Kyron Horman Missing Case: Terri Horman Breaks Her Silence In People Magazine Interview
New York, NY- For nearly five and a half years Terri Horman has refused to speak publicly about her step-sons case. Outside of one assertion of her innocence while on the stand in a name change hearing she ultimately was denied, Horman did not speak to any reporters or answer any of their questions regarding Kyron Hormans disappearance. Until Now.
Horman courtesy of People
Horman was interviewed by People Magazines Elaine Aradillas for both the print and online editions, and will be doing a series of personal interviews over the next week, to include wwww.blinkoncrime.com.
In the brief online video excerpt , the second part to air on ABC’s Good Morning America Friday morning, Horman maintains she is deaf in her left ear, a critical factor in the outcome of her first polygraph.
“… At what point are Kyron’s biological parents going to realize I don’t have the answers, they need to change this thing around…”
“…There is so much the public is not being told about this investigation, that’s why I am doing this- nobody is looking for Kyron…”
Horman’s interview drew sharp reactions from Kaine Horman and Desiree Young, Kyron’s parents.
“…Why is she silent for 5 1/2 years if she is innocent. I want her to tell me where Kyron is. If she is innocent she should call Multnomah County Sheriffs Office and sit down for an interview…”- Desiree Young
“Hi friends. Yes I am well aware of the tabloid journalism piece in the media today. FYI – there will be more of the same coming Friday
We have a HOST of MCSO and FBI investigators STILL standing by with interviews and polygraphs when someone actually wants to cooperate. FEEL FREE TO STOP BY THEY ARE WAITING!! STILL!! Until then we’ll stick with the scores of people with valid/accurate information and the failed polygraphs as the only actual actions taken to-date. To all of you: how about not linking the article/interview?
REMEMBER KYRON?!?!? This is what we need to be focused on!!
Love you Kyron!!” – Kaine Horman post on his Facebook Page
Christina Stoy, www.blinkoncrime.com Editor In Chief was able to confirm with Ms. Horman directly that she has been willing to meet with Kyron’s investigators both previously and in the future with the sole provision that it be conducted in the presence of her Attorney, Portland criminal defense lawyer Stephen Houze.
Horman went on to say that investigators with the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office have been well aware of “that” over the last five and a half years and they have never requested an interview. Um, What?
Horman reveals some shocking details about the subsequent polygraphs examinations referenced by Kaine Horman and Desiree Young and other allegations of improper tactics on behalf of MCSO in the second half of her interview to air tomorrow morning on abc’s GMA and on Nightline.
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This is hilarious (said with irony):
“Kaine Horman had been advised to remove the couples 18 month old daughter in advance, for their safety, earlier in the day.
Upon deputies arrival, as informed by Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office about the sting, detectives were forced to tell Terri Horman she was a suspect.”
So after Monte Reiser, Investigation detectives Captn wrested daily site “Command” away from Jason Gates after a couple weeks or so, his rank underling over Patrol and thus SAR, Reiser’s big coup was designing and authorizing this gambit?
No wonder Gates is now Chief Deputy over Enforcement (thus Investigations) while Reiser is now his underling busted back to Patrol and no longer handling Investigations detectives. And these are the people the bios keep praising?
sorry, call Gates Commander.
https://www.mcso.us/profiles/pdf/org_chart.pdf
Whatever, Reiser is outranked by Gates now
and exiled from Investigations.
OT Misc
the outcome of the Klamath Falls Sheriff who iirc was a tea party poster child type:
http://www.portlandcopwatch.org/PPR67/qfs67.html#klamath
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background on the mcso degree requirement
http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=963&issue_id=82006
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http://portlandtribune.com/go/42-news/198944-community-cop
Staton started out in mcso as a School Resource Officer posted in a Corbett school.
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Thanks to all who have dug back into the early days of the crime via posts on this site. Most of what is being reviewed tells us that the drug connection in Portland and Multnomah county is the prime reason that Terri was attacked by LE and DA. It may have a direct connection to the disappearance of Kyron.
