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Michael Auberry, a 12 year old Boy Scout from Troop 230 of Greensboro, NC was reported missing in Doughton State Park located near Stone Mountain State Park. At the time the Boy Scout went missing he was wearing pants, a shirt and a coat.
MISSING BOY’S DESCRIPTION
- White male, 12
- 5 feet 4 and 110 pounds
- Reddish-brown curly hair
- Wearing blue jeans, red jacket with reflective tape, dark blue hat
- wearing a pair of wire-rim eye glasses.
TRAPHILL, N.C. — Search teams combed mountain terrain Sunday for a 12-year-
old Boy Scout who disappeared during an outing.
About 10 scouts and the adult leaders of Troop 230, from Greensboro, noticed that Michael Auberry was missing between 12:30 p.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday in Stone Mountain State Park, officials said.
The troop had gone on a hike earlier Saturday, and the boy and an adult stayed behind, said David Bauer, a ranger with the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was not immediately clear why they stayed behind.
After the troop returned and ate lunch with Michael and the adult, the troop noticed the boy was missing from camp. Searchers found part of his mess kit less than a mile away late Saturday, Bauer said. (Houston Chronicle)
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Searchers find missing Boy Scout’s mess kit, footprints
WILKESBORO, North Carolina (CNN) — Authorities searching for a 12-year-old Boy Scout missing since Saturday found his mess kit near where he had been camping with members of his troop near the Blue Ridge Parkway, officials told CNN Sunday.
The missing boy, Michael Auberry, of Greensboro, North Carolina, had remained with an adult at the campsite while other scouts went for a hike, said Dave Bauer of the Blue Ridge Parkway National Park Service.
When the other scouts returned, they ate lunch with Michael who later disappeared from the camp, Bauer said.
UPDATE I: Day Two In Search For Missing Boy Scout
UPDATE II: Search continues for missing Scout
Brent Pennington, a district ranger with the Blue Ridge Parkway, said that crews are spending the day searching intensively in small areas and moving on to others if they don’t find anything.
“Right now we’re still very optimistic,” Pennington said.
Last night, a dive team from Alleghany County searched in the water below a dam in Doughton Park. Auberry’s parents, Kent Auberry and Debbie Hayes, said they were very relieved when the water search turned up nothing. (Journal Now)
UPDATE III: Family Asks for Prayers as Search Continues for Missing Boy Scout in North Carolina
MCGRADY, N.C. — The family of a missing Boy Scout asked for prayers Monday as the search for the 12-year-old continued in a heavily wooded mountain area in western North Carolina.
“We’re doing our best to provide moral support to the family, to the leaders of the troop,” said John Meeks, Scout Executive of the Greensboro-based Old North State Council, which governs the troop and others in the region. “They’re asking for prayers. As you can imagine, they’re concerned.”
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Chopper and tactical tracking teams were being used Monday, and searchers were also going to check out drainage ditches. They were to focus their search in the area from where Auberry’s mess kit was found and outward.
“The most probable thing is that he walked away, went out in the woods and went to investigate,” said David Bauer, a ranger with the parkway. (Fox News)
UPDATE IV: AMBER ALERT Issued for 12 year old Michael Auberry
Springfield, IL, March 19, 2007 –(PR.COM)– Michael Auberry has been missing since Saturday March 17th. He was camping in Doughton State Park near Wilkesboro, N.C.
Michael was dressed for the weather, with a heavy red coat with an inner fleece coat, and he had gloves and a hat in a pocket. He was wearing a dark blue University of North Carolina Tar Heels baseball cap.
Michael went missing around lunch time. Search parties and volunteers continue to scour the area in hopes of finding the missing scout.
UPDATE V: Missing 12 year old Boy Scout Michael Auberry Found Alive
Tremendous news out of North carolina. Park ranger reports have confirmed that Michael Auberry has been found alive.
Missing Boy Scout Found Alive
MCGRADY, N.C. (AP) – Rescue teams found 12-year-old Michael Auberry alive shortly before 11 a.m. Tuesday after almost three full days of searching. Reports indicate Auberry was weak but in good condition, although he was to be transported by ambulance to a local hospital as a precaution.
According to park ranger Tina White, Auberry was physically able to walk out under his own power, but would be transported by vehicle along the park’s trails.
No details were immediately available about the location where the boy was found
March 18th, 2007 at 08:17pm
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AMBER ALERT: Infant kidnapped from Covenant Lakeside Hospital in Lubbock, Texas. The kidnapping occurred on 3-10-2007 at approximately 1:20 AM according to the Lubbock Police Department. The infants name is Mychael Darthard-Dawodu.
