Sorry, but I do not believe this is him. His whole story does not add up.
Unless the police are withholding facts...which might be the case...too many unknown facts for someone who was held hostage for seven years.
I am sure he was not at the Red Roof Inn for seven years.
No description of where he was before? Too many things don't add up.
Thank you. A human trafficking ring conducted by social services is utter nonsense.
Let's try to stay in reality.
Human trafficking is not like the movies. It's not like the myth of little white kids and women stolen, sold and passed around through "rings".
It's illegal adoptions. Immigrants sold into slavery and told they have to work off the cost of transporting them to the new country. It's poor women thinking they're going to another country for work but forced into prostitution.
It's runaways from dysfunctional homes, kids who are mentally ill, drug addicted, poor, LGBTQ, primarily black, who are lured by low level, criminals into prostituting themselves at truck stops and via ads.
That's the reality. Not some kind of "ring" with politicians and government officials and rich men bidding for some middle class and much beloved child or young woman snatched off the street and passed around between being held in cages.
Are there pedohpiles who swap photos and videos and sometimes sell access to kids they're molesting? Yes. But it's not the mythic stuff of the movies. Most of the kids are either neighbors or their own through biology, adoption or foster care. Not kidnap victims.
And the pedophiles aren't typically body builders with tough guy tattoos. They look mostly like accountants. (I've seen too many).
The kid in the photo does resemble Timmothy. My skepticism has to do with the description of the men, which sounds like stereotypical "bad guys", the photo of the kid, because he looks possibly older than 14, and the fact that one person thought he was breaking into a car.
Of course he could still be Timmothy and have become a street kid who ran away from whatever situation he was in, because it wasn't good or he never assimilated.
Hopefully we find out today.
I am going to throw this out there... it is defintely out of the box thinking.
What if he really was with the Amish all these years? He is around the age that they go off for rumspringa. He may not want to bring negative attention to the family that raised him the past seven years, and made up the story about the two men and being passed around over the years. Just a theory, I guess I am not ready to believe that his mother left him just to suffer all these years.
Tomorrow and the DNA results cannot come soon enough.
Here’s a photo comparison that I made. I really do think he’s Timmothy.
Thank you for clarifying this. I wonder how on earth if this is Timmothy, his mother was groomed to believe she was handing him off to good people as the usual scenarios don’t match here
Thank you for clarifying this. I wonder how on earth if this is Timmothy, his mother was groomed to believe she was handing him off to good people as the usual scenarios don’t match here
One reporter tweeted that Illinois PD said, “late this afternoon or early evening.”Any idea what time DNA results are expected?
Thank you! Great interview. At the end he touches on the argument they had two years before which may have stuck in her mind...In this 2017 interview with the father, James Pitzen, it sounds like the parents were not estranged at the time but (as he explains) they had had some previous marital issues.
There was this case of brother and sister abduction, the girl survived it..If it's real I think she would have tried to find people to give him to out of spite. Maybe some couple who wanted a kid. Because she seemed to have been disturbed and wanting to hurt the father.
But if they're the type who would accept a child who has been reported missing, they wouldn't be decent people and likely be dealing with some dysfunction. So maybe they passed him to other family, or friends, who knows?
That has happened before. I'm thinking a kid kidnapped alonng with I think her brother. She found her identity years later. I think her name was Pepper something.
Here’s a photo comparison that I made. I really do think he’s Timmothy.
Why would they need to? He wasn't adopted, right? They just need to match him to his dad.