WA WA - Sky Metalwala, 2, Bellevue, 6 Nov 2011 - # 1

[Nancee Drue]

I find it very hard to beleive that the woman took one child, and left the other, in an unlocked car, for an hour...as she went for help. That makes no sense at all.

 

[dillysmom11]

Unless the mother has an IQ slightly above room temperature, however I doubt that.

LOL!!! I read the funniest sayings on this forum!

http://www.myfoxspokane.com/news/kcpq-bellevue-police-seek-missing-twoyear-old-boy-20111106,0,2630626.story

No where have I heard 8:00, yet. Here, filmed this evening, they say 9:00. Starting around 1:15m.

IMO I'm leaning towards he's hidden... the parents are getting divorced, the dad hasn't seen his children in 2 months. Is she keeping them from him for some reason? IMO

 

[Nancee Drue]

Seems like they should be able to arrest her for what she is admitting to-which is leaving a 2 year old in a car un-attended.

She should be jailed, in my opinion, and the other child sent to a foster home.
This is not th first time she has left a child unattended, reported King 5 news.

 

[GingerRed]

http://www.king5.com/home/Two-year-old-boy-misisng-in-Bellevue-133327908.html

Iafrate said at least one of the car doors was unlocked, and that the vehicle started when they tested it, but cautioned that that was possible for a car that has been sitting there for some time.

According to court records, both parents were cited in December 2009 for leaving a child unattended. An attorney tells KING-5 back then the child was left in the car for a shorter period than Sunday's case, but a passerby in the parking lot spotted the child and called police.

 

[GingerRed]

So with previous citations for leaving a small child unattended, I suppose it's possible the mother is just. that. bad. She had to take parenting classes and got a good scare for her negligence, and it's possible she knowingly walked away from a 2 year old in an unlocked car.

Then again, the car started when they tried it. And at the end of that King 5 article, the police did say they will be asking other types of questions.

This just got weirder. Her story could be true, which is awful. Or still could not be. Which is awful.

Time to go hug my sleeping kids.

 

[momtective]

According to court records, both parents were cited in December 2009 for leaving a child unattended. An attorney tells KING-5 back then the child was left in the car for a shorter period than Sunday's case, but a passerby in the parking lot spotted the child and called police.

So she makes a habit of leaving her child alone in a car! :thud:

 

[dillysmom11]

Insane.

 

[RainyGirl]

It would take 15 minutes to walk to the Chevron. She would walk past a church and it would have been unlocked so she could have borrowed a cell or used a land phone to make a call.It is a little over 1/2 a mile to the Chevron.You would meet a bicyclist or a person walking a dog all of whom would loan you a cell phone. Lots of houses. I walk this stretch every day. People are friendly there are side walks. Doug the gentleman who owns the Chevron would have drove her himself to get back to Sky. What I'm trying to say is this is not an area where people are standoffish. Next to the Chevron is a QFC. I just cannot imagine her by any stretch of the imagination taking that long to return to her 2 year old in that vehicle. She was in a very urban area not way out the country with no trespassing signs nailed on every post.

Hi MizStery,
I'm in downtown Seattle (Queen Anne) and have traveled this exact route to get to a friend's birthday party three years in a row. I've filled up at that Chevron, as well! You are absolutely correct that this a fairly populated community area with lots of friendly and "neighborly" folks. Heck....go into any QFC store around here and they're tripping over themselves to help out moms with small children!! I am in complete disbelief that this woman did not just carry her two year-old Sky on her hip while holding the four y.o.'s hand when walking to that Chevron!!! That is, "IF" this story of hers is correct to begin with. My hinky meter went off the charts when I heard this on the news!! Come on.......how many of us Moms are the ultimate multi-taskers?? I have just one child, but I've carried groceries, books, bags AND my child at the same time! All my friends with two little ones constantly manage BOTH KIDS in and out of cars, stores, parks, etc., all the time! I just for the life of me CANNOT imagine a mom leaving a two y.o. baby behind! This makes no sense at all and I'm feeling so sad and depressed at the thought of a make-believe story like this one. WHERE IS SKY???

 

[RabidBadger]

http://www.king5.com/home/Two-year-old-boy-misisng-in-Bellevue-133327908.html

Wow, as usual, the story just gets better and better :\

 

[RainyGirl]

OMG.......so she has left a child unattended in a vehicle before????!!!
Despite this information, this story stinks to high heaven. I am praying for this darling little boy.......but how AWFUL that anything this horrible is going on with another innocent!! WTH??

