It's bloody disgusting the whole thing. I have bile in my mouth as I read what's been going on. First of all there is no concrete proof that these people did anything to Lisa or made her disappear, oh yes there's a lot of speculation and disparate bits of 'evidence' and a disatrous PR circus that are all being cobbled together and make it look like they did. Maybe they did but until such time as LE see fit to make an arrest or announce they are POIs then surely human decency demands that people at least give them some benefit of the doubt and take a step back for the sake of their other children if nothing else.
They left their home and took refuge with family and now have the media camped outside there, they have people on the internet demanding they talk, search, confess, have their other children taken away, nitpicking every little thing they do and say, demanding they do this, demanding they do that. Then they have people turning up unannounced at their door, sure they're well-meaning or sympathetic because they went through the same thing and want to help but, if they are feeling aggrieved because they are turned away, they have no one to blame but themselves for trying to insert themselves into this family's situation uninvited. And doing so in the full spotlight of the media smacks to me of self-serving publicity seeking. Want to know who their lawyer is? Gimme a break. It's all over the media who their lawyer is. Contact him and if you still don't get a response then too bad, deal with it, they don't want your help right now.
Then we have reporters taking pictures of their other minor kids going to and from their school? The school they usually attend and kept there clearly in an effort to maintain at least some semblance of normalcy in their young lives at a time when they must be as bewildered as heck.
What next? The same mobs of nutjobs who picketed the Anthonys' home and Terri Horman's parents' home descending on them?
I don't for one second blame them for getting out and, more importantly, getting their kids out. I don't care if they went to Disney or the Bahamas or Shangri-La - fact is the adults can take care of themselves but those children at the very least need to be protected and away from all this and for those who would say they need to be taken away from the parents I'd say, unless there is some proof of abuse or neglect or endangerment, that's the last thing they need right now.
I have to agree. Do the parents currently live under a cloud of suspicion? Yes. Does that mean they killed their daughter? Absolutely not.
We all need to compartmentalize the parent's potential for culpability separately from finding this girl. Frankly, I've read some people around the internet who are caught up in a sort of lynch mob mentality that isn't helping find out what's happened to this girl.
I read this article today in our local paper (KC Star):
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/10/28/3235919/father-of-colorado-infant-who.html
Why'd they leave the house?
Personally, I think the fact they left is indicative of one pretty simple fact: The boundaries that
should exist around the two boys have been violated. If this happened to me, I'd take my two daughters to a secret, safe, undisclosed place too. And as long as I'm in contact with the police wherever that location is, it's none of anyone else's business.
Yes, their daughter/granddaughter/neice is missing, that fact does not absolve the family of the obligation they have to protect the two boys. If that includes taking those boys away from this home for a few days it's not only warranted we should encourage it.
They're surely in close contact with police as needed and if something develops they'll be there.
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Bear with me because this ties back to them leaving the home. This whole attorney/BS issues is not playing well in KC at all. Firing Cyndy Short is a very questionable decision there is a lot to suggest it wasn't DB/JI's decisions. Short is very highly regarded in KC (See here:
http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/cyndy-shorts-exit-bad-news-baby-lisa-irwin/
We all need to bear in mind that most - if not all - of the actions of DB and JI are being orchestrated and manipulated by JT and BS. These two people, whether they did anything or not, are obviously ill-equipped to deal with this entire situation. So we have these so-called "experts"/media *advertiser censored* from NY using the couple and their boys to manipulate the media.
Frankly, I think JT could care less if Lisa is found or not. He makes his money from a jury trial - and the trial of the parents for murder pays him MUCH better than finding Lisa alive or finding the parents are not involved. The point being: firing Cyndy Short illustrates that Tacopina DOES NOT have the best interest of the parents involved and it strains credulity to think he has the baby's best interest at heart. He has HIS best interests at heart. Period.