Pray for a Safe return home for Monica

I normally will post a video talking about my daughter Monica Sykes’ disappearance. But today I feel like I need to put this in words. Monica is my baby, my child and yes she is 25 years old, but she is still my child, 1 of six children, 1 of 2 daughters. Dana, Monica and myself have done so many things together and I miss hearing her voice and seeing her face in person. I have said over and over someone knows something about her disappearance, the problem is that they are not speaking up. Offering reward of $20000…not enough, billboards…not enough…signs on Metro buses…not enough….in the news media both local and national…not enough…on the radio..not enough…facebook live…not enough…other social media outlets…not enough…search groups…not enough. We will go to the ends of the earth to find her.

There were 3 individuals of whom we asked the police to strongly consider they may have some knowledge or may be involved in Monica’s disappearance, one of which was a guy she had just starting “dating” for about 2 months, another was an ex-boyfriend who was abusive toward her in the past and lastly was a Berkeley police officer of whom we did not find out she even knew until the day after she did not come home. There are so many twist and turns to what we as a family are discovering and it just breaks my heart to know that someone would do something to my child, who is only 4’11 and weighs 100 pounds or less and is loved more than anything. Monica is 25 years old, as any other 25 year olds she enjoys life. She did not just walk away on her own and among those 3 people that we gave to the police one or if not all know something and have the missing pieces we need in order to find our daughter. Among those individuals they know someone who knows what they know and they are not speaking out either. If this were their daughter, sister, cousin, friend,they would be going hard at people that were possible involved in the disappearance of their loved one, the same way we are doing. So when I hear things such as “if that family says one more thing about me I’m going to sue them” I wonder why you have no compassion and only thinking of how this is impacting you and if you have nothing to hide. If you don’t have anything to do with her disappearance why tell your family members not to talk anyone about a young woman that you know that has gone missing. I am at point that I don’t know who to trust or who has what information about Monica’s disappearance. I don’t sleep well, I don’t eat much at all and have drank way too much to in recent past just to be able to sleep, just trying to deal with this unbearable pain of not knowing where my child is, not knowing what has happened to her and finding out the individuals she trusted and dealt with aren’t to be trusted, aren’t good people at all.
This Saturday 2/4/2017 Texas Equusearch will come out along with volunteers to do a search and recovery…I will not be participating in that at all, because I can’t bear the thought of looking through another vacant building, wooded area or vacant lot for my child. And even though they are excited to come out and do this it is not something that excites nor thrills me…this is my CHILD!! I will continue to stand on my faith, trust God to give me strength, peace and will continue to pray for the safe return of my daughter Monica.