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The Unsolved Disappearance of Yasmin Acree
A teenage girl went to sleep in her basement bedroom and vanished in the night.
Not everyone is lucky enough to live a charmed life. There are those whose lives start out difficult from childhood and never seem to improve. They are the unlucky ones, and, sadly, some of their lives are short.
Yasmin Acree
Yasmin Acree was an intelligent 15-year-old girl who was dealt a problematic hand early in her life. She was born in Kentucky to a mother who was a drug addict. Yasmin and her brother, Damarcus, were removed from their mother’s care as toddlers.
Both children were placed in the foster care system. While they were safe from their mother, it wasn’t the end of Yasmin’s abuse. She had been placed in a situation where she suffered from sexual abuse that she could not escape. Naturally, this led to her developing severe emotional and behavioral problems.
Yasmin’s Aunt
In 2001, Yasmin and her brother went to live with their aunt by marriage, Rose Mae Starnes, in an apartment in Chicago, Illinois. Rose eventually adopted the siblings five years later. It should have been a safe environment for the children, but there was trouble on the horizon.
