Mourners remember girl whose body "allegedly" moved with custodial dad, step (Bryan County, Oklahoma)

A very peculiar case, one we posted on last year. I'm not even going to try to summarize the doings of custodial dad ABEL WOLF and the sicko step. You'll have to read the article yourself.
http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2009/07/dad-stepmom-found-with-remains-of-11.html

INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT. Whatever happened to this girl's mother? Is she dead? Alive? Why isn't there a word of explanation?

http://newsok.com/mourners-remember-girl-none-of-them-had-met/article/3491311

Mourners remember girl whose body allegedly moved with family

BY SONYA COLBERG Oklahoman 0
Published: September 3, 2010

As her body lay unclaimed in the medical examiner's office, Cheyenne Wolf was remembered Thursday by a dozen people who've never met her.

Mourners remember girl whose body allegedly moved with family Strangers gathered at her memorial service at First Unitarian Church to remember the little red-haired girl who walked in leg braces and, court papers say, endured routine spankings and long hours tied in a bed or chair before she died in 2008.

Her father and stepmother didn't attend. They were in the Bryan County jail Thursday on child abuse charges.

Pounding rain and crashes of lightning punctuated the words of the Rev. Mark Christian as he told mourners that the belief is so intrinsic that a child is to be loved and protected, that a story like Cheyenne's is disturbing.

"Even the sky seems to object tonight,” he said.

"To have lived with the degradation and neglect that she seemed to have lived with, to die so tragically and with such disregard. These things bore at the bedrock of our common humanity.”

Cheyenne died at home in Bokchito sometime in April 2008, a day after the girl's siblings saw her stepmother, Denise Wolf, strap her into a bed and whip her with a belt, court records state. According to investigators' affidavits, her father said he hid her body in a plastic tub stashed in a shed behind the trailer the family rented in rural southern Oklahoma, and when people began asking questions, dug up her body and moved it with the family across six states.

The girl's remains were discovered last year in an Oregon storage unit, but the cause and manner of death were ruled unknown.

"That her body remains unclaimed is a festering wound to our common humanity,” Christian said.

Everyone wore one of the 200 pink bracelets printed with "In Loving Memory of Cheyenne Wolf April 2008.” Several people cried for the child they never knew.

Jenny Findley, a memorial service organizer, said she was devastated to learn of Cheyenne's story and that no one had claimed the child's body.

"She's an angel. In life, we weren't able to protect her but in death we remember her and our hearts go out to her,” she said.

Jack Werner said he initiated the gathering to remember Cheyenne because he was so touched by the feeling that perhaps she'd never been loved in her 12 years of life.

"It just seemed like the right thing to do,” he said, wiping his eyes in the foyer of the church.

Werner and other members of the South Oklahoma City Rotary Club bought a park bench that will have Cheyenne's photograph on it. It hasn't been determined where the bench will be placed.
Denise Wolf is charged with child abuse, child abuse by neglect and unlawful removal of a body. Abel Wolf is charged with enabling child abuse, child abuse by neglect and unlawful removal of a body. A preliminary hearing is set for Nov. 10 in Bryan County Courthouse in Durant.

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