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FAYETTEVILLE -- The two people charged with the 2009 death of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis both entered not guilty pleas in superior court Thursday morning.

Mario McNeill and Antoinette Davis, Shaniya's mother, both pleaded not guilty in separate appearances in court. McNeil is charged with raping, kidnapping and murdering Shaniya. Antoinette Davis is charged also charged with murder, human trafficking and felony child abuse-prostitution.

Prosecutors allege that Davis sold her daughter as a prostitute to pay off a drug debt to McNeill on Nov. 10, 2009.

Shaniya's body was found days later in a Lee County ditch just days after her mother reported her missing. The autopsy report revealed she was suffocated.

Both McNeill and Davis are due back in superior court in April to set a trial date.