Amber alert- Missing 5 year old in Florida

[kellyg403]

I am in the camp that I don't think this is going to end in a good way. I just do not understand how the father may not have realized how many sex offenders lived in his neighborhood, that alone would scare me. But, I understand if there are money issues that kept him in that neighborhood.

While it is odd the gf didn't hear the intruder, I don't think it is odd they were all sleeping in the same bed. During my divorce and when my ex was on float with the military my younger children always slept in my bed. I felt more safe having them nearby in case there was a fire or something as I was the only adult. Besides, it helped having them right there if they needed something during the night. Maybe the gf felt that way too.

I just am having a hard time believing the world we live in today. People coming in your house and abducting your children. And then getting a slap o the wrist. I am a rule player by nature. I don't understand why people get hooked on drugs, when you know there is the possibility but as a system when you can get years in jail for possessing cocaine yet get a suspended sentence for violating a child its beyond my comprehension.

Kelly

 

[allison443]

On Nancy Grace, the father said he got home from work around 3:20 a.m. and the girlfriend met him at the door saying the little girl was missing. Nancy asked if the girlfriend had called 911 and the dad said, no, the gf had tried to call him just as he was coming home so they then called 911 together.

 

[allison443]

I just am having a hard time believing the world we live in today. People coming in your house and abducting your children. And then getting a slap o the wrist.

Does that really happen though? Someone abducted a child from their home and got a slap on the wrist? I guess I am only thinking of the more publicized cases, but those abductors didn't get a slap on the wrist.

 

[Mickey Fliers]

Oh, please find this baby!

 

[Disney1fan2002]

I just do not understand how the father may not have realized how many sex offenders lived in his neighborhood, that alone would scare me.

That's easy. He's a 25yo kid! Not everyone looks up their neighborhood for sex offenders. He may have had no idea who his neighbors are. They're young, and living in a trailer. He may not have had a choice of where to live.

 

[tinkntraining]

Oh, so so sad. I hope she is safe and that her kidnappers will have a change of heart and let her go home.

This case sound so much like the Jessica Lunsford case. Where the sex offender came into her house and abducted her, raped her and killed her.

I hate the fact that in today's world, the parents are the first suspects. I understand the need to rule out the closest first, but how difficult and frustrating it must be for innocent parents! I hope they did pass their lie detector tests and I hope they continue to cooperate with the police.

Please Lord, help lead the police to that little girl.

 

[KATHINOWA]

I just saw this on GMA. What a horrible story! I hate to say it but it doesn't sound like it's going to have a happy ending. I can't imagine the anguish these parents are going through.

 

[allison443]

That's easy. He's a 25yo kid! Not everyone looks up their neighborhood for sex offenders. He may have had no idea who his neighbors are. They're young, and living in a trailer. He may not have had a choice of where to live.

Okay, 25 (with two kids of his own) is not a kid.....now the 17 year old girlfriend, she is a kid!
I agree with you about not always having a choice on where to live.

 

[robinb]

I'm trying to figure out if it's a good thing or not that Nancy Grace has her sensationalism "claws" into this one too. I personally think this the abduction is drug related. I hope the little girl is OK .

 

[Disney1fan2002]

Okay, 25 (with two kids of his own) is not a kid.....now the 17 year old girlfriend, she is a kid!
I agree with you about not always having a choice on where to live.

I'm sorry, but I am 41 yo. I look back to when I was 25, and where my mind was at. I was very mature for a 25 yo, even with that, I consider 25 year olds KIDS. They are still too young to know the true evils of the world, and they still have an "It would never happen to me" mentality.

Heck I work with a 31 yo women who just got approved to move into a new apartment. She is not on the internet looking up to see if any sex offenders live nearby. She is just excited she got the apartment.

 

[allison443]

I'm sorry, but I am 41 yo. I look back to when I was 25, and where my mind was at. I was very mature for a 25 yo, even with that, I consider 25 year olds KIDS. They are still too young to know the true evils of the world, and they still have an "It would never happen to me" mentality.

Heck I work with a 31 yo women who just got approved to move into a new apartment. She is not on the internet looking up to see if any sex offenders live nearby. She is just excited she got the apartment.

I see what you are saying now.

 

[robinb]

I'm sorry, but I am 41 yo. I look back to when I was 25, and where my mind was at. I was very mature for a 25 yo, even with that, I consider 25 year olds KIDS. They are still too young to know the true evils of the world, and they still have an "It would never happen to me" mentality.

