Nalani Johnson: An autopsy of a missing 23-month-old girl found dead in a Pennsylvania park is scheduled for today

Nalani Johnson was reportedly taken away on Saturday. His body was found Tuesday in a park in Pennsylvania. The authorities hope that an autopsy will provide clues as to what happened to the toddler between the two.

Nalani's father, Paul Johnson, said that a woman he was involved with had left his daughter Saturday after a dispute, according to a criminal complaint filed by Allegheny County police. The woman, Sharena Nancy, has been charged with kidnapping a minor, interfering with the custody of the children and concealing the whereabouts of a child.

CNN has not been able to identify or contact a lawyer for Nancy.

The story of his father

Johnson and Nancy were at the beginning of an "intermittent romance" that had started on social media a few months before the incident, said Tuesday the Allegheny County Police Superintendent, Coleman McDonough. , at a press conference.

According to the criminal complaint, Johnson said that his daughter and a friend spent several hours with Nancy the day Nalani was abducted. Nancy drove them all in a car when an argument ensued, according to the complaint.

Johnson said that he got out of the car, but when he went to get his daughter in the car seat, Nancy took her with her, according to the complaint.

Johnson told the detectives that he had been trying to call Nancy 's cell phone several times, but this one had never stalled. He called 911 around 5 pm AND, says the complaint.

The police stopped Nancy's car around 7:30 pm but did not find Nalani inside, according to the complaint. Nancy was arrested during this stop.

Johnson told the police that the car driven by Nancy was wearing Uber and Lyft stickers. Uber representatives did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.

Dana Davis, head of communications at Lyft, told CNN that although the incident did not happen on the Lyft platform, they banned Nancy from driving with Lyft, adding that the charges were "deeply disturbing." ".

His alleged abduction history

Nancy's version of the events, detailed in the complaint, differs from Johnson's.

She told the authorities that Johnson had sold the little girl $ 10,000 and that she was in the process of completing the filing, according to the complaint.

Johnson showed him a picture of a black woman she was scheduled to meet about 20 minutes from a gas station in Monroeville along US Highway 22 with Nalani, according to the complaint.

According to the complaint, Nancy told detectives that she had encountered a silver SUV parked on the roadside with registration plates outside the state and that she had received instructions, passing the toddler and the car seat to a woman standing next to the car and then departure. Nancy told the police that she had seen a second woman inside the van, the complaint said.

Nancy stated that she then drove, smoked cigarettes and talked on the phone with her husband, according to the complaint.

McDonough said on Tuesday that they had no evidence corroborating the version of Nancy's events, adding that Johnson and his family had collaborated on the ongoing investigation.