I have a question. For all the posters here who have opined that perhaps Lisa was kidnapped for a person who simply wants a child, when has that ever happened? I mean within the last 20 years or so. The statistics that have been thrown around on these pages say that out of the 200+ babies kidnapped, only 12 are unaccounted for. And I suspect they are probably dead.
I guess I just don't see how the logistics of stealing a baby to have for your own wold work. You can't really do anything with the child in the future without a birth certificate. Can't get a SS#. I just don't see how this theory would play out. I know we have seen quite a few crazed women trying to steal an infant directly from the womb and pass it off as their own, but a 10 month old?
I am sorry to say it, but the statistics overwhelmingly are in favor of someone in the family being the perpetrator of this crime. I really don't think she was stolen for the black market. I think the whole black market baby thing is mostly pulp fiction fantasy. In this country, anyway. But if someone could provide proof of a robust baby black market in the US, I would certainly be open to change my mind.
There are a few cases where people have taken babies and young kids to pass off as their own, one was resolved here just a few months ago, I don't recall the woman's name although I should, but she was stolen IIRC from a hospital, right out from under her mothers nose when she was very young, and was reunited with her family after quite sometime, and her identity confirmed as the missing child, who is now a woman. (Found it, her name was Carlina White, and she was taken in 1987, and raised by the kidnapper until this year.) Steven Stayner and the other boy that was kidnapped by his kidnapper, Marcus and Jeremiah Treanor, kidnapped by a child prostitution ring (Albeit in another country, not the US). One of the Treanor boys was recovered safe after 3 1/2 years, the other was murdered shortly before his brother's rescue. Anthonette Cayedito, who was kidnapped in the 80's and may still be alive today, due to the fact that there is still the occasional sighting, always with the same man and woman. Tara Calico's case is much the same in terms of the possibility of her still being alive. Fusako Sano, 9 years tied up on a bathroom floor, but recovered live from the severely mentally ill man that kidnapped her off the street (also a foriegn case). While not all of these kids were taken for the purpose of being raised in a happy loving home, and in fact, some of them were taken for sexual purposes, there is a common theme that all of them came home alive or they are still strongly suspected of being alive, and most were passed off as the abductor's child at one point or another.
And Sabrina Aisenberg, whose case was almost the same as Lisa's, but in that one most people do suspect her parents.
ETA: And of course, Jaycee Dugard, 18 years and passed off as her abductor's child.
Shawn Hornbeck.
The list could literally go on for quite some time.
Most cases, yeah the parents are to blame and the kid was dead before 911 was ever called, but not every case is the same. The ones above are exceptions to the rule and maybe Lisa's is too.
I don't drink when he's gone for two major reasons: 1. If something happens to the kids, I can't drive because I'd have been drinking, thus would need to call an ambulance and look like an idiot, not be able to go the hospital, and VERY likely get slapped with child endangerment, etc.wind up with child protective services, wind up on Nancy Grace, the whole nine yards.... And my husband would likely divorce me.....2. If, god forbid, something bad happened (like a death) ON AN ACCIDENT, i.e. falling down the stairs, OD on meds, drown in toilet.. then, my being drunk changes the ballgame COMPLETELY and an "accident" can turn from no charges pressed to upwards of 20 years in the slammer.... I'm still on the fence but If I was a betting woman, it was some sort of an accident and she panicked....
