Sky’Kemmia Pate was just 8 years old when she vanished from her family’s porch in Unadilla, Georgia, — a town roughly 45 miles outside of Macon — on Sept. 4, 1998.
It’s been over two decades since then, and Shy’Kemmia (or Shy Shy, as her family and friends called her) hasn’t been seen or heard from since. But Veronica Pate believes that her daughter is still alive all these years later — hoping that the police or someone knows where she may be located.
“She’s been missing for 25 years, but I still feel like she’s alive out there somewhere,” Pate told NPR.
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