight estimated there are another 10,000 undocumented immigrants there.

"The last three to four years, we've been seeing a lot of domestic violence cases with people from Bangladesh," Voight said. "Male dominance is part of life in Islamic cultures, but the women come here and realize after a few years that women aren't like that here."

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was a huge Albanian influx; a few years later, immigrants from Yemen and Bangladesh began moving into the city.

[Amusedtdth]

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081226/METRO/812260367/1410/METRO01

Culture barriers stall search for girl
Police say suspicion of outsiders among Bengali immigrants a factor in hunt for missing toddler.

George Hunter / The Detroit News
Friday, December 26, 2008

HAMTRAMCK -- Nearly three months after 2-year-old Tangena Hussain disappeared, police acknowledge thorny cultural differences are complicating their investigation.

The probe involves immigrants from Bangladesh, who police say are close-knit and often suspicious of outsiders.

"A lot of times, the only people we can interview are children, because they're the only ones in the family who speak English," said Hamtramck Detective George Voight, a 21-year veteran. "And when you're dealing with people from Bangladesh, or others who are Muslims, a lot of times the women won't talk to the police, because a lot of times women in Muslim communities aren't allowed to talk to men."

Tangena, whose mother is a Bengali immigrant, was reported missing in Detroit on Oct. 2 by her mother's boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain, who shares the girl's last name but is not related. Hussain, 27, is also from Bangladesh.

Shortly after the disappearance was reported, Detroit Police and FBI investigators enlisted the aid of the Wayne State International Student Affairs Department to help understand the Bengali culture, said Wayne State Police Chief Tony Holt.

"They wanted to get the lay of the land, so some students from Bangladesh gave the detectives some tips on dealing with people from that culture," Holt said.

The same day Hussain reported Tangena missing, he was arrested in an eight-month-old kidnapping and rape case involving a 15-year-old girl. Prosecutors dropped the charges after the girl admitted she lied about being kidnapped. Instead, prosecutors charged Hussain with criminal sexual conduct

Hussain's attorney, Shawn Patrick Smith, insisted from the start that his client hadn't kidnapped the girl, but instead was involved in a romantic relationship with her.

"There's nothing unusual in Bengali culture for a 27-year-old man to have a relationship with a 15-year-old girl," Smith said. "What is frowned upon in that culture is having premarital sex, which is why the girl lied; she had to say it was a kidnapping because it's taboo to have sex before marriage in their Islamic culture."

Hamtramck Police are used to dealing with those different cultural mores -- and, Voight said, there's also a challenge as immigrants get used to the American way of life.

Students in the city's schools speak 27 languages, as immigrants from the Balkans, Middle East and Asia have joined Hamtramck's most famous immigrant group, the Polish.

Hamtramck's population is 24,000, and Voight estimated there are another 10,000 undocumented immigrants there.

"The last three to four years, we've been seeing a lot of domestic violence cases with people from Bangladesh," Voight said. "Male dominance is part of life in Islamic cultures, but the women come here and realize after a few years that women aren't like that here."

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was a huge Albanian influx; a few years later, immigrants from Yemen and Bangladesh began moving into the city.

:mad::madranting94dp:
Not much more to say...this is very disappointing.

[RayStar]

:mad::madranting94dp:
Not much more to say...this is very disappointing.Yes it is. There really should be someone in that community who could help LE.

[Faith]

This Amber Alert has expired. There re no active Amber Alerts as of today.

[wheezer]

Two-year-old Tangena Hussain vanished three months ago in the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck, Michigan, and police say the trail has gone cold.

Tangena's mother called police on the evening of October 2, 2008, to report her daughter missing after frantically searching the area where she was last seen.

The child's mother, Nilufa Begum, told police she had left the girl in the care of her boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain. Although Tangena and Hussain have the same last name, he is not her father.

Begum told investigators her daughter was with Hussain all day while she worked at the Northland Mall. Hussain said he stopped at a gas station with Tangena while on the way to the mall to pick up Begum.

