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We are bringing you a case that has gained national and international attention. And it involves the disappearance of an 11 year old girl from North Carolina named Madalena Kojakari. It has been almost two months since this little girl was last seen in public just before Thanksgiving. But her mother and her stepfather waited three weeks to report her disappearance.

What happened during those three weeks is a question that we still cannot answer. And we still don't know where Madalena is now.

Among the pixelated faces on this video is one that is clear as day. Madalena Kojakari is getting off a school bus. It's November 21st just before Thanksgiving break about five o'clock. This is the last time she was known to be seen by anyone else other than her mother and stepfather.

Madalena Kojakari's family says both her stepfather Christopher Pometer and her mother Diana Kojakari were arrested. Investigators say they've conducted interviews across state lines.

The news started gaining traction. People in the community started to worry. A playful house safety. Bring a home way of a she is bring home.

I do remember her just playing alone. So I went to go play with her and we just connected.

I'm just hoping so sincerely that we find this little girl.

This is a serious case of a child whose parents clearly are not telling us everything they know.

Madalena Kojakari was born on April 11th 2011 to her mother Diana Kojakari.

Now while Madalena lived most recently in North Carolina as we're going to get into, she was born in the European country of Moldova.

And for those who are unfamiliar, Moldova is a small eastern European nation that's a little bit bigger than the state of Maryland land-wise.

But it has about a third of the population of Maryland with a total of 2.6 million people as of recent.

Madalena was raised speaking both Romanian, which is most widely spoken in Moldova and English, and her mother also spoke some French.

In her early to mid-20s, Madalena's mother Diana married a man in her hometown and the two had Madalena together.

But a short time later, they divorced and Diana longed for just like a fresh start for herself and for her daughter, so she decided to move.

And that's when Diana's own mother and father had also recently divorced, so Diana, her mom and her daughter all moved to Moldova's capital city of Kishinow.

While living there, Diana participated in a recorded weight loss competition, which appeared on YouTube.

And in her interview, she explained that she was recently divorced and that she was ready to find love again, and she really hoped for a stepfather for her daughter Madalena, who was 3 years old at the time.

The description of the project reads, quote,

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