Missing Persons, Cold Cases & Human Trafficking
Tamara Dositejevic ·
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Celina Mays went to sleep around 110 pm on Sunday, December 15, 1996. The 12-year-old had been in a good mood when she headed off to bed and there had been no indications that anything was troubling her. When her stepsister went into Celina’s bedroom to wake her up on Monday morning, however, she was nowhere to be found. She never returned to her Willingboro, New Jersey home and she was never seen again.
Celina lived with her father, C.J. Mays, as well as her stepmother and several other relatives; she had moved in with them two years earlier after her mother died. It had been a big change for Celina; her father’s side of the family was deeply involved with the Gospel of Christ Ministries, and after C.J. obtained custody of Celina, he took her out of public school and started homeschooling her. There had been many complaints made against the church by former members who accused the organization of brainwashing, but Celina’s family insisted she had no problem with being raised in the church and wouldn’t have run away because of their strict religious beliefs.
At the time of her disappearance, Celina was heavily pregnant and just two weeks away from her December 29th due date. What really happened to her and where is she now?