01-06-2011, 08:55 AM
oh alright...if you're an illegal and your child dies, you dismember the child. makes perfect sense. and even though the child was deathly ill, you don't seek a doctor for her.
you don't want to bring attention to your illegal status by going to doctors, but it's OK to report the child missing and involve authorities and FBI?
or start a fire in your yard and call 911?
Charlotte Observer
Two relatives told the Observer the Bakers didn’t take Zahra to a hospital and may have feared authorities because Zahra’s father, Adam Baker, is in the country illegally, and because social workers had investigated her stepmother, Elisa Baker. The two relatives spoke on the condition of anonymity, and authorities won’t comment on the allegations.
The family members’ comments offer the first explanation of how the 10-year-old girl may have died and possibly why her body was dismembered and discarded.
“She told me the whole time, every time I’ve visited her, that she did not kill Zahra. She found her dead," said another family member, Kathy Fairchild, who is a cousin of Elisa Baker.
Fairchild says she has visited Elisa Baker in jail three times and received several letters from her. No one has been charged in Zahra’s death, but Elisa Baker has been jailed because police say she admitted writing a phony ransom note in the case.
Authorities confirmed for the Observer that Zahra’s father is in the country illegally. He moved to the United States with his daughter in 2008 from their native Australia, where Adam and Elisa Baker married after an online romance.
The Bakers may have stayed away from medical authorities and other officials because they feared that Adam and Zahra could be deported if their immigration status was discovered, according to one of the relatives who spoke on the condition of anonymity.