Heck I work with a 31 yo women who just got approved to move into a new apartment. She is not on the internet looking up to see if any sex offenders live nearby. She is just excited she got the apartment.

ITA. I am older than you and I also consider 25-year olds to be "kids". Especially a 25-year old who have shown the immaturity to have two kids at a young age with his "rocky relationship" ex girlfriend *and* a current 17-year old jail-bait girlfriend who's shacked up with him.

FWIW, I think it's disgusting that some people are trying to put the blame on these kids for not looking up the addresses of the local sexual offenders before they chose that specific trailer park. That being said, I still smell "drugs" in this abduction and in that case the blame is 100% on them.

 

[ClarabelleCowFan]

ITA. I am older than you and I also consider 25-year olds to be "kids". Especially a 25-year old who have shown the immaturity to have two kids at a young age with his "rocky relationship" ex girlfriend *and* a current 17-year old jail-bait girlfriend who's shacked up with him.

FWIW, I think it's disgusting that some people are trying to put the blame on these kids for not looking up the addresses of the local sexual offenders before they chose that specific trailer park. That being said, I still smell "drugs" in this abduction and in that case the blame is 100% on them.

I agree something just isn't "right" about all this. I'm curious though - what leads you to believe that drugs are involved? I haven't read much on this case and hadn't heard of a drug connection.

The sex offender registry is only a list of those individuals that have been CAUGHT - not those that haven't been caught or have never been convicted of a sex crime.

And where are the parents of this 17 year old girlfriend that they let her shack up with a 25 year old man with 2 kids?

Was the missing disabled boy in FL ever found? I never heard a resolution to that case either. Guess I need to start reading Websleuths again!

 

[MinnieM21]

Was the missing disabled boy in FL ever found? I never heard a resolution to that case either. Guess I need to start reading Websleuths again!

No, he hasn't been found.

 

[ClarabelleCowFan]

No, he hasn't been found.

Oh how horrible.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

And where are the parents of this 17 year old girlfriend that they let her shack up with a 25 year old man with 2 kids?

I was wondering the same thing.

 

[lovetoscrap]

Somehow I suspect the girlfriend but I hope not.


It is interesting the comments on how can you not know if someone took your child fromyour bed. While most nights I don't sleep heavily, there are some nights that you could juggle bowling balls next to me and I wouldn't notice. DD8 has been known to come in our bed during storms or if she has bad dreams. Both DH and I have had nights where we didn't notice she came in, or one of us took her back to bed and the other never realized she was gone. And he and I have both had times when we go to bed early and not wake up when the other leaves. Heck, he gets up way earlier than I do everyday and opens drawers, turns on the bathroom light, opens and closes doors, gets a shower and all that, and kisses me goodbye. I would say I only wake up maybe 2 times a week or less. Of course there are other nights that my kids could breathe funny in their rooms down the hall and I would hear it through the walls!

And unfortunately if you look at the socioeconomic break down of housing and neighborhoods you are going to find that in most low income areas you have a large number of sex offenders. I live in an area of mostly middle and upper middle class neighborhoods. When you look at the sex offender map of the area, there are none in these areas. But as you get to the trailer parks, low income apartments, and rural areas of mostly ramshackle homes the number jumps considerably and in some cases there are high concentrations. I think if you look at the maps of most areas that is what you find. When a sex offender does try to move into a "nice" neighborhood you find the residents working to run them out. In the lower income areas residents are more concerned with just keeping a roof over their heads and putting food on the table than in looking into the backgrounds of their neighbors. And even if they do find it out before they move in, if the alternative is homelessness for them, then they have no choice.

 

[robinb]

I agree something just isn't "right" about all this. I'm curious though - what leads you to believe that drugs are involved? I haven't read much on this case and hadn't heard of a drug connection.

I don't have any specific reason why I think it's drugs other than the immaturity of the people involved and trying to find another reason why the little girl was taken other than some evil faceless sexual predator. It's just a gut feeling I have.

 

[lovetoscrap]

Fox says a news conference is coming up. They don't know if there is a specific reason.

ETA: Eh, nothing new

 

[disney kid at heart]

I hope and pray they find this child alive. This has brought me back to the Jessica Lunsford tragedy and that horrible man that buried that precious child alive. I know when my kids and now my grandkids are here I always check them when I get up at night. I fear for all these innocent children. When my kids were growing up though it was a different time and they would pitch a sheet tent in the back yard, they were able to play outside and be kids, but how horribly and sad those days are gone and we have to worry about the safety behind our locked doors. This world is deteriating so much and it is sad. I pray they find this child alive.