I've wondered that, too. Because it just doesn't seem logical.
Even if TH took Kyron, obviously she doesn't have physical custody of him any more. Ergo, someone else does.
I think Desiree would be very effective at conveying a personal message. In fact, I'd like to see her do more pressers on her own.
If Desiree were to face the camera, and softly, letting the tears show, say something like "I've often thought that maybe, somehow, someone convinced others that Kyron was being abused. And maybe that if someone cares enough about Kyron to be taking care of him for this long that probably they only have him for that reason. As his mother, I can understand that need to protect a child if you believe them to be in horrible danger. But Kyron isn't. Please let me prove that to you. Let Kyron come home, and he'll be checked out by doctors and psychologists. If anyone was harming *my* baby, I'll deal with them. If you care enough about Kryon to have sheltered him from someone you believe to harming him, then please, let him come home to me. I'm sure he's homesick and scared. You could just pin a note to his jacket with his name "I'm Kyron, please call my mom" with my phone number, and leave him in an emergency room at a hospital. He'd be safe there. Please, if you're taking care of Kyron, let him come home."
If Desiree set out in a series of interviews, now and then, staged at certain places (never his bedroom, BTW), like a soccer game (other possibilities too), and positioned Kyron's "holder" (for lack of a better word) as someone who was only trying to help and made a mistake. that could soften things a bit. And then by addressing that person as though they were partners in making sure Kyron was OK, she could build, with a series of carefully-scripted interviews, a series of stepping stones to open someone up to thinking "yea, maybe I was wrong, maybe he wasn't being abused, and maybe I can get him home to her safely."
That's a whole different dynamic than what's going on now, and, if, if, someone has him because he was handed off because of some story about being abused, it could slowly nudge a door open. But it would require Desiree only, softness, understanding, and a focus only on the person who's really a good person trying to take care of Kyron. With never a message of TH, because that person has to be separated from TH in that kind of approach.
But Kaine taking over most of the interviews--especially if the holder has been told Kaine's an abuser--and the constant harping on TH only puts the holder (if there is one) into the same hated camp with TH. That leaves no negotiating room and no chance for turning that person around.
Kaine needs to step aside and let Desiree work a new approach. She's got the softer touch and comes across as more "mom" and a warmer person. She could look at a camera and touch someone's heart, as Kyron's mom who understands.
And I have an idea for a phase 2 of an approach like that, but I'm keeping quiet now. But Kaine vs. Terri--especially with the divorce--and the constant bringing up of Terri does nothing but make it seem like Kyron could only come home to chaos, and like anyone who may have gotten tricked into holding him can only be seen allied with the woman many believe to be totally evil. No room for backing off and changing stride there at all if someone has Kyron.
JMO.
