So many people out there who should never be parents. It’s sickening.
Putting a kid outside - believable (one poster here told a story of a family next door making their kids do something outside in the middle of the night as a punishment). A horrible parent could do that. But again, even a horrible parent would not leave a toddler unattended, alone, at night.
Taken by coyotes - somewhat likely if indeed there were some roaming the area. Again, even a horrid parent would run and scream and try to rescue the kid. This would be a negligent homicide of some sort.
Not hearing a peep and not reporting a toddler missing - this does not hold a drop of water.
I live in an area frequented by coyotes and have stumbled on neighborhood cat remains many times. There is no way the child was taken by coyotes. If she had been, the police would have found blood near where the child was taken. It would have to have been a pack (coyotes are not large), and the pack would have mauled her.
She was sadly probably the victim of abuse and killed accidentally or to cover it up.
What makes the story even worse in some respects is that the child is adopted. Of course, I don’t mean any child should be treated like that, but it’s hard to terminate parental rights. But this kid was GIVEN to someone who did not take care of her.
Who here believes that father? Not me. Not I. Not me, no how.
What haunts me is she reminds me so much of my own D at that age.
Every child is so precious.
This reminds me of that horrible case in Phoenix where the girl was locked inside a plastic box as punishment for taking a popsicle. So awful and horribly tragic how some people treat children.
Perhaps “how to raise and discipline children appropriately” should be part of the health class and required for all students.
More details about the family.
“After looking around for her, he said he then went inside to do laundry and decided to wait until it was light out to continue searching or for her to return on her own. Police weren’t alerted to her disappearance until about five hours later.The Mathewses reportedly adopted the girl two years ago from an India orphanage. She was malnourished and physically underdeveloped and does not have the same language skills a typical 3-year-old would in the U.S.”
He’s waiting for a lost 3 year old to return home on her own in the middle of the night while he attends to the laundry?? The man is clearly delusional.
She was never outside in the alley, IMO. I think they need to use Luminol in the house and vehicles. That man,- I hesitate to call him a father - killed her and concocted this ridiculous story. Who gives a child milk in the middle of the night when they should be sleeping? What about a time out corner, not a time out alley? I just hope he didn’t give her to a child trafficking ring.
From the news reports I have seen canines did not detect a scent in the area where she had been left at night.
The police have gathered evidence from the home and have taken away their cars. They are investigating and have not revealed any findings at this time. I get the impression people in the neighborhood have tried to come out to help search for the girl but there is not an active search at this time.
I question whether she was even taken out at night. Something else may have happened but we won’t know till we hear what the investigators find out.
Ugh, reminds me of another sad case - a toddler who disappeared from her father’s house in Maine in 2011. Her mother just went through the process to declare the girl dead. http://www.pressherald.com/2017/09/27/ayla-reynolds-missing-since-2011-declared-dead-by-judge/
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I remember the Ayla Reynolds case well. With the blood evidence allegedly found in the father’s car and in his mother’s basement apartment, I really never understood why they didn’t charge him. Very odd case.
The father went inside to do laundry? Disposing of evidence, likely.
Really, laundry at 3AM? Ya think???
The Ayla Reynolds case has always been bewildering.
The more details about this case get published, the more this man sounds like a vicious killer instead of frustrated, stupid parent. The very first reports stated that he put the kid outside, and in a few minutes, the kid was gone, very likely being dragged away by coyotes. This version is absolutely not believable in light of what has been reported. 3AM laundry just seals it for me.
The parents were quick to get lawyered up and are not cooperating with the police.
Don’t you think that if the parents were seriously concerned that would have made a public statement pleading for help in finding their daughter? Bet he knows where she is.
I am waiting for the police to find evidence so that we learn the truth about this.
^^ Yes. Not cooperating with police. The only reason you would not cooperate if you weren’t guilty is if there were some kind of kidnapping scenario and they were told by the kidnappers not to, which is pretty far-fetched. Agree that that washing the laundry was probably disposing of evidence.
They should have never left that coyote out on bond. I refuse to call him by the role that he failed to fulfill.