New Details Revealed in Murder of Missing North Carolina Girl

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- Late Tuesday, authorities confirmed a body found in the woods in rural North Carolina is Shaniya Davis. The 5-year-old had been missing for nearly a week.

Investigators have already charged her mother with selling the little girl for sex as part of a prostitution ring. Another man has been charged with kidnapping.

For several days, hundreds of volunteers joined police, searching rural areas for the little girl.

Investigators continue to focus on Shaniya's mother, 25-year-old Antoinette Davis, who has been charged with selling her little girl as a sex slave.

Initially, Davis told police she woke-up and discovered Shaniya was missing from their mobile home in Fayetteville.

A turn in the case came when security video, a few days later, showed a man carrying Shaniya at a nearby hotel.

The man on that tape, 29-year-old Mario McNeil, turned himself in and has been charged with first-degree kidnapping.

The chief medical examiner in North Carolina is expected to complete an autopsy, looking for an official cause of death, later in the week.