A Mother’s Fight (PART 2): Searching Every Day for Her Missing Daughter

Summary

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The Latest with Loren LaRosa

Episode: "A Mother’s Fight (PART 2): Searching Every Day for Her Missing Daughter"

Date: April 10, 2026
Host: Loren LaRosa
Guest: Lavette Bryce (Mother of missing daughter, August/Aisha Benhudifa)
Podcast Network: The Black Effect Podcast Network & iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This poignant episode centers on Lavette Bryce’s harrowing quest to find her missing daughter, August (Aisha) Benhudifa, while shining a light on the disproportionate challenges Black families face when their children go missing. Loren guides a conversation that elevates Lavette's personal fight into a sobering commentary on systemic neglect, media disparities, and the wider epidemic of missing Black children nationwide, especially in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Disparity in Missing Person Cases

[04:39 - 08:11]

• Statistics and Systemic Inequality: Loren cites that, while Black people comprise only 13% of the U.S. population, they account for 40% of missing person cases (per Blackandmissinginc.com), yet receive scant media and police attention.
• Classification Issues: Many Black and minority children are wrongly classified as runaways, leading to missed Amber Alerts and less urgency in searches.
• Media Silence: Cases involving white victims often go viral and receive robust support, whereas Black families like Lavette’s are often left unsupported.

Quote:

"A lot of minority children are initially classified as runaways and, as a result, they do not receive an Amber Alert...The coverage of white and minority victims are far from proportionate." — Loren LaRosa [05:16]

Lavette’s Firsthand Struggle with Police and the Search

[09:34 - 11:24]

• Documented Frustration: Lavette shares her near-daily efforts—distributing flyers, going door-to-door—and the lack of cooperation from local authorities. She recounts how police only searched her house a month after August went missing, despite Lavette's relentless advocacy.
• Bureaucratic Obstacles: Lavette describes miscommunications and mistakes by law enforcement in entering August’s details into the missing person database, further delaying the search.

Quote:

"I’ve been outside every day, all day... spending every dime I got giving out flyers. And today, y’all want to come and do a search in my house and I know my daughter not in my house, right?" — Lavette Bryce [09:47]

Memorable Moment:
Lavette’s visible anger and heartbreak during a recorded confrontation with police, underscoring the lack of institutional urgency.

Community and Systemic Challenges

[16:01 - 19:33]

• Need for a Task Force: Lavette advocates for the creation of a dedicated task force to address child trafficking and missing children in Wilmington. She argues that police are capable of tracking drug trafficking, so they should be able to do the same for missing kids.
• Consequences of Underfunded Communities: Discussion about how issues like redlining, underfunded schools, and gentrification intersect to make inner-city Black children more vulnerable and less protected.

Quote:

"They made it so easy for people to get on and off the highway from our kids...but y’all are not patrolling these areas. You could be riding past a person screaming in the car right next to you, and nobody’s paying attention." — Lavette Bryce [16:31]

What the Community and Listeners Can Do

[19:33 - 21:28]

• Approach with Sensitivity: August has mental health challenges; if someone sees her, Lavette advises contacting police and, if possible, maintaining close visual contact until authorities arrive.
• Sharing and Visibility: Weekly flyers with faces of multiple missing girls are being distributed; everyone is encouraged to share them on social and pay attention to signs that don’t look right.

Quote:

"If we find one, we might find all of them. And it’s too many of them missing." — Lavette Bryce [21:58]

Widespread Issue, Social Media, and Information Sharing

[25:32 - 27:35]

• Social Media as a Lifeline: Lavette discusses how Facebook groups and direct communication between mothers fill the information gap left by official channels.
• Cross-Regional Vigilance: Missing children can be transported out of state. Community vigilance and sharing information remain vital.

Quote:

"People missing from over in California, they might have brought them here, we might see them...We can probably get most of these girls home if we start paying attention. Stuff don’t look right. If it don’t look right, it’s not right." — Lavette Bryce [25:53]

Law Enforcement’s Mishandling of August’s Case

[27:35 - 30:56]

• Errors and Delay: Police inaccurately described August as “bald, black eyes, prior runaway” (all incorrect), while failing to note crucial mental health details or even her recent photos.
• Impact of Bureaucratic Mishaps: August’s case didn’t enter the national missing person database (NCIC) initially. Lavette had to persist for corrections and proper filing.
• Ongoing Lack of Accountability: The officer who misfiled the report faced no visible consequences; systemic failure in handling missing Black children’s cases is evident.

