Family Seeks Answers After Son Is Taken By White Family & Found Dead
In a shocking crime similar to the death of Emmett Till, another young black child has been brutally murdered, with no action from law enforcement.
The family of 15-year-old Quawan “Bobby” Charles is seeking answers after he went missing on Oct. 30. Charles left with his 17-year-old friend and his friend’s mother. His family never heard from him again.
His brutalized body was found by the police in a wooded area in Loreauville on Nov. 3. He was unrecognizable. Despite the horrific nature of the case, police have reportedly been unhelpful in answering the family’s questions. They also failed to put out an Amber Alert.
The family is also seeking an independent autopsy because of the condition of his body.
“Quawan’s face — you can see that it’s just about gone,” Charles added. “The coroner told us that there was no blunt force trauma to the head and no sign of strangulation, but when you look at him, you see something totally different from what the coroner said.”
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“It’s almost as though they tried to sweep this under the rug,” Quawan’s cousin, Celina Charles said. “We not only feel like the family has been let down, but the community, the public, the media. Everybody has questions, not only the family. He was only 15. It could have been anybody’s child.”
Baldwin Police Department released a statement in regards to the case,
“On behalf of the Baldwin Police Department, we are not investigating the death of a body found in Loreauville, Iberia Parish,” said Baldwin Assistant Chief of Police Samuel Wise III in an email. “However, the Baldwin Police Department will be investigating reasons why the deceased juvenile was missing from his residence in Baldwin. Proper protocol was used to report the juvenile as missing and all procedures were followed thru within the Baldwin jurisdiction.”
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