If Kaine Horman was given a heads up to take Kyira and himself off the property while LE worked a sting that failed, it outs LE as the prime mover of the attacks against Terri. The scanner listener confirms the set up.
What we have is corrupt District Attorney’s office, MCSO leadership, family courts with judges who know nothing about administration of family law and no one willing in the community to put a stop to these criminals by organizing to find the truth.
Word.
B
How many other people in the community will be harassed by these legal thugs in the future?
you know all Kiara has to do now is go on a school computer,
type in her name, and she’ll see plenty of her mother’s pictures–with her.
Father can’t lock her up forever.
Vigilling here.
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Rose says:
April 12, 2016 at 3:29 am
I too have missed Malty’s pithy wisdom and leavening.
She did say this election had captured her attention.
Imo we’re all in “wait” mode. My reaction is to nervously
rattle on. Others’ may be to quietly vigil.
B
OT StoelRives (rather than USDOJ who should’ve been the referred out agency) can be counted on:
http://www.wweek.com/2016/04/11/oregon-department-of-justice-releases-results-of-black-lives-matter-probe/
A single private attorney found the act of bias and stalking electronically by two of Ellen’s own DOJ investigators–ones tasked with identifying potential terrorists and stinging them–committed a single mistake due to a new software toy (haha someone had to apply it) and lack of bias training . They couldn’t recognize a very popular black band’s logo. And supervision (aka Ellen herself). The rectification is just give ”em training. Wonder how much Oregon black taxpayers contributed to Stoel’s yearly partner takehome?
If that KATU report is accurate (remember they were the ones who reported Kyron’s body had been found, sigh) and TMH called 911 “before” RSE arrived, I’d like to know who she was calling about. If the first 911 call was made simply because she saw RSE pull up to her home, why would she call 911 before he ever got out of the vehicle with the DEA dude demanding dinero? IIRC, there was one report that stated there were three calls made to 911 that day, was there? Anyway, I’m sure Blink will be getting to this stuff, I’m just getting anxious.
Acquiring accurate information could only advance this case. I believe it will make people think and hopefully discuss this child’s disappearance which could just possibly help find Kyron. Too bad LE doesn’t see it that way. I understand the need for LE to hold some details back in these situations, but I don’t understand LE not releasing Kyron’s timeline that morning, UNLESS his whereabouts that morning are being disputed between witnesses. (One person says he was with him at x o’clock and another says he was in a different location with him at the same time.) In which case the child’s timeline couldn’t be accurately stated, because either one of these witnesses is purposely not telling the truth, or is simply mistaken and it wasn’t Kyron at x location at all. But since there were so many people there, it seems hard-pressed that only one witness would have seen him at any single location at any given time that morning, doesn’t it?
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Yes, I too hope Malty well and is just stuck in politics mode.
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I saw this the other day when I was out perusing the case and had never come across this information (whether true or not) first time I’ve seen this from anyone. (Consider the source.):
Eventually, Terri hired an attorney, whose refrain is that “Ms. Horman was not the last person to be seen with Kyron.” This is in direct contradiction to the testimony offered by two eyewitnesses who were in the bus run, and saw Terri leave the school, WITH her infant daughter, Kiara, and Kyron.
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What exactly is a bus run? Do they mean where the buses parked and unloaded. Would that mean eyewitnesses who were being dropped off at the school? I don’t recall the time the buses unloaded at the school. Was it 8:35? Doesn’t this contradict the location of the parking lot LE was interested in? Doesn’t this also contradict the location DY was pointing to back in whatever interview she gave on the school steps?
Is this the time where TMH says she and the kids walked back to the truck to get the backpack, etc.? Because otherwise, it would seem to me if there are two eyewitnesses saying the same thing, TMH would be in jail.