Quote:

"I sat there with that man for 45 minutes while he fixed the whole report, then submitted it. As soon as he submitted it, the NCIC number popped up. That’s how I knew it was submitted correctly, because before then, it wasn’t even in [the] national database." — Lavette Bryce [29:26]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Unconditional Determination:

  "If I stop, then everybody stops. I’m not going to stop...If we find one, we might find all of them." — Lavette Bryce [21:51, 21:58]

• Lavette’s Message to August, if she’s listening:

  "My message to you is that I love you...hold on and fight. Please fight...You got a lot of family coming for you." — Lavette Bryce [15:41]

• On Systemic Neglect:

  "Obviously [the officer] is still on a beat...That’s something I’ma deal with on another day." — Lavette Bryce [30:56]

• On the Power of Community:

  "Everybody loves Lovey on every social media aspect...If you find my daughter, you call me. I don’t care if it’s 2:00 in the morning. I’m coming." — Lavette Bryce [33:34]

• On Institutional Gaps:

  "It doesn’t affect other people as much as it will affect you...Obviously the entire structure is broken and nobody’s here to fix it. I’m going to fix it though." — Lavette Bryce [31:42]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Opening context and stats on missing Black children: [04:39 – 08:11]
• On police frustration and house search: [09:34 – 11:24]
• Lavette’s direct message to August: [15:32 – 15:41]
• Call to action for community/task force plea: [16:20 – 18:41]
• Guidance for encountering August: [19:33 – 20:09]
• Weekly flyer and cross-state search efforts: [25:32 – 27:04]
• Police mishandling and reporting delays: [27:35 – 30:56]
• Lavette’s summary plea and final call for help: [32:43 – 35:14]

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Conclusion & Resources

This episode illustrates the personal and systemic struggles parents like Lavette Bryce endure when their Black children disappear: persistent self-advocacy, battling police bureaucracy, mobilizing social media, and constantly fighting to keep the case in the public eye. Loren’s platform becomes an amplifier for Lavette’s urgent call—for her daughter, for other missing children, and for a reevaluation of the systems meant to protect them.

How to Support / Take Action:

• Share August/Aisha Benhudifa’s flyers on social media.
• Join relevant Facebook groups or community pages supporting missing Black children.
• If you have any information, contact Lavette directly (as she bravely shared: 302-367-0365) or local authorities.
• Stay vigilant and involved—the solution starts with consistent community action.

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[Lavette Bryce]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey y', all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa and this is another episode of the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is a daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news and all of the conversations that shake the room. Baby, you are going to hear from a mother who is distraught, who has not seen her baby girl in over 38 days. A black mother who is a fighter and has the will and determination to not give up who is up every day literally kicking indoors after she receives tips about where young women and young black women may be being held as they're being trafficked. You're going to hear from her throughout this episode. But I want you guys to understand what we are up against, because one thing that Lavette echoes a lot in our interview is that it's not just her daughter that she wants to help bring home. There are so many young black girls in the city of Wilmington alone. In the last several weeks, I've come across at least like, oh, my God, four to five Facebook groups who are posting daily, sometimes every 20 minutes, a new young woman, young man, baby, grown adult, elderly person that has gone missing in the city. But one of the big conversations that we are having right now are about our young black girls, our young black kids in these inner cities. According to blackandmissinginc.com which is an organization that helps to bring platform and voice and two children, black children who are missing and who are going overlooked. In 2023, there were over 563,000 persons reported missing in the United States. Now, of that over 563,000 people, 57% of those people were white, including Hispanic people. 40% of those people were minority. 40% of missing persons are persons of color. Yet black people make up only 13% of the population. And that's via census.gov Thousands of people are reported missing every year in the US and not every case gets media widespread attention, but the coverage of white and minority victims are far from proportionate. Now, blackandmissinginc.com goes on to talk about why there's a disparity in media coverage around black and brown children, black and brown people, as we go missing. The number one reason is runaways. A lot of minority children are initially classified as runaways and are as runaways. And as a result, they do not receive an Amber Alert. You will hear from Ms. Levette in my interview talk about her daughter and how she had to fight to get an Amber Alert. The second reason being listed as criminals. Missing minority adults are labeled as associated with criminal involvement, gangs and drugs. Desensitization is the third reason. It is believed that missing minorities live in impoverished conditions and crime is a regular part of our lives. I say our because I'm from the same city that, you know, Ms. Levette's daughter went missing at, literally blocks away from where this young girl was last seen by her mother and by her family.

