I still can't get over this video....The part of Terri and Kaine getting in the car....I guess it's the avoidance... This video was taken about 3 days after Kyron was missing...Please correct me if I'm wrong...!!
http://www.katu.com/news/local/96033344.html?tab=video
The "thanks" button just isn't enough. I hadn't seen that one before and it just..chilled me. The hair literally stood up on my arms.
Interesting how TH has been slammed for going to the gym, eh? And also slammed for the "hitting the gym" comment in her FB, while her many many comments thanking others, telling how they could help, have been ignored. Three words pulled out and quoted over and over but no quotes on all the interaction with those who were sending good wishes, prayers, and who wanted to help.
Interestingly enough, I never saw any interaction or "thank you" on KH's FB page. (Note, when last I checked these pages had "disappeared" but I believe many have kept copies.) So they both go to the gym, Kaine is the one approached directly and he ignores the reporter, TH is doing something, what she can, by interacting with people on FB, and KH is apparently busy elsewhere, but we do know that TH is trying to help.
OOPS, rambling a bit. But maybe if LE had been more forthcoming, hadn't tried that LS "sting"--in which TH acted like anyone, especially any woman, would if 2 guys, one a complete stranger, showed up to shake her down re: a MHF plot--and had, from the get-go not decided and announced that other children were safe, and also published more information about known sex offenders, yes, things could have been different.
Someone tried to snatch 2 other children in that area around that time, different cases, but still...hmmm. Then someone assaults a little boy in a Beaverton park.
Like others, I've researched registered sex offenders in that area, and there's a huge boatload of them. Allong with what reportedly is a transient "camp" and vagrants hanging out in the wooded areas around the school. Plus, of course, the report of seeing a Kyron look-alike with a vagrant (black, so the child clearly not his son) fairly early on. That was followed here on WS via our scanner thread.
BTW, what ever happened to that man and that report? The person who reported the sighting said that she'd seen him before, he wasn't threatening, and she got the impression he was taking care of this child.
Somehow, that incident just got....lost. Disappeared? I dunno.
LE needed to proactively address parental concerns instead of announcing "all clear". They needed to provide information to parents and the public about sex offenders, and clearly provide information about how to access the lists and photos online. (BTW, Oregon makes it harder to find that info than does other states.) They needed to address the issues of transients in that area, especially close to the school.
They needed to provide leadership in educating the public about potential problems, providing information, including how to find photos of RSOs in that area, and doing other educational outreach--while also asking for the public's help if anything, anything at all related to known SOs or vagrants jiggled a memory. They could have done all this without alarming anyone, just matter of factly--especially since a school snatching was involved.
Instead, they said "nothing to worry about here folks, move along now, don't worry your little heads" (this is not an exact quote but is my impression of the words and image they presented)--and then focused on proving TH did something.
In this day of instant-access media reports, blogs, websites, cellphones, everyone seems to be able to text, take pix, even videos, our interconnectedness is amazing, they could have provided a lot more than a missing child flyer, a "don't worry ya'll" and then a failed sting, other fliers about white trucks--while missing that the groundskeeper had been there that day, had valuable testimony *and* drove a white truck -- and focusing on TH.
Yes, I know they did searches, and no doubt very good ones. I'm not talking about that--I'm replying to the thread topic of "could they have been more forth coming?". Yes, they could have been, they threw away a valuable opportunity for community education, information sharing, and therefore more opportunity for the community to provide information and potentially leads that didn't include TH.
I still haven't ruled out a predator, nor have I ruled out the idea that the predator may not have been a total stranger. That's JMO, though. What I want is more facts and data, hard facts and data, other than hearsay, unproven allegations, inter-family accusations and drama, and so far, an investigation that has seemingly led nowhere--although other children have been approached and/or attacked by SOs in that area. Hmmm.
Sorry for the length but this is basically my chance for awhile to comment.
