WA WA - Sky Metalwala, 2, Bellevue, 6 Nov 2011 - # 3

[~n/t~]

How easy is it to sneak into Canada from Washington State?

Not easy without a passport unless the kid was hidden and went unnoticed in a trunk of a car or a truck but it's possible, I suppose.

Hopefully all border crossings were alerted.

 

[SurfieTX]

Not easy without a passport unless the kid was hidden and went unnoticed in a trunk of a car or a truck but it's possible, I suppose.

Hopefully all border crossings were alerted.

Hmm..that's interesting in that now I could see why his sister is still with mom. She's to big to sneak across the border.

 

[Etilema]

The stereotype is that men are abusers, women are victims. Men are cold and distant, women nurturing. Men hit, women hug. Every guy is familiar with it.

You can see these societal presumptions of guilt and innocence play out in pretty much every case on these forums. In this case, for example, it requires the most ludicrous conspiracy theories imaginable to concoct a scenario in which dad somehow stole this boy, yet there are some clinging to this theory for no other reason than that he is a guy. And if mom's story was even remotely possible, if she had, for example, claimed her baby was stolen in the middle of the night, you can bet that half the country would be ready to hang poor dad from the nearest tree.

And let's take it a bit further. There are many here who casually accept as fact that dad was physically abusive towards his wife and children. They don't question it. After all, mom said so. The same mom with a missing boy and a story that is an obvious fabrication to explain his absense. The same mom who refuses to take a polygraph. The same mom, with a history of mental illness so dangerous that she was involuntarily committed to mental institutions a few times. That's his accuser.

Is there ANY reason to believe that he ever abused her?

I agree with your points. My mother was dangerously physically abusive to my father, including using various weapons and also whatever might be on easy reach. She once broke his ankle by throwing an iron at him. Yet when he would grab or push her in self-defense, she would call the cops, claiming abuse. On the basis of these police reports, their divorce was granted (this was decades ago, when they required a reason) on the grounds that HE had subjected HER to extreme mental and physical cruelty. I was present for all if this violence, so I know differently.

 

[TheDuchess]

My opinion-mom needs to be sitting in jail on some kind of child endangerment charge with aggravated circumstances, i.e. he was supposedly ill, she had done it before and now the child is missing. There must be some serious charge she can be held on without bail. She either did something horrible to Sky or is playing some kind of really sick game. Whichever the case, they need to lock her up until she coughs it up.

IMO

 

[Amy74]

How would the dad be able to stage something like this? Surely he could not have anticipated that mom would truck off on foot someplace without the baby? No, I don't see his hand in this one. Mom, I have no idea about, but her story makes no sense at all.

It is possible though (assuming any of the mother's account is true), that the father was having her followed (sounds unlikely, but more believable after listening to the exchange recordings) and whoever was following her took the child when she left him. Not a planned abduction just one of opportunity.

I don't think that is what happened, but it is possible.

 

[Hopeful One]

That recording made me sick. Shes got her daughter so worked up over visitation. That happens with coaching. Shes recording it because she knew it would happen. Its twisted. Wanna know why you dont hear the son crying? He is too young for coaching.

What recording is this? Is there a link? I scrolled through the posts and didn't see anything (could very well have missed it). I'm just trying to get caught up here, so sorry for my bone-headedness!

 

[nursebeeme]

The girl told police Sunday that her brother had been in the car when they left it, Iafrate said. A detective trained in questioning children interviewed her again Monday, Iafrate said, but "nothing significant" came out of it.

Detectives were working to collect surveillance video from any place Biryukova may have been over the past two weeks, Iafrate said. She has so far declined to take a polygraph examination; neither she nor her lawyer returned calls or emails seeking comment Monday and Tuesday.

Investigators have invited the boy's relatives to take polygraph tests in hopes of shaking loose any clues to his whereabouts. Metalwala took one Monday night but it was inconclusive; he offered to take another one Tuesday, but Iafrate did not immediately know whether the second test took place.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/133451653.html


interesting word, "relatives"... so more than just the parents? could just be the reporting but I found it interesting

 

[nursebeeme]

What recording is this? Is there a link? I scrolled through the posts and didn't see anything (could very well have missed it). I'm just trying to get caught up here, so sorry for my bone-headedness!

http://juliabiryukova.blogspot.com/

 

[jjenny]

It is possible though (assuming any of the mother's account is true), that the father was having her followed (sounds unlikely, but more believable after listening to the exchange recordings) and whoever was following her took the child when she left him. Not a planned abduction just one of opportunity.

