ROOSEVELT PARK, Mich. -- Nearly one month since the disappearance of a Roosevelt Park mother, her family is speaking out, pleading for answers.
Bobbie Maples was last seen on December 15, just 11 days after giving birth to a baby girl.
Now, as her family cares for the newborn child, there are new questions as to who may know what happened to the 32-year-old, who had a history of drug abuse.
Bobbie's mother Muriel admits her daughter used drugs and says her new baby was born addicted to Soboxone, but Muriel also says Bobbie knew she had help and never has -- and never would -- just disappear.
“Bobbie had been Facetiming me on my phone everyday at the hospital with her,” said Muriel.
She says this was Bobbie's chance to get things straightened out.
“She had the crib, the clothes," Muriel said. "She was all excited about it. She was ready for her to come home."
As her baby daughter Aryonna remained in the hospital, Bobbie and her mother discussed rehab.
But that time never came, as Bobbie soon went missing.
“The hospital said the last time they saw her was that Sunday (December 15)," Muriel said. "She came in to feed Aryonna like she did every day and said she was going to go home, change her clothes, and come back. And she never showed. That was the last she was seen."
First named a "voluntary" missing person on December 15 by Roosevelt Park Police, Bobbie’s mother says police have now upgraded Bobbie to officially “missing.”
Muriel says her daughter has a rough past, starting her drug use at age 17.
“She was a good person," she says. "She just had a lot of troubles in her life, and, ya know, made some bad choices."
She says there have been conflicting stories from the people in Bobbie's life, including when and where she was last seen.
“If she was going to leave Aryonna, she would have called somebody like me to come get her," Muriel said. "There’s no way she would just walk out and leave her."
Bobbie’s sister now has temporary custody of the baby as both women work around the clock caring for the baby and continuing the search for her mother.
“I call her phone every day," Muriel said. "I send her pictures of the baby on her phone, even though the phones not working."
“I do it every day just hoping maybe whoever has her...I think somebody might have killed her myself."
Anyone with information on the disappearance of Bobbie Maples should call the Roosevelt Park Police Department at 231-755-3721 or Silent Observer at 231-72-CRIME.
