What happened to Shane Graham?

Shane Graham had Down’s syndrome, autism and sickle cell anemia and was one of 11 disabled children from New York who had been adopted by 62-year-old Judith Leekin. Today’s Associated Press reports that Leekin used four aliases to make money on the subsidies totally over $1.2 million for the children’s care. She adopted them between 1988 and 1996 and moved them to Florida in 1998 Nine of the children (aged 15 to 27; many have “mental and physical handicaps”) are in Florida state custody; one 19-year-old is on his own—-and Shane Graham is missing.

authorities are considering a murder charge against Leekin as they try to find the 11th child, a boy named Shane Graham who would now be 19. He was last seen with Leekin in 1999 or 2000. The other adopted children have said Leekin told them he died……………

«He couldn’t feed himself, bathe himself, do anything for himself,» [Port St. Lucie police Detective Stuart] Klearman said. «He couldn’t walk or speak … On his own, he could not survive.

The other children knew him only by his nickname, Moo. «He got that name because that’s about the only sound he could make,» Klearman said.

According to authorities, Leekin kept the children “like prisoners in her home. …… the children were often handcuffed, beaten, starved and locked in a room, deprived medical care and not allowed to attend school.” Leekin has pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against her and remains held on more than $4 million bail.