They stopped at about 9 p.m. to buy gum and juice, he said. Hussain told police he left Tangena in the car for only a few moments and when he returned, the little girl was gone.

He did not call police and did not conduct a search, but instead drove to the mall and picked up Begum, investigators said.

When she saw Tangena was not with Hussain, Begum asked him where she was. His response was cryptic, she told police. He said he would take her to the place where her daughter was.

Begum became alarmed as Hussain drove to a gas station where, he said, Tangena disappeared. They searched for Tangena together, while Begum called the police to report her daughter missing.

A surveillance camera shows the boyfriend, Hussain, going into the gas station's store, police said. On the video, he makes some purchases and leaves within a few minutes. But there is no video of the area where Hussain parked his car, nor any video that could show whether the little girl had been there or how she might have disappeared.

Police have not named a person of interest in the toddler's disappearance.

When the media picked up the story, a teenager came forward, saying she recognized Hussain as the man who allegedly attacked her. During the investigation, police discovered that the young accuser, then 15, had been Hussain's prior girlfriend.

Hussain, 24, was arrested and charged with two counts of having sex with a minor. He is free on bail while awaiting trial.

"My client is innocent of the charges. He did not have sex with a minor child," said Hussain's lawyer, Shawn Patrick Smith.

Tangena's parents said they just want answers. Her father, Mohammad Ahmed, lives in New York and added $5,000 to an existing Crimestopper's reward of $1,000.

"We are praying that someone knows something that can help us find my daughter," Ahmed said. "How can a child disappear without someone seeing something? Something doesn't fit about [Hussain's] story."

When questioned, Begun told police only she and Hussain saw Tangena in the week leading up to her October 2 disappearance.

A Michigan Amber Alert was issued for Tangena at 5 a.m. the morning after she disappeared. But in the months since, police have hit a dead end.

Police and family members are turning to the public for help. If anyone has seen Tangena Hussain or has any information regarding her whereabouts, please call the Detroit Police Department at 313-596-1240.

Tangena is 3' 2" tall, weighs 34 lbs, has black short hair, brown eyes, and is of East Indian descent. She was last seen wearing white cargo pants, brown long-sleeved T-shirt with a cartoon picture on the front and gold sandals.

The reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Tangena Hussain is $6,000.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/13/grace.coldcase.hussain/index.html

[Amusedtdth]

This is just sooooo wrong. My hearts aches for this child and her mother.

[Roamer]

I'm looking at the boyfriend. Hard.

[wheezer]

I'm looking at the boyfriend. Hard.

I so agree. The child disappeared while with him, and instead of reporting her missing, he continues on to the mall to pick up her mother. Right there, this guy is the number one suspect. There is nothing innocent about that.

[Amusedtdth]

I'm looking at the boyfriend. Hard.

I so agree. The child disappeared while with him, and instead of reporting her missing, he continues on to the mall to pick up her mother. Right there, this guy is the number one suspect. There is nothing innocent about that.

My sentiments exactly! I can't believe LE are not pressing this man more.

[MrzEzell]

This case is just ... well I have nothing nice to say, whom knows what happened or where this child may be or lay... I really hoped someone would of came forward or said something, but instead a cold case after three months ???? Well I will continue to pray for this child and that there is someone who will care to try again turn this from cold to closed.

[Roamer]

I agree, Mrs E. Everytime I log in here and see that sweet little face on the banner, my heart starts aching for her all over again.

[chefann]

I agree, Mrs E. Everytime I log in here and see that sweet little face on the banner, my heart starts aching for her all over again.

Me, too. Especially since Tangena's pic in the banner is only a couple over from another online friend of mine. I didn't know Tangena, but for some reason her story touched me when it first broke.

[sarahhod]

1/15/09

The case of missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain of Hamtramck has gone national.


http://www.hamtramckcitizen.com/news/1-15-09-the-case-of-missing-2-year-old-tangena-hussain-of-hamtramck-has-gone-national



CNN recently reported that the trail of tracking what happened to Tangena has gone “cold” – a term that means investigators don’t have a clue to what happened to her.