Mychael Darthard-Dawodu
Description Last Seen:March 10, 2007 - 1:20 AM Last Location:Lubbock, Lubbock County, TX Date of birth: March 10, 2007 Height: 1′ 7″ Hair Color: Black Weight: 10 lbs. Eye Color: Brown Gender: Female Race: Black
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The victim is a 3-day-old African American female approximately 1′7″ long and 5.2 pounds. She is jaundiced and in need of medical attention.
Sketch of the suspect
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The suspect is described as an African American female in her early 20’s, approximately 5′3″ tall and 150 pounds. She has a round face and black hair that has been dyed auburn and was pulled back in a short ponytail with a scrunchy. She was last seen wearing a pink hospital scrub style shirt with purple and blue flowers, blue scrub style pants, a black jacket with fur around the hood and carrying a tan purse/bag. The suspect was last seen in a 2000-2006 red Dodge pick-up truck with black trim and tinted windows. (KCBD)
If anybody has information about this kidnapping please call the Juvenile Crimes Section of the Lubbock Police Department at 806-775-2788, or the Lubbock Police Department Front Desk at 806-775-2816 or Crime Line at 806-741-1000.
UPDATE I: Baby Kidnapped from Texas Hospital.
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - A woman posing as a medical worker kidnapped a three-day-old infant from a hospital early Saturday, police said.
Mychael Darthard-Dawodu was last seen at 1:20 a.m. at Covenant Lakeside Hospital when a woman wearing blue and flower-print hospital scrubs and a gray hooded jacket took her and drove off in a pickup truck, police said.
Hospital surveillance video showed the woman with the jacket hood pulled around her head and holding a purse as she walked through the lobby.
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The woman may have had a male accomplice, Hudgens said.
“At this point we don’t have any reason to believe that the family knew the suspect,” Hudgens said.
The suspect had gone into the mother’s room several times before the baby was taken, telling the mother the baby needed treatment, said Stafford.
“I think there was more than one attempt,” Stafford said. “I’m trying to verify if it was two or three times.”
UPDATE II: Kidnapped Texas Newborn Found in N.M.
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - A newborn kidnapped from a hospital here was found safe in a New Mexico hospital on Sunday, police said.
Four-day-old Mychael Darthard-Dawodu was in good condition in Clovis, N.M., and transportation was being arranged to return the baby to Texas, said Lubbock police Lt. Scott Hudgens.
“We’re ecstatic to be able to locate the child still in good health and to be able to reunite her with her mother,” Hudgens said Sunday morning.
March 10th, 2007 at 02:43pm
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It has been more than a month since 3 year old Ethan Foley went missing. He was kidnapped by his biological mother, Noel Raleigh and his aunt Stephanie Martinez. Sharon Foley-Pryor is Ethan Foley’s paternal grandmother and his sole legal guardian. The missing persons case was initially handled rather poorly.
Time is critical in any missing person’s case — especially when you’re searching for a kidnapped child. But in the case of 3-year-old Ethan Foley, there was no Amber Alert issued and it took a month for police to finally alert the media. Now, we find out why police waited and why Ethan’s grandmother fears too much time has passed. Sharon Foley-Pryor, Ethan’s grandmother said, “I’m frightened for him… so frightened for him.” (KLAS-TV)
Ethan’s grand mother fears for his safety as his mother lead a rather wild and dangerous life using drugs. AMBER ALERTS are usually a beneficial tool in helping locate missing children; however, in this case it failed miserably. It supposedly did not meet the criteria. One needs to seriously ask themselves why there would be restrictions on a tool used to find children. It hardly makes sense.
That same night — Sharon Foley-Pryor says, with her legal guardianship documents in hand, she and her attorney pleaded with Metro to issue a statewide Amber Alert for Ethan — but she was told the case didn’t meet the criteria. “They said because she didn’t say that she was going to hurt him, that it couldn’t be an Amber Alert,” said Foley. Metro Missing Persons detective, Sandy Southwell, confirms there must be an imminent threat of danger to enact an Amber Alert. Metro says parental abductions are also the most complex kidnapping cases they deal with.
If you have any helpful information, call Metro’s Missing Persons Unit at 828-LOST.
UPDATE I: Missing Las Vegas Boy Found in Virginia
A three-year-old Las Vegas boy missing for a month is back in the Valley.
