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They told their aunt, Kawonna Abner, who is raising them, to use money for presents toward hiring a detective to help find their mother.
This will mark the third Christmas that Calloway’s children have spent without her. They’ve grown and progressed in school. A lot of time has gone by.
Calloway hasn’t been seen or heard from since June 2018, although police wouldn’t allow Abner to file a missing person’s report until August 2019, Abner said. In the past few weeks, the investigation into Calloway’s disappearance has ramped up, but the years-long delay and lack of interest in finding her sister is unforgivable, she says.
Abner has always raised her older sister’s eight children. A provider by nature, she’s centered her world around giving them access to the same opportunities other children have.
Calloway, who was 39 when she went missing, has an intellectual disability, Abner said. She’s had different cleaning jobs, is able to cook and was able to help with household tasks, but is easily persuaded. If she were in a bad situation, she wouldn’t stick up for herself.
Despite not having the children full time though, she saw them on a regular basis. When talking about their mom, the kids described her as a kind, quiet and funny woman who was great at making breakfast.
She would not have left them without a word, Abner said of her sister, although that is what she said investigators wanted her to believe.
“They said they thought she just left her kids to start a new life because there were eight of them,” Abner said. She said police required her to prove her sister has a disability before a report was finally filed more than a year after Calloway had been gone.
“My sister loves her children,” she said. “I don’t care where she’s at, she’s going to call and talk to them. She wouldn’t just leave her children.”
She believes her sister was forced into human trafficking."
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