Tangena went missing on Oct. 2 when she was travelling with her mother’s boyfriend. Jamrul Hussain, who shares the same last name as Tangena but is not related.

Jamrul told investigators that he took the girl with him to pick up her mother at Northland Mall where the girl’s mother works. On the way there, he stopped at a gasoline station at Eight Mile and Greenfield to purchase some gum and juice.

Jamrul said he left the girl behind in the locked car. When he came back, he said, the girl was gone.

Investigators say this is where the story gets suspicious. They say Jamrul did not immediately call police but instead, drove on to pick up the girl’s mother, who he was dating. It wasn’t until the mother questioned where the girl was that she called police.

In the CNN story, the mother said Jamrul was evasive when she asked what happened to her daughter.

Jamrul has not been named a suspect in the case.

[sarahhod]

Cell Of Man Linked To Missing Tot Searched

POSTED: Sunday, January 25, 2009
UPDATED: 6:41 pm EST January 25, 2009


DETROIT -- Tests are being done on human hair that was discovered in the jail cell of a man who was the last person to see a missing metro Detroit 2-year-old.Jamrul Hussain was the last person to see Tangena Hussain before she disappeared on Oct. 2 last year.Hussain is not the girl's father, but the boyfriend of her mother, Nilufa Begum.Hussain told police the girl disappeared from his locked car at a gas station that he had stopped at before picking up Begum from work.Police have questioned and given Hussain polygraphs but he has never been charged in connection with the toddler's disappearance.Hussain is in the Wayne County Jail because a 15-year-old accused him of kidnapping and raping her.Those charges have fallen apart since the teenager's story has changed, but Hussain remains in jail awaiting trial on reduced charges of having sex with a minor.A search of Hussain's cell Friday also turned up a shank -- a piece of metal fashioned into a weapon.The hair was found in a small plastic bag.Authorities said they are not sure whose hair it is, how it got there or why it's there.The reward for information into the toddler's disappearance stands at $6,000.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/18559979/detail.html#-

[sarahhod]

Cell Of Man Linked To Missing Tot Searched

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28843028/

updated 3:17 p.m. ET, Mon., Jan. 26, 2009

DETROIT - Tests are being done on human hair that was discovered in the jail cell of a man who was the last person to see a missing metro Detroit 2-year-old.

Jamrul Hussain was the last person to see Tangena Hussain before she disappeared on Oct. 2 last year.

Hussain is not the girl's father, but the boyfriend of her mother, Nilufa Begum.

[Roamer]

IMO he knows exactly what happened to her, and so does the mother, because he told her.

[Amusedtdth]

I just want to know what happened to this precious child period! I think its unlikely that Mom knows where shes at but I think she does posess the power to make him talk if given the chance.
moo

[Pandabear]

I wish some of his jail mates would make him talk. How the heck would he get a plastic bag of hair into his cell, and why would he have it? This is very strange to me. Just the fact that he had sex with a 15 year old makes me suspect all kinds of things about him.

I pray that Tangena is found.

[killerqueen]

Tangena's disappearance has bothered me from the minute I heard the boyfriend's story on the evening news. IMO, she was in heaven before any of us even knew she was gone. It's unspeakable that a little girl can just vanish without a trace here and no one is being brought to justice.

No word from LE, no volunteers searching for her. no indignant Nancy Grace. Who is seeking justice for Tangena? I like NG, but I wish she could've given a little more air time to other missing children and a little less time to Caylee Anthony over these last 9 months, JMO.

I pray Tangena is at peace. :1222423:

[Amusedtdth]

tangena's disappearance has bothered me from the minute i heard the boyfriend's story on the evening news. Imo, she was in heaven before any of us even knew she was gone. It's unspeakable that a little girl can just vanish without a trace here and no one is being brought to justice.