Ethan’s Foley’s grandmother, Sharon Foley Pryor, told Eyewitness News Friday afternoon he was located in Virginia. She is flew there to get him over the weekend.
She now hopes to work on changing the criteria for Amber Alerts so they can be issued in cases of child abductions in which it is not immediately known if there is a threat to the child. (KLAS-TV)
March 8th, 2007 at 10:41pm
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An Amber Alert was issued today in Everett, WA after a Hispanic man reportedly abducted a child from the Discovery Elementary School. A 10 year old boy was on his way to school when a man in a blue van reportedly abducted the boy and put him in the van. The incident happened at about 8 AM at 120th Street Southeast and Meridian Avenue South.
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The boy is described as 5 to 7 years old, about 3 feet 6 inches tall, and was last seen wearing a dark-colored knit cap and a dark-colored backpack.
The suspect is a Hispanic man in his early 20s, wearing a dark red raincoat, police said.
The van may be a Mitsubishi model, but witnesses did not report a license plate number. Police do not know what direction the van is heading but have alerted law enforcement and media agencies through Western Washington
Anyone with information should call 9-1-1 or contact the Snohomish County at (425) 407-3970
UPDATE: AMBER ALERT CANCELLED
AMBER Alert cancelled, Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office has been unable to indentify a victim and has no further information on a possible missing child.
AMBER Alert for boy called off
March 5th, 2007 at 04:41pm
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There is an AMBER ALERT issued in Florida for 13 year old Clay Moore who was abducted at a school bus stop this morning. It appears to be a random kidnapping.
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Description of Clay Moore:
- Moore is described as 5 feet tall
- 100 pounds
- long light brown or blonde hair; chin length, wavy hair
- last seen wearing a green polo shirt and black jacket, both with Manatee School of the Arts emblem, khaki pants and red backpack
Description of suspect:
- The suspect is described as a 5′ 6″-tall Hispanic man
- He was driving a maroon truck.
Amber Alert Issued For Manatee Co. Teen Abducted At Gunpoint
PARRISH, Fla. — An Amber Alert has been issued for a boy who officials said was abducted at gunpoint Friday morning from a school bus stop.
Manatee County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Dave Bristow said the boy was taken just before 9 a.m. from the Parrish area. (WESH)
Anyone with information please call the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office at 941-748-4501, extension 3596 or call 911.
UPDATE I: CLAY MOORE FOUND SAFE
Boy Sought in Florida Amber Alert Has Been Found
Clay More Found Safe, Suspect Still at large
UPDATE II: Arrest Warrent Issued for Vincente Ignacio Beltran Marino
(CBS4) Florida Police are closing in on a central Florida man suspected of abducting a Manatee County teen in a failed ‘kidnapping for ransom’ scheme.
At a news conference Sunday morning, Sheriff Charlie Wells said an arrest warrant has been issued for 22-year old Vicente Ignacio Beltran Moreno for Friday’s armed abduction of 13-year old Clay Moore from a crowded bus stop on Friday.
Moore, who was duct taped to a tree and left in a wooded area about 20 miles away from where he was taken, managed to free himself with a safety pin. He then walked until he found a farm worker with a cell phone. He called his mother at about 1-30 p-m. Wells says he boy wasn’t hurt except for scratches and scrapes.
“This was an absolute kidnapping for ransom,” Wells said, “The person wanted money in exchange for Clay Moore.”
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:11pm
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An AMBER ALERT has been issued for a 23 month old baby, Nya Miangel Page. Description:
- She is described as a black female
- black hair
- brown eyes
- 24 inches tall
- 30 pounds
- wearing a maroon sweater with a blue and yellow striped diaper
- She may be wrapped in a pink blanket, police said.
Police said Nya Miangel Page was discovered missing from her home in the 600 block of First Street, Braddock, at 7:30 a.m. Saturday.
Anyone with information about the missing child is asked to contact 911.
AMBER ALERT
Springfield, IL, February 03, 2007 –(PR.COM)– The Pennsylvania State Police has issued an Amber Child Abduction Alert for the Braddock Police Department, Allegheny County.
This has been an Amber Child Abduction Alert for the Braddock Police Department.
Affected Counties: Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Armstrong, Westmoreland, Washington, Beaver
UPDATE I: Amber Alert cancelled for 23 month old Pennsylvania Girl
The Braddock Police Department has cancelled the Amber Alert for a child apparently abducted on February 3, 2007. The Amber Alert was cancelled after the child’s body was found on February 4, 2007. No further information is available at this time. (Code Amber)
Amber Alert Cancelled For Missing Braddock Toddler
This afternoon, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner was called to Rankin where a body was found matching the description of the missing toddler.
