So, I was wondering what may have escalated at home leading to Devonte reaching out for food. Escalated punishment/withholding. Something was going on prior to child services being called or I assume Devonte wouldn't have been running to neighbors. It was less then a year ago, I think, Hannah ran next door.
So, along with him asking for a stockpile of food which sounds like he was planning something type of move maybe? What happened at home to risk it all?
Markis, now 19, could potentially register for certain things. Buy things? Bus Tickets? Uber? Online registrations? Look for biological family members, can't do searches til a certain age I think. Maybe they'd gotten online somehow through an iPod (music was big) or snuck online or one was trusted?
Then I was also thinking that no wonder no electronics because nowadays, social media and all the info online, they could have connected and told someone. I think they were pretty fearful of going to any of their friends, because they'd tell their parents. The police? From some articles it looks like some conditioning that police officers kill black people in relation to Travon Martin and when police came those few times, nothing changed? Then the claims true or not about KKK and cross burning, threats in community, things being said, the kids may have been very fearful of the outside world in general due to whatever was being portrayed, and the lack of close outside relationships.
I'm assuming probably select info was told to them because a lot of the reports from people who knew them are radically different. They complained of threats, no calls to police in Oregon, where the burning cross thing supposedly also happened. They reportedly told people they were moving due to that as well. Then became even more secluded.
I would think for Devonte to make the decision to come clean to neighbors and need daily food, sounds very severe punishments and things were coming undone next door prior to child services visit. I wonder what will be found out
