I want to add LS leaves out information in her public statement.
Her statement is here:
Gannon Stauch: Stepmother releases public statement after missing boy mysteriously vanishes while in her care
Leaving
out some relevant part of the truth, the statement becomes indeed
deceiving. This is what can be referred to as a lie of omission.
Also known as a continuing misrepresentation, a lie by omission occurs when an important fact(s) is
left out in order to foster a misconception.
Here are a few:
1.
Saturday Night, G was helping me unload in the garage
[unloading what and why is missing information]
2.
and cut his foot because there are a lot of tools because Albert does woodworking
[She doesn't tell us how he got cut and what tool. She doesn't tell us Gannon received a cut from a wood working tool. She is guides us to believe this]
3.
Fast forward, we did a hike on Sunday (cleared), and shopping on Monday...
[Fast forward...This is what I call "temporal lacunae" or, skipping over time.
This is something important.
There is information that LS withholding from us.
This is the time period that she did not want to stop to explain.
Her skipping this information is deceiving.]