Anywho, never heard that before. Something new to discuss, while we’re in waiting. But it does make KH thanking the bus driverS in his first public speech make sense.
Hmmm, this didn’t post, will try again adding some stuff, pardon if it posts twice. Second try: uh, oh, I think I’ve got cd’s virus.
Still won’t post, I’m removing the link from this and then I’ll add it back in another post, to see if it works.
No matter what I’ve tried this link won’t post, still trying.
http://siriunsun blogspot com/search/label/Kyron%20Horman
Took the “.”‘s out between siriunsun.etc and it worked.
lunatic fringe lives on. a tom jones is recently hot to trot with Soldier’s site, tho
she challenged prove you are you.
more lately her posts on fred meyers visits tell me as a parent she quite differed from my area’s pediatric norm–saying no mother would pursue tylenol otc (or whatever) at 2 stores when her chikd had discomfort. I myself would’ve gone with my 18 mo old in pain to whatever it took to get what would knock her out and/reduce fever or pain. My memory is one rotated liquid tylenol & liquid motrin every 2 hours to help theteether or the ear infected or the fever.
That is idiotic. It never ceases to amaze me how in the desperate need to be right people can ignore verified facts.
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Hi friends. Yes I am well aware of the tabloid journalism piece in the media today. FYI – there will be more of the same coming Friday
We have a HOST of MCSO and FBI investigators STILL standing by with interviews and polygraphs when someone actually wants to cooperate. FEEL FREE TO STOP BY THEY ARE WAITING!! STILL!!
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In regard to whether or not the FBI is still involved, unless this is a lie by Mr. Horman, it says they still are. So why are we questioning whether or not they are? What’s interesting to me in reading this, is I’ve never heard (not that I can recall anyway) DY mentioning FBI’s involvement.
So KH has contact with both MCSO & FBI, but DY only gets contact from MCSO? Curious.
The FBI has no active role in this case. They have assisted previously as we all know, but their is no current FBI asset assigned to this case. I know why Kaine said that if he in fact did ( which I strongly doubt he did) but he/they spoke improperly.
B
Didn’t DY say a while back they were coming out with a new 13 year old composite drawing of Kyron? How the heck long does that take to get done? Who does that, is it a free service?
Just occurred to me we’re only a month and a half away from the six year mark. Wow, this year is going by fast already.
@erose says:
April 11, 2016 at 6:42 pm
I’m forgetting this stuff, was it Elinor who was Kelley’s neighbor who unleashed the dogs?
“Police have confirmed a report that Terri Horman tried to pay another as yet unnamed landscaper to kill her husband, Kaine Horman, in 2009. That landscaper reportedly contacted police after the alleged murder for hire offer.”
http://kboi2.com/news/local/family-members-respond-to-questions-about-kyron-11-16-2015
Was there ever any retraction from this report? It was also reported on KATU, or they shared the same story, but the page is gone now. Either the reporting on this case is fishy or someone was playing games and feeding the media fish. The above report is saying a different landscaper went to the police “in 2009″ and reported Terri had tried to hire him to off Kaine.
So is the unidentified man at the school a cop? Was he following TMH?
Let’s see, KATU reported Kyron’s body had been found (which was quickly retracted); KATU reported there was a second landscaper TMH tried to hire to off Kaine; KATU reported that a 911 call was made BEFORE RSE arrived at her home on the 26th; KATU is also the one that provided and reported the screen shots of Terri’s emails. Was it KATU who originally refused to give video to LE very early on when LE asked for all videos taken by reporters the day of and day after Kyron went missing?
Can all these things be simple errors, when they are saying “police have confirmed”? This case makes me crazy.
I would like to know if the Horman’s ever attended the Summer Gatherings held at Skyline. There used to be photos out there of some of the past events, and in one of them there is a white Ford F250 like Kaine’s in the photo. Just wonderin’ if it was theirs?
