KYRON HORMAN MISSING AND ENDANGERED: SEARCH INTENSIFIES FOR MISSING 7 YEAR OLD PORTLAND BOY
Portland, OR– 7 year old Kyron Hormon is a Red Eyed Tree Frog Expert.
Kyron, his Step-Mom and former teacher Terri Moulton Horman worked diligently on Kyron’s submission to the second grade science fair on Friday June 4 at 8am. The bright-eyed, bespectacled, herpetologist in training also dressed for the occasion in his best CSI tshirt.
At 8:45 am, Terri said goodbye to her son who was a few feet from his classroom and left the Skyline School to return home to Kyron’s 18 month old sister.
Kyron has not been seen or heard from since.
What is particularly troubling is that Kyron seemingly vanished from the school that matriculates grades Kindergarden through 8th.,without anyone noticing his backpack and jacket were left on his desk in homeroom.
Although Kyron and his mom were seen together that morning as they dropped off his belongings in his classroom prior to viewing the science fair exhibits, he was marked absent. Kyron was also scheduled to be in the talent show at 1PM that same afternoon.
At approximately 3:45PM Terri Horman was waiting at the bus stop for Kyron, and when he did not get off the bus, she ran home and called the school, who told her he had been marked absent.
Multnomah County Sheriff received the 911 call from her at 4PM. Within minutes of Ms. Horman’s frantic alert, the state-wide hunt fo Kyron Horman, now in it’s seventh day, began.
Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton is leading 18 counties in Oregon in the search for young Kyron, and police have released no new details about the timeline surrounding his disappearance. Specifically, the last confirmed sighting of Kyron was at approximately 9am, but police will not say where that was within the school, or who he was with. Staton says they have no evidence Kyron was abducted, which would trigger an Amber alert.
The Horman family residence, in a deeply wooded area is 2.9 miles from the Skyline School, and his been the focus of explanded search efforts continuing through today.
When asked why the MCSO is releasing very little information as to what they think happened to Kyron, Capt. Monte Reiser:
If information gets out too early or before authorities have substantiated the tips, it “can affect the integrity of the investigation,” he said. “Misleading information can hamper both the search effort and the investigation.”
Incident commanders also said they would respect the Horman family’s wishes not to share their anguish with the public.
The Parents and family of Kyron Horman, through a statement read by MCSO Staton have publicly appealed for the community to continue support efforts to locate their son. The Hormon’s have refused all interview requests at presstime.
Please check back to blinkoncrime.com for updates in the search for Kyron Horman.
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Blinkoncrime.com Editor notes:
By 9am, the school day had already started and students were assembled into groups to tour the science fair. Student Parents would have vacated the building already.
The Science Fair does not appear on the school calendar, however, the talent show does, which means the bulk of the school would have been in attendance, at the same time, at 1PM. Possibility of someone leaving the school undetected and unsupervised?
Three days into the investigation, police state they have interviewed “most” of the faculty. For what reason, with a missing and endangered 7 year old child would they only have interviewed “most” of the faculty?
Search Teams are rechecking areas previously searched. In my mind, they have identified a suspect, and have possible ping data.
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Sister B….concerning little Kyron…please stay on this! My heart is so broken over this little adorable tree-frog-loving child. Please keep us up to date.
My prayers are with him and his family….but my heart is breaking.
I know, finally had a chance to finish:
http://blinkoncrime.com/2010/06/07/kyron-horman-missing-and-endangered-search-intensifies-for-missing-7-yeard-old-portland-boy/
Coverage at Hinkytown (sing like funkytown):
http://www.thehinkymeter.com/2010/06/08/kyron-horman-missing-endangered-child/
What a frightening situation for the entire community. I read an online publication that quoted local law enforcement as saying, there wasn’t evidence of a crime…yet. What in heaven’s name WOULD indicate a crime to them? A child is missing from a primary school campus and his parents don’t know where he is, sounds like a crime to me. My prayers are with this little boy and his parents.
They mean either that they are waiting on a warrant, there has been a clean up of some kind, or a “no Knock” warrant, for computer or web related data, which is the prevailing rumor, btw.
B
I live in Portland and this has been devastating for our city. A lot of people were outraged here that no Amber Alert was released, by day 2 for me, I knew they must have a pretty solid clue what happened to him to not release one.
A couple of days ago there was an attempted abduction of a child here as well. Thankfully he got away and the guy was caught. He was a registered sex offender. We have a ton of them in our city.
