I just can't get past an innocent adorable little boy is most likely deceased and their ONLY concern is to cover and protect their OWN oversized rear ends......JMO
Put yourself in the position of whoever caused Kyron's disappearance. If you could do that, your only concern afterward would be to protect yourself. I would not expect you to tell on yourself. You wouldn't have had a conscience before the crime occurred, and you would not have any way to develop one afterward.
You would not, in any way, shape, or form, be a normal human being. In fact, normal people would have no way to truly understand you. They might be able to describe you, from reading about people like you, but their understanding would derive from what they had read and be intellectual.
Later on, if you were caught, arrested, and tried, a lot of reasons for what you did would come to the fore. The normal person may try to rationalize, try to understand your actions, try to fit them into their own frame of reference. And that's the key point:
The normal person does not have a frame of reference that mirrors that of the sociopath.
I firmly believe that anyone who makes a child disappear like this is a sociopath, unless they are legally insane. The perpetrator was not driven to it by anyone else or by his or her circumstances -- s/he is evil. To me, nothing excuses
or explains this kind of crime, short of insanity, not drugs, not affairs, not abuse in any form by a spouse, not money, not jealousy, not a personality disorder. Nothing. We have to draw the line somewhere, and this is where I draw it.
I would expect a friend who had information to come forward at the first opportunity, no matter how close the friendship is. The child comes first, especially because he needs and necessarily relies upon the protection of adults. A friend who has received confidential information from the perpetrator and does not assist LE could have some mental disease or defect that falls short of sociopathy.
I would not expect even a close friend to assist another in completing a crime, unless the friend was absolutely devoid of a conscience, too.
In fact, if I had information sufficient to locate a missing child, as a consequence of being the alleged perpetrator's lawyer, I would not withhold that information from the police. Ethics be damned! I would find a way to make it known immediately, even though the consequences to me would be severe. I have to add that I would not represent an alleged perpetrator of a crime concerning a child, and that I understand why attorneys do so. So the foregoing statement is easy for me to say -- at the same time, I know myself well enough to know I could not, would not, withhold crucial information of this nature, even though I would be crucified for doing that.
Part of me still hopes that TH is completely innocent. The thought of Kyron having been criminally separated from his family
by someone he loved and trusted, of that happening to any child, makes me see red.
