Tarasha Benjamin After 4 years---Should Feds Probe Missing Selma girl’s Disappearance

(National) Something—just doesn’t add up in the disappearance of Selma teenager Tarasha Benjamin’s missing person’s case. Benjamin, who turns 21 this year, was headed to the local Selma Flea market with her friend Telisha Givhan.

Both she and Gihvan got into the Mazda Tribute truck that Gihvan own. However, making just one stop a local barbershop, before the flea market, Gihvan offer Tarasha her truck after she claims that she had to do another young lady’s hair.

Benjamin was asked by Gihvan, according to sources, to drop her off by the local fire department were Gihvan got into another car with her sister n law, leaving Tarasha to drive her SUV along. Two hours later, the Mazda Tribute truck was abandoned on the Cecil Jackson bypass—a highway that leads to the local flea market.  Benjamin was nowhere to be found.

 After time had pass, Tarasha‘s Mother Regina Benjamin had call the Selma Police Department and a search was launch. Family and friends was passing out flyers and going door to door to search for the missing teen.

                                                                                               

“The whole community searched for her after that. We were out on the streets-everywhere.” Benjamin told the Selma Times Journal newspaper.

 The National Center for missing & Exploited Children had sent several rescue team to Selma and the search came up empty.

 The Selma Police Department and its investigation unit headed by Sgt Tory Neely had determine foul play, but since then, had treated the case as a teenage runaway. However, photos of the crime scene, clear finger prints left on the SUV, No Amber Alert, and a host of reasons, had led some to believe Benjamin’s missing persons case was “boxed” from the beginning. 

 Investigators, including lead detective Ronald Jones, did little work in Benjamin’s case. When two eye witnesses came forward and said, “that they seem Tarasha get into the a black dodge charger, which was registered to Christopher Dukes, an associate of hers… and the second eye witness, a store clerk seen a person matching Dukes’ description, ... and seeing the young lady with him, the Selma Police department decided that one of the witness was mental.

 It now seems as though the Selma Police Department are Psychologists, instead of law enforcement. In their own denial, they haven’t done little to anything to determine Benjamin’s case a “cold one.” And doing nothing seems to be their only way of trying to divert away from solving Tarasha’s case and expose the truth.

  And there are reasons for their vigilance and avoidance of new leads, it was long rumored, That Tarasha was having “Dealings” with a Selma Police Officer. And she herself shares rumors about them.

 Those rumors, May had prompted a direct visit from former Selma Police officer Bart Watkins. Watkins, who worked now as a deputy sheriff in Autauga County admits visiting Benjamin, but claim his visitation was official police business.

“I had nothing to do with that girl”. Watkins told investigators.

 Watkins Told internal affairs investigators in Autauga, that he visited Tarasha to ask her about his colleague Christopher Harris, who was already charged by the Alabama Bureau of Investigations for raping a 12 year old girl.

  Watkins was not elected as a Marengo County Sheriff’s Deputy after just one year, when the agency thought that he might have been linked to a police impersonation attack on a woman in that county as well.

Some of the details in that rape case by the news’ reports, matches similar activities that had happen in Benjamin’ case in Selma, where the public saw a state trooper on the bypass behind the SUV Tarasha was driving.

The victim in the Moreno county rape incident told the newspapers that her attacker was a white male and now there is some evidence that Dukes may have taken Tarasha’s to a white male, who was driving the trooper car.

Tarasha case had been featured on America’s most wanted’s website, The Maury Povich Show, Jet Magazine, and her picture profile is  on the website of former CBS news Anchor Katie Couric.

 But this, however, is not enough...The efforts now should be constant news reports and media coverage about her case as well as the FBI involvement.

Since the Alabama State Police had drop the ball on the case by refusing to show interest, the feds is the last hope in finding Tarasha and the truth as to what happen to her as well.