No word from le, no volunteers searching for her. No indignant nancy grace. Who is seeking justice for tangena? I like ng, but i wish she could've given a little more air time to other missing children and a little less time to caylee anthony over these last 9 months, jmo.

I pray tangena is at peace. :1222423:

ita!

[sarahhod]

$20K reward offered for information about missing Tangena Hussain


BY TAMMY STABLES BATTAGLIA • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
• April 22, 2009

The FBI in Detroit is offering a $20,000 reward in the case of 2-year-old Tangena Hussain, who’s been missing since October.


“Her birthday was last week and they still haven’t located her,” Sean Patrick Smith, the metro Detroit lawyer representing the last person to see Tangena, her mother’s boyfriend, said today. The FBI today announced the reward for information about Tangena, who would have turned 3 last Friday.

Her mother’s boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain, who is not related to the girl, told police she disappeared from his car during a stop they made at a Detroit gas station at Greenfield and 8 Mile in October. He remains in the Wayne County Jail on charges unrelated to her disappearance.

Tangena’s mother visited Jamrul Hussain in jail last week, Smith said.

“Just praying, praying; that’s about it,” he said about the little girl’s mother.

Accused of criminal sexual conduct in what police say was a relationship with a 15-year-old Hamtramck girl, Jamrul Hussain is set to appear in court Friday. He’s being held on a $125,000 bond, which Smith alleges is overly high due to Jamrul’s involvement in Tangena’s disappearance.

The 15-year-old had first accused him of kidnapping her, raping her and keeping her in his friends’ basement for six days in February 2008. But a Hamtramck judge dismissed charges against his friends and switched the rape and kidnapping charges to the single criminal sexual conduct charge when others claimed the girl had a relationship with Hussain.

Hussain’s lawyer, Sean Patrick Smith, said the girl made the allegations trying to regain her virtue after seeing Hussain on television shortly after Tangena disappeared Oct. 2.

Anyone with information on Tangena’s disappearance is asked to call the FBI at 313-965-2323.

http://www.freep.com/article/20090422/NEWS01/90422080/$20K+reward+offered+for+information+about+missing+ Tangena+Hussain

[sarahhod]

FBI offering reward for information about missing girl


April 22, 2009

A $20,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to finding a missing Hamtramck girl, the FBI announced today.


Tangena Hussain last was seen about 9:30 p.m. Oct. 2 at a gas station at 20500 Greenfield Road in Detroit. Hussain was 2 years old when she went missing. Her birthday was April 10.

Anyone with information about the girl is asked to contact the FBI Detroit Field Office at (313) 965-2323 or the Detroit Police Department at (313) 596-1240.

http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20090422/NEWS05/90422011/-1/NEWSFRONT2

[sarahhod]

DETROIT AND HAMTRAMCK: FBI offers reward in case of missing girl

The FBI in Detroit is offering a $20,000 reward for the return of Tangena Hussain, a Hamtramck girl who has been missing since October.
"Her birthday was last week and they still haven't located her," Sean Patrick Smith, the lawyer representing the boyfriend of Tangena's mother, said Wednesday. The boyfriend is the last person to see the girl, who just turned 3.
Nilufa Begum's boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain, who is not related to the girl, told police Tangena disappeared from his car at a gas station at Greenfield and 8 Mile. He remains in the Wayne County Jail on charges unrelated to her disappearance.
Anyone with information about Tangena's disappearance is asked to call the FBI at 313-965-2323.

http://www.freep.com/article/20090423/NEWS05/904230414/1007/NEWS/Quick+hits++State+warns+to+steer+clear+of+alfalfa+ sprouts

[killerqueen]

