oh no...please don't tell me they are allowing 12 yr olds to search...no no no...
please don't tell me they are searching with flashlights, in an unorganized manner...
WHERE IS Texas Equsearch or another certified search organization?? Is there no local SAR group?
What does grandma have to say now? Mistake?
A couple things:
1. The link posted above about Tarah asking for the dangerous service dog was in IOWA in 2010. It appears that Ali's bio dad also lives in Iowa. I wonder what brought her to INDIANA in the last year?? The grandpa's illness? Could the PTSD be attributed to a move to a new state?
2. Her scent trail led to the highway/bus stop. Could this be an old scent? Surely she had walked to the bus stop several times before.
3. I'm beginning to think that Ali's partial blind/deaf, emotional issues might have something to do with alchohol, marijuana, meth, crack, abuse...catch my drift?
4. In one article the mom states she has never run off before...but the consensus is everyone in the family thinks she wandered away?! WHAT??? That reasoning makes no sense what so ever.
Didn't LE search the trailer initially???? Oh man!
There is something way, way off about this child's situation....the 40 year old male caregiver, and the Mom not being available to care for her children. It's just weird.
What was going on in that trailer? And what kind of people make such casual child care arrangements?
So many children are disappearing because of all the broken familes, and all the loose, dysfunctional relationships with people who come in contact with the children....single parents,boyfriends,girlfriends, live-ins, step parents, one night stands, parents missing from their children's daily lives. People who are coming and going from the homes in the middle of the night, parties and drug use, and the children falling asleep on the floor or the couch, or in one bed and then another. Parents not checking on the children for hours....
There seems to be a lot of instability and upheaval in these families which leads to all of these vulnerable children being exposed to dangerous situations.
Most of the cases we follow on WS have these things in common, and it is so troubling.
I am not for a second attempting to defend this guy as a good pseudo-parenting choice OR mom for leaving the kids with him.
One of us has our timeline wrong. She did not disappear while he was at the store, she walked out the door sometimes later, while he was asleep. His trip to the store was irrelevant other than as evidence that he might not have been a great choice as temporary guardian (if you needed more evidence of this).
Perfectly stated.
I would be content to hear ANYONE other than this Mike fellow say, "I talked to the girls and they said...etc"
Was the body found in the trailer, I didn't catch where it was located but read of FB the home has been taped off and is a crime scene as it should be.
Dammit, dammit, dammit, dammit. The world has too many sick people in it. Too many people willing to snuff out any light that they see. I hope he dies in prison and I hope the mother NEVER recovers from the guilt. I hope it destroys her.
I wish the best for her sisters and I hope that they are provided a safe place to try to have the rest of their childhood.
I can't do this anymore. Of course I say that after every case. It's too much. My apologies to LE, and I do take back my earlier statements, even though I question if she was found in the trailer, why she was not found the very day she was reported.