Prayers at vigil for girl found dead in trash can
A community joined family members for prayer at a vigil Tuesday night for the 10-year-old girl found dead in a trash can after allegedly being starved to death by her father and stepmother.
About 50 people attended the event to remember Emani Moss at the Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church near Decatur.
The girl’s funeral will be held Wednesday at Levett Funeral Home’s Gwinnett Chapel in Lawrenceville. Her grandmother, Robin Moss, said she is scared to go.
“I don’t want to say goodbye,” she said Tuesday night.
Emani’s burned body was found Nov. 2 inside a trash can at her family’s Gwinnett County apartment complex, but police have said she may have been starved to death days earlier.
Emani's father and stepmother, Eman and Tiffany Moss, both 30, are charged with murder.
Robin Moss said she has not yet spoken to her son and she is angry, but she forgives him for his alleged crime.
“I want to pray with him and I want him to tell me why,” she said.
Records showed a history of abuse in Emani's case, and state officials said they plan to review how the case was handled.
Prayer and the community’s support are helping the family cope.
“I don’t want anyone — any other grandmother, mother — to go through the heartache that I’ve had to go through,” Robin Moss said. “We have not slept. We have not eaten. We can’t function. We’re like zombies right now because this is really hard.”
—Staff writer Alexis Stevens contributed to this report.
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