Tangena Hussain 2 - Endangered Missing - Michigan

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Tangena Hussain
Endangered Missing

$20,000.00 reward for information
leading to Tangena's return.

DOB: April 10, 2006
AGE: 3
SEX: Female
RACE: Caucasian
EYES: Brown
HAIR: Black
HEIGHT: 3'2" (97 cm)
WEIGHT: 34 lbs (15 kg)

WEARING: Brown long sleeve t-shirt w/cartoon picture on front, white nylon cargo pants, gold sandals

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
Tangena has a scar on her upper lip and chin area from a burn.

MISSING SINCE: October 2, 2008
MISSING FROM: Detroit, Michigan US

CONTACT:
Detroit PD 313-596-1800
FBI 313-965-2323

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From AMW:

Young Girl Allegedly Disappears From Motown Gas Station
On the evening of Thursday, October 2, 2008, cops say 2-year-old Tangena Hussain disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

The child was reported missing by her mother's boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain. Though they share the same last name, the girl and Jamrul are not related.

Jamrul alleges that he stopped at a gas station shortly after 9pm to fuel up, buy some gum and pick up some juice for the small child. When he went into the store at 9:02 p.m., that's when, he says, the girl vanished into thin air, the purported victim of an abduction.

Surveillance video verifies Jamrul's story about what he was doing at the time of the girl's disappearance, but much to the dismay of investigators, there is no video evidence of what happened to little Tangena.

Mere moments later, after leaving the store at 9:06 p.m., Jamrul hurried back in, claiming that Tangena was no longer in the car.

Police say Jamrul then left the store and went to pick up Tangena's mother, Nilufa Begum, who was at work at a nearby mall.

Once Jamrul picked up Nilufa, the two returned to the gas station, asking employees multiple times if there were cameras on the side of the building where the car had been parked, only to be sorely let down.

At approximately 9:30 p.m., the pair filed an official police report, stating that Tangena was gone and they don't know what could have possibly happened to her.


Tangena Hussain was last seen wearing a brown, long-sleeved T-Shirt with an unknown cartoon character on it, white nylon cargo pants, and gold sandals.
AMBER Alert Issued For Tangena Hussain
The next morning, around 5:00 a.m., an AMBER Alert was issued for Tangena. Consequently, the case assumed significant media coverage, on both a local and national scale.

Unfortunately, in the days and weeks since the 2-year-old's disappearance, tips have essentially dried up. To this day, little is known about what happened to Tangena and she's no closer to being recovered than she was on the day of her disappearance.

Tangena Hussain was last seen wearing a brown, long-sleeved T-Shirt with an unknown cartoon character on it, white nylon cargo pants, and gold sandals.

Authorities desperately need your help in order to locate the missing 2-year-old. If you've seen her, you've got to call our hotline right away at 1-800-CRIME-TV.


AMBER Alert: Michigan
America's Most Wanted has received the following AMBER Alert from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children:

Incident Information

Missing Person Circumstance Text : Update AMBER Alert - Photo added The child was last seen unsecured in the back seat of a vehicle parked in front of a Marathon Gas Station. The mother's boyfriend went inside to make a purchase and when he returned the child was gone.

Missing Person Last Seen Date : 2008-10-02

Missing Person Last Seen Time : 21:00:00



Last Seen Address

Address : 20500 Greenfield

Address State Name : MI Address City Name : Detroit



Point Of Contact

Contact Organization Name : Detroit Police Department



Phone Number

Number : 313-596-1240



Missing Child

Person Given Name : Tangena

Person Sur Name : Hussain

Gender : Female

Age : 2



Physical Description

Person Eye Color Code : Brown

Person Hair Color Code : Black

Person Skin Tone Code : Indian

Height : 3'2

Weight : 34 lbs.

Description : Scar on upper lip/chin area from burn; wearing a brown long sleeved T-shirt with a cartoon picture on front, white nylon cargo pants, gold sandals.

http://www.amw.com/missing_children/case.cfm?id=59869

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Missing Child Tangena Hussain's Case Is Cold

Published Jan 13, 2009
by KJ Mullins
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/265160


Where is Tangena Hussain?

The toddler was last seen October 2, 2008 in Hamtramck, Michigan. Since that time police say they are looking at a cold case.
The two-year-old had spent the day with her mother's boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain while she worked. Nilufa Begum has told police that when Hussain, who is not the child's father, was on his way to pick her up from the Northland Mall where she is employed, he made a pit stop at a gas station. Leaving the child in the car Hussain ran into the store for juice and gum. When he returned to the car the little girl had vanished without a trace.

Instead of calling the police he continued to the mall to pick up Belgum. When he was asked where Tangena was the young mother got a cryptic answer. Hussain said he would take her to the place where her daughter was. He then drove her to the gas station.

The police were called after the couple searched for Tangena.

Security cameras captured images of Hussain entering the store. However there is no film of the car nor the little girl.

The police have not named a person of interest relating to the disappearance of the toddler.

After the media ran with the story a local teen came forward saying that Hussain allegedly attack her. After investigation it was revealed that the the 15-year-old had been a former girlfriend. Hussain, 24, was arrested and charged with two counts of having sex with a minor which his lawyer says is wrong. Hussain is on bail pending his trial.