Hope they bring Kyron home soon.
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Blink,
were the parents invited to the talent show ?
To my knowledge, they were not, it was for school only.
B
The fact that there was no call to the family to verify the absence from class is UNACCEPTABLE.
I’ve read that the birth mom is there…..but I want to know if she has a BF. Also I keep hearing about an older son not living in the house. Where is he at? What about the Grandparents? What about older bully kids at the school, or the other school staff (not included with most)?
I can’t imagine taking a child out of school against his will….but I do believe he would go somewhere with someone he knew.
Prayers for the family and friends of Kyron Horman.
This is disheartening. How does a child just vanish from a school with no one seeing anything? Why did no red flags go off when his backpack and coat where there but not him. Why wasn’t a call made by the school to the home? It seems like so many mistakes on so many fronts. Please, God, watch over this little boy and I pray the searchers find him alive.
Does anyone know if the school has a furnace?
B
Thanks B, that makes a little more sense. I guess it’s easier to blame somebody or something than to sit and wait for law enforcement to do what they do best. Thanks for the clarification.
I know how you feel, crimes against children are unbearable to me. I often think irrationally or emotionally when I cover them or read about them. Kudos to you for acknowledging that LE has the hardest job here.
B
Thank you, Blink, for covering Kyron’s story.
That poor baby. It seems to me that something premeditated (though likely not targeting a specific child) happened to dear Kyron INSIDE that school and if there was time for “clean up”, then the dear boy was likely taken out of the school area in a maintenance related container. Perfect opportunity for anyone who had access to the school and such containers and knew the fair would bring high traffic. Statistically speaking, the odds of his survival are not good, but you never know. There is always the chance he is being held somewhere. Dear God, I pray he is alive and comes home soon.
I understand it is a lot easier to see prevention in hind sight, but this school system lacked common safety systems that are in place in even the most podunk schools in America.
The lack of a system to either screen employees or screen visitors to this school is outrageous. Violence against kids is in the news every day. We need to stop thinking it can’t happen to us.
On the other hand, we do hear stories of bullying resulting in the most horrible result we can imagine. There is no word of this in the press, but all angles must be explored.
I have to say it absolutely blows my mind that this school remained open during the search and received only a cursory inspection. I think the school is a crime scene and should have been closed immediately.
I agree about the school, but there may be a reason we are not aware of they are keeping it open.
B
I agree about the school, but there may be a reason we are not aware of they are keeping it open.
B
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Very true. LE does seem to have a handle on this and I can only trust that they don’t think there is anything more to learn from the school site.
It is so odd that his backpack would be on his desk in the homeroom. It is so easy to picture him in his excited innocence about his frog exhibit, dropping his backpack at his desk and running off to show someone his exhibit. But who? Ugh, the not knowing is awful, and made all the more awful by what we know of so many cases before this.
Isn’t it possible that he went with someone he knew……. like his biological mother?
His Mother was not in town, and was not until she was alerted to his disappearance.
I am positive it was someone he knew.
From an overwhelming statistical perspective, this baby was the victim of a known offender, for sexual motivation, and the fact that the parents have been accompanied by a deputy 24/7 since it started, tells me they have a suspect, and the parents know who it is as well.
B
And I think it would be super easy to lure a little guy like him out to a car or to the woods to show him more frogs. But wouldn’t someone have seen this?
It just seems that the only possibility of no one seeing what happened to this little guy involves an unfortunately timed trip to the bathroom and a predator waiting to conceal him and remove him from the premises.
If he wasn’t concealed, then someone would have seen him leave. I went to a k-8 school and my kids have gone to a k-8. By the time you are in 2nd grade, everyone knows you. Someone would have seen him leave. Wouldn’t they?
Not if he was “in something”, and sadly, not if nobody is looking.
There is only one way in and out of the school, and there are no cameras.
The likelihood that this is an employee or volunteer of this school is very high, I am choking myself out of not just coming out and saying “the suspect is the man that has not been on the job since early this week.”
I despise these cases. I did not know when I went on my rant about pedophiles on Dana’s show last week, it was prophetic.
B
I agree that the police must have some idea what went on. While I want to make it clear that I do not think the parents are involved, I think their behavior seems to indicate that they are not hopeful that Kyron will be returning alive. They seem to be trying to let the events sink in/shock mode as opposed to trying to change the events/search mode. I could certainly be wrong, but I have seen no mention of them joining in the search effort. Is this an indication that it is a recovery effort as opposed to a rescue effort? I ask because I don’t know. Not trying to start any rumors.
