January 6, 2009
Gotta Love Them Traditional Family Values: Kansas Couple Fails to Report Disappearance of 11-Year-Old Son… For Ten Years
It’s stories like this that test my pacifism; I’m fighting back the urge to suggest public horsewhipping — for starters — for these sorry excuses for “parents”:
Long-missing boy is subject of search He came to his foster parents when he was about 2, according to a relative, and a few years later that family adopted him.
And then, nearly 10 years ago, the boy disappeared when he was 11 or 12, while the adoptive family lived at a mobile home park in Towanda, Kan.
After receiving a tip, Butler County authorities searched part of the mobile home park last week.
Sheriff Craig Murphy has not confirmed the boy’s name but said no one ever reported him missing and investigators could find no evidence that the boy is alive. …
On Saturday, an attorney for Adam’s adoptive parents said that he ran away about nine years ago, that they didn’t report it and that they feel “horribly guilty” for not doing so.
“And they’ve been feeling that guilt for nine years,” Wichita attorney Warner Eisenbise said.
Eisenbise said Adam had psychological problems, was difficult to control and had run away repeatedly.
“They assumed that he was somewhere — either a homeless person or back with members of his family,” Eisenbise said. “They assumed that he was OK.” …
More at the link. And here’s an aged depiction of what Adam might look like today.
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