DETROIT AND HAMTRAMCK: FBI offers reward in case of missing girl

The FBI in Detroit is offering a $20,000 reward for the return of Tangena Hussain, a Hamtramck girl who has been missing since October.
"Her birthday was last week and they still haven't located her," Sean Patrick Smith, the lawyer representing the boyfriend of Tangena's mother, said Wednesday. The boyfriend is the last person to see the girl, who just turned 3.
Nilufa Begum's boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain, who is not related to the girl, told police Tangena disappeared from his car at a gas station at Greenfield and 8 Mile. He remains in the Wayne County Jail on charges unrelated to her disappearance.
Anyone with information about Tangena's disappearance is asked to call the FBI at 313-965-2323.

http://www.freep.com/article/20090423/NEWS05/904230414/1007/NEWS/Quick+hits++State+warns+to+steer+clear+of+alfalfa+ sprouts

I'm glad there is now a sizeable reward, but I fear that the last person to see her knows more than he's saying. Surveillance videos never confirmed she was even at the gas station.

Come home, Tangena.

[Faith]

I pray sweet Tangena will be found soon.

[annalyzer]

Missing Hamtramck toddler's case remains open

Toddler disappeared from Detroit gas station Oct. 2

George Hunter / The Detroit News
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Hamtramck -- Tangena Hussain's birthday came and went last month, but there was no celebration at her family's Hamtramck flat -- only a gnawing emptiness and long-unanswered questions.

Tangena, who turned 3 on April 10, has been missing since Oct. 2, and after six months, the original Amber Alert remains in effect because police have no clues to her whereabouts.

"I talked to Tangena's mom recently; she's not doing too good," said her attorney, Shawn Patrick Smith.

"She's feeling more hopeless than she ever has, but as long as there's no bad news, there's always the possibility of good news. That's the only thing that's keeping her going."

Police say there have been no breaks in the case.

"The investigation is still open, but we haven't gotten any new leads," Detroit Police spokeswoman Eren Stephens Bell said.

The FBI has offered a $20,000 reward for information about the girl's whereabouts. But so far, no clues have emerged.

The case has taken several odd twists since Tangena disappeared. Jamrul Hussain, the boyfriend of Tangena's mother, Nilufa Begum, was the last person seen with the toddler.

Hussain, who is not related to the girl, although they share the same surname, told police she disappeared when he stopped at a Detroit gas station to buy a pack of gum while on his way to pick up Begum from her job at a Northland Mall clothing store.

Hussain was arrested after a 15-year-old girl called police when she saw him on a television news report about Tangena's disappearance. The girl told investigators that Hussain had kidnapped her eight months earlier and took her to the Hamtramck home of Mamunur Rahman Khan and his wife, Hena Begum (no relation to Tangena's mother), where the teen said she was imprisoned in the basement for a week and repeatedly raped by Hussain.

Detectives say the girl told police in February that she'd ran away with Hussain, after her father reported her missing.

But the teen later admitted she lied because Hussain had threatened to kill her family, police said.

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090505/METRO/905050354/1409/METRO/Missing-Hamtramck-toddler-s-case-remains-open

[annalyzer]

From above link, "Tangena, who turned 3 on April 10, has been missing since Oct. 2, and after six months, the original Amber Alert remains in effect because police have no clues to her whereabouts. "

[Herz]

Praying for Tangena

[Claycat]

Praying for Tangena

Me, too!

[Amusedtdth]

I pray for thisl little girls return. IMO HE knows what happened. We all know who HE is. God Bless this little one and help us find her and bring her home.

[Isabella]

Site Searched In Tangena Hussain Case

Police Say Psychic Contacts Them With Search Location

POSTED: Friday, May 29, 2009
UPDATED: 7:12 pm EDT May 29, 2009

DETROIT -- Police began their search for a missing 2-year-old metro Detroit toddler seven months ago, and the search continued Friday with a lead from a psychic.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/sh/images/ibs_icon/post/video.gifTangena Search Back On (http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/19605732/index.html)

The Hamtramck toddler, Tangena Hussain, reportedly disappeared from a car while her mother's boyfriend stopped at a gas station on Greenfield Road in Detroit on Oct. 2, 2008.

The boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain, is currently jailed on unrelated charges. He is not the toddler's biological father.