Officials have not confirmed the identity of the body.
Crews had been searching the area for the missing toddler, marking abandoned houses and trash cans as they searched.
KDKA’s Ross Guidotti reports the body was found off of Fleet Street in a wooded area.
Right now, police have not determined if the death was a homicide.
Meanwhile, Allegheny County Police Lt. Bob Downey confirmed that detective teams at county police were visiting and interviewing Megan’s law violators in Braddock and North Braddock.
Saturday, authorities questioned Page’s father, cousin and grandmother’s boyfriend, the only three adult males in the house.
Page’s father has been brought in for a second round of questioning and another polygraph test. (KDKA)
UPDATE II: Body of Missing Pennsylvania Toddler Discovered at Abandoned Playground
An autopsy will be conducted Monday.
Rankin Mayor Nicholas Glova said earlier Sunday that investigators had found the body of a girl about four blocks from where Nyia Page lived. He said authorities were doing everything possible to find out what happened over the past 24 hours.
The body of Page, who was reported missing Saturday, was found in an abandoned playground.
Police gave no immediate details of the discovery. No immediate arrests had been made.
Another child alerted other family members that Page was not in her bed at around 7:30 a.m. Saturday. They searched for her in vain before calling police, according to authorities. (Fox News)
UPDATE III: Toddler’s death ruled homicide
The death of Nyia Miangel Page, the 23-month-old girl whose body was found in Rankin following a two-day search, was a homicide, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office said today. Following an autopsy today, the office ruled that the Braddock girl died of hypothermia and exposure.
Nyia was found about 3:30 p.m. Sunday along the southeastern slope of the Hawkins Village public housing project. She was last seen alive by several family members about 12:30 a.m. Saturday. Family members reported her missing about seven hours later, said county police Superintendent Charles Moffatt. (Pittsburgh Live)
UPDATE IV: Missing Child’s Father Jailed On Unrelated Charges
The familiar pattern of a person being arrested on an unrelated charge. Could this just be a way of holding a potential suspect as we have seen so many other times in past missing person and homicide cases?
(KDKA) PITTSBURGH There’s still no arrest in connection with the little girl from Braddock whose frozen body was found Sunday.
However, now her father has been jailed on corruption charges involving another child and the Medical Examiner has released information on how Nyia Page died.
February 3rd, 2007 at 03:37pm
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An AMBER ALERT has been issued in Arizona for the abduction of 1 year old Isidro Ramirez and his mother 20 year old Noemi Ramirez. The suspect is a Hispanic male six foot 180 pounds between 22-24 years old He has a muscular build with light brown pants and black tennis shoes. Noemi Rameriz, was forced into vehicle around 4:30 this morning.
AMBER ALERT: Abducted from East Mesa, Arizona driving Blue 1990 Chevrolet Ex-Cab Truck-Lowered with Wide Wheels with chrome rims, Diamond plating along the bed, Playboy bunny sticker in back window, white flames on front windshield. Arizona license plate number 709 SCM.
The mother reportedly yelled to a witness that she was being taken to California.
Victim Name: Isidro Ramirez
Age: 1
Height: 2′
Weight: 40
Hair Length: short
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Last Wearing: White T-shirt and diaper. Has 1/2 inch scar on right side of forehead and 1 inch dark mark on lower back.
Gender: Male
Race: Hispanic
Victim Name: Noemi Ramirez Ramirez
Age: 20
Height: 5′
Weight: 170
Hair Length: Long
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Last Wearing: Victims mother-White Tank Top, Black Spandex Pants W/ White Rose on Left Leg
Gender: Female
Race: Hispanic
Anyone who sees the vehicle is asked to call 911 immediately or anyone with any information is asked to call the sheriff’s office at (602) 876-1011
UPDATE I: The mother told police her daughter shouted that she was being taken to California
The mother told police her daughter shouted that she was being taken to California and that she did not know the men abducting her, reported the East Valley Tribune.
The mother did not report the incident until almost 2 p.m., due to the fact that she only spoke Spanish and was trying to find a translator, police told the Tribune. The Amber Alert was launched at about 8:30 p.m. (Fox News)
UPDATE II: Baby who was subject of Amber Alert found, along with mom
PHOENIX An Amber Alert issued early Monday morning for a one-year-old Mesa youngster has been canceled.
