peeples
New Member
- Joined
- Nov 16, 2010
- Messages
- 6,066
- Reaction score
- 39
He was a cop for 5 months.
He was abusing his adopted daughter for 3 years.
He became a cop AFTER the abuse started. This isn't a "cop gone bad" this is a "bad guy who became a cop."
Yes, law enforcement put Beth off as a runaway and lost time.
Just like Hailey Dunn, Jonathan Foster and several other kids in different areas of Texas were initially labeled as runaways. If you are over 10 years old and disappear odds are about 50/50 that you will be labeled as a runaway. It's just the way it is. That's why you have to fight to get the media coverage and prove they are not a runaway.
They could have simply continued to say she was a runaway and left it at that. I highly doubt any suspect walked in screaming "I kidnapped her!" So they had to do something to investigate at some point. They also didn't get national pressure like LE in Hailey Dunn's case.
I'm not going to condemn the whole department for a couple of cops who became cops for the wrong reason. That'd be like condemning all doctor's because mine was an incompetent idiot. :twocents:
KUDOS to the girls mother for acting right then and THERE!! The liklihood of these girls "recovering" is very high with their mom's support.