It's been a week since nobody saw Maleah Davis, 4 years old. This is what we know

Police said his father-in-law's account of what had happened on Friday night had changed several times and that Maleah's mother, Brittany Bowens, had stated that she did not believe in her story. .

Father-in-law says that he was attacked and kidnapped

Vence told the police that he and the two children were driving to George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in the north of Houston, to pick up Maleah's mother from Massachusetts.

Vence says he heard a "popping sound". Thinking it was a tire, he stopped to check. A blue van then parked behind his car and two Hispanic men came out.

One of the men said, "Maleah looks very nice, very kind," Vence told the police.

It was at this point that the other man hit Vence in the head and that Vence lost consciousness.

Coming in and out of consciousness, Vence said that at one point he was aware of being in the back of a van with two children and three Hispanic men.

When stepfather comes to, Maleah is gone

Vence says that he did not fully regain consciousness until the next day. Around 6 pm Saturday, he woke up to meet up with the boy on Route 6 in Sugar Land, southwest of Houston. Maleah was gone.

Police issued an Amber alert for Maleah on Sunday.

"I realize that there are a lot of whites in the story," Sgt. Mark Holbrook of the Homicide Division of the Houston Police Department told reporters. The police hoped that the public could help them "fill in the gaps" in the story that Vence had provided.

Maleah's mother pleads for her return

Meanwhile, Brittany Bowens, Maleah's mother, had returned to the airport from another family member after Vence had not come.

"I can not concentrate, I can not concentrate," said Bowens. "It's so overwhelming for me, it does not seem real."

Font: The story does not add up

Vence's account of what happened "did not come to fruition," CNN spokesman Doug Adolph told police on Wednesday.

In addition, "the substantive details of what he has described to us have changed" over the days since he first told the events to the police, said Adolph, refusing to give details.

Bowens told CNN Friday that she did not believe in the story of Vence and thought that he was partly responsible for the disappearance of his child because "his way of doing things is suspicious. ".

"He did not call me, I did not hear him since Monday, I do not know what's going on," Bowens told CNN's Nick Valencia in an exclusive phone interview. "If you are innocent, why can not you say it yourself, why do not you defend yourself?"

CNN contacted Vence several times, but could not talk to him.

The father-in-law's car is found

The car that Vence was driving, a silver Nissan Altima, was found Thursday morning in the parking lot of a shopping mall in Missouri City, Texas, about 4 or 5 miles from where Vence claimed to have regained consciousness.

The condition of the car seemed normal, with no visible blood or obvious signs of anything inside, said Ken Fregia, a homicide detective from the Houston Police Department.

Police conduct forensic tests on the car and search for a surveillance video in the mall and at a nearby Walmart.

Allegations of abuse

Maleah and his two brothers were taken from their homes and placed with a family member after allegations of mistreatment last year, the CNN's Family and Protective Services Department told CNN.

Bowens said the children had not been abused and that Maleah's head injury, the cause of the allegations, had only been discovered after several visits to the hospital. 39; hospital. Maleah was first neat for a strange lethargy and a week later she fell and cut her head while she was sitting at a table. The doctors unloaded Maleah without doing a scan, said Bowens.

Maleah had a seizure five days later, and it was then that the doctors discovered that she was bleeding from the left side of the brain and that she had operated on her, said Bowens.

Child protection services arrived a few days later, said Bowens.

"They did not find anything because we are not that kind of people," she said.

The authorities quickly placed Maleah and his two brothers with relatives, where they remained until a judge ordered them to take them home in February.