Story Of Relisha Rudd

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This Article is based on a Story about a 8-Year old girl named Relisha Rudd who went missing in 2014 after her mother allowed her to go with the janitor. Relisha rudd was living in a homeless shelter with her mother and always looked for a way out no matter what it was. She tried to stay after school even though they wouldn’t let her, she would beg for her family to come get her and she even went as far as to making friends with the 43 year old janitor and started calling him “ God Daddy “. The family trusted him and never felt they had a reason to doubt his generosity towards relisha because every time he would pick relisha up to either take her for ice cream or to go shopping he would always bring her back. Until one day he didn’t , and they

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