I don't think that is what happened, but it is possible.

Since the woman left her car and took off, it had to have been on the isolated road. With no other cars driving in close proximity. She would have seen someone following her.

 

[Coldpizza]

I know this is somewhat far fetched. But it appears the families have some money affording them the luxury of a PI just to follow someone around.

 

[BritsKate]

http://bellevue.patch.com/articles/details-emerge-in-case-of-missing-toddler


wow

:tyou: Nursie!

I think since Dad has an attorney who stated Dad worked to block a removal of the kids from the state it's probably likely both children are entered into the CPIAP list.

Theoretically when a parent is leaving the country (or even a certain mileage outside court jurisdiction depending on state law) the primary parent should have custodial agreements with them. CBSA is supposed to question parents whom are entering Canada with children but I have a sneaking suspicion it probably isn't well monitored. JMO

Russia doesn't entertain the visa waiver program though so it is my understanding that Mom and any children traveling with her would need both valid passports and visas just to enter Russia. In order to be granted visas she would have had to make application to the Russian Embassy and they would have checked her custodial status.

 

[SurfieTX]

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/133451653.html


interesting word, "relatives"... so more than just the parents? could just be the reporting but I found it interesting

I'm getting the feeling that LE thinks someone in the extended family knows what happened to Sky (either maternal or paternal).

 

[JeannaT]

This is turning out to be such a confusing investigation. Only one person can say they saw this boy in the last two weeks, which is ODD, except in looking through the hundreds of pics of the kids, no one else is in them. In my kid's pics, there are other people in a lot of them. Kid friends, other adults, extended family, strangers at a children's museum, etc. It appears it might be typical that no one would see the for extended periods of time - that may be how they lived.

So if the one person who saw him is solid and reliable, hm, okay.

 

[Hopeful One]

http://juliabiryukova.blogspot.com/

Thanks!! Where did this link come from? Did someone create that site just for the purpose of these recordings? I'm confused as to where they originated from. TIA!

 

[Coldpizza]

Thanks!! Where did this link come from? Did someone create that site just for the purpose of these recordings? I'm confused as to where they originated from. TIA!

It's the mothers blog. She created it.

 

[JeannaT]

Thanks!! Where did this link come from? Did someone create that site just for the purpose of these recordings? I'm confused as to where they originated from. TIA!

She posted them on the internet herself - that's a link to her blog.

Some people have this crazy notion that the world cares about the nitty gritty of their messy ugly divorces.

In this case, I guess, the world DOES care. A year later.

 

[jjenny]

This is turning out to be such a confusing investigation. Only one person can say they saw this boy in the last two weeks, which is ODD, except in looking through the hundreds of pics of the kids, no one else is in them. In my kid's pics, there are other people in a lot of them. Kid friends, other adults, extended family, strangers at a children's museum, etc. It appears it might be typical that no one would see the for extended periods of time - that may be how they lived.

So if the one person who saw him is solid and reliable, hm, okay.

There are lots of photos with extended family members on both maternal and paternal side of the family. On her side, she got what looks like a younger brother and mother in some of the photos with the kids.

 

[Hopeful One]

It's the mothers blog. She created it.

Got it! Thanks! I'm a little slow this morning...

 

[nursebeeme]

Police say questions over the baffling disappearance of a 2-year-old boy reportedly left by his mother in an unlocked car Sunday continue to far outweigh the answers.

Most of the questions focus on the account of Julia Biryukova, who says her son disappeared after she left him sleeping in her disabled car on a Bellevue street.

Why would a woman who had previously been cited for leaving the boy alone in a car do it again, reportedly while driving the sick toddler to a hospital?

Why did her car, which she said ran out of gas, start up when examined by police?

And why haven't police found any relatives, friends or neighbors who recall seeing the boy in the two weeks before he vanished?

"Nothing about the story adds up," Bellevue Police Maj. Mike Johnson told reporters on Tuesday. "Something else happened."

Faced with what they described as a "very convoluted" investigation, police say they now believe Sky Elijah Metalwala may have been a victim of foul play.

http://o.seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016719977_missing09m.html


fwiw... this article has the mother claiming he was "sleeping" (much like the earlier incident, no?)

 

[Hopeful One]

So no one has seen Sky in two weeks? I'm wondering what the other child said about that to investigators. Has she seen him? And if not, did she question where he was during that time?