Malty is reading right now and thinking about Rudy I asked about him a couple weeks ago and Blink said he is still in business I just don’t understand anything about this so called illegal Unless 0bama just isn’t sending any one back there is lots of arguments on that subject on line
If he is still in the area someone should know where He is working and lives
There was a rumor he was working around Skyline in 2010 What came of that Terri was said to have flirted with him there
Now she hired him threw Service Master. I never heard that Did she not know him then until she hired him
Frankly I think every thing about him is strange
So hi Everyone Miss you all Lots of stuff like repairs at home here Had toget a floor repair to install new
Washer /dryer. A leak and hole in the floor First repair guy wasted my time and took my money still waiting to get it returned but I do have a safe vented and fixed floor And a new Washer /dryer Off topic here but
It has been a hassle
Oh Malty!! Sorry to hear that but I am glad you are set for the moment and you have been missed
B
One thing I think is Rudy may speak broken Spanish and broken English both learned out of school hanging around
Unless he is educated He is a real puzzle For sure
O/T. This is one crazy election I watch a lot of it
About Rudy if he came here started a business and stayed clean and honest I think he falls in the group Obama is letting stay and get Obama care and benefits
He may be supporting family.
@TRuth. that refers to bus drivers dropping kids, likely between 8:25-8:40 (first bell.)
Iirc in one of his statements, Kaine thanked some bus drivers. Probably as TH parked on the road, drivers passed tge threesome most likely entering to drop their liad rather than leaving, timing wise. I bet the bus barn direction was So on Skyline anyway. So these woukd’ve been drivers delivering from the north, based on where she parked. Trouble is, the 3some did not leave then, as the bus driver witness’ testimony persuaded MCSO. Blink said they returned to the truck for something kyron failed to take in, and after these “witness” drove by, they reentered the school.
You know TRuth, mcso is so flawed at timelines and at unbiased focused interviews, I truly bet they themselves know they lack a credible timeline of kyron that morning.
If RSE is declaring his income, imo he’s not
getting free health ins but has to buy it.
PS TRuth. if witness buses arrived from the north, and the driver(s) saw the 3 walking to truck, IF tge bys barn is to the South, they would not re-pass her parking site & see the truck had not left. If Kaine knew anything about the school at 8:30 am, he should have known that.
@mbs. apparently there is a “central bus barn.” the
Q is where? http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/09/portland_district_investigates.html
Sadly PPS has contracted out busing. Imo that’s an abdication of responsibility
and liability, and a faux money saver.
@TRuth.
Scroll to 2/26/05.
only tidbit if true is she writes for Oregonian.
http://www.yeabikes.net/whatitis.html
Markgraf worked for O in 2010 (and before).
Reading that Dulcy may be giving up her gardening column was the coup de gras for me after previously mourning the loss of
****Oregonian columnists Elinor Markgraf, ***Sharon Maasdam and Margie Boule. What once was a paper that I relished tucking into in the morning, eager to read my favorite personalities, is now, aside from the crosswords, just a slog through one depressing story after another. ”
http://www.oregonlive.com/hg/index.ssf/2011/06/dulcy_mahar_tribute_from_reade_3.html
TRuth, No, she and Kelley are tied to the same address, seemingly at the same time. Can see why she maybe never remarried if indeed Kelley is her SO. Her ex is bizarre. She was also a journalist for the Oregonian. Read cartfly, june 22, 2010.
http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=8073.820
T. Ruth says:
April 13, 2016 at 1:17 pm
@erose says:
April 11, 2016 at 6:42 pm
I’m forgetting this stuff, was it Elinor who was Kelley’s neighbor who unleashed the dogs?
kinda buried on the WW page:
http://www.wweek.com/2016/04/13/a-key-finding-in-the-black-lives-matter-report-oregon-doj-probably-broke-federal-law/
Shocker is only 5 black attorneys out of 258.
