New York Daily News

Jamaican dad’s hope to see slain girl’s rites

- Nancy Dillon

DEVASTATED relatives will say their final farewells to little AbbieGail Smith next Monday — and her Jamaican father hopes to be among them.

“I want to see my daughter for the last time, please, one last time before she goes down into the earth,” distraught dad Kenroy Smith, 50, said Monday.

The 11-year-old New Jersey girl vanished from her mom’s Keansburg apartment last Wednesday.

She was fatally stabbed in the neck, according to the medical examiner, who ruled her death a homicide. She was killed by an upstairs neighbor who dumped her body in a hiding spot on the property, prosecutor­s said.

Accused killer Andreas Erazo, 18, was arrested hours after her body was found Thursday. He was charged Friday with first-degree murder and weapons possession.

“I want to see the perpetrato­r. I want to see him brought to justice and would like to confront him with a few questions,” said Kenroy Smith, who lives in Kingston, Jamaica.

A wake for AbbieGail will be held Sunday, followed by a Mass and burial the next morning. Relatives said visitation would be 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Jacqueline M. Ryan Home for Funerals in Keansburg.

Authoritie­s did not immediatel­y release a motive for the horrific murder.

Neighbors said Erazo lived directly above the apartment AbbieGail shared with her mom and brother at the twostory Hancock Arms Apartments. illegal

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