MA MA - Giovanni Colon-Gonzalez, 5, Lynn, 15 Aug 2008

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Missing Lynn boy case continued pending DNA report

The case against Ernesto Gonzalez, the Lynn father charged with parental kidnapping and willfully misleading police in the disappearance of his 5-year-old son two years ago, has been continued until next month pending a DNA report from a forensic testing laboratory in Texas.

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Lu continued the case to Sept. 22 for a further DNA status report, as agreed by both the prosecutor and defense. Investigators claim traces of the boy's blood were found on a knife, on a piece of wood flooring, a cleaning liquid cap and the bathroom threshold in Ernesto Gonzalez's apartment.

Investigators took more than 30 samples from walls and objects inside Gonzalez's apartment.

More: http://www.itemlive.com/articles/2010/09/01/news/news05.txt

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

From above article, the case was continued to Sept 22. This article from October says it was continued again until Nov 23. Hoping that by the 23rd they can finally get this thing going and finally figure out FOR SURE what happened to little Giovanni.


Gonzalez case continued again for DNA exam
22 Oct 2010

The case against a Lynn father charged with parental kidnapping and willfully misleading police in the disappearance of his 5-year-old son, Giovanni Gonzalez, in 2008, has been continued until next month for further DNA examinations by the defense.

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The case has been lingering primarily due to scientific testing after traces of the boy's blood were found on a knife, a piece of wood flooring, a cleaning liquid cap and the bathroom threshold in Ernesto Gonzalez's apartment.

Investigators took more than 30 samples from walls and objects inside Gonzalez's apartment.

http://www.thedailyitemoflynn.com/articles/2010/10/22/news/news07.txt

 

[Texas Mist]

Missing boy’s father considers plea deal

Posted by David Pierce, Boston.com Staff November 26, 2010 08:38 PM

By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff

The father of a missing East Boston boy is considering a plea agreement in connection with the child’s 2008 disappearance during a weekend visit in Lynn.

The development, disclosed this week in Essex Superior Court in Salem, could mark a significant shift in a case that has frustrated investigators since Giovanni Gonzalez, then 5, disappeared during a scheduled visit with his father, Ernesto Gonzalez, in Lynn.
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The 38-year-old former meatpacker has since pleaded not guilty to charges of parental kidnapping and misleading police and is being held without bail in Essex County jail in Middleton.

Giovanni’s mother, Daisy Colon, urged authorities yesterday to fight a possible plea until Giovanni is found. She said a reward is still posted for the boy’s safe return.

more here

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/11/missing_boys_fa.html

 

[summer_breeze]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/11/missing_boys_fa.html

Posted by David Pierce, Boston.com Staff November 26, 2010 08:38 PM
By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff

The father of a missing East Boston boy is considering a plea agreement in connection with the child’s 2008 disappearance during a weekend visit in Lynn.

The development, disclosed this week in Essex Superior Court in Salem, could mark a significant shift in a case that has frustrated investigators since Giovanni Gonzalez, then 5, disappeared during a scheduled visit with his father, Ernesto Gonzalez, in Lynn.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

I hope this plea deal involves leading investigators to finding Giovanni...

 

[imamaze]

America's Most Wanted

The Charley Project

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Giovanni age-progressed to age 7.
http://www.missingkids.com/missingk...NCMC&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_US&searchLang=en_US

 

[mermaid55]

SALEM — A lawyer for a Lynn father who was the last person seen with his missing son more than two years ago will ask a judge to dismiss the charges against Ernesto Gonzalez.

http://www.salemnews.com/local/x2072619732/Missing-childs-dad-Dismiss-charges

 

[Texas Mist]

Grandmother of missing boy torn by hope, fear

Says she wants son to tell truth about fate of Lynn youth


PATILLAS, Puerto Rico — She emerges in a flowered housecoat from her fenced-in house, in a remote corner of this Caribbean island where roosters and horses run wild. For two years, relatives have begged her to return to Massachusetts to visit her son in jail, to persuade him to solve the mystery of the missing grandson she never knew.

But Lydia Gonzalez will not budge.

“He’s a grown man,’’ she said in Spanish, in her first interview since her son, Ernesto, was accused in the August 2008 disappearance of his then 5-year-old son, Giovanni.

“He doesn’t need his mother to tell the truth.’’

more here

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...mother_of_missing_lynn_boy_torn_by_hope_fear/

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Video at link with reporter who interviewed Giovanni's grandmother:

http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/morn...other-of-missing-lynn-boy-speaks-out-20110209


ETA: As the guy at the end of the video said...it's very rare for a reporter, two years after the fact, to go track down the grandmother of a missing child in a foreign country to get an interview. Kudos to her, and I hope she continues to keep his story out there.

 

[MorenoI]

I wish this mother would get the truth already! Enough of this man playing games, even behind bars he has some control.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Lawyer: Missing Lynn boy's father had same rights to child as mom

The lawyer for a Lynn man whose son has been missing for more than 21/2 years asked a judge yesterday to dismiss a parental kidnapping charge against Ernesto Gonzalez.

Defense lawyer Christopher Skinner argued that absent a formal custody order from a judge, his client is presumed to have the same legal right to the child as his mother, and that without such an order in place, grand jurors lacked any legal basis to indict Gonzalez on that charge.

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Salem Superior Court Judge John Lu granted prosecutors additional time to file another response to Skinner's motion and said he may rule on the motion at the next hearing in the case on June 1.

The parental kidnapping charge carries a penalty of up to five years in state prison; the other charge faced by Gonzalez, misleading investigators, carries up to a 10-year state prison term.

More: http://www.salemnews.com/local/x930...n-boys-father-had-same-rights-to-child-as-mom

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Gonzalez defense seeks dismissal of key charge

A Superior Court judge is considering a motion to dismiss a parental kidnapping charge against the Lynn father charged with the disappearance of his 5-year-old son in 2008.

More: http://www.thedailyitemoflynn.com/articles/2011/03/31/news/news06.txt

 

[summer_breeze]

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/28220391/detail.html


POSTED: 12:21 pm EDT June 13, 2011
UPDATED: 12:43 pm EDT June 13, 2011

BOSTON -- A judge has tossed out the parental kidnapping charge against a Lynn man whose son disappeared nearly three years ago

 

[summer_breeze]

http://articles.boston.com/2011-08-18/news/29901598_1_giovanni-investigators-murder-charges

August 18, 2011|By Yvonne Abraham, Globe Columnist

Three years.

That’s how long Daisy Colon has been waiting for news of her son Giovanni, a 5-year-old who disappeared on a weekend visit with his father in Lynn on Aug. 17, 2008.

 

[mysterygirl]

Sigh........everyone knows you did it "dad"............just tell where you put his body, your own flesh and blood.

 

[MorenoI]

It must be horrible for this mom not to know where her son is, even if he has passed away...

 

[Kimster]

:rose: Giovanni is our current Spotlight Case :rose:

 

[ravenwitch]

This case makes me so angry. How can a person just "misplace" a five year old and not have commited a crime? There has to be some kind of justice for Giovanni and some kind of recourse for his mom. Grrr!!!!!

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Thanks for spotlighting Giovanni. <3

Hoping for answers for his mom.