I grew up.

My family's there. My niece is there. This is our problem. This is not just her and her family's problem. This is our problem. And when I say our, I don't just mean me because I'm from the neighborhood. I mean that to say, this could be your daughter, this could be your niece. This could be your cousin. This could be you. This could be. I mean, I saw Savannah Guthrie, you know, go back to work today on the Today show, you know, and national news coverage around that, the FBI, the president involved in that. There's a celebrity element there. We get it. She's a white woman. They're a white family. We get it. And we want everybody to return home safe, but we have to look at what's happening here and lack thereof. So this is everybody's problem. Not just, you know, those who choose to care about news coverage. Not just, you know, now your baby's missing, and you're trying to figure out how to go about it. White, black, brown, green, purple. This is everybody's issue. Now, this video from Kay Lynn shows exactly what Ms. Levette, you know, is talking about as she searches for her daughter, August or Aisha. This video was shot early March outside of Ms. Levette's home. Here you hear Ms. Levette and her family going back and forth with police who showed up to her home to search her home after she reported for that.

[Lavette Bryce]

Because, Anthony, listen, I done been to all innocent.

The only people who give me footage

is the daycare right here. They gave me footage.

I've been down here.

Everybody else saying, y' all gotta get the footage. Y' all gotta get it.

They're not giving it to you. I've been door to door. I'm outside every day, all day. I'm spending every dime I got giving out flyers. And today, y' all want to come and do a search in my house. And I know my goddamn daughter not

in my house, right?

She's not in my house. You're not doing a.

Like, literally.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's not up to us for the.

[Lavette Bryce]

It is up to y' all right away. It is up to us. Listen, I'm telling you because you put my information in wrong. You were the one.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You put.

[Lavette Bryce]

Yes, you.

You did. You put my daughter in as b.

No, I didn't.

You did. You put my daughter in as bald head with brown eyes?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I didn't.

[Lavette Bryce]

Girl, listen what I'm saying. You're talking other office. Listen, girl, you can't go in. You can't go. Listen, you ain't been helping. I don't give a. About that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, well, you need help.

[Lavette Bryce]

I. I've been asking y'. All. I been asking you for help. They can't do a video.

That's not how it works.

Maybe it's been. It's been 30 days. What are you talking about, a day? That's how it works. But if it was yours. If it was yours, y' all going to use the entire police. That's how it works.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That is how it works, man.

[Lavette Bryce]

Listen, get the.

From in front of my house.

I do it by myself, cuz. I've been doing it by myself. So listen, Go ahead. Listen.

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[Lavette Bryce]

We hurt little here. Just back up with all this. Go ahead. Get from in front of my house. I'm doing your job. I'm doing your job. I've been doing your job for the last month.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Have a nice day.

[Lavette Bryce]

You as well. You as well, Peterson, whatever your name is. Y' all don't do your job. Y' all gonna wait a month later to come search my house for my daughter that I know ain't in there. Stupid.

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[Lavette Bryce]

and

[Lauren LaRosa]

at this point you hear in this video From Caitlin's media Ms. Levette, she's upset. It's like at this point she feels like she's doing their job for them as she mentions in the interview. Again, this video was shot prior to our interview. She has been documenting her process herself. You guys may have not have heard or seen this video. As disappointing as it is to hear, because media hasn't. They're not covering it. It's not. Instagram and social media have been her biggest voices. We put it into that today.

If August is watching this, what is your message to her right now in wherever she is as she's able to hear or potentially see you?

[Lavette Bryce]

My message to you is that I love you, you know, you love. You know I am coming for you. You just gotta give me a sign and be strong and hold on and fight. Please fight. You got a lot of family coming for you. We love you. Do not give up. I love you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What is it that you need right now? Like, if, you know, if the police department is doing what they're supposed to do, if the community is doing what they're supposed to do, the media, what does a legit set up to help you, you know, amplify this to get to your daughter? What does that look like? What's the call to action for everybody watching and listening? Like, how can they help you?

