( CNN ) -- A body found Monday beside a North Carolina road is that of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis , who was reported missing a week ago , police said Tuesday . The official cause of death was undetermined as of Tuesday afternoon , Fayetteville police said in written statement . An announced afternoon media briefing was rescheduled for Wednesday morning . Earlier Tuesday , police said additional charges are expected in connection with the case and any charges will be made public as soon as they are filed . Shaniya 's mother , Antoinette Nicole Davis , has been charged with human trafficking and other offenses . Davis was `` prostituting her child , '' police spokeswoman Teresa Chance said after Davis ' arrest over the weekend . Another suspect , Mario Andrette McNeill , has been charged with kidnapping in the case . Shaniya 's father , Bradley Lockhart , made a tearful appeal before reporters Tuesday afternoon , asking that `` everybody makes it a point not to ignore , to look past a situation where a person , a child , or anybody might be in danger ... so that we do n't have another tragedy like Shaniya . '' He said authorities have given him limited information , but he was to meet with them later . `` It 's not the result I wanted , it 's not the result any father or family would want for their children , '' he said . `` But God has a greater calling for all of us . '' Shaniya 's mother reported her missing from their Fayetteville home in a mobile home park on November 10 . According to police , surveillance video taken that day from a hotel in Sanford shows Shaniya in the company of McNeill . `` The investigation at this point indicates that Shaniya Davis was alive at the time she left the Sanford hotel , '' police said in the statement Tuesday . The road where the body was found is near Sanford , which is about 30 miles northwest of Fayetteville . Shaniya 's half-sister , Cheyenne Lockhart , said on HLN 's `` Nancy Grace '' Monday that she found it difficult to believe Davis had treated her daughter so poorly . `` She seemed like the sweetest woman . She did n't come from much , but ... she had the sweetest voice , she had the sweetest personality , and especially toward me . I would never think that she would do anything like that , '' said Lockhart , who shared a father with Shaniya . Their father said Shaniya went to her mother 's home on October 9 . CNN 's Gabriel Falcon contributed to this report .
NEW : Grieving father , speaking to media , urges people not to ignore children in peril . Antoinette Nicole Davis , last week , was reported missing 5 . Mother Shaniya Davis faces human trafficking , other charges . Shaniya Davis was `` prostituting her child , '' police spokeswoman says .