Detroit police searched the area of Interstate 94 and French Road, on the city's east side after a psychic named Ed Dames contacted them about a month ago.

Detroit police Commander Paul Welles said Dames told them he had an ESP skill called remote viewing.

"He sent a Google map that shows us the area," Welles said. "He said he'd like to come out, he feels strongly that the body was hidden there."

Police said they offered to help Dames search the area, but that he went to the site later on his own.

"It caused some concern that he would come and not solicit our help," Welles said. "At least get him to the location, show him around, and then be there if indeed he found anything."

Police said Dames insisted that he had a hunch about the area and told police to check two drains, roughly 18 inches in diameter.

Police said they searched with a cadaver dog but found only trash.

"If a person calls in today and feels as though they know the whereabouts of a small child, the Detroit Police Department is going to follow up on it."

There is a reward being offered for information in the case.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the FBI at 313-965-2323, or the Detroit Police Department at 313-596-1240.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/19605313/detail.html

[Claycat]

I'm sorry it didn't pan out, but it got some attention focused back on little Tangena! Thanks, Isabella!

[Isabella]

I'm sorry it didn't pan out, but it got some attention focused back on little Tangena! Thanks, Isabella!
YW..I am sorry to but am thankful they are still looking.
I still hold out hope Tangena is found!

[RayStar]

This case is so confusing. It seems LE has given up looking for this child but I know in my heart LE wants to find this child alive. I wonder if she has been taken out of the country via Canada. I really think more pressure should be used against the mother and her boyfriend.
I hate cases involving missing persons.

[Faith]

Tangena reminds me so much of my granddaughter.

I pray she is alive and well somewhere and being taken good care of. :1222423:

[AmyE]

Police Follow Up on Tangena Psychic Tip

DETROIT - As the search continues in Monroe County for Nevaeh Buchanan, there are hearts aching for another little girl. She has been missing since October and police have little to go on. Recently, a psychic claimed to know where they would find Tangena Hussain.

Investigators combed an area near I-94 and Harper on the east side of Detroit with a cadaver dog looking for the little girl's remains. This is where a psychic from California told police they would find the child.

Detroit Police Commander Paul Wells says they only found a dead pit bull after coming acres of land. "The dog really worked hard for us and no luck," he said.

Police have had few leads in the case. Tangena was last seen in October with Jamrul Hussain, her mother's boyfriend. He said the child disappeared from a Marathon gas station when he went inside and left her alone in the car. Hussain was in jail on unrelated charges. Tangena has not been seen since.

With little to go on, investigators followed up on a tip from Major Ed Dames, who uses a paranormal technique called remote viewing. His team came to Detroit and told police where they would find her, but still no luck.

"We're still hopeful, and obviously if anybody has any information regarding her disappearance... please come forward," said Wells.

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/090529_tangena_psychic

[killerqueen]

It seems like the only people who know anything about this missing girl aren't talking IMO. Has there ever been anything said about the father? Could he have possibly have taken her? I pray she is found one day.

[Faith]

One arrest, more cold cases to solve

November 5, 2009 7:12 a.m. EST

http://i991.photobucket.com/albums/af35/missingpersonscases/Various%20Photos/tang.jpg

New York (CNN) -- The photographs are haunting: a toddler with huge, saucer eyes; a teenager smiling shyly; a middle-aged couple; a freckle-faced Little Leaguer.

A year ago, the Cold Case feature was launched to bring a fresh look at unsolved cases that Nancy Grace had covered. The aim was to pull these cases from their vaults, dust them off and refocus attention on them, reminding the public that police and families need help seeking justice and closure.

Through the year, the definition of a cold case evolved beyond high-profile ones such as Natalee Holloway and JonBenet Ramsey. A cold case involved anyone who vanished without a trace or was murdered, any time the police and family were left without an arrest or explanation.

Cold cases tell the stories of lives interrupted.

