Grieving Mom Says Athena Was Killed By ‘Sick, Cruel Monster’

‘I CANNOT DESCRIBE THE PAIN’

The seven-year-old girl’s heartbroken mother said she wants “the world to know my baby, my first baby, my first true love, the reason I breathe.”

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Published Dec. 2 2022 5:54PM EST

Athena_b6tlun — Wise County Sheriff's Office

The mother of a 7-year-old girl allegedly abducted and murdered by a FedEx driver says she wants the world to know the “beautiful, kind, intelligent” girl who police now say was taken from her.

“My princess was taken from me from a sick, cruel monster for absolutely no reason,” Maitlyn Presley...

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Grieving Mom Says Athena Was Killed By ‘Sick, Cruel Monster’

The seven-year-old girl’s heartbroken mother said she wants “the world to know my baby, my first baby, my first true love, the reason I breathe.”

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Grieving Mom Says Athena Was Killed By ‘Sick, Cruel Monster’

The seven-year-old girl’s heartbroken mother said she wants “the world to know my baby, my first baby, my first true love, the reason I breathe.”

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