Dillon family holds out hope for missing girl

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By Mark Meredith - bio | email

DILLON, SC (WMBF) – As a Conway family welcomes their missing child back home, the Cabbagestalk family still prays that one day their daughter will come home.

In July of 1993, 10-year-old Shakima Cabbagestalk disappeared from near her home in Dillon.

"I hope she's still alive and that she makes it home," said her aunt, Joyce Cabbagestalk.

In 2008, a jury found Shakima’s stepfather guilty of her kidnapping but was acquitted in her murder. Her family still hopes that one day they’ll be reunited.

“I don’t think it’ll ever be the same,” said Shakima’s grandmother, Clara Cabbagestalk.

Pictures from the Center for Missing and Exploited Children hang throughout Clara’s home. A computer graphic was created to illustrate what the missing girl would likely look like if she was found today.

The family says they plan to keep the pictures up until Shakima returns home.

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