Police are still searching for a missing 10-year-old girl, and there are some updates on the story NBC6 broke last week. Crimestoppers has put up a $5,000 reward for information, and police now say the last known time Gabrielle Terrelonge was seen was on June 30 near Orlando. Nine days before that date, she was seen with her mom at a Walmart in Hollywood.
Davis is now behind bars in the Broward County jail, charged with child endangerment.
The girl’s father, Gordon Terrelonge, is speaking out about his efforts to find Gabby, saying he has spent months going back and forth between Central Florida and Broward County looking for her, and shared a cellphone video in which he films Davis filming him.
“Are you Gordon Alan Terrelonge?” Davis asks him.
“Pasha, you know me for 15 years, I don’t need to tell you what my name is,” Terrelonge responds.
The search for Gabby
According to Terrelonge, that happened a year ago in a South Florida hotel room as he was trying to get Gabby and Davis off the streets. Davis was frequently homeless, and Terrelonge found Gabby sleeping on a cardboard mat in an alley. They arranged for Davis and the child to live with Terrelonge’s sister in Port St. Lucie. That situation fell apart when Davis took off with Gabby, and Terrelonge says he has not seen his daughter since May.
“It’s been months, I’ve been stressed out, I’ve been crying about it,” he said Tuesday.
Police found and arrested Davis last week in Lauderhill, and Davis is not talking.
“Am I to understand, allegedly, she doesn’t know where the child is?” asked the judge in bond court last week.
“Your honor, what’s understood is she hasn’t said anything, it’s not known that’s actually happened, she hasn’t given any piece of information about the last time she saw the child, anything,” the prosecutor said.
“She’s covering something up, this is why she’s not saying anything, because something happened that no one can explain but Gabby, her, and whoever was there,” Terrelonge said.
I asked if that’s his biggest fear.
“Yes, that’s my, that’s all I have, that’s the nightmare I’m in, I’m in a nightmare,” Terrelonge said.
Davis was incarcerated under the Baker Act, and despite her erratic behavior and, according to Terrelonge, her history of schizophrenia, he and his sister were unable to gain legal custody of Gabby.
Another clip from the hotel room video shows a bizarre moment.
“So what you saying you’re gonna call the police on me for?” Terrelonge asks.
“Science,” Davis responds.
“You gonna call the police on me for science and technology?”
“Spiritual awakening witchcraft,” Davis says.
“Spiritual awakening witchcraft?” Terrelonge asks, clearly confused.
“Yes, that’s a thing now,” Davis responds.
Terrelonge says the video is an example of Davis’s mental instability. He says, and Margate Police verified this, that when Davis was picked up last week, detectives let him question her in their presence.
“So I started breaking down and crying in front of her and said to her, our daughter’s missing, we need to find our daughter and she just, no reaction, just no reaction,” Terrelonge said.
Davis told police that she left Gabby with her father. Terrelonge says that’s not true, and that detectives gave him a polygraph test and checked his phone records to verify his side of the story.
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