NIJULUM BROWN - 11 yo - Greenville NC

Greenville police are looking for a child reported missing on Tuesday.
Nijulum
Kileonlum Brown, 11, is described as a black girl about 5 feet 4 inches
tall and weighing 120 pounds. She was last seen at 6 Merry Lane #A.She does not meet the requirements for an Amber Alert, a police spokesman said.Police
said Nijulum has run away from home once before. They asked that anyone
with information about her contact the Greenville Police Department at
919-329-4300.

The mother of an 11-year-old missing for three days last week wants
to know why the people the girl stayed with never called her or the
authorities. Christina Roscoe was reunited with her daughter
Friday night after handing out flyers with a photograph of the missing
girl all over Greenville. Her daughter was returned to her after a woman who saw the flyer realized she had seen the child at a Tobacco Road apartment. Roscoe said her daughter, Nijulum Brown, was unharmed. The people she
was living with had fed her and given her clean clothes to wear. They
just didn't think about taking her to school or letting anyone know the
girl was safe, Roscoe said. “They looked out after her,” said
the 37-year-old mother of three. “But as a parent and an adult, you
don't keep someone else's children, especially an 11-year-old. They had
no concern.” The Greenville Police Department is continuing to
investigate the situation, a spokesman said. He declined to provide
additional information. Nijulum told her mother she left her Courtney Square home because she was worried about school and bored. Nijulum said Monday she knew her mom was probably scared. When asked
why she didn't return her mother's calls to her cell phone, she
shrugged her shoulders and bowed her head. “It's an
eye-opener,” Roscoe said. “I consider myself a good parent, but maybe
there are areas I needed to pay attention more.” Roscoe, a
correctional officer in Greene County, said Tuesday, Oct. 20, went
along like any normal day. She got off work at 6:30 p.m., drove to
Grimesland to pick up her youngest son from his baby sitter and was
home by 8:30 p.m. Her first inkling of trouble was discovering
her oldest son was home, but not Nijulum. He said Nijulum told him she
was visiting a friend at nearby Arlington Square Apartments. Roscoe
said she knew the girl, but couldn't remember her apartment number or
her parents' names. “At first I didn't worry because we have a
curfew,” Roscoe said. “But at 9 o'clock I starting calling her (cell
phone). It was ringing but she wasn't answering.” When Nijulum hadn't called by 11 p.m., Roscoe contacted the police. Roscoe said it was distressing because she couldn't answer the
officers' questions, such as what the girl was wearing and the last
name of the girl she supposedly was visiting. Her son provided a
clothing description. She went to C.M. Eppes School, where
Nijulum is a sixth-grader, on Wednesday morning to see if she could
find answers. “She didn't take any clothes with her, she didn't have
any money,” Roscoe said. “I knew in my heart someone was helping her
stay missing.” A classmate said she saw Nijulum crying on Tuesday. Nijulum told the classmate she was stressed. The management at Arlington Square helped Roscoe identify the parents
of Nijulum's friend and contacted them on her behalf. They reported
they hadn't seen the girl. Roscoe spent Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday going to the mall, shopping centers and apartment complexes
handing out flyers and asking people to contact the police if they had
information. Media outlets also ran stories about the missing girl. Late Friday afternoon Roscoe and a friend drove to the Tobacco Road
area, off Greenville Boulevard west of Memorial Drive. “It was very
strange because no one person out there said they had seen the news but
everyone was very concerned,” she said. Yolanda Roundtree took
a flyer and talked briefly with them. Roundtree told the women the
photograph struck a chord. “I knew I had seen that little girl a couple
of doors down from my house,” she said in an interview Monday. She walked over to the apartment. She saw two girls sitting in a
minivan, listening to music. She immediately recognized Nijulum, so she
walked up to the vehicle and asked the girl if she knew her mother was
looking for her. “At first she tried to act like she didn't
know anyone was looking for her. Then she said her phone was dead,”
Roundtree said. Nijulum turned to the other girl and said she had to go
home. Roundtree assured Nijulum she was going home because she was
going to drive her there. Roscoe, meanwhile, had returned to
Greenville Mall to hand out additional flyers. She was driving home
when her oldest son called, reporting that Roundtree was bringing
Nijulum home.
Roscoe said in the early hours of her daughter's disappearance, she
thought more than once about the spanking she would give her daughter.
Those thoughts vanished when she saw her daughter with Roundtree and
two other women, she said. “We'll definitely talk more,”
Roscoe said. She also has arranged for family members and friends to
pick up and keep her daughter after school. Her daughter also will be
joining their church's youth choir. “She is so bored, we are
going to find her some activities,” Roscoe said. “Singing in the choir
should relieve some stress, so we'll kill two birds with one stone.” Nijulum was reluctant to discuss why she left and what she did those
three days. She met the people she stayed with, an 18-year-old girl,
her teenage brother and their mother through a friend. “She said she was just over there. They were nice to her, they fed her and gave her a place to stay,” Roscoe said. A medical examination confirmed she hadn't been assaulted or drugged, Roscoe said. “I thank God they didn't hurt her.” But she still wants to know why the mother was willing to let an
11-year-old miss school and hang out at her house without contacting
anyone. For now, she's letting the police ask those questions.