1. I doubt the parents would be permitted to assist in the search, it is against incident command protocol.
2. I believe the parents either suspect or already know who is responsible, and yes, that is why they are not appearing in public. If I were representing them and that was the case, I would advise against it as well.
B
Oh no Blink ,
My mind went to that place where horror movies are made of . It was someone who was familliar with the school,someone Kyron would trust to go with, someone with keys to the neather regions of the school and someone who has since disapeared themselves (that 1% that was not questioned). Now there is a manhunt for this person , the janitor ???
Before we go pointing fingers, remember what I said.. “statistically speaking..”
There is no doubt in my mind this child was last seen with the person responsible for his disappearance, and that is the reason that information is being withheld.
B
How awful! JMO that it was the janitor – could be any employee and the fact that there was a science fair and a talent show , no one would question containers going in or out of school that day. My prayers are with the family.
I love this little kid. He looks like a little character!! Blink – good question regarding the furnace. It was almost one of my first thoughts. We had a huge boiler room in my school. We all knew where and what it looked like. I imagine they have searched the school several times…?
I am seriously perplexed as to why his backpack/etc. were on his desk and no one thought to ask why he didn’t have his belongings with him.
I usually keep the faith…but I have a terrible feeling about this little one. I pray I am wrong.
Be safe.
There were early rumors that the stepmother had told the teachers that Kyron had an appointment, the teachers thought it was for that very day and that is where they assumed he had gone so he was marked absent. Then it turned out the appt. was for a later date.
How did the perp know to grab the one child who would not be missed? If any other child had been snatched the alarm would have been raised at once. The appointment confusion gave the perp an extra 6-7 hours to maneuver. This either has to be a clever “inside job” or there is one lucky stranger.
B, thank you for writing on this. I am horrified by a child disappearing from inside his school, as I know we all are. I am appalled by the lack of an absentee policy (At my kid’s school, if he’s absent and there is no message left on the absentee line from a parent, we get a call by 10am. This isn’t some newfangled idea, I’m not THAT young and the same thing was done when I was a child) AND – I’m also appalled that he was simply marked absent when clearly he was there, since his backpack and jacket were on his desk. Ugh, so many missteps for which he has probably paid with his life. So devastating.
Did I hear somewhere that the 16yo stepbrother was not living in the home at this time? Do we know anything about him? When I was watching the first pc with LE speaking while choking back tears and no family present I got the feeling they already knew what had happened. Something is just not right.
Let me say this- they may know the “who”, but they do not know the “where” or in what state Kyron is in, albeit assumptions from professionals in the field.
His name is James, his stepmom is Angie, and he has lived with his maternal grandparents, for the last few months. I can tell you a horse riding pasture was searched on Sat June 5th in the Banks area, where he rides. However, that could very well be because Kyron had been there to watch him, and the thought process of where would “Kyron” go, or ask someone to take him sort of thing.
From what I have seen, James seems to be a gentle kid, with lots of pics of him, Kyron, and the baby together.
I am very interested in the appointment Kyron had scheduled. I am wondering if it was a therapy or psychologist appt, which would be someone who might know if Kyron had been under stress of some kind?
B
Twinkletoes, can you send me the link to where you got the staff names, I need to do some work on your post before I post it, there are some stringent laws about how that info is displayed-
Thanks for your help
B
Sorry B, had not been able to load SM this am and see you posted same question about step. Have the feeling this is a close to home problem. At first I thought Stepmom, then SO and now Stepbrother. Maybe everyone is quiet cause the know what happened and who but now need to find poor little Kyron. All my opinion and hypothetical and don’t mean to upset anyone this morning. Even bio Mom isn’t speaking. The family’s silence is too weird for me.
Thanks for providing this insight, Blink. It makes SO much more sense. If a stranger abducted him and took him out of the building, they had 6-7 hours they could have hit the road. He could be anywhere. If the police thought this was even a slight possibility they would be all over the National Media with his picture, not searching a 2 and a half mile radius of the school…
I thought most schools now have a system in which if a student is marked absent, but there was not a call from home saying he would be absent, there would be a call home from the school to check where the child was. So much time was lost by that not happening. For the mother to not know until 3:45 because of a call SHE made, is horrifying to me and I would not be comfortable with my child at that school, or any that seemingly didn’t even know my child was missing (even thought he had been seen earlier) Surely some of the children saw him at the science fair or in the hall and could have, or may have, told their teacher that he was there earlier in the day after she marked him absent.