Tangena's parents just want to know where their little girl is. Her father, a resident of New York, has added $500 to the Crimestopper's reward of $1,000.

CNN reports:



"We are praying that someone knows something that can help us find my daughter," Ahmed said. "How can a child disappear without someone seeing something? Something doesn't fit about [Hussain's] story."



Tangena is 3'3" tall and weighs 34 pounds. She has short black hair, brown hairs and of East Indian descent. She was last seen wearing white cargo pants, a brown long-sleeved T-shirt and gold sandals.

If you have any information about Tangena please call the Detroit Polce Department at [phone]. The reward for information that leads to finding the child is $6,000.

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Tangena Hussain's dad: This case doesn't make sense
He adds $5,000 to reward for girl

BY NAOMI R. PATTON
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
October 10, 2008

http://www.freep.com/article/20081010/NEWS01/810100363/0/NEWS02
When Mohammed Ahmed -- the father of missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain of Hamtramck -- first heard his daughter had disappeared Oct. 2, he thought it was a joke.

Ahmed, 38, of New York said his ex-wife, Nilufa Begum, 24, was crying when she called him the night Tangena was reported abducted from the locked car of Begum's boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain.
She told Ahmed what Hussain, 24, no relation to the missing girl, also told Detroit police: Hussain stopped at a gas station at 8 Mile and Greenfield in Detroit and went inside. When he returned to the car from the store, the little girl was gone from the car.
"Honestly, no, I don't believe his story," Ahmed told the Free Press in a telephone interview Thursday from New York. "It doesn't make sense."
Ahmed has contributed $5,000 to a total $6,000 reward now being offered by Michigan Crime Stoppers for information leading to Tangena's recovery.
Ahmed said he talks to Detroit police and to Begum daily for word about Tangena.
The two were married for five years and divorced in 2006. They have two other children, ages 7 and 8, who live with Ahmed's parents in Bangladesh.
Ahmed said he asked Begum if she knew anything about Tangena's disappearance. She replied that she knew what she had told him.
"I'm just waiting," Ahmed said Thursday about news of Tangena. "Allah knows."
In the latest twist in the case, Detroit police confirmed Begum voluntarily submitted to questioning Thursday afternoon for a polygraph test administered by the Michigan State Police. Police would not discuss the results of the test, which are not admissible in court.

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$6,000.00 reward for information leading to Tangena's return.

Detroit Police Department
Ph. 313-596-1240 or 313-231-0523
[e-mail]

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12/4/08 Update on missing 2-year-old Tangena Hussain
— filed under: Hamtramck, Crime Stoppers, Tangena Hussain, Charles Sercombe

Investigators are still trying to figure out what happened to the girl.
By Charles Sercombe


It’s now been just over two months since 2-year-old Tangena Hussain went missing.


The Hamtramck girl was last seen by her mother’s boyfriend, Jamril Hussain, who coincidently shares the girl’s surname.


The story goes like this, according to investigators: Jamrul was driving alone with Tangena on a trip to pick up her mother at Northland Mall where the mother works. On the way there, Jamrul pulls over at a gasoline station on Greenfield near Eight Mile Rd. for a pack of gum.


He leaves the car with Tangena locked inside, alone.


A few minutes later, he returns and discovers Tangena is gone. Jamril told police he panicked and drove off without looking for the girl or calling the police. Once he meets up with the girl’s mother, she calls the police.


So far, there has been no evidence or leads telling investigators what happened to the girl. Privately, some investigators have serious doubts about Jamrul’s story. He took one lie detector test but apparently was so nervous and shaken up the results proved worthless.


In the meantime, Jamrul was charged with kidnapping and raping a 15-year-old girl last February – a case that is totally separate and unrelated from missing girl case. The kidnapping and rape case, though, falls apart when it appears the 15-year-old girl is less than credible and appears to be jealous that Jamril left her for another woman, who turns out to be Tangena’s mother.


Jamrul, 24, now faces a charge of having sex with a minor. His attorney, Sean Patrick Smith, said the charge was basically trumped up in order to keep Jamrul in jail until investigators can pin a charge on him about the missing girl.


Jamrul has said he had nothing to do with the girl’s disappearance. The girl’s mother has told local media outlets that she is no longer so sure about Jamrul’s innocence regarding the girl. She said he has shown no interest in the girl since being held in jail, and the girl’s mother wants him to take a second lie detector test.


Detroit investigators have taken the lead in the case since the girl’s presumed origin of disappearance happened in Detroit. Hamtramck Detective Michael Szymanski is also working on the case since there could be a possibility that the girl went missing – or whatever happened to her – in Hamtramck.


Szymanski said investigators have absolutely no leads or idea what happened to the girl. He refuses to speculate.


“We all hope and pray the child is OK, and is with someone,” Szymanski said. “Somebody knows something. They just might be too scared to come forward.”


If this is the case, that someone has information about the girl but is too frightened to talk to investigators, there is an option for that person.


