How does anyone not notice a kid missing for two years?

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Gooberlx2

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I don't get how the 15/17 year old daughter goes along with it too.

I'd put money down that she was constantly abused as well and feared for her own life.

you really think this family allowed him to go to school, go outside or have friends?

This. It's actually not hard to imagine such a thing, especially in a shithole like Gary. No one's going to miss you if no one knows you exist in the first place. Total fail on the biological mother who clearly didn't care enough about her kids to be involved in their lives and check on them occasionally.
 
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Perknose

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Totally appropriate considering the title of this thread. I can't fucking stand incredulity. It's the falsest fucking emotion ever invented.

You're gonna need a bigger shovel, troll.
 

waggy

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This. It's actually not hard to imagine such a thing, especially in a shithole like Gary. No one's going to miss you if no one knows you exist in the first place. Total fail on the biological mother who clearly didn't care enough about her kids to be involved in their lives and check on them occasionally.

to be fair to the biological mother she thought she was doing the right thing. she either didn't care or couldn't take of him so gave him up. She has no blame in this happening.

sad story all around.
 

Avalon

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Jesus christ. Can you say, execute? Because those "parents" deserve it. That is fucking sick. What the hell is wrong with people that drives them to do that?
 

waggy

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Or she enjoyed the whole thing. Put all of those pieces of shit to death.

or more likely her life was threatened and she was afraid. either way she was a minor in a bad situation and needs counseling and help. she is going to be one fucked up person.

but calling for her death? ignorance.
 

classy

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I guess what is so perplexing is you would think that by just dumb luck someone would have become suspicious. These things do happen but usually its an adult or a child you know is missing but just never found. Here no one even realized this kid was even missing.
 

Gooberlx2

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to be fair to the biological mother she thought she was doing the right thing. she either didn't care or couldn't take of him so gave him up. She has no blame in this happening.

sad story all around.

Christian's absence remained unnoticed for two years before his biological mother contacted police and told them her daughter, who had been living with Christian, had concerning information about Christian.

Her daughter is the sister right? I mean, they don't mention any other additional kids in the story. So she kept in some kind of contact, but never visited I guess.

It's pretty pathetic if she didn't make an effort to speak to her son in the last two years, or that flags weren't raised sooner. ...maybe speaking to her daughter was out of the ordinary. I dunno, article is light on that family dynamic.

Regardless, I don't blame her for what happened. That's all on the sickos.
 
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classy

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Her daughter is the sister right? I mean, they don't mention any other additional kids in the story. So she kept in some kind of contact, but never visited I guess.

It's pathetic if she didn't make an effort to speak to her son in the last two years, or that flags weren't raised sooner...unless they were half-siblings? I dunno, article is light on these kinds of details.

Regardless, I don't blame her for what happened. That's all on the sickos.

Yea that too. How in the blazes does the real mom not once in two years speak to her son. Even crack moms still in the street will sometimes make contact a lot of the time if they know where the kid is at. Two years is a long long time to be gone and no one even has a clue. Thats sad, really sad.
 

JTsyo

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I don't get it. If they didn't want him around why not let him stay with his mother?