It’s been two weeks since a 30-year-old South Side mother of three dropped out of sight.
Latasha Nevitt was last seen walking to a convenience store five blocks from her home in the 1300 block of West 107th Street, CBS 2’s Mike Parker reports.
On Oct. 10, the young dental technician student set out on foot and headed for a food mart and liquor store on 112th street, east of Vincennes. She never got there.
“Powered off the phone – nothing,” her mother, Brenda Morgan, says.
Morgan says Latasha had everything to live for and was doing well at Everest College. She doted on her three children, 10-year-old Ariel and her 2-year-old twins, Brian and Ryan.
“I just don’t see her walking away from life, just walking away from her kids like that,” the mother says.
Chicago Police confirm there has been no activity on her cell phone since she vanished and no word at all from her.
The woman’s father, James Morgan, is puzzled.
“We have always kept in touch with each other,” he says. “I’m telling you, this is not right.”
Latasha’s husband, Isaac Nevitt, is believed to be the last person to see her before she disappeared. He does not believe she’s chosen to drop out of sight.
“No matter what’s going on, we still talk to each other,” he says.
Tears streamed down Ariel’s cheeks as she talked about her mother.
“I just want to see her and I miss her a lot,” the little girl says.
Police searched and used a cadaver dog at the house where Nevitt lived with her husband. There were no signs of any foul play.
Latasha is 5 foot, 4 inches tall and weighs 118 pounds.
When Laci Peterson went missing, the world seemed to stop. The 7 and a half months missing pregnant woman became a household name everywhere, grabbing the hearts of Americans. “Who would take a pregnant woman!” was probably the thought that was on the minds of men and women alike.
But despite the ongoing and national attention she received, her case was under fire when Latoyia Figueroa, another missing pregnant woman, went missing a few years later. The subject was “media bias in the reporting of missing women” and it was causing uproar across the nation. Figueroa, who was Hispanic and black, did not receive nearly the amount of attention that Peterson did, despite the similarities in their cases.
On a CNN segment, Brooke Anderson asked the question: “Why do stories like Natalee Holloway, like Laci Peterson, like Chandra Levy get so up attention? Could it be in part because they`re white? Would the media have been so obsessed if they had been black women?”
To this day, no one seem to know the answer to that question. Some say racism. Some say it’s a social and economic problem. Others say that it’s just plain foolishness. Whatever the case is, there’s another missing pregnant woman, and she needs your help.
More than two weeks ago, 5 months pregnant woman Cheri Dawson went missing from Auburn, Alabama. She left behind a 7 year old son and her car was found burned to the metal just one day after she was reported missing.
Family members described Cheri, who is also a member of the Army Reserve, as a mom who would never go one day without calling her son.
“He’s having a very rough time. He’s having a very rough time. He’s cried a lot. He’s asking for her. He’s missing her a lot,” said Charlotte Barnes (Cheri’s aunt) describing how Dawson’s son is coping.
Barnes says her niece is a hard worker and has served in the Army with one deployment to Afghanistan.
“Please, for her son’s sake, for her grandparents on both sides sake, for her aunts and uncles on both sides. Please just help us have closure,” said Barnes.
Cheri is described as a black female, about 5’4, 140 pounds, with dark hair and hazel eyes.
Black women and women under age 20 were at highest risk of being murdered during or after pregnancy, according to a study done by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Black women had a maternal homicide risk about seven times that of white women, and black women ages 25 to 29 are about 11 times as likely as white women in that age group to be killed when pregnant or in the year following childbirth.
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