Maleah Davis’ Dad Says Derion Vence Stored Him From Seeing Her

Throughout a Might 29 Houston court docket listening to, new particulars surrounding the disappearance of Four-year-old Maleah Davis had been revealed by the kid’s organic father.

In line with Houston information station KTRK, Craig Davis testified at a Youngster Protecting Companies listening to Wednesday saying he and his sister arrived on the house shared by Maleah, her mom, and her mom’s former fiancé, Derion Vence, on the night of Might three.

Davis mentioned when he arrived on the house and requested to see Maleah, Vence wouldn’t enable him or his sister to enter and claimed the little lady had the flu.

After Vence mentioned the lady was sick, Davis then requested if he and his sister might simply see her sleeping in her room.

Once more, Vence wouldn’t enable them to go inside and see.

“‘I do not need you to get sick additionally,'” Davis alleged Vence mentioned.

Throughout this time, Maleah and her 1-year-old brother had been left in Vence’s care whereas Maleah’s mom, Brittany Bowens, attended her father’s funeral in Massachusetts.

Simply someday in a while Might Four, Vence reported that Maleah was kidnapped by three males whereas he was driving the airport to select up Bowens.

Later within the CPS listening to, Davis mentioned Bowens requested him to take Maleah to the physician on April 29 as a result of one thing was mistaken. Earlier than Davis might take Maleah in for an examination, Bowens known as him again and mentioned Vence would take her to the physician as an alternative, Davis testified.

The CPS hearings come after Derion Vence and Brittany Bowens had been banned from seeing their youngsters.

Maleah’s 1-year-old half-brother was ordered to stick with his paternal grandmother, whereas Maleah’s older brother, 5, was positioned within the custody of his paternal aunt, reported KHOU 11.

Maleah and her brothers had been beforehand faraway from Vence and Bowens’ care in 2018 when the lady suffered a severe head damage that required a collection of mind surgical procedures. After Maleah went lacking, Davis shared private images of him and his daughter after one among her surgical procedures.

Vence was arrested after blood matching the lady’s DNA was present in his house rest room and police Okay-9s detected traces of human decomposition in his trunk.

Vence was charged with tampering with proof.

In the course of the CPS hearings, six attorneys interviewed three witnesses, together with a CPS caseworker and Brittany Bowens.