Toddler feared dead after being swept away in flood

[Dena]

And she hasn't logged on since Monday, the day before this happened. It would strike me as eerie if she was on after the incident. Could be that it was a fond place of theirs. I don't know, I hate to think that she did this on purpose. How would she know the water would go from 6 inches to 3 feet in that short amount of time. I also read that she was on the phone with her father for help.

 

[MissieMt]

I think she knew the river was capable of flooding, considering she has video of it on her page and it's titled "Overflow".
However, I still think the myspace is just a very sad coincidence.

 

[Amraann]

I have a different take on this and its not criminal at all.

Many people appreciate and enjoy nature some to the extreme that they decorate with nature seens or whatever. (think those that loves butterflies or rainbows etc.)

I think there is nothing wrong with decorating a webpage with the pictures of things you like or are in aw of. That is what most people do.
Enjoying to walk in the rain is not odd to me at all.. Although I prefer a sunny ocean beach I would not find it odd.. I know plenty of people who love the rain.
That all being said, would it not stand to reason that she would enjoy a walk in the rain with her son?
I think most of us tend to share the things we love or enjoy doing with our children weather that be reading, going for walks, sewing...
To know its going to rain is not to know its going to be a flash flood.
I don't know if they issue warnings for this but maybe she just saw a stormy sky and went for a walk or like the article says she was caught offgard when it began to rain (not knowing it was a flash flood)?

 

[Cubby]

I have a different take on this and its not criminal at all.

Many people appreciate and enjoy nature some to the extreme that they decorate with nature seens or whatever. (think those that loves butterflies or rainbows etc.)

I think there is nothing wrong with decorating a webpage with the pictures of things you like or are in aw of. That is what most people do.
Enjoying to walk in the rain is not odd to me at all.. Although I prefer a sunny ocean beach I would not find it odd.. I know plenty of people who love the rain.
That all being said, would it not stand to reason that she would enjoy a walk in the rain with her son?
I think most of us tend to share the things we love or enjoy doing with our children weather that be reading, going for walks, sewing...
To know its going to rain is not to know its going to be a flash flood.
I don't know if they issue warnings for this but maybe she just saw a stormy sky and went for a walk or like the article says she was caught offgard when it began to rain (not knowing it was a flash flood)?

I agree. Nature is serene and perhaps this is where she felt most at peace. This is so sad. I can't even begin to imagine how I would react if something happened to my young son.

I don't know much about this area. Is it prone to flash floods like this regularly or was this unusual for the area?

May he RIP and play with the angels in the clouds.

 

[lisag]

Poor baby... He must have been so scared.

I think her myspace is just a coincidence... I can't imagine the pain she is going through right now.

 

[Autumn2004]

My husband heard on the radio that a strap broke but I havent seen anything reported about this on the news. It is an eerie coincidence about the water on her myspace. Im sure LE is investigating.

 

[Michelle Read]

I have to comment here, which I usually don't do, but...

I live in Denver. First of all, the mother took this SAME walk with her son EVERY evening. I am terribly incensed by the posters suggesting maybe she attempted to commit suicide or was otherwise careless. The storm that moved in Monday night was intense, fierce and quick. It was moving at 15-20 miles an hour. If you were outside at that point in time, even if you were MILES away, you would have been stuck somewhere in the storm.

The area is NOT prone to flash floods. It is a serene area, with a pathway that goes by the Children's Museum and Six Flags. I am SURE that many parents and mothers walk along this same path every night.

The mother has been NOTHING but distraught over losing her child. When they found his body, the mother was screaming "my baby, my baby!" She had to be HELD up by police officers.

Sometimes Mother Nature is an extremely destructive force. I myself as a mother can only empathize what this poor women is going through. She was a good mother who was ONLY on a DAILY walk with her child! I pray she finds peace and support as she walks through this trying time of grief.

godspeed to her young child~

 

[Shadow205]

I have to comment here, which I usually don't do, but...

I live in Denver. First of all, the mother took this SAME walk with her son EVERY evening. I am terribly incensed by the posters suggesting maybe she attempted to commit suicide or was otherwise careless. The storm that moved in Monday night was intense, fierce and quick. It was moving at 15-20 miles an hour. If you were outside at that point in time, even if you were MILES away, you would have been stuck somewhere in the storm.

The area is NOT prone to flash floods. It is a serene area, with a pathway that goes by the Children's Museum and Six Flags. I am SURE that many parents and mothers walk along this same path every night.

The mother has been NOTHING but distraught over losing her child. When they found his body, the mother was screaming "my baby, my baby!" She had to be HELD up by police officers.

Sometimes Mother Nature is an extremely destructive force. I myself as a mother can only empathize what this poor women is going through. She was a good mother who was ONLY on a DAILY walk with her child! I pray she finds peace and support as she walks through this trying time of grief.

godspeed to her young child~

Michelle,

First of all let me start by saying that I am sorry that you are "incensed by posters suggesting that she may have tried to commit suicide." The following might help you understand why those comments were made.

The mother, found clinging to a concrete barrier in the fast-running water, released her grip and slipped away from a rescuer when she was told her son had not been found, Champagne said. She was pulled from the river about 100 yards downstream and hospitalized.
"She ... looked at the rescuer and let go of the concrete [barrier] and said she no longer wanted to live without her child," Champagne said.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/15/swept.away.ap/index.html

The remarks that I made concerning the pictures of the water on her myspace were in no way insinuating anything criminal. I found it eerie that a place that evidently brought peace and solitude to her, in the end brought such tragedy.