Hello Calliope,
Wouldn't it be a sweetness to know that there had never been a parent who would harm their child? Wouldn't it be a sweetness to know that no parent and no one would ever have to be scrutinized to determine if they had something to do with a child going missing? That would be a large part of my perfect world.
There are boundaries within this forum in terms of who can be scrutinized and at what point they can be. So far, I have seen a number of family members looked at ... not just one. Of course, one has received more scrutiny due to the boundaries for scrutiny being met.
How is it that Kyron would just quietly disappear from a school? What do we do with someone being considered the last person to see Kyron -- how does that fit into investigation? YES, I do believe that there could have been someone in that school that could have removed Kyron outside of one of his family members.
There is nothing in me that would want to suspect Terri, I would love for her to be on a pedestal as a loving and giving Christian step mom who has taken on a child as her own and loved him with all of her heart and being. I WANT THIS...but can I have it? I realize that I sometimes exhibit that which others would consider inappropriate responses, but I don't have a child who was in my care and one who I was the last to see before they went missing. If I did, I would EXPECT others to scrutinize me and what they considered to be my inappropriate behaviors and anything else that could help -- just PLEASE find my missing child!!!
I have had a child in my life that was in my care and that wasn't my birth child (a 3 month old) -- I did NOT have the same bonding to this child as I did with my own children. Even so, I can tell you that I would have laid down my life to find this child if he had disappeared from me suddenly -- I loved this little precious fellow, my whole family did. I would have taken whatever beating was necessary or came to pass if this child had disappeared from me -- if I was the last person to see him -- the child first, me last.
So, you are obviously feeling that Terri is receiving undue scrutiny, that she is being "dissected and crucified." Who are you scrutinizing in this particular case?