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Stolen Lives True Crime

48: Zha-Nae Rothgeb

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4619 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The abuse, neglect and death of Zha-Nae Rothgeb


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Some of our sources

Biological mother speaks out three years after daughter's death | WJAR (turnto10.com)

Zha-Nae Wilkerson – Disability Day of Mourning (disability-memorial.org)

(1) Rhode Island Protects Child Killers - YouTube - thank you for the opening summary

DCYF head to address questions surrounding death of 9-year-old girl in Warwick (providencejournal.com)

New charges filed against Warwick woman accused of manslaughter in death of 9-year-old (providencejournal.com)

GUILTY - RI - Zah-Nae Rothgeb, 9, handicap, cerebral palsy, dies of cruelty, filthy home, Warwick, 3 Jan 2019 | Page 8 | Websleuths

A Rhode Island man allowed a grieving mother to stay on his property. Months later, he learned she was charged in her daughter's death. (tauntongazette.com)



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0:00.0

March 2020, Exeter, Rhode Island.

0:12.5

George Whitford answered a middle-aged woman's frantic Facebook post.

0:17.0

She was living in a van and was looking for an isolated and peaceful place to park it on a

0:21.9

temporary basis, while she sold her home and mourned the death of her adopted daughter.

0:28.4

George felt sorry for the grieving mother. He too was going through his own set of misfortune

0:34.2

with his father dying of cancer. He wanted to do this good deed and help the

0:39.4

woman out. George allowed the woman to park her handicap accessible van behind his home for five

0:46.5

months. She told him her name was Shelly Gucingal and her nine-year-old daughter had died of a seizure

0:53.0

whilst playing with toys in her playroom.

0:56.8

Living in the house was just too heartbreaking for her,

0:59.8

so she needed to sell her to move on.

1:02.9

George thought there was something not quite right with Shelley's story,

1:07.1

and he thought her to be strange,

1:08.8

as she would spend her days reading next to a generator.

1:12.5

But he was distracted with his father, and the property was large enough,

1:16.7

so he didn't really need to interact with the odd woman.

1:20.3

George would soon realise his intuition was right,

1:23.7

and Shelley wasn't all that she seemed.

1:26.5

However, he could never imagine what horrors a Google search

1:30.4

would reveal to him. This is Jeunay's story.

1:39.4

Jeanne Wilkinson was born May 6, 2020, to single mother, Alyssa Ogambar.

1:47.1

And while Junae's father was never in the picture, Elisa had an abundance of support via

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