I have not seen very many FBI alerts, but something that stood out to me on Kyron’s was that on the bottom it says “Individuals with information concerning this case should take no action themselves, but instead immediately contact the local tip line” Is that normal protocol to appear on the bottom of an alert or is it possible that they know who it is and know he is dangerous?
I also agree that it must be someone known to him for him to go with them. But for a 7 year old “knowing someone” could be as simple as the janitor or lunch-lady that you see everyday when you walk down the halls and they always say hi to your class. They may have said “Would you like to see something very cool that I keep in the basement?” Because sadly children this age may be taught over and over to not go with people they don’t know, but it’s something that doesn’t register with most. As a teenager I taught safety town in the community and we had a lesson on Stranger Danger where we spent a whole day telling them not to talk or go with anyone, scream, even how to scream so people would hear them. At the end of the day we went outside for an activity and one of the policemen we work with (unknown to the children) came over to our group, not in uniform or anything, and every single one of them talked to him and probably would have gone with him if they asked. It was terrifying that we just taught them these things all day, they repeated it back, but they did not understand and could not put into practice what they just learned.
Praying for Kyron and his family…
You can delete my latest post…you answered and I asked again. Thank you. Have wonderful day! Enjoying the Blinkettes out of school? I hope they have a beautiful eventful summer!
Not yet, next week, but yes, I am very much looking forward to Summer, thanks
B
The school my children attended is a fine arts christian school there is no way in other than a fully manned entrance and exit.There are also cameras through out the campus with no open or access to the sports fields you must sign in and out of the track and field areas as well.
Background checks are done on all employees and even on the parents of students before entry of their child.People may bristle at that but it works.Its a private school and they are up front about this policy from the get go.People like me find security in this policy and those who don’t agree with it have options to go else where.
No school is perfect .We have had our share of problems where students and faculty have been let go or expelled for violating policy.At the same time our kids don’t really feel smothered by these rules,watching the news offers examples of what can happen within a school, that is often avoided by the code of conduct and the ENFORCEMENT of said code.
At this point the oldest kids have long since graduated and only one child remains in and all of our boys appreciate their school experience there even more now and are grateful their only sister is in attendance.
God Bless Precious Kyron and Those Who Love Him and Searching for this Wonderful Child.Press on Blink,press on,R
This whole story makes me so upset. Yes, everyone knows everyone in that kind of environment. Well it would have to be a staff member who did not have a class all day, like janitors,likely, cleaning,maybe,
landscaping,doubt, music,doubt due to performance, art, possibly. A separate science teacher would be key, but doubtful in that grade level, but who knows. Ugh, this isnt going to be good. I agree Blink, the talent show was key to the door of exit. Poor family.
Yea,& what’s up with the backpack etal??? Nobody in that room thought that was odd? Kids just done leave backpacks, they are like purses.
Here is the link. Listed on lower right side of page…
Skyline School | 11536 NW Skyline Blvd. Portland, Oregon, 97231
blink-
thank you so much for covering this case, i was wondering if you were going to write an article about Kyron
there are so many things about this case that really disturb me. when children are in school, arent the teachers and staff responsible for the welfare of the children, “in loco parentis” i believe is the legal term? this should have been caught when it first happened. there are no excuses, the search should have been underway by 9 am in my opinion. but anyway…i digresss..
blink, my main question is, do you think its possible Kyron could still be in the building somewhere? I am getting flashbacks of the Annie Lei case. based on the searches and everything, my guess is that he is not in the building and that the police are fairly certain he left the building with someone, but do you still think it could be possible that he’s somewhere in the building?
i just am getting sick at how scared this child probobaly was once he realized what was going on. one of my favorite movies when i was little was “kindergarten cop” which was filmed in Oregon and this made me think of that as well, except in that case it was a family member that tried to take the child..this is just so scary.
It is a K-8 school. Depending on the location of the upper grades and how their schedules are organized, it could have been a middle school aged student, or staff member with a long planning period…
There is no doubt in my mind this child was last seen with the person responsible for his disappearance, and that is the reason that information is being withheld.
B
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Clarification request: The only known person Kyron was last seen with was his step mom. I don’t think you are saying that you believe she is responsible. Right? Are you saying you believe there are other reports of seeing Kyron with someone else?
No, there is a linked article saying they will not release the ID of the person OR the location within the school, that he was last seen at 9am. No, I do not think the Step Mom is involved.