Tells me they’re hiring only from the OR
(or Idaho or Utah) law school ponds instead of recruiting in CA for example.
with that ratio, Feds woukd’ve been nosing around long ago but for the
self-righteous Wyden & Merkley saying we’re progressives.
Blink, I think you’d better forgeddabout OR DOJ investigators bring new vision to kyron.
likely as misogenistic as mcso wrt abductor fixation on a stepmom
and determining entrapment is the best way to proceed.
@Malty wrt “O/T. This is one crazy election”
The Electoral process as devised by each State’s Part(ies) is not crazy despite one candidate badmouthing State parties’ processes to the world. It’s the majority of the candidates who are certifiable on both sides. imo this comes from the dumbing down of quality in Congress and many governirships, the feeder schools.
Blink one thing I don’t recall you asking DDS about is her relationship with, and actual speech with, what appears to be an episodically manic cousin (right now on a jag she not only took K but is the only person to know his whereabouts). many of us have crazy if not dangerous cousins. But we know who & what they are. Did she really chitchat with her cousin about kyron knowing him to be a problem person?
I spoke with her at length on the isue. I have a long standing policy to not publicly discuss what I might term “compromised” individuals. Ms. Spicher agreed.
B
So bus drivers returning to their barn makes me think the most likely egress for Abductor was also South–not driving to sparser Northern areas that have been search targets.
@ATG. Imo there is no possibility one of the 2 fulltime ADAs assigned to the case (per Schrunk’s report on the budget to the CCs), and one was Moawad, was not briefed on the Sting plan in advance and signed off on its legality.
The Sting would be heavily litigated at a mfh trial and would produce the only key element essential to convict (a concrete act in furtherance of the mfh.)
After MCSO’s dir of the investigation division Reiser took RSE’s statements about the mfh to his ADA liason, one of those ADAs must have explained to him and whoever (O’Donnell?) that no charge could be filed without a Sting producing such an act. Therefore whoever explained the legal elements needed to charge and the necessity of a payment of something of value to RSE was the prime mover and most culpable for the sting. imo It is most likely that the fulltime kyron ADA is the one who left the DA’s Office and litigation to be a public safety policy advisor in a political appointment. MCSO’s sting experience was mostly unlicensed movers and jaywalkers in 2010. Later they participated in gun and drug ops run by others. Local FBI sting experience seems to have been a muslim teen and drug operations.
if one googles portland or first student central bus barn, one sees 2 area barns, central and one southerly towards lake oswego. Whether Skyline buses turned left after dropoff & went south to cross at 405 (ie, sensible for a west sylvan bus) and would have no opportunity to see the white truck never left as they thought it had with the 3some, or went north to Cornelius Pass & crossed at 30B is unknown to us, but South seems most likely a driver/bus supervisor preference. After Every bus dropoff I have seen, even in dense residential areas, drivers put the pedal to the metal and go away as fast as possible.
@ Truth I always thought it was Koin 6 that had that strange Kyron body found then came right back saying
It was not true. I saw a girl I know posted that it was true on Monkeys But I never ask her about it
I have always wondered how that mistake happened And why the girl who was very young at that time I know would post it was true
Kids getting excited? Maybe
OT I am in kinda shock malty now myself on this election. I just heard someone tell kids to pinch parents, loosely. Turning to phone tv to see whether the debate had started (all I watch if I do that) I just stumbled onto one party’s town hall. there was the one with a whiney aspect, and the sentence I heard him say was “They ought to turn around and punch their parents in the mouth.” How can anyone say that in the hearing of America’s politically-enthusiatic teenagers? I turn these moral marginals OFF. Whether I will see one more debate is up in the air, as their policies, competencies, and caricatures are clear. Watching is just voyageuring for a Gotchca, not that I don’t enjoy those moments.
typo
that was not pinch parents but pUnch parents
what does harvard law teach anyway?
that’s a simple assault charge, the
interviewer should have told him.
