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Search Continues For Brooklyn Mother Who Never Returned From Dinner

UPDATE 4/28/16 3:47 p.m.: Police said that Destiny has been found and is safe and was never in danger. Our original story appears below.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Police are looking for a Brooklyn mother of two who never came home after going out to dinner last Wednesday.

Now, the woman's boyfriend and mother are at odds over the investigation.

"I'm torn up. I want my child because it's a week and he is sitting there calm, calm like everything's all right," Chantee Dawson said.

As CBS2's Ali Bauman reported, it's been seven days since 21-year-old Destiny Dawson left her home in Bed-Stuy at around 8:30 for dinner, and never returned.

Destiny lives with her two daughters and her boyfriend, Lasheem Harris, who reported her missing the next day.

Now, Destiny's mother says Lasheem isn't helping to return the woman they both love.

"I've been calling, going back and forth to Brooklyn, that's what I've been doing, and I have not seen him," Chantee said.

Chantee said Lasheem has been impossible to get a hold of, but when CBS2 went to the couple's apartment, Lasheem was there and said he's been doing some searching of his own.

"That's the day before she went missing, and she was sending this dude pics," he said.

Lasheem said he signed onto Destiny's Instagram account with his own phone after she disappeared, and found messages to other men from just hours before she left.

"I think she's out doing her. She's out having fun, spending time with whoever she knows because this isn't the first time, second time, third time," he said.

Back in Harlem, Chantee said her daughter would never walk out on her two kids. She fears Lasheem is being evasive and drawing conclusions that could be delaying the investigation.

"I don't want to identify her body, so if you know something say something. Don't hide, don't lie, tell me what is going on," she said.

Lasheem said while he was helping raise both of Destiny's daughters he is only the biological father of one. The couple isn't married and he doesn't have custody, so for now those two girls are staying with their grandmother.

Police said they have been looking at Destiny's prior relationships but have not zeroed in on a suspect.

 

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