Missing boy Patrick Alford: Judge won't approve law firm's bid to work with cops on closed case
A federal judge has nixed a powerhouse law firm's bid to work with city cops hunting for missing 8-year-old Patrick Alford, who vanished from a city-monitored foster home.
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"We are concerned that the intrusion of a private investigator could be a detriment to the well being of a child who may have been kidnapped and whose life may be in danger," city lawyer Suzanne Halbardier said in court papers.
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Also...closed case??!? CLOSED case??? :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: I really hope that is just poor wording by the reporter. Cold? Perhaps. But the case is most definitely not closed!
WHAT?! :banghead:
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom attorneys involved in an unusual pro bono case--trying to find a boy who went missing from a Brooklyn foster home in early 2010--are butting heads with the New York City Police Department over their desire to review case files documenting the investigation into the child's disappearance.
It looks like they have questioned Leiby's killer in Patrick's case.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/sanity-is-next-issue-in-brooklyn-boys-killing/
Investigators, though, had looked into a potential pattern in Mr. Arons life. In an interview with the police after his arrest, Mr. Aron was asked about another missing Brooklyn child, named Patrick Alford Jr., and he told them he had never seen this child and that if he knew what happened to him, he would tell them.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/famous_brags_vile_leiby_killer_V9g0FBAc0c8HoERApobovJ
Detectives also questioned Aron about Patrick Alford, another missing Brooklyn boy, but he denied knowing him.
ITA, Cubby. Most recent articles about LA indicate that he's been saying, "I'm famous!" Well, if he was just after fame, wouldn't admitting to killing another little boy essentially make him MORE famous? Probably. I tend to think if he was involved with Patrick, he would have said so, but you just never know.
I still have my eye on the foster Mom. JMHO