OT Malty. I turned off the other side too
as someone berned Econ 101.
http://www.wweek.com/2016/04/14/pressure-increases-on-embattled-multnomah-county-sheriff-dan-staton/
oregonian had buried this:
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/04/appellate_court_affirms_ruling.html
Trib article is good.
Riddell handled the appeal too. I’m impressed.
Budnik called Patrol “the conscience” of mcso, devoted to “ethics.”
Has he looked into “the Sting” and the mcso-directed alienation of an 18 mo from mother in the
abduction of kyron Investigation authorized by Reiser, now Patrol Captn? Appeared to
be an unethical operation planned by a Captn without a conscience.
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Staton whined the OR DOJ will clear him (of course it will–that’s why Rod sent it there)
but hasn’t released their results yet. He’s blaming the DOJ for his deputies’ unrest when by hustory he shoukd expect no clearance statement until midMay. The good news is it would be a conflict of interest for Riddell to represent him.
http://www.pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/301931-179830-multnomah-county-sheriff-dan-staton-must-pay-50000-over-veterans-preference-failure
commenter is plagerizing Terri, calling himself redsquirrel1.
At least, one hopes the real TMH is staying offline.
Interesting. He was tried and convicted in 2012, but the murder occurred in 1957. Now his conviction is overturned. Lessons learned from this case, anyone?
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/15/us/1957-cold-case-jack-mccullough-maria-ridulph/index.html?adkey=bn
Phone calls are not evidence. Media drives action in high profile cases more than anyone realizes. If it was not enough to arrest before, and it is suspect or circumstantial- keep working. The CSi effect and burdens on prosecutors is expected to increase in capital cases as it should with 149 exonerations last year. Use the pubic every chance you can- that ole det “holdback” philosophy is archaic. Mostly because it always gets leaked from inside. God Bless Miss Ridulph.
B
O/T
http://koin.com/2016/04/15/tennis-director-re-indicted-on-child-porn-charges/
Tennis director re-indicted on child porn charges
Thomas Zachary Rouse, 42 has been under investigation since early 2015
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The city’s former tennis director is now being held on more than $1 million bail after being re-indicted by a grand jury on child pornography charges.
Thomas Zachary Rouse, 42, was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on Thursday afternoon.
(snipped,more @link)
Investigators request media assistance – 07/15/10
As part of the continuing investigation the Investigative Team for the MCSO is asking all media outlets who may have video footage of students, parents, school officials or community members interviewed, who believe or indicated that they saw Kyron Horman after 8:45am on Friday June 4, 2010 to please send a copy of that video to the Sheriff’s Office along with contact information for the person interviewed.
Address for MCSO:
Attention Detective Division
12240 NE Glisan Street
Portland, OR. 97230
RE: IC Form 3099
There will be no Sheriff’s Office interviews or statements at this time regarding the continuing investigation or this request.
Sgt. Travis Gullberg
http://www.flashalert.net
http://www.justice4caylee.org/t6891p975-kyron-horman-7-yo-portland-or
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In TP’s interview, he never said what time he saw Kyron did he? Was there someone who was interviewed by the media who said they saw Kyron AFTER 8:45? TK never mentioned a time either, and said he was asked by LE not to say. Kim Holm’s interview is the only one I can think of that mentioned a time, but she was merely saying what she thought her son had told her, and she said 9ish.
Was there another witness interviewed who claimed they saw Kyron after 8:45? What date was it when LE back-peddled on the later in the morning sighting? Was it after this 7/15 request ore before?
Tanner Pumala, Kyron’s classmate, said he last saw his friend at about the same time when Kyron told him he was headed to look at another student’s science project.
“He walked by the hallway and I’m like, ‘Hi, Kyron,’ and he’s like, ‘Hi. I’m going to go see this cool one. It’s electric.’ I’m like, ‘Alright, bye.’ And that’s the last time I saw him,” Tanner said. “He never did make it back to class.”
http://www.kptv.com/story/14789387/classmate-i-hope-my-best-friend-comes-back-6-09-2010?clienttype=printable
TP said it was about the same time, 8:45. So they weren’t looking for his video. Holm’s is the only one I recall that mentioned anything later, but that was so vague, it makes me wonder if I missed someone else who mentioned later that morning, after 8:45.