The Department of Public Safety says little Isidro Ramirez and his mother, 19-year-old Noemi Ramirez, were located this morning in Blythe, California, and both appear well. (KVOA)
UPDATE III: Missing Arizona Mom, Infant Son Found in California
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said little Isidro Ramirez and his mother, 19-year-old Noemi Ramirez, were located about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday morning in Blythe, Calif., by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. (Fox News)
January 30th, 2007 at 12:39am
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An Amber Alert has been issued in Arizona. Police are on the hunt for 6-year-old Olivia Alvarez, who was allegedly abducted from her home near Phoenix, Arizona this morning. She is believed to be in the company of George Richard Horner, 26, who was convicted in 2004 of sexual conduct with a minor and is a registered sex offender.
According to Louisiana’s online sex offender registry, Horner was convicted of sexual conduct with a minor in Pinal County in 2004. He listed an address in Maurice, La. Vasquez said Horner was also registered as a sex offender with his office. (Fox News)
UPDATE I: An AMBER ALERT in AZ successfully located a missing 6 year old girl who was abducted earlier this morning by registered sex offender, Richard Horner. However, registered sex offended Richard Horner is still at large.
The suspect, George Richard Horner III, 26, is still on the loose.
Horner is a registered sex offender in Louisiana.
Police say the suspect was driving a 1993 teal green Nissan Pathfinder with Louisiana license plate PKL-399. He is believed to be headed to Lafayette, La.
The little girl is in police custody in the Casa Grande area. Horner reportedly released her in a residential neighborhood after hearing radio reports that police were looking for him. (AZ Family)
There has been some dispute as to the relationship between George Horner and the 6 year old girls mother.
UPDATE: Mom speaks in press conference. It was she who notified the police. She was not aware he was a sex offender, “Or he would not have been within 100 million miles of my house!” Alvarez met Horner through a mutual friend, and said she trusted him because a good friend did. (Digital Journal)
UPDATE III: Arizona Police Seek Suspect in Sexual Assault, Kidnap of 6-Year-old Girl
Officials had initially identified Horner as the mother’s live-in boyfriend, but Lt. Scott Elliott later said Horner had only been staying at the home after being introduced to the mother by a mutual friend. The Associated Press initially identified the girl but is no longer doing so because she is believed to have been sexually assaulted.
Horner was supposed to take the girl to school Friday. But the mother called police after her call to her house from work went unanswered and after being told the girl wasn’t at school.
UPDATE IV: Suspect in Kidnapping (George Horner), Sexual Assault of 6-Year-Old Arizona Girl Arrested
George Richard Horner, registered sex offender, was arrested Saturday morning.
George Richard Horner, 26, was located at about 10:30 a.m. near the town of Coolidge by an investigator who had been searching for him, sheriff’s spokesman Mike Minter said.
Horner was found in the Nissan Pathfinder SUV deputies had been seeking since the incident and was taken into custody without incident, Minter said. He was being questioned by detectives Saturday afternoon. (Fox News)
January 26th, 2007 at 08:41pm
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An Amber Alert has been issued for 3 year old Loic Rogers in Montana. Loic Rogers was last seen on Wednesday night at approximately 7pm at his residence on Maple drive in Evergreen, Montana.
Description:
- Loic is 3 feet tall
- weight 40 lbs
- blond hair
- blue eyes
- Loic’s nickname is “Tank.”
Montana Amber Alert
When last seen, Loic was wearing a red, white and blue coat, blue jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt, tan leather boots and a multi-colored beanie hat. (Fox News)
The event occurred at , Evergreen MT on Wednesday, January 24th at 7:00PM.
Subject missing from relatives residence on Maple drive in Evergreen, Montana. Subject was outside residence awaiting parent. Parent went inside momentarily and when returned child was missing.Search commenced soon after and is ongoing.
Amber Alert for Montana Toddler (Loic Rogers - 2)
UPDATE I: Authorities in the Flathead say that they are treating the case of a missing 3-year-old boy as a kidnapping
“I would just hope that he would just turn him over to somebody, go to a convenience store, tell them to call the police, take him somewhere and just give him up, because he needs to be back with his dad and mom.”
Neighbors have searched just about every driveway, dead-end, and corner surrounding the property where he was last seen on Maple Drive.
At a Thursday morning news conference police said that the parents are divorced, and that they are NOT suspected in having any involvement in the incident. Also, there were reports of a salesman in the area when the abduction occurred, but police say he has been cleared of any involvement.
Flathead County Sheriff Mike Meehan says that they are using search equipment, including three thermal imagers to detect any kind of heat including body heat. But, so far there is still no sign of Loic. (Montana News Station)
If you see Loic, or have any information about where he may be, please contact the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office at 758-5874.