B
Police Give Subtle Clues in Kyron Horman Disappearance | ThePortlander
(quote taken from the blog)…”There was an unknown white truck in Kyron’s neighborhood bothe Friday afternoon around 3:00 pm and 2:00 am Saturday morning. (Odd timing & placement)
THen there was a truck driver who reported a Kyron sighting South of Portland near the Sherwood area. The driver was female & driving a white/grey truck. The trucker saw what appeared to be a surprised/anxious Kyron against the window.”
http://theportlander.com/2010/06/08/police-give-subtle-clues-in-kyron-horman-disappearance/#idc-cover
Sorry Blink……. HERE is the link to the staff members…
http://www.skylinek8.org/?q=/directory
Thank you Classy, I should have clarified as you could not see Twinkletoes post, I was looking for staff not on the roster, but the maintnence staff, which is not employess of the school, but at outside property mgt. group.
B
Coney-
I like the question you pose: “How did the perp get lucky enough to take the child who the teacher thought had an appt.?” Maybe the perp didn’t know that much, but knew that attendance wouldn’t be taken until after the students got back from their groups touring the Science Fair. Giving a window of time students would be unaccounted for.
I am a little confused on when school actually officially started and when the students were put into groups to tour the Science Fair. I am a teacher and when we have assemblies, and other activities at the beginning of the school day, we have to take attendance BEFORE the activity starts. In which case, he should have been marked as present, rather than absent.
So, it’s a man who has been missing from work. However, he may not
be a school employee but employed elsewhere. He could have been there as a volunteer or parent. Perhaps he has a child at the school and is divorced so the mother has the custody and he has time to commit a crime? Such a tragic story–schools generally take great precautions to ensure safety and identify all strangers…in the excitement of this science fair they let down their guard. There is a special place in HELL for people who hurt children.
In looking at the schools website, I notice that the majority of staff members are female. Statistically speaking, women do not commit these types of crimes against children.
I am a teacher and an incident like this happened to child in my class while I was teaching in rural South Georgia. When the day began, I marked the child absent because I never saw her. The day went on as normal until about 4:00. The school got a phone call from the father asking why his little girl didn’t get off the bus at home.
The police and the GBI came in an questioned everyone until late into the night. The school did not have video surveillance at the time but the school buses did. When they viewed one of the school bus tapes from the morning of that day, they saw a woman and the missing child crossing the road behind where the school buses were parked. Of course it took a close examination because the school bus video was mainly of the inside of the bus. The video of the girl and the woman were only visible through the window of the interior of the bus. (I hope this make sense!)
Apparently the woman, who turned out to be the child’s non-custodial mother, took the child while she was between the school bus and the cafeteria. The GBI eventually tracked the child down in Chicago unharmed.
No, we didn’t call the parents right away when a child was absent. It would be about impossible to do in this school. Many of the children were from “families” that either didn’t have a working number or the numbers changed so frequently that trying contacting a parent or guardian in any situation is hit or miss at best. This is has been the case at every school I have worked in (all title 1). In addition, there is simply no staff in place to be able to do this. Teachers are stretched and stressed to the max and barely able to teach, much less stay on the phone all morning tracking someone down. Like it or not, it is the way it is.
http://www.skyline.pps.k12.or.us/
This is a separate website operated for the school?
Strangely, this site mentions Kyron on its homepage prominently.
I’m confused.
I really hope there is a positive outcome for this case; such as the birth mother arranging for him to be hidden for her own agenda etc. There’s a few probable avenues to speculate in this one. I thought when this case was first gaining media attention I read that KH may have had tendencies to be a wanderer. I hate to have to agree with you Blink on the statistics points you made. Your furnace question was a good point made too. I hope the school itself has been search THOUROUGHLY for ANY and ALL evidence.
You always start with the last person who reported seeing him/being with him and the last known location.
I was once on a missing persons search for a two year old who had allegedly wandered off while the mother was distracted. It was 9:00pm and dark. There were ponds in the area and our dive team was activated. The officers at the home declared they had searched the house thoroughly and well. After two hours of a search the child was found safe and sound. -Asleep under a sofa cushion covered over by a sofa quilt in the same room the family, officers, and supervisors were present and had, had conversations in.
On the other spectrum, I also remember the incident where a boy allegedly vanished. His remains were found several years later in a trash bag located in the same family’s duplex attic. -Where he had been murdered hidden and found by future tenants. Or more recently, the Yale student who was murdered, hidden between the walls/floors, and found several days later…I hope they search the roof and HAVAC areas…
Where there other children absent that day? Sorry to think that maybe an older child took him. jealousy of his project. Thinking out loud here.