The sheriff’s office already has conducted interviews twice — and in some cases four times — with parents, students, school officials and others since Kyron disappeared almost six weeks ago. But some of those interviewed have given different stories to TV crews, he said, and the sheriff’s office wants to follow up on any information that may have been missed.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/07/police_ask_media_for_footage_o.html
They’d already changed the last seen to 8:45 by now. So who said they saw Kyron later in an interview?
Roseburg caught my eye.
Child pornography charges dropped against Portland tennis director
snips>
Child pornography charges against a Portland city employee have been dropped, according to court records.
Zachary Thomas Rouse, tennis director for Portland Parks & Recreation, has instead been charged with a single count of online sexual corruption of a minor.
Rouse has been with Portland Parks and Recreation since September 2014, according to his LinkedIn profile. He previously worked at Umpqua Tennis Center in Roseburg and at a tennis center in Texas.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/10/child_pornography_charges_drop.html
Rose says:
April 13, 2016 at 10:31 pm
@mbs. apparently there is a “central bus barn.” the
Q is where? http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/09/portland_district_investigates.html
Sadly PPS has contracted out busing. Imo that’s an abdication of responsibility
and liability, and a faux money saver.
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@Rose – my recollection re buses –
When the money for schools in the state started to dry up due to efforts to get away from property taxes (we have no sales tax), districts cut where they could. Rather than buy replacement buses and spend on maintenance, PPS started contracting for transportation services, but as I recall, it wasn’t all changed at once.
There used to be a bus parking area next to the main administration building at the east end of the Broadway Bridge, not sure where others were. Once they contracted out for services, they didn’t need to worry about the space for buses, the hiring, etc. They still had the transportation department to figure out what size buses were needed where and in what order. I do remember that dealing with a change in somebody’s IEP services which required a bus time or route change was like trying to get a rocket ship sent to Mars. Sometimes we had to settle for taxi’s temporarily.
Very few buses seem to go pick up kids for one school and go “home” until time to pick them up again. They were booked for more than one school by staggering the start and release times. They would drop kids off and head to another school for a field trip or sports event, etc. We had middle school kids who came to our high school to take high school geometry by being bused back and forth between schools every day during a particular period, for example. We had magnet buses that went to other high schools and picked up kids for a half day of dance or jazz orchestra.
My personal opinion about the PPS benefit of contracting for bus transportation was not only financial, but not having to deal with certain issues they didn’t have a clue how to handle. When we had gangs starting up in North Portland in the late 90’s, a lot of shooting started – at first they didn’t hit much, but they would shoot at people, cars, windows, up in the air, whatever. They didn’t have automatic weapons and they were terrible shots. It was very frustrating and it was a definite deterrent to parents wanting to let kids come to your school no matter what great programs you offered. It bugged me that the district’s only response to these issues was to keep it quiet and pretend it wasn’t happening, even when kids started driving over for the performing arts programs and were getting mugged outside the school.
I thought the district should have assigned administrators to randomly ride the buses with the kids to help them feel safer – and I said so, but nobody would. So I (as a counselor) did – and I was waiting for somebody to say I was late for work, but nobody ever did. I would have used the opportunity to publicly discuss what was going on, but since nobody challenged me, it would have just looked like I was talking about myself. Still bugs me to this day, however. AND, by contracting out the services, it sort of made a false buffer between the district and what they were expecting those kids to do every day. How can you ask a child to do something every day that you are too afraid to do yourself? (Not saying being afraid wasn’t appropriate – it’s just a head in the sand culture. We could have accomplished so much more if we had all worked together.)
Sorry. I guess even buses are more complicated than it seems.