The national organization, Crime Stoppers, offers a toll-free phone number where people can call in information about crimes and remain totally anonymous. That means no one will track down the caller and force them to talk to investigators or testify ion court.


You call the number, say what you know, and hang up.


However, if you’d like to leave your name and phone number and the case is solved, there is a $6,000 reward being offered.


The phone number for Crime Stoppers is 1-800-773-2587.


If you’d like to spread the word about Tangena, stop by The Citizen office and pick up a multi-language flyer asked for the public’s help. You can put it up at your store or office

http://www.hamtramckcitizen.com/news/12-4-08-update-on-missing-2-year-old-tangena-hussain

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FBI offers reward in case of girl missing 6 months
The Associated Press
8:11 p.m. April 22, 2009
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — The FBI is offering a $20,000 reward for information on the whereabouts of a 2-year-old girl from Michigan missing for more than six months.
Tangena Hussain was last seen Oct. 2 with her mother's live-in boyfriend. Jamrul Hussain, who is not related, has said he left Tangena in his car as he went into a Detroit gas station to buy chewing gum and juice. Hussain says the girl was not in the car when he returned.
Police and FBI agents searched around the gas station and in the Hamtramck neighborhood where Tangena lived with her mother, Nilufa Begum, and Hussain. No one has been charged.
Tangena is described as 3-foot-2 and 34 pounds with brown eyes, black hair and a burn scar on her chin and lip.

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/apr/22/us-michigan-missing-child-042209/

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$20G Reward Offered for Missing Detroit Girl, 2, From Bangladesh

DETROIT — Investigators are expected to release a bilingual poster seeking information into the 2008 disappearance of a 2-year-old Bangladeshi girl from the Detroit area.

The poster and details of a $20,000 reward come Friday, a year after Tangena Hussain was reported missing by her mother's live-in boyfriend at a Detroit gas station.

The poster will be distributed in Hamtramck, a Detroit enclave with a large Bangladeshi population.

Jamrul Hussain is not Tangena's biological father. He told police he left the girl in his car when he went to buy chewing gum and juice. He says Tangena was not in the car when he returned.

An extensive search of the area and Tangena's neighborhood turned up nothing. No one has been charged in the case.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,559242,00.html

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Posted: Oct. 3, 2009
1 year later: Where's Tangena?
Efforts ramped up again for missing Hamtramck girl
BY MATT HELMS
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER


Authorities are posting flyers and pleading for help in solving the disappearance of Tangena Hussain, the Hamtramck toddler who went missing from a Detroit gas station a year ago Friday.

Detroit police, the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children announced Friday that letter carriers will distribute 60,000 bilingual flyers in English and Bengali to homes in ZIP codes in Detroit and Hamtramck around where Tangena lived.



The poster will reiterate that there is a $20,000 reward for information that leads to locating her.



Tangena, who is now 3 years old, disappeared from a car parked at a gas station at 8 Mile and Greenfield on Oct. 2, 2008.



She was last seen with Jamrul Hussain, the boyfriend of her mother, Nilufa Begum. He told police that he was on the way to pick up Begum from work, but he stopped at the service station and locked the toddler in the car while he went inside.



Hussain, no relation to the missing girl, told investigators that when he returned, Tangena was gone. Police said they found no signs of forced entry into the car.



The girl's mother returned to her native Bangladesh. Tangena's father lives in New York, and she has no other family in Michigan, police said.



FBI Special Agent Kerry McCafferty said authorities haven't given up on finding her.



"You always have to hope," McCafferty said. "That's what keeps you going."



Detroit Deputy Police Chief James Tolbert said investigators have been working the case "diligently, but now we need some help."

Hussain is out on bail awaiting trial Oct. 19 on an unrelated third-degree criminal sexual conduct charge for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old Hamtramck girl. His lawyer couldn't be reached Friday.



Anyone with information about Tangena's disappearance is asked to call the FBI at 313-965-2323.


http://www.freep.com/article/20091003/NEWS01/910030364/1322/1-year-later--Where-s-Tangena

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Posted: 9:51 a.m. Oct. 2, 2009
Police hope for breakthrough in Tangena's disappearance
Toddler disappeared from Detroit gas station a year ago
BY MATT HELMS
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER


Police asked anyone with information to come forward so authorities might find out what happened to Tangena, who disappeared from a car parked at a gas station at 8 Mile and Greenfield. She was with Jamrul Hussain, the boyfriend of her mother, Nilufa Begum. He was the last person to see her alive; he had no relation to the missing girl aside from his relationship with her mother.

Jamrul Hussain told investigators he stopped at the gas station on his way to pick up the girl’s mother and left her in the locked car, but when he returned, the then-2-year-old was gone. Police said they found no signs of forced entry into the car.

Detroit Police, the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children announced that letter carriers will distribute 60,000 flyers to homes in ZIP codes in Detroit and Hamtramck seeking help in solving the disappearance.

The bilingual poster will reiterate the earlier publicized offer of a $20,000 reward for information.

Anyone with information about Tangena's disappearance is asked to call the FBI at 313-965-2323.

Contact MATT HELMS: [e-mail].

http://www.freep.com/article/20091002/NEWS01/91002019/1322/A-year-later--where-is-little-Tangena