Moms of missing Black women gather in Loop to ensure cases are not forgotten: ‘Our babies are gone’

They gathered in Daley Plaza to plead for details about their lacking family members. They embrace Kierra Coles, a Chicago postal employee who disappeared 4 years in the past.

“We would like this to remain up entrance so all people can maintain saying, ‘they don’t seem to be going to surrender about discovering her, and we’re not,’” stated Karen Phillips, Coles’ mom.

Diamond Bynum and King Walker had been final seen in Gary, Indiana six years in the past.

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“If you recognize something we’re simply praying from the underside of our hearts, should you may simply say one thing,” stated La Shann Walker, Bynum’s mom and Walker’s grandmother.

Jerrica Legal guidelines is a Park Forest lady who has been lacking for seven years.

“No household ought to must undergo what we have gone by means of and we now have to endure,” stated Shantinel Howard, Legal guidelines’ mom. “Our world has stopped as a result of our infants are gone.”

At the moment’s occasion ended with a prayer.