Man Accused Of Killing Shaniesha Forbes Thought She Was Pregnant (DETAILS)

Back in January, we told you the story of a 14-year-old girl who had vanished on her way to school. Days later, her body was found, partially buried in the sand near a nature reserve in New York City.

Now, police are implicating Shaniesha Forbes‘ 20-year-old boyfriend, Christian Ferdinand, for her murder. Police arrested Ferdinand in Maine, where he had fled after suffocating and burning Forbes’ body after he suspected that she may have been pregnant.

“On the record, she wasn’t pregnant at all. As a 20-year-old man, that is something you could easily find out,” said her devastated cousin Kerry-Anne Thomas. “You had the courage and the balls to kill her and bring her body, and lay her on the beach. But you couldn’t go to the pharmacy to buy a pregnancy test to find out if it was actually true.”

Ferdinand admitted yesterday to killing Forbes in January, and cited the reason for murder was the assumed pregnancy. He has been charged with second-degree murder.

Police suspect that Ferdinand suffocated Forbes, who was an aspiring nurse, in his apartment. He then kept her body in his home for a couple of days before stuffing her corpse in a suitcase and bringing it to the beach. 

Cops recovered the suitcase the killer used to transport Forbes’ body from his Maine hideout and also took floorboards from his former Brooklyn apartment, the sources said.

“I’m very grateful for the job that the two main detectives have done,” she said. “They did a wonderful job catching the killer and getting him for the street, and hopefully putting him away for life. That’s what I think he deserves,” said Forbes’ grandmother, Daisy Smith.

Smith said the family hadn’t been eating or sleeping since the girl’s death.

“I’m so happy they caught this guy who killed my granddaughter,” she said. “There was nothing we could do, only wait…Bring him justice.”

May she rest in perfect peace. Our condolences to her family.

SOURCE: NY Post