Dre
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Great first post! Welcome to websleuths, it’s under sad circumstances but glad you’re here and hope to see your thoughtful posts on other threads!My heart breaks over & over for Ryan & his family. I have a son with Autism in the same school district & can't even begin to imagine what his Mom must be going through. I feel like there were so many lost opportunities to get Ryan back fairly quickly in the very beginning, am I alone with that train of thought? So the school says they noticed after 5 minutes that he was missing & called the police but there's no mention of anyone from the school going outside to look for him, why not?? I mean that's just common sense - if you've misplaced a child that's in your care you go and look for them. Also, it sounds like Ryan headed home after leaving school but there's no mention of the police driving over to his apartment to see if he was there...again why not?? If he left his school at 12:00 and wasn't spotted on the surveillance camera at CVS until 1:30 or 2:00 - where were the police during that time? I know they didn't send out an Amber Alert because they didn't believe Ryan was kidnapped however it's been 2 full weeks now and who knows what really happened to him. I can't help but think that if an Amber Alert had been sent out what might have happened differently. Possibly that law needs to be amended or maybe there needs to be a "Ryan Alert" or a "Ryan's Law" created?? I'm really not trying to point fingers here & I know that it seems that way, I just can't get over the fact of how this entire ordeal has been mishandled & also can't help but feel this is because of Ryan's Autism & his history of wandering. If nothing else, there needs to be a lot of extreme changes brought about within this school district as well as the police department in Ryan's name so that no one ever forgets this sweet angel.
I agree that so much more should have been done, it’s hard to say without more facts who exactly dropped the ball, but I agree with you, a critically missing child should get an urgent alert, kidnapped or not.
Seems too quiet all the way around, I so so hope they are able to find him and that he is just scared and hiding out somewhere