“Athena was robbed of the opportunity to grow up to be anything she wanted,” the girl's mother said Thursday.
reported. He eventually led investigators to the location, according to the television station.
Horner was identified as the driver of a FedEx truck at a contracting company that was equipped with video recording by a third-party vendor,reported. An FBI employee viewed the one-minute video clips and said he saw the driver had taken a girl who looked like Strand in his van, the affidavit stated.
Maitlyn Gandy, the child’s mother, spoke in front of the Wise County courthouse in Decatur on Thursday, thereported. She stood next to the package she said the driver delivered before her daughter was abducted: a Christmas present for Strand. “Athena was robbed of the opportunity to grow up to be anything she wanted,” Gandy told reporters. “And this present, ordered out of innocence and love, is one she will never receive.”AP“Now, instead, Athena will be cremated and she will come home in an urn because I’m not even, I’m not anywhere close to being ready to let my baby go,” she said.“I ask everyone to hold your littles just a little tighter for me,” she added.
Horner was arrested last week on charges of capital murder and aggravated kidnapping, according to theIf convicted, Horner faces the death penalty,
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