TANGENA HUSSAIN - 2 yo (2008) - Hamtramck MI

Detroit police could offer an update as soon as
Friday on their investigation into the mysterious disappearance of
Tangena Hussain of Hamtramck.
Hussain, who would be three-years-old now, vanished October 2,
2008. She disappeared from a car while her mother's boyfriend,
Jamrul Hussain, stopped at a Marathon gas station on Greenfield Road
south of 8 Mile Road in Detroit.

Hussain did not check the area for the child, but drove to the mother's
workplace in Southfield and picked the mother up. Police questioned
area residents but failed to get any leads. There is still a reward
being offered for information in the case.

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.

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.

The case of missing Tangena Hussain, a then-2-year-old who was
reported missing at a Detroit gas station on Oct. 2, 2008, will agan be
featured tonight on the Fox television show "America's Most Wanted" at
9 p.m.Her
mother's boyfriend at the time, Jamrul Hussain, no relation to the
girl, told police he left Tangena inside his locked car when he went
inside a service station convenience store just after 9 p.m. When he
came out, he told investigators, the girl was gone. Jamrul Hussain
claimed the girl was abducted though there was no sign someone had
broken into the vehicle.
In-store surveillance cameras
captured Jamrul in the store and then a few minutes later hurrying back
in. He reportedly told store personnel the girl was no longer in the
car.
Jamrul then drove to pick up Tangena's mother, Nilufa
Begum, from her job at a nearby mall before returning to the gas
station. They asked gas station employees if there were cameras outside
the building where the car had been parked but were told there were
none.
At about 9:30 p.m., the couple called police to report Tangena missing.
An
Amber alert was issued early Oct. 3, 2008 for the girl, who was
reported last seen wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt, brown with some kind
of cartoon character on it, white nylon cargo pants and gold sandals.
The
next day, Oct. 4, 2008, Jamrul Hussain was arrested on unrelated
charges of misconduct and kidnapping involving a Dearborn girl that
allegedly occurred in February.
Tonight's TV broadcast of
Tangena's case on America's Most Wanted will be the fourth airing since
her disappearance, the third this year. Her story was originally
presented on Nov. 8, 2008, just a little over a month after Tangena's
disappearance.

If you have any information about the alleged abduction of Tangena Hussain
call the Detroit police at 313-596-1240 or call 1-800-Crime-TV.
There is a $6,000 reward in this missing person case.

Tangena Hussain, then age 2, disappeared from the back seat of a red GEO Prism
parked at a Marathon gas station in Hamtramck, Michigan on October 2,
2008. She has not been seen since. The alleged abduction took place at
about 9 p.m.

Tangena has black hair down to her shoulders and brown eyes. She has a burn
scar on her lower face (chin/upper lip). When last seen she was 3'2
tall, weighed 34 pounds, and was wearing gold sandals, white pants, and
a long-sleeve brown t-shirt.

According to America's Most Wanted,
at the time of her disappearance, Tangena was in the back seat of a car
operated by her mother's boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain. The car was
supposedly locked when Tangena disappeared.

Jamrul went into the store at the gas station. He says that when he came out 4 minutes later
Tangena was gone. Was she even at the gas station? That question
remains unanswered. The video cameras at the store show Jamrul entering
the store but do not show his vehicle.

How is it possible for a child to be abducted that quickly from a locked car without anyone
noticing anything strange? The circumstances of Tangena's disappearance
seem very suspicious.

Tangena spent the day with Jamrul while
her mother, Nilufa Begum, was at work at Northland Mall. She vanished
while he was in the store at the gas station. Tangena's mother has
passed a lie detector test according to the Charley Project. After a
failed first attempt Begrum refused another lie detector test. He has
now returned to his homeland of Bangladesh.

When the missing status of Tangena made the news, a 15-year-old girl came forward to say
that Begrum had previously kidnapped and raped her. The case is under
criminal investigation.

Where is Tangena Hussain? Has she been kidnapped and possibly murdered?
Is she simply missing, a victim of an abduction?
Or is this case another reminder to parents that it is
crucial to be very wary about letting someone you are dating be alone
with your child?

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