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UPDATE I: Missing toddler found dead near Kalispell
The sad news is being reported that the body of missing 3 year old Loic Rogers was found. The boy’s father has stated that he was only gone for a minute and when he returned his son was gone. Our prayers are with the family. Rest in peace Loic.
KALISPELL, Mont. - The remains of a 3-year-old boy apparently kidnapped from outside his grandparents’ house in Evergreen were discovered late Friday, Sheriff Mike Meehan said today.
Meehan declined to release further details on the death of Loic J.M. Rogers. A press conference was scheduled Saturday afternoon at the Flathead County sheriff’s office. Meehan thanked community members and officials who searched for Loic.
UPDATE II: Missing Montana Boy, 3, Found Dead in Septic Tank
The 3 year olds death remains a bit of a mystery. The little boy found in a septic tank drowned. Police are questioning how he could of climbed in the septic tank and closed the lid. It would be nearly impossible to do.
The body of 3-year-old Loic Rogers, who disappeared outside a home in Kalispell, Montana, was found in a septic tank late on Friday evening. The septic tank is less than 10 feet from where he was last seen alive, said Flathead County Sheriff Mike Meehan. An autopsy performed in Missoula showed that Loic drowned.
Authorities said they had looked in the septic tank during their initial search, but did not see anything. They found the boy’s body after draining the tank.
The manhole-sized lid to the septic tank was closed. Sheriff Meehan declined to characterize the boy’s death as a murder, but said investigators do not believe he could have climbed into the tank on his own and then put the lid back on.
UPDATE III: Why does it seem that in so many cases like this the parents are going through a separation or divorce? Custody battles take precedence over the safety and welfare of the children or in some cases a spouse goes completely over the edge and murders their husband or wife.
In an interview with The (Kalispell) Daily Inter Lake, Ariel Rogers confirmed Friday that she and her husband are divorcing and are involved in a custody battle for their three children. Mark Rogers was given temporary custody during their separation.
”I want the kids and so does he,” Ariel Rogers said Friday. ”We love our children. (Mark) would never do anything to hurt our children.”
Ariel Rogers, who is expecting her fourth child, was hospitalized so doctors could monitor her after she learned of her son’s death.
”I want to know that my other two children are safe in that man’s care,” she said in a tearful interview with KAJ-TV Saturday. ”He was supposed to be looking after him, he was supposed to be safe there, and he wasn’t.”
January 25th, 2007 at 05:47pm
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MySpace.com has teamed up with The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to distribute Amber Alerts to is on-line community. MySpace.com has recently come under fire for the exposure it creates to younger subscribers and predators. The on-line alerts will begin today on MySpace. MySpace still has a ways to go in protecting its on-line networking community; however, this addition of on-line Amber alerts makes sense. Teenagers and those of college age that predominately make up MySpace would be the first to know if teens had gone missing. Disseminating the information and fast internet responses may help enable police in the battle to find missing persons.
The online alerts, which will begin Tuesday, will be sent to all users in the ZIP codes where it was issued. They will appear in a small text box at the top of a user’s portfolio. The user can click on the box for more information, including a photo of the missing child and a description of the suspect. (CBS News)
MySpace also announced two safety features designed to protect members’ privacy.
The site will now require people signing up for an account to provide a working e-mail address and verify their identity by responding to an e-mail sent to the listed address. This is a practice common with other online services, but MySpace has been hesitant thus far because of fears the confirmation messages might end up mistakenly in spam filters. The site, open only to those 14 and over, will also offer a tool to prevent any member under age 18 from being contacted by adults, and vice versa. The tool, however, is optional and relies on self-reported ages. (Fox Reno)
My Space still has a ways to go in providing safety to its users as there is presently a law suit by four families against the networking internet giant. MySpace.com to Send Out Amber Alerts
MORE SAFETY FEATURES As part of its safety program, MySpace now requires all new members to register with a valid e-mail address, which they say helps law enforcement track down potential predators. New applicants will receive a verification e-mail with a link requiring them to click back and verify their identity. U.S. senators Charles Schumer and John McCain said last month they planned to introduce legislation that would require convicted sex offenders to register active e-mail addresses, expanding the existing requirements that they register personal information with local municipalities. The database of e-mail addresses would let social networking sites like MySpace bar offenders from their services by cross-checking new applicants against the database. (FOX)
January 23rd, 2007 at 04:58pm
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