[Lavette Bryce]

I feel like the call of action is, like I said, this is just not one singular incident. This is multiple incidents. You know, I feel like if the. If the Wilmington police are involved, they are actually. No, they should know majority of who, what, where, because they're taking places in certain areas. You know what I mean? I feel like it's. It should be some kind of task force that you. I mean, task force set up to handle just this, like, because it's literally people coming in our neighborhoods and they're snatching our kids and they're doing whatever they want to them and they're killing them. I'm getting them drugs, and they're making them disappear, and they're making them do all kinds of things. And I'm a mom, and I can think of 100 different things that you could be doing to my child right now, and I'm not accepting it. I just feel like they need to be on the ball and paying attention. They made it so easy for people to get on and off the highway from our kids, like, around like, you made it so easy. Y' all made it so easy. But y' all are not. They're not patrolling these areas. Y', all, like, you never know, you could be riding past a person screaming in the car right next to you, right next to you, and nobody's paying attention. I feel like they need to have some kind of. They. They need. They need to have training on it. First of all, what to look for besides drug dealers. But it's no right if y' all can do all this investigation and find the people that's bringing drugs from Miami all the way out. Or you can find the people who's trafficking these kids. You can find the people that's snatching these kids. They're right in the neighborhood. They're blending in with us. There's some. I mean, if you can find all that out of a person 30 days, you can find where these kids are and who's taking them and how they're taking him. I believe that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I know you talked a bit about the neighborhood that you're in. I'm from Wilmington, Delaware, and I talk a lot about being from Delaware. But, you know, we have listeners and viewers from all over the world, all over the U.S. so Wilmington, Delaware, is an inner city, for those of you guys who don't know, predominantly black. You know, and it's one of the things where, like, we deal with what the inner cities deal with. So the drugs, the, you know, the. The underfunding of the schools, the redlining, you know, the. The lack of support for the houses and the gentrification that comes in.

So when.

When she's talking about the neighborhoods, she's talking about the fact that, like, the kids there are black and brown, so the care level is just a lot

[Lavette Bryce]

different, and it's not there, you know, so our kids feel like, hey, they don't have nothing to look forward to because this is it. Like. But when I was growing up, we had things to do. You know, we were everywhere. Like, we had things to do. We had east side steppers. Like, parents were involved. Now, you know, parents don't want to get involved in anything now. Like, something got. Something has to change. And I know it starts with us. If the government isn't even helping us try to do, what do. What do you. What are we supposed to do? Like, what am I supposed to do? Like, I wasn't supposed to, you know, snap on the police like that. I'm supposed to just let. Let it stay face and hope that they're out there looking for my kids. Nobody gonna look for mine. Like. Like me. Absolutely not. Absolutely not.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. You know, however. And whatever it is that I can do, I don't. All I got is a platform. So, you know, you're always welcome to come to spread information, to post information. We'll make sure we put all of the flyers of August throughout this interview as well, too, so people can see her, you know, and. And is there anything. If people see her walking on the street or see her somewhere or wherever? I know you mentioned that she. She deals with different, like, mental issues before. So is there a certain way to approach her or not approach her? Like, how do. If a common person just happens to run into her or see her? What are the instructions?

[Lavette Bryce]

My first instruction is to, you know, let August know she has to feel safe with you first. She has to feel safe and right now she. I don't think she's going to feel safe with anybody. So my, I would say contact the police. If you can follow her and contact the police, that would be better because, you know, we don't know what she's going through. You know, she can be a threat to herself and others. Like I said, it can go either way. August is like, she has to know that you are taking her to me. She's going to her mother or she's going to her aunt. If you said Aunt Crystal is coming for you, call her Aunt Crystal, she's going to go with you. Otherwise I say call the, call the police because they might have a better shot. They can actually come with the mental counselors with her and help get her together and then we can go from there. But I know, you know, my daughter isn't on drugs. Like she's not running around here popping perks. You know, everybody smoke a little weed here and there, but she don't do that. She doesn't drink. Like she's a picky eater. She's picky with everything. She reads books. You know, she's a different child. She's a quiet child. So this right here, this is different. This is like it almost, it's almost. It's breaking me. So I can imagine what it's doing to my daughter right now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, well, praying for the August is safe return home and for your strength, you know, throughout the days. And I only said you were strong earlier because every day that I've been talking to you, it's just been like you getting up. You're continuing to do what you need to do to try and bring your baby girl home. But you know, I'm not a parent yet. But I can only imagine that that's just what comes with being a mom, you know.

[Lavette Bryce]

Absolutely. It's unconditional love. Like I said, nobody's going to do it like you. And you know, if I stop, then everybody stops, you know, and I'm not going to stop because I don't want nobody stop. I want everybody. I want everybody to remember all these girls faces because like I say, if we find one, we might find all of them. And it's too many of them missing. It's too many of them.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Are there certain.

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[Lauren LaRosa]

I was seeing like once I started following the, you know, your daughter and the other girls that I saw that were missing from Wilmington, Delaware, I began seeing like Facebook groups and websites. Like, are there certain sites that you're following that also provide information on other missing young men and women in the inner cities?

[Lavette Bryce]

Yes. It's an unsolved group on Facebook.

He.

He keeps us loaded. Jackie Canard, she. She. People send her all kinds of stuff. Not all the time. It's on groups. A lot of people are sending us stuff directly from them. Like some of the moms, like Mississippi, you know, all over. Some people are just sending it to us and we're actually, you know, forwarding some of them over to the groups because they get out a little faster with the groups. Yeah, they just be. They just becoming like. And I just, you know, since then I, I just, you know, been following all of them because again, you never know. People missing from over in California, they might have brought them here, we might see them. You know, like we all can try to pay attention and know we might not find them all, but we can probably get most of these girls home if, if we start paying attention. Stuff don't look right. If it don't look right, it's not right. You need to take a picture.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I got you.

[Lavette Bryce]

Like, it's bad out here. You didn't know it was this bad until it got this bad.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No. Well, again, let me know whatever you need if there's like new flyers or anything to post. You know, I try and post as much as I can remember throughout the week or like, you know, week, weekends, whatever. The poster flyers that you sent me.

So yeah, yep, I have new flyers.

[Lavette Bryce]

I'll actually send those over to you. We're going to print up a couple more but like do it small with a whole bunch of different of the girls on there, just so we can try to get as many. I want to try to at least once a week with a different flyer with about five or six different girls on there, just so everybody can just keep looking. Because it's like, listen, I've been in Philly. It's bad there. As far as you know, the trafficking at the girls Jersey is horrible. And I'm. Listen, I'm going everywhere. I'm going everywhere.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I wanted to ask you about something too. I know, you told me. I just thought about this when you were talking about the flyers. You were telling me that originally when you reported August missing, first of all, the information, like, there was never an official report filed. And then when they did file it, all of her information, like the debt would have described her to someone, was completely wrong.

[Lavette Bryce]

Absolutely. So like I said when I. When I first started this, me and my friend, like I said, we were just out in the city. We started handing the flyers to, you know, the police officers. They were the ones who let us know that it wasn't right. Like, it wasn't in the system. So I went down to wpd, asked them for a copy of my, you know. You know, they give you the little blue card with your number on it. So I asked him for a piece, a copy of it. And I said as soon as I looked at it, I said, sir, this is all wrong. Like, who fixes this? That's that number again. You're gonna have to dial 654-5151 and speak to somebody on there. And. And whoever put it in has to fix it. That's another 11 hours I gotta wait for somebody to call me back to fix everything that's wrong in here. Like, you put my daughter in here as bald baby bald, black eyes. You put her in here as a prior runaway, which is probably why y' all never looked for in the first place, because she has never ran away. She's never been a prior runaway. And then she put on there that she's depressed, not that she's suicidal ideation, not that she has severe, severe bipolar, not that she's on medicine every single day and she hasn't had her medicine. You didn't put her. She took pictures of my daughter's hair because she had just got her hair. Her hair is in locks, just a little thicker than mine, about this length. She took pictures of them. You didn't even input any of the pictures of my daughter. Not like you didn't do nothing. Black female, in her name and her approximate height. That was the Only part that was right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How long was it like that?

[Lavette Bryce]

When did I see it? Probably like that, for about a week and a half. I can get the exact date on for you when I do the video, because the day I did that video, I went and seen the mayor earlier that day, and that's when I got the copy of the. That's when I got the updated copy, because I had stopped the guy. It was three police on the beat in front of my house, and I had stopped him. And when he went on. He went and pulled it up, and he was like, this shit's all up. Excuse me? That's. He. That's exact words. And I was like, well, what do you mean? So he turned his. His screen to me so I can see. And I can see, like, every. They have a lot of steps that they have to do to input all the information down to the tattoos. Like, it's not just like, hey, you just put everything on this one screen. No, you got to go this screen. You got to do this when you get to this screen and ask for a picture of, like, what the tattoo looks like. When you get to this screen over here to input the photos. You got to input the photos one by one, upload them to. Like, if I sat there with that man for 45 minutes while he. While he fixed the whole report, then submitted it. When he. As soon as he submitted it, the NCIC number popped up. That's how I knew it was submitted correctly, because before then, it wasn't in even an NCIC number, which means it never hit the national database anyway.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And normally something like that, if you had not been doing what you were doing, it would have just been overlooked. And was there any repercussions for the, you know, the sergeant or detective or whoever that input that information that way?

[Lavette Bryce]

No. And if it was. Well, obviously no, because she's still on a beat. I just seen her the other day by my house. She's still on the beat. So obviously not. But, you know, that's something I'mma deal with on another day, you know?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, that.

[Lavette Bryce]

Yeah, you know, I'll deal with all that on another day, you know, the mayor on the other day, the state senate on city council. Because this.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's a.

[Lavette Bryce]

It's a line. It's a change. All this, like. And all chains has been broken in all. The whole aspect of it. The whole chain of everything is broken. Got you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Alrighty. Well, I mean, I'm hoping once we put this package together and put this out there, this can get you Some, some eyes and, you know, just get you a little shake up and. Yeah, like, I, I don't. I don't know. I'm just trying to help out as much as I can.

[Bethenny Frankel]

So.

[Lavette Bryce]

Yeah, like I said, until it happens to you, we do not know what's going on. And it won't affect. It doesn't affect other people as much as it will affect you. Yeah, but it should affect this community because it, it. I shouldn't have had to scream like that. And now I understand with a lot of parents, even, you know, when the parents where, you know, their, their loved ones have been murdered or what, I understand the pain that they're going through because obviously the entire structure is broken and nobody's here to fix it. I'm going to fix it, though. Got you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, well, stay in contact with me. I'll stay in contact with you and let you know when this is posted and how we're going to do the whole thing, but I'll make sure that it gets the platform that you need it to.

[Lavette Bryce]

Absolutely. Thank you so much and I appreciate you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Of course.

Thank you.

And if there are any other moms of, you know, kids that are missing or, you know, whatever that, you know, need the platform, let me know.

[Lavette Bryce]

I definitely will.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Lavette Bryce]

Thank you. You have a good evening.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You too.

[Lavette Bryce]

My name is Lavette Bryce. I'm looking for my daughter, August Benhudifa. Her name is Aisha. She went missing. I live right here on South Franklin. She was last seen down here on Franklin and Elm. We've been out here every day since the 2020 second looking for the Wilmington police, New Castle County Police. Nobody's helping me. I'm out here every day advocately looking for my daughter. If you see her, if you see anything, I'm telling you, look for anything, any signs you can contact me. I'm going to do better. 302-367-0365. Small Uncle Kelly, he's out here looking as well.

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[Lavette Bryce]

I'm out here. I'm about my family. I don't play about my daughter. I'm not playing about any of these kids. We need to bring these kids home. We got to come together. We need to get these kids. We need to get somebody out here to help us look for these kids. Please, if you need anything, contact me. I'm living. Everybody loves Lovey on every social media aspect. I'm out here, I'm going everywhere. If you find my daughter, you call me. I don't care if it's 2:00 clock in the morning. I'm coming behind Mom. Please help me bring my baby home. Please help me bring all the babies. All of them. All of them. Every last one of them. Please. I appreciate you guys. I love you guys. Please share it before you go. Before you go. Is the cops helping you out at all? Helping me at all? They just came. It's almost a month later. They just came and executed the search for it on my house like my daughter is in my house. And yes, I did snap. This is a month later. It's a month later. A month later. You want to execute? You could have come in my house at any time. I don't have nothing to hide. And then the cop said, I'm not helping you from. I don't need your help. The city, the world is helping me, but I'm coming for the city. I'm coming to help you. They're not helping me. They're not helping. I appreciate everybody. Please get it out there. Look for my baby. Look for August. I promise you. Mine coming home. She's trying to get home. Somebody took mine.

She don't do this.

She's coming home and I'm coming. She know I'm coming.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm Lauren LaRosa. This has been another episode of the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news and all of the conversations that shake the room. My low riders. I appreciate you guys every single time you're here to talk with me about all of the things. I'll see you in my next episode.

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