On Sheena Scarbrough’s 43rd birthday, she had one birthday wish.
“I need to lay my baby to rest. This is my wish for my birthday. I need the community to keep standing with us,” Scarbrough said.
She spent part of the day at Black Rabbit Tattoo Collective in Bay View getting a tattoo in honor of her daughter, Sade Robinson, who was killed and dismembered over three weeks ago.
In the time since, body parts believed to belong to Robinson have been found at various locations across Milwaukee County.
Many of her remains have been discovered by family or strangers passing by.
“The community has been the ones on the front line finding my daughter and figuring out the pieces of the puzzle. We’ve been doing the work,” Scarbrough explained.
“I don’t see anybody out here searching for my daughter. Police, detectives, sheriffs. I’m not putting them down, but I need them behind me.”
Robinson’s family and friends have spent days searching areas where Robinson’s phone pinged the night she went missing on April 1.