Found Deceased TN - Evelyn Boswell, 15 months, Sullivan County, 26 DEC 2019 *Arrests*

[SuperTmo]

You have room on this bench? We are in the minority.

No one here seems to be considering that for some people extended families are often the main care givers of little ones. Moms, aunts, sisters, grandparents. At no time has Maggie said she left Evelyn with any specific person. Quite the contrary, she's refused to name who had Evelyn.

I don't get it and I'm quite sure I've never seen this on WS. Where LE specifically states that someone is "not accused of wrong doing" and yet it's allowed here to basically tar and feather her. I may eat my words but I'll keep giving Maggie the benefit of the doubt until more information is available.

MB didn’t say outright who she left the baby with but in her interview she said something about “the car” and it seems that is the car the police were looking for and found with her mom in it... I’ll need to find it and rewatch to hear what she said. That said, regardless of who she left the kid with, never once not ever did she report the baby missing. That isn’t justifiable.

 

[SCBaseballMom]

Reward for return of Evelyn Boswell now up to $56,000

 

[MyBelle]

I too question why he isn't getting the same level of scrutiny that MB is. All the onus is being put on the mom and he's somehow excused? Last time I checked a mother and father are responsible for their childs well-being but this dad gets a pass because he's a few states away and in the military ?

I think the dad's alibi is solid.

According to TN law, he's not responsible for his child's well-being unless he goes to court.

JMO

 

[1&2&3]

Did grandmother AB live in the same city as Megan and Evelyn?

If she did or lived close, why had she not been picked up on her outstanding warrant before she was arrested in NC? Or was it just a ruse that there was an outstanding warrant for her?

 

[NCTeacher]

I too question why he isn't getting the same level of scrutiny that MB is. All the onus is being put on the mom and he's somehow excused? Last time I checked a mother and father are responsible for their childs well-being but this dad gets a pass because he's a few states away and in the military ?

I can't speak for Tennessee, but here in NC, a baby born out of wedlock is considered the mother's, even if the father signs the birth certificate and the baby gets his name. My now-husband went to an attorney before we were married to try and fight for custody of our (oldest) son, they basically told him not in a million years would get any form of custody or any say-so whatsoever without my cooperation (barring exceptional safety of the child circumstances). Tennessee is probably the same situation. He would have had a really steep uphill battle.

 

[Mountain_Kat]

Heh. Right.
The 19 y/o, single mom, student, possible chicken shack employee. Hookin up moms.
She's a giver.

Can I just be a little off topic and say how much I adore you ? I desperately needed the chuckle and the huggers. Thanks.

 

[swanniee11]

I think the dad's alibi is solid.

According to TN law, he's not responsible for his child's well-being unless he goes to court.

JMO

and therein lies the problem

 

[MyBelle]

But you can infer she did. She said she didn't report for fear they'd run off with the baby. That means the REASON she stayed silent is to keep them from running of with EB. Therefore, she must have never suspected they had run off, or else she'd reported it. Which means, if we are to believe her incredible story, she knew they had not run off.

Pretty sure she was intimating her mother and boyfriend there, whom she knew had run off in the direction of NC. Perhaps she hoped they wouldn't be found, therefore making EB disappearance NOT MB's fault.

MB was in a no-win situation and still is because the baby is still missing.

I think it more likely that MB feared the child would be harmed if she had reported AB and WM to LE. Because, if the baby had not yet disappeared and MB knew where she was, there was no crime MB could report to LE. AB and WM DID run off and didn't come back which is why Grandpa ignored AB's threat and called in the report. LE issued an Amber Alert and description of the car. And the baby is still missing.

JMO

 

[El Gato]

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ok
she lied to to cops, that is a fact, they said her accounts wasnt adding up????

 

[SuperTmo]

Probably because there is nobody she handed Evelyn over to and she knows it. Jmo.

Yeah. I feel as if the whole story is so beyond reasonable that perhaps MB was caught off guard by her dad reporting the baby missing and this is just the garbage story that she came up with off the cuff. It isn’t even remotely believable.

