Horman's Desk Mate Says Substitute Noticed Him Missing
Last Update: 6/09 11:30 pm
snip the first person to notice Kyron Horman was missing was a substitute teacher who was taking a head count as the second and third grade class was re-assembling after visiting other classrooms for a science fair at Skyline School last Friday.
"And she was like 'oh no where's Kyron there's only five' and Mrs. Porter was like it's okay calm down, calm down he's probably in the bathroom or getting a drink of water and she said alright I'm going to leave and she left, " says Tanner Pumala.
snip Tanner says Kyron was in school for at least an hour Friday morning and that
he saw Kyron's step-mother leave the school without Kyron.
snip Upon hearing the substitute teacher noticing that Kyron was not present in the classroom, Pumala says the regular teacher said Kyron had probably gone to get a drink of water or to use the bathroom.
snip Pumala's grandmother says F-B-I agents and Multnomah County investigators have asked Pumala and his grandmother not to speak with the media, for reasons they did not divulge. Fuhrur says she decided to allow her grandson talk
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It's the first paragraph above that really jumps out at me if, in fact, the reporting child is accurate. This goes to the issue of the
timeline as follows:
1. Reporting child says that the sub teacher was taking a headcount as the class was
re-assembling after visiting other classrooms. "And she was like Oh no, where's Kyron".
Two things here. The word
reassembling implies that this little group of 5 or 6 had
previous assembled meaning that Kyron was with a little group when they went on their science fair viewing stroll. If this is accurate, then there must be other corroborating children and a corroborating sub teacher. Or there is no corroboration and the child is mistaken. LE knows the answer to this from speaking with other children and parents.
And clearly this "gathering of the small groups to view the science fair" HAD to take place AFTER SM's last alleged reported sighting of him at 8:45 as he allegedly went down the hall to his classroom. Either he was or he wasn't in the small group that the sub teacher took on the tour of the fair. If he was, and the group tour occurred after the alleged 8:45 goodby, then that may put a different spin on this case for me.
When the group of 5 or 6 returned
(reassembled) in their own classroom, the sub teacher says "oh no, Kyron's missing" the implication being that she had seem him and was presumably with him when they went on their small group tour, knew his name, and therefore was rightfully alarmed when he