EPISODE · May 21, 2024 · 8 MIN
Diana Cojocari pleads guilty to not reporting daughter missing
from WCNC Charlotte To Go · host WCNC Charlotte
Diana Cojocari, the mother of missing Cornelius girl Madalina Cojocari, pleaded guilty Monday to not reporting her daughter missing back in 2022. Diana Cojocari has been in jail since December 2022, about a month after Madalina was last seen leaving her school bus in Cornelius, North Carolina, which is about 20 miles north of Charlotte in northern Mecklenburg County. Diana Cojocari initially pleaded not guilty to the charge of failing to report her daughter's disappearance, which is a Class 1 felony. Monday, in court she changed that plea to guilty without a plea agreement.The judge told Diana Cojocari, who is not an American citizen and is originally from Moldova, that she was likely to be deported if she changed her plea. Read more: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/madalina-cojocari-stepfather-mother-in-court/275-bc147443-0e1e-481a-af1a-daf48f1c2888
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Madalina was last seen publicly on Nov. 21, 2022, when she was 11 years old.
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