I don't know when that interview was done with JH but if it was prior to EG's arrest, could he have being utterly dense in saying that the abuse allegations and Lucas' disappearance were two separate issues? Is he desperately trying to keep them separate in his head, blind to what many of us feel is a rather obvious connection?
After watching the FB pages of a few people with missing children recently, I can see why someone would want to keep their ID private. Some people don't even keep their feelings (and their outright abuse) to news pages or Find Me groups, they take it right to the public posts begging for help on the parent and family members' pages. It's like the modern equivalent of egging someone's house, but there are hundreds of people on there screaming accusations and insults. I might sometimes sympathise with some of the comments, but I don't think that's the place to put them. And then innocent parents are going to be just as afraid of this happening as guilty ones or the ones judged guilty by association in the court of public opinion.
Over here the police don't usually name a person arrested, they just say the gender and age, then the media does the rest. But the media do usually name the parents and try to do an interview with them (if they can, because of course the parents might be 'helping police with their inquiries' or they might be too upset to appear on camera). But we usually have a presumption of innocence of the family members, and I think that's starting to get hard with these US cases when so many of them are tracing back to the adults in the home. When you have the FBI involved, they should know exactly what kind of media coverage they do want and what they don't want to happen, they'll have an idea of how much pressure they want on someone who they see as a suspect or on who they see as a completely innocent victim, imho. I don't see it being out of the realm of possibility that they might suggest to relatives that they might want to keep a low profile for risk of negative public perception and insults and attacks coming their way, whether warranted or unwarranted. FLA has already said on here that Lucas' mom has received nasty messages, and she was in another state, and she was one of the ones concerned about possible abuse. A lot of people don't bother to get fully informed before they start spreading their judgmental hate.
And then look at cases like Mariah's where everyone (me being a prime contender) analyzed the heck out of the mother's interviews with the media. A lot of people felt very defensive about that kind of analysis, feeling they were being attacked for calling their own children their angels. A lot of people don't have a great understanding of all the nuances of things like that and just go with a gut feeling that someone is hiding something or guilty, and it can be wrong. What if someone was suffering a heavy migraine and did go to lay down and their child got out? Things like showering or sleeping can be used as the basis of an 'alibi' but they are also things people do every day.
After watching the FB pages of a few people with missing children recently, I can see why someone would want to keep their ID private. Some people don't even keep their feelings (and their outright abuse) to news pages or Find Me groups, they take it right to the public posts begging for help on the parent and family members' pages. It's like the modern equivalent of egging someone's house, but there are hundreds of people on there screaming accusations and insults. I might sometimes sympathise with some of the comments, but I don't think that's the place to put them. And then innocent parents are going to be just as afraid of this happening as guilty ones or the ones judged guilty by association in the court of public opinion.
Over here the police don't usually name a person arrested, they just say the gender and age, then the media does the rest. But the media do usually name the parents and try to do an interview with them (if they can, because of course the parents might be 'helping police with their inquiries' or they might be too upset to appear on camera). But we usually have a presumption of innocence of the family members, and I think that's starting to get hard with these US cases when so many of them are tracing back to the adults in the home. When you have the FBI involved, they should know exactly what kind of media coverage they do want and what they don't want to happen, they'll have an idea of how much pressure they want on someone who they see as a suspect or on who they see as a completely innocent victim, imho. I don't see it being out of the realm of possibility that they might suggest to relatives that they might want to keep a low profile for risk of negative public perception and insults and attacks coming their way, whether warranted or unwarranted. FLA has already said on here that Lucas' mom has received nasty messages, and she was in another state, and she was one of the ones concerned about possible abuse. A lot of people don't bother to get fully informed before they start spreading their judgmental hate.
And then look at cases like Mariah's where everyone (me being a prime contender) analyzed the heck out of the mother's interviews with the media. A lot of people felt very defensive about that kind of analysis, feeling they were being attacked for calling their own children their angels. A lot of people don't have a great understanding of all the nuances of things like that and just go with a gut feeling that someone is hiding something or guilty, and it can be wrong. What if someone was suffering a heavy migraine and did go to lay down and their child got out? Things like showering or sleeping can be used as the basis of an 'alibi' but they are also things people do every day.
