Phylicia Moore, an 18-year old honor student from the Teaneck High School in New Jersey, died on April 15, 2007. Her body was discovered at the bottom of a hotel swimming pool in Accra. Phylicia Moore earned and saved every penny in order to go to Africa for a goodwill class trip to Ghana to donate books to orphaned children suffering from AIDS. 23 classmates joined her, along with nine chaperones. Their parents have two beliefs: that their daughter's death was not an accident, and that Phylicia would still be alive had the trip's chaperones been more vigilant in monitoring the students.
The details of the final hours of Phylicia Moore's life are frustratingly incomplete. She was seen leaving the hotel swimming pool alone around 10:30 p.m. April 15. About 11 hours later, her body was discovered in the pool, still clad in a tank top and shorts with a bathing suit underneath.
The parents and their attorney Nancy Lucianna have been pushing for the FBI to investigate, an effort aided by Rep. Steve Rothman, D-N.J. The U.S. ambassador to Ghana, Pamela E. Bridgewater, told the Moores in a letter Friday that Ron Nolan, the FBI's legal attache assigned to Lagos, Nigeria, would travel to Ghana next week and serve as a liaison to a task force formed by Ghanaian authorities to review Moore's death.
But under international law, the FBI cannot be formally involved in the investigation until it receives an official request from the Ghanaian government. The FBI had not received such a request as of Friday. cbsnews
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