Although all of the nearly 50 cases featured over the past year have been special in some way and worthy of attention, a few stand out in hindsight.

Brianna Denison was the cold case that resulted in an arrest. Media coverage in September 2008 brought in the tip that led to a suspect.

Denison, 19, was visiting friends at the University of Nevada, Reno, and had crashed on the living room couch of an off-campus apartment. While she slept, someone crept into the apartment and abducted her. She was sexually assaulted and brutally strangled, and her body found weeks later in a snow-covered field a few miles away.

A month after her story was featured as a cold case, triggering a series of local stories, police in Reno, Nevada, made an arrest.

"Media coverage is absolutely essential for us," said Detective Adam Wygnanski, one of the lead investigators working the case for the Reno Police Department. "We finally got the break in the case we were looking for."

The tip came from a secret witness, who pointed police toward a suspect, James Michael Biela. According to police, the tipster saw photos of panties found near Denison's body and heard the description of the suspect's truck. She came forward, telling police she'd seen panties in a pickup belonging to a friend's boyfriend that resembled those in the photo.

Biela, 27, is in jail awaiting trial, set for February, on charges of kidnapping, rape and murder in the Denison case.

He also stands accused of raping another University of Nevada, Reno, student October 22, 2007, as she headed toward her car in a university parking garage. And he's charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a third student December 17.

Biela has pleaded not guilty in all three attacks. He could face the death penalty if convicted of murder in the Denison case.

But so many other cases remain unsolved, with family members living in hope of finding answers.

"There isn't a day that goes by we don't think about Chanel and pray they'll catch the people that did this to her," Lucita Petro-Nixon said of her daughter.

Petro-Nixon says she'll never forget Father's Day 2006, when her daughter left their Brooklyn, New York, home during the day to apply for a summer job at an Applebee's a few blocks away and never came back. The teen's body was found four days later, strangled and stuffed into a garbage bag left on the curb in front of a brownstone miles away.

Etan Patz's case galvanized the missing children's movement, raising awareness of child abductions. The 6-year-old vanished one morning in 1979 while walking to his school bus stop in New York's SoHo neighborhood. It was the first time he set off on the trip by himself.

Etan became the iconic boy on the milk carton, one of the first children to be featured in that 1980s campaign. Thirty years later, the case remains an open investigation, with no official suspects.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 797,500 children are reported missing each year, about 2,000 children a day. Many of them are recovered quickly, and some of the reports involve parental abductions. But not all.

Of the nearly 50 cases featured in the past year, the vast majority have told the stories of missing young women and children. The cases get the most attention because the victims are most at risk.

Only a small percentage of cases fall into the category of stranger abductions, said Marc Klaas, president of Klaaskids Foundation, which he formed after the 1993 kidnapping and murder of his daughter, Polly. Of those abductions, Klaas added, two-thirds are children between the ages of 12 and 17, and 80 percent of those children are females.

"It's the victims of stranger abductions that are most at risk of injury, sexual assault or death," Klaas said, explaining the urgency to cover such stories.

Even the high-profile cases can be frustrating for the people left behind. Consider the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, 18, an Alabama high school senior, in Aruba.

Authorities have acknowledged that mistakes mistakes made early in the investigation brought it to a standstill.

Each year, Natalee's father, Dave Holloway, goes to Aruba with special equipment and a search team in hopes of finding his daughter. Despite years of effort, the case remains cold.

As the cold case feature enters its second year, there are more cases to uncover, more stories to be told. Focusing attention on investigations that have gone cold is exactly what police and the families of victims need to jump-start an investigation. Denison's case serves as a reminder of that.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/05/grace.coldcase.year/index.html

[P.I.Jane]

I absolutely loved the way CNN did this piece. Clicking through each case, reading a brief but informative summary while looking at each beautiful face was sad, but yet I was glad to refresh my memory on many of the cases.

[Amusedtdth]

Those eyes, haunt me. I so wish she could be found.
Still in my prayers little one, your day will come, the Lord will see to it!