 

[MyBelle]

and therein lies the problem

what's the problem?

 

[eastcoast911]

I too question why he isn't getting the same level of scrutiny that MB is. All the onus is being put on the mom and he's somehow excused? Last time I checked a mother and father are responsible for their childs well-being but this dad gets a pass because he's a few states away and in the military ?

Yes fully excused. He was in Tennessee maybe for a total of 7 days since that baby was born.

 

[SuperTmo]

I too question why he isn't getting the same level of scrutiny that MB is. All the onus is being put on the mom and he's somehow excused? Last time I checked a mother and father are responsible for their childs well-being but this dad gets a pass because he's a few states away and in the military ?

She was the one physically and legally responsible for the child. It doesn’t sound like he is really even in the picture. She is the one who let someone take the kid away. ETA my post you commented wasn’t about why he isn’t scrutinized more, but was speaking more to the fact that he could have possibly had more custody or visitation rights if he wanted to. Being stationed in another state doesn’t mean he can’t, and it sounds like he should have had custody. I’m sure if he knew the dysfunctional situation his baby was in, he would have helped her. It’s too bad that it is probably too late.

 

[lisser]

Yep! Well said. There isn’t a parent among us here that wouldn’t move heaven and earth to protect the children in our lives, and I hardly think that we’re unusual in that sense. Normal, loving parents don’t want to be apart from their children involuntarily for weeks or months (especially when that timeframe accounts for a significant part of their life), don’t leave them with those they have concerns about, and don’t simply accept that someone doesn’t want to give them back.

Unless, maybe, you’re barely more than a kid yourself, and you’ve been gaslighted into believing that you’re an unfit parent who’s child is better off elsewhere, and if you fight to get her back, she’s just going to get taken by DCS and then no one in the family will have her.
Just some speculation.

 

[1&2&3]

I know the TBI and FBI are involved in this case. Being it is a small Tennessee town, what is the likelihood there is corruption in the police department?

There is so much discussion of the family dynamics and dysfunction, it is probable that both sides of this family are well known to the local legal agencies.

After watching Megan’s interview, she knows who has her baby and didn’t appear to be too concerned about her missing. IMO. Why won’t she speak up to tell who she left Evelyn with?

 

[SuperTmo]

I'm not really sure where your confusion is?


I'm trying now yes.

My confusion is that I thought he was stationed in Louisiana, but you said he is currently deployed. Where is he deployed to? I’m sorry, I think I am just trying to clarify if he was in LA when she went missing or deployed away from his normal duty station.

 

[Jo in Calif]

Yes fully excused. He was in Tennessee maybe for a total of 7 days since that baby was born.

Does he pay child support, do you know?

 

[Seattle1]

Did grandmother AB live in the same city as Megan and Evelyn?

If she did or lived close, why had she not been picked up on her outstanding warrant before she was arrested in NC? Or was it just a ruse that there was an outstanding warrant for her?

Huh? How could it be a ruse if she was in possession of stolen property (BMW) far from TN... The outstanding probation warrant was independent of missing EB.

 

[SuperTmo]

MB was in a no-win situation and still is because the baby is still missing.

I think it more likely that MB feared the child would be harmed if she had reported AB and WM to LE. Because, if the baby had not yet disappeared and MB knew where she was, there was no crime MB could report to LE. AB and WM DID run off and didn't come back which is why Grandpa ignored AB's threat and called in the report. LE issued an Amber Alert and description of the car. And the baby is still missing.

JMO

Am I understanding this correctly? Are you saying that I can take a kid that isn’t mine, and refuse to give it back, but as long as the actual parent knows where I’m keeping it, that isn’t a crime? That my neighbor could ask me to watch her two babies, and I could refuse to give them back.... but as long as I don’t run off with them, that isn’t a reportable crime?

If MB had wanted her baby back at any moment and someone interfered with that, that is a crime. You can’t just refuse to give kids back at the end of a babysitting job.

 

[lisser]

DBM....correct post below. Was having trouble submitting