No Remorse!

You would think she showed remorse. It appears she has none.

The Jefferson County, Alabama prosecutor has indicted Black woman for staging a fake abduction to throw off her misdeeds.

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Carlee Russell has set Black women back 12 steps because of her Jussie Smollett style of story. Now the junk food media and far right extremists will question every incident involving Black women going missing, being a victim of a racial attack or being a victim of sexual assault.

The Hoover Police Department said Russell turned herself in to the city jail and was charged with one count of false reporting to law enforcement authorities and one count of falsely reporting an incident.

Her story captured the nation’s attention, but as it turns out, she did not see a toddler on the side of the road, wasn’t kidnapped, did not leave the Hoover area and acted alone, Emory Anthony, Russell’s attorney, said in a statement Monday.

Both charges are Class A misdemeanors and each carries up to a year in jail, and up to a $6,000 fine, if convicted. Russell was given a $1,000 bond for each charge.

Russell went missing after she claimed that a white toddler was walking on Interstate 459, a bypass through Birmingham. The woman went missing for 48 hours.

Russell was the only person who reported a toddler walking down the highway, despite many vehicles passing through the area. The chief said video from highway cameras, which only show someone getting out of the driver’s side door of Russell’s car, has been sent to the FBI for enhancement analysis.

Pretty stupid.

She turned up to family's home days later and the law interviewed her but got no concrete proof her life was in danger. She later confessed to staging it.

The police revealed that she had searched for how to steal from employers, how to go missing and how to get support from the community.

An app on Russell’s phone showed her car traveling 600 yards down the interstate when she said she made the call about the child on the roadside, Derzis said. He said it was hard for him to understand how a child, who Russell said was 3 or 4 years old, could walk very far in bare feet without crying or getting off the road.

Russell’s disappearance has drawn attention to the many unsolved cases of missing Black Americans. According to 2021 FBI data, Black people make up 31% of missing person reports but only 14% of the US population. White people, meanwhile, make up 54% of missing person reports and 76% of the US population.

Derrica Wilson, co-founder of Black and Missing Foundation, previously told CNN she currently has nearly 6,000 cases of missing Black people in her database, most of them unsolved.

False reports like Russell’s are rare, she said.

When asked if Russell’s case could affect searches for missing young women of color in the future, police chief Derzis said, “We investigate every crime to the fullest, just like we have this one.”