Indeed. It was a very wishy washy statement from Jubelin imo.
I don't think this is too huge a deal. If you knew WT at the time, you knew his situation. There was very little heed being paid to his privacy before he disappeared, from either the fosters or the bios. Both had him slathered over public FB profiles and referred to him by name on there. Kendall locals knew the situation too.
And if you saw him after he went missing - if he was ever seen by anyone other than the abductor - then you saw him, it wouldn't really matter who he was with, just that you saw them?
What if, however, someone in a city some 4 hours away, saw an adult doing something, perhaps something that aroused an inkling of suspicion... that person could potentially identify the adult, identify a particular location, identify whatever activity raised that person's suspicion, possibly identify a vehicle, possibly identify others also present, and call in a tip. As it stands, nobody knows what certain main players look like, what their names are, where they lived, what vehicle was owned, etc.
Sometimes I have seen things that I think *could* potentially be suspicious, and I make a mental note to
myself... just keeping it there.. and in the event I were to read something in the news that may make it suddenly take on more relevance and meaning, I would be able to potentially provide a tiny tip. And tiny tips are sometimes all it takes to start a tiny ball rolling into a massive collection of other evidence.
One time I was in my car looking for my 2 boys. They were older, and prone to hanging out with friends or finding interesting things to do, instead of coming straight home from school.. on this day I went to my neighbourhood park, and I sat there in my car, looking over all of the kids that were playing there in the park, hoping to see my boys.. one of the neighbours came running out of his house and took a photo of my vehicle. He saw my vehicle sitting there (perhaps couldn't see which gender I may have been, or what I looked like).. looking at kids playing in a park.. so it raised his suspicion enough to take a shot.. imagine if the following day in the newspaper, he had read that a child had been abducted from somewhere nearby.. and asking anyone who may have potentially seen *anything*, to contact police.
If there may have been something like that in WT's case, we will never know. Everything about the people who had custody and care of WT at the time he disappeared into thin air, and the time preceding that particular time, are protected with secrecy, UNlike anyone else that this may happen to. To me, in just my own mind, it is so unfair, and a total disservice to WT.