Fri, April 5, 2024 at 12:41 PM EDT
Seth Rogers said people have been trying to intimidate searchers – leading him to believe someone does not want him to find his son
news.yahoo.com
Forty days into the search for missing
autistic teenager Sebastian Rogers in Tennessee, Sebastian Roger's father, Seth Rogers, gave a new interview on
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
Wiping away tears, he said that, while the 15-year-old never communicated signs of abuse, he told him he didn’t want to go home to Hendersonville.
“I’ve asked him, ‘why don’t you want to go back?’” Mr Rogers told the podcast host. “He wouldn’t tell me, he didn’t say why, he just said he didn’t want to go back.”
Sebastian was living with Katie Proudfoot and her husband Chris Proudfoot when he disappeared overnight on 25 February.
In an interview last month, the Proudfoots were questioned about a report that the stepdad had once hit Sebastian with a belt. Mr Proudfoot said the incident happened a few years ago as a result of the boy lying to him.
As part of the current police investigation, Ms Proudfoot said she had taken and passed a polygraph test,
while Mr Proudfoot had not taken one.