When a terminally ill Virginia mother relinquishes custody of her child to a supposed good Samaritan, she has no way of knowing she’s being deceived. A young girl goes missing while in the care of a woman who exploited vulnerable children in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

Sources used to research this episode:

Finding Brittany Williams: 7 Year Old with AIDS Still Missing After 19 Years (Kelly Avellino / NBC12 News)

Brittany Williams (Community United Effort)

Brittany Williams, 7, Was Allegedly Given Away to a Woman in 2000 (Our Black Girls)

VA Man Not Father of Dead Girl in Kan. (Margaret Stafford / The Intelligencer)

Police Search for Missing 9 Year Old Aids Victim (The Daily Press, Feb. 1st, 2003 via Newspapers.com)

Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities 2019: Statistics and Interventions (Children’s Bureau)

The Foster Care System and its Victims: Part 2 (Susanne Babbel, MFT, PhD)

‘Samaritan’ Gets 8 Years for Fraud (Justin Bergman / AP News)

‘I am Brittany Renee Williams’: Woman Says She Has DNA to Prove She is Virginia Girl Missing 21 Years (Kelly Avellino / 12OnYourSide)

Henrico Police: Woman Claiming to be Missing Henrico Girl is Not (Jakob Cordes / ABC8 News)

Still Missing: Search for Answers Continues for Missing Foster Child with AIDS (Kelly Avellino / 12OnYourSide)

Police Probe Possible Link to Missing Girl (Stacy Hawkins-Adams / Culpeper Star-Exponent)

DNA Will Tell if Body is Missing Girl’s (Associated Press)

Guilty Verdict in Precious Doe Murder Case (KCUR News)

Search is on For Brittany (Stacy Hawkins-Adams / Times-Dispatch Staff Writer)

Brittany’s Ex-Guardian Gets Eight-Year Term (Tom Campbell and Stacy Hawkins Adams / Richmond Times-Dispatch)

If you know anything about the disappearance of Brittany Williams, please contact the Henrico County Police at (804) 501-4000.

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