Found Safe SC - Three children, ages 2-4, Smoaks, 9 March 2016

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I'm so glad le is treating the children's disappearance as a crime. covering all bases is a good thing to me.
 
There is a reason the uncle is the legal guardian. Mom lives close by, correct?
 
SurfieTX said:
There is a reason the uncle is the legal guardian. Mom lives close by, correct?
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I thought he was the guardian of the boy, the cousin to the girls. Seems like it is not a legal guardianship for the girls but an arrangement. It seems like the area is more of a family "compound" with them living near each other.

"The boy is a cousin of the little girls. A legal guardian of the missing boy also takes care of the missing sisters and they all live together on Bent Gate Lane in Smoaks. He lives with his wife who was at work at the time the kids went missing." http://counton2.com/2016/03/09/missing-children-found-alive/
 
I'm guessing that before this case is closed, "skeletons" will follow those three children out of that closet IYKWIM.

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alreetlike said:
I'm sure there are many things most children do that their parents don't know about. I'd say the woods is fairly likely.
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At 2, 3, and 4 years old, there really shouldn't be anything these children do that their parents or guardians don't know about. Eight-year-olds or 10-year-olds? Yes. But not children this little. They need constant supervision at those ages.
 
The two girls were found in a closet, and weren't seen when the trailer was first searched Wednesday? Curious.
 
This morning I mentioned that I wanted to check back in later today and see "Found Safe." I should've specified "Found Safe but not locked in a closet."

What is the distance between the trailer where they were found and their home? Is it possible the kids wandered off and either were playing in the abandoned trailer and/or got scared when it got dark and locked themselves in a closet?

To be honest, this sounds like nefarious activity by a local teenager. I am just VERY THANKFUL the children were found alive.

The truth WILL come out on this case.
 
Something does not sound right. Apparently the door knob was off since it was mentioned one needed a screwdriver to open the closet door. The four year old could stick his fingers/hand in the empty hole to pull the door shut once they were in the closet if they were playing.

However, that raises two questions for me. Living in the south in a house, my closets do not have door knobs on the inside of closets. So the child would not have the ability to pull the door shut as mentioned above. In fact, you would have to put your fingers under the door to pull the door shut. Also, closets in the last 40-50 years don't close by a turning door knob. I am not familiar with trailers.

The second question is would officers/searchers be carrying a screw driver to open the door? Or would they take the time to open the door in that manner? It may be that if no noise was heard inside the closet, the officer went onto the next spot thinking it is difficult for three little ones to be quiet if they were in there.

The four year old girl should be a wealth of information. IF an adult was involved in this, the children may have been threatened to not say a word. However, IF the person checking the closet failed to open it upon discovering it locked, and all quiet, do you think he is going to admit it? Hmmm . . .
 
Perhaps LE is treating this as a crime scene because the 4 yr old has already started talking...
 
1&2&3 said:
Something does not sound right. Apparently the door knob was off since it was mentioned one needed a screwdriver to open the closet door. The four year old could stick his fingers/hand in the empty hole to pull the door shut once they were in the closet if they were playing.

However, that raises two questions for me. Living in the south in a house, my closets do not have door knobs on the inside of closets. So the child would not have the ability to pull the door shut as mentioned above. In fact, you would have to put your fingers under the door to pull the door shut. Also, closets in the last 40-50 years don't close by a turning door knob. I am not familiar with trailers.

The second question is would officers/searchers be carrying a screw driver to open the door? Or would they take the time to open the door in that manner? It may be that if no noise was heard inside the closet, the officer went onto the next spot thinking it is difficult for three little ones to be quiet if they were in there.

The four year old girl should be a wealth of information. IF an adult was involved in this, the children may have been threatened to not say a word. However, IF the person checking the closet failed to open it upon discovering it locked, and all quiet, do you think he is going to admit it? Hmmm . . .
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Not to run down a rabbit trail, but I would think a closet door in a dwelling that didn't have a door knob on the inside would be a building code violation. I know sometimes doorknobs break or don't function properly, but to purposely create a knob system that if you get closed in a closet you can't get back out is just outright dangerous. What is the purpose of creating that, do you know? Is it so you can lock people in there?
 
I would be surprised to hear that anything nefarious went on in this case.

If they were playing and accidentally shut the door which then locked, the children at their young age and probably exhausted from crying fell asleep in the dark area before the search even got started. Since the search was originally channeled toward the woods and swamp, it was probably a few hours later before someone searched the empty home, maybe tried the door, listened and didn't heard the sleeping children, but never checked inside the closet since it was locked. Young children can sleep through most anything. The next morning the children woke up and probably started crying again and this time someone heard them.
 
So they went in the trailer and didn't call their names? So they quietly walked in. Checked around and left. I would like to believe that they would call their names? No?
Such a weird case. Still on the fence.
So glad the babies were found.
 
Hmmmmm, I would like to know who owns that trailer. 100 yards away is so close.
 
AmandaSkis said:
Hmmmmm, I would like to know who owns that trailer. 100 yards away is so close.
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A cousin to the family. She was on a channel today doing a tour of the trailer. She had said that when she lived in the room the door handle was broken. She pricked up the 2 year old's diaper. She said it was an empty trailer.
 
kaen said:
A cousin to the family. She was on a channel today doing a tour of the trailer. She had said that when she lived in the room the door handle was broken. She pricked up the 2 year old's diaper. She said it was an empty trailer.
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Thanks! In the article I read, it said that police would not say who owned the trailer.

Curiouser and curiouser.
 
It may be that they've been placed in protective custody for general issues, not indicating that there was foul play with their disappearance.

I strongly suspect they were unsupervised, and they have the run of the property where there are dangers present like old abandoned trailers with doors that lock you in, etc. Also, he apparently has custody of three 3 little ones which is kind of an unusual custody arrangement.
 
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