Yes that was puzzling to me also. Where was Kaine? I know that the school has emergency contact numbers with both parents, when there is a divorce. Well that is what they do here in NY. Even when my grandson was having trouble in Math they also called his father....I know my daughter would have called her ex immediately while enroute to the school. Why didn't Kaine call Desiree on the way to the school, he did say they rushed there when the bus driver said Kyron wasn't in school. I just can't figure this whole thing. We are missing something...JMO...
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Most parents would be thinking even while panicking...
"There has to be a mistake..." Comprehending that your child has been missing for 7 hours is not exactly easy.
After they got TO the school and realized he actually was missing... the police were called. The police told them that one parent would have to go back to the house. I am guessing that is where Kaine was when Desiree was called. Since Terri saw him at the school last, logically she would stay there. I think Kaine would have called after he got home, but she had already been contacted. Or, as he was leaving the school he might have told Terri to call Desiree and that is why the secretary was told to do so. He is so logical he may have immediately gone into "need to go get pictures of Kyron to give to the police" mode.
I always found it heartless that the school secretary called Desiree. Terri communicated with her regularly and should have done so that day as well. The only reason I wouldn't in that situation is if I knew that she would see right through whatever lie I was going to feed her.
My Dad and his ex wife and a horrible relationship complete with him having to "kidnap" the kids for scheduled visitations. However, when the youngest needed heart surgery my Dad's new wife was on the phone calling his ex wife before the doctor finished his sentence. That was her mother and that was all that mattered at that moment.
It ALWAYS struck me as odd is that Terri didn't immediately call Desiree, even before the police were called
to ask if SHE had Kyron.
Now, obviously they would never actually believe Desiree or Tony would come and pick up Kyron in the middle of the day, hours before she was supposed to. But when the alternative is that your child has been
missing for 7 hours... you would be hoping and praying that his biological mother did something totally out of character, or that you missed it when she said she would come get him early.
You would be calling Desiree and asking her if she had Kyron. Then if she didn't, you tell her Kyron is missing and the police get called. It's 30 extra seconds but that was never even asked of Desiree.
Desiree was informed Kyron was missing, she was never asked if she knew where he was.
This is one of the things that leads me to believe it was not an unrelated parent at Skyline. It is one of those "guilty knowledge" type things... or just a completely heartless "I don't care about this kid" type things.