Blink- I believe the school district’s website should have the information you are seeking for additional staff members. Somewhere that information has to be listed. Too bad they don’t have an online yearbook…they tend to list every last person.
FYI- gone for a few hours this afternoon, kid school stuff. This weighs very heavily on me today.
B
I should add that the normal morning routine at this school was for children to go directly from the bus to breakfast and only after breakfast did they report to the classrooms. Non-classroom teachers and paraprofessionals were on duty in the cafeteria and hallways. Multiple doors around the school were unlocked at all times because of the village of portable classrooms that students and staff needed to access.
As soon as I started reading this article, my mind went right to a fellow class/school mate.
Now though, with reading the commentary-I am not so sure but my mind still floats there. Motive for a schoolmate-jealousy perhaps?
Who knows but this is another sickening instance. These things seem all to common-people having no regard for other lives….sad.
This guy is a “wanted” registered SO in same county.
http://www2.co.multnomah.or.us/Public/EntryPoint?ct=70ea3bc85874a010VgnVCM1000003bc614acRCRD#summary
Fwiw, that’s new.
B
In one of KH pictures he’s wearing a Seattle Mariners baseball t-Shirt. A regular child size one that fits him, is made nicely, and would most likely be marketed at the actual stadium where a game is played. When I grew up in Virginia I my dad and I would have to attend Redskins games in DC and Orioles games in Baltimore. His dad and consanguineous stepmother could have very well taken him there or perhaps his birth mother and her “friends” had. Who has the links to the Seattle and surrounding areas I wonder?
Blink–
There appears to be two different websites for Skyline School. The newer one has information about Kyron on the front page. None of the staff pages links or Eagle’s Nest have any information. http://www.pps.k12.or.us/schools/skyline/265.htm
On the older website, I worked the staff links (looking for clues) and Eagle’s Nest some days ago and found extremely outdated information (from 2008). Only the PTA info was up-to-date. I had a strong impression of “depression” in that website. Usually schools have such vibrant and current information!
Check out http://www.skylinek8.org/?q=taxonomy/term/10 with Staff Pages on the lower right side.
I’m very concerned that Kyron’s parents are under protection. This must indicate a family member or someone known well to them.
Oh, just saw the note to Classy. Hope Twinkle was able to get the maintainance employees list as I was unable to do so. Sometimes there is a clue in school newsletters–like “let’s say thank you to Custodian Carl” but not at this place.
This story is absolutely tragic. I can’t imagine what the parents are going through and pray that they receive some solace.
I certainly hope that LE has brought in some cadaver dogs to search the entire grounds of the school. From understanding the “inner-workings” of a school, there are a multitude of hidden places that one would not initially think to search. With the lack of eyewitness sightings, I would not be surprised if the boy was located on the site.
Just wanted to share an experience with my 6yr old 1st grader. I can’t remember if I mentioned this on another thread. One day me and some moms were finishing a project in the cafeteria just after school let out. We sent my daughter and another student back to their class to grab their coats. It occurred to me after they were gone a few minutes that I needed to review this with her: If you are inside the school, you NEVER open the door to let ANYONE in. (Our exterior doors are all locked so you cannot get inside except thru the office).
Anyhow, I named parents we know, gave situation examples, etc, and said even those ones you do know not let in – they will understand why you need to get a teacher to let them in. She seemed to understand then said: except if it was the custodian, then I can let them in. !!NO!! I feel bad, not giving the poor custodial staff a bad rap, but I said of all people they would HAVE a key and not need to be let in. Just when you think they got it.. so I can totally see a young student going with a beloved or an interesting staff member.. even someone they see only once in awhile. They see this person in their school where they are ‘safe’, and would not think anyone would do anything to hurt them.
Btw, I feel so horrible for the staff. Putting the same situation in my school, I don’t know how the people I know could function. But they would for the kids. And our school has an automated calling system (500 kids preK-5).
I came across a site where several people claimed that the dad (Kyron’s) and the stepbrother were on a camping trip when Kyron went missing. However,, neither of them cited a link. I am wondering if this has any bearing on the case. Coupled with a new statement that insists he hasn’t been abducted…I am confused unless of course the LE involved are simply misinforming the public a bit in order to flush out someone or thing?
It is Kyron’s stepbrother and HIS Dad. No relation to Kyron.
B