gogrannypop
Call Me Butter, I'm On A Roll
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Those poor parents. I can't even imagine.
I remember vividly, as the mother of three pre-teen boys, of needing to remove myself from a situation with them and stepping out the front door into a pounding rainstorm. And, trying to figure out whether I should go back in (and lose face) or stand out there and get soaked. I believe he left without giving any thought to the weather or where he was going and what would come next. By the time he realized the danger he was in he had no way of getting help. There is no blame here for anyone, least of all his parents. Just a terrible confluence of circumstances with a very tragic ending.
His family are members of my parents' church, although my folks are elderly and might not know them. One of the reports quoted above states that Corey did walk south, which is toward the old highway 30 that goes to Ames. Very unlikely that he would have encountered a vehicle there at that time of night and it probably wasn’t his intention. Sadly I agree with the idea that he had little concept of how quickly the extreme cold would affect him and we’ll probably never know why he left. If due to conflict with parents or to “make a statement “ why wait hours to leave?
It’s all so hard to understand and my heart breaks at the knowledge that his parents must blame themselves when all of us with young teens have imposed the same consequence of confiscating the phone.