 

[not_my_kids]

I just saw this one on Facebook, and so I came back to WS. It drives me up the wall that this keeps happening.
My current theories on this one are
1. She had Sky stashed by someone close to her and used the excuse that she left him in the car because she knew that excuse would at least be believable due to her past history of doing exactly that.

2. She or someone she knows killed Sky, and the whole story is a cover up.

3. The father or someone else that knows her history siphoned gas or cut a line and then followed her hoping that she would run out of gas and true to her past behaviors leave him in the car unattended.

I don't think LE is buying her story, I surely am not buying her story, and I hope and pray that Sky is still alive, although I have my doubts.

 

[gitana1]

I find it very hard to beleive that the woman took one child, and left the other, in an unlocked car, for an hour...as she went for help. That makes no sense at all.

It doesn't. Unless she just doesn't care about the younger child that much.

LOL!!! I read the funniest sayings on this forum!

http://www.myfoxspokane.com/news/kcpq-bellevue-police-seek-missing-twoyear-old-boy-20111106,0,2630626.story

No where have I heard 8:00, yet. Here, filmed this evening, they say 9:00. Starting around 1:15m.

IMO I'm leaning towards he's hidden... the parents are getting divorced, the dad hasn't seen his children in 2 months. Is she keeping them from him for some reason? IMO

Note she hasn't hidden the girl, though.

 

[MountainLover]

Praying that this little boy will be found soon!

 

[Cortne]

:sigh: Those of you who know me and my background know I am more likely to hold out longer than most before pointing fingers but I gotta say that the this is not flying, in my mind. Even if there was nothing nefarious going on, she claims to have deliberately left a 2 year old in a car alone for at least an hour.

I, as always, hope that this child is found okay and that mom was not involved....but I wouldn't put any money on it.

Like you I dont normally judge from the git go but this is just too much for me.Intentionally left doors unlocked. To me reads intentionally staged a scene. jmo and hopefully Im wrong.

 

[Cortne]

Kills me how some say maybe shes hiding the baby from the ABSENT FATHER

gmab

 

[~n/t~]

:sigh: WTH?

 

[CMac2]

http://www.king5.com/home/Two-year-old-boy-misisng-in-Bellevue-133327908.html

Iafrate said at least one of the car doors was unlocked, and that the vehicle started when they tested it, but cautioned that that was possible for a car that has been sitting there for some time.

How long would a car have to "sit there" after running out of gas before it would start up when tested? I don't buy this story of Mom's, and it doesn't really sound as if the police do either. JMO.

 

[belimom]

:sigh: WTH?

Same here. I've been following the thread but haven't posted, because -- I don't know what to say. Any way you look at it, it's just unfrigginbelievable.

 

[nursebeeme]

"He's still missing, we don't know where he is," said Sam Metalwala, the boy's uncle. "They just told us to wait by the phone... we haven't heard anything, they haven't told us anything."

Investigators say both parents are cooperating in hopes of getting their son safely returned.

Investigators say the boy's car seat was still in the car and there were no signs of forced entry. Police initiated a reverse 911 call in the area to alert residents to the boy, and King County Search and Rescue tracking dogs helped search the nearby wooded area.

But by Sunday evening, officials called off the search in the area where the car was left.

"They feel very confident they've been able to search the surrounding area where the child might have wandered off to," said Officer Carla Iafrate with Bellevue police. "Our detectives with the Bellevue Police Department will be looking through the night, following up on other leads."

Sky is of mixed India and Caucasian race and has brown eyes, dark buzz-cut hair with a dark green hooded sweatshirt and blue and gray striped Carter pants. Sky is pictured above in the same outfit he was wearing when he went missing, Iafrate said.

Police are asking anyone who sees the boy to call 911 immediately.

Sam Metalwala says Sky's parents are going through a divorce after being married for about seven years.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/133343068.html

 

[Turtles]

Same here. I've been following the thread but haven't posted, because -- I don't know what to say. Any way you look at it, it's just unfrigginbelievable.

I have been trying to post something since last night and what you say is so true "unfrigginbelievable". Never, ever a reason to leave a child in a car. MOO

Prayers that Sky is found safe raying: