Thread: Man seen with missing 2-year-old too upset to take lie test

Saturday, October 18, 2008
Man last seen with missing 2-year-old too upset to take lie detector test
Santiago Esparza / The Detroit News
HAMTRAMCK -- The man last seen with a missing 2-year-old Hamtramck girl was too distraught to take a lie detector test on Friday, his attorney Patrick Shawn Smith said.

"He is very afraid...he broke down," Smith said Saturday. "He is under intense pressure."

Jamrul Hussain, 27, of Hamtramck, was with 2-year-old Tangena Hussain on Oct. 2 at 9 p.m. at a gas station in northwest Detroit. They are not related. Hussain is the boyfriend of Tangena's mother.

He told Detroit police investigators he left the toddler in the car while he went into the gas station to buy gum. When he returned, the child was gone, police said Hussain told them.

But Hussain did not immediately call authorities. Instead, he went to Northland Mall in Southfield to get Nilufa Begum, Tangena's mother, and then police were called.

Hussain has not been named a suspect in Tangena's disappearance, Detroit and Hamtramck police have said. He is jailed on $250,000 bond in an unrelated case in which a 15-year-old Hamtramck girl said Hussain kidnapped and raped her earlier this year.

Smith said a rape kit was not conducted on the girl and that she changed her story after initially telling police Hussain was her boyfriend. A Hamtramck couple have been jailed for allegedly providing a place for Hussain to rape the girl and not helping or allowing her to leave.

Blood samples have been collected from Tangena's home and tests show the blood was not the toddler's, Smith said.

Hussain, a native of Bangladesh, can speak English, but does not fully grasp complicated matters, such as asking for an attorney during police interrogations, Smith said. Detroit police have said that Hussain was able to communicate in English.

Hussain already has taken one polygraph test. Smith would not say how Hussain did on that first test. He said Hussain could not take the second test on Friday because Hussain was too emotional.

"The person who administers the test said he (Hussain) was too upset," Smith said. "I calmed him down, but not enough to take the test."

Detroit police on Saturday declined to comment on the case.

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Well, I am too upset not to talk about this mess, which is beginning to sound like the sham Casey Anthony seems to be pulling about her daughter's disappearance. Then throw in the traditions of that part of the world that don't belong in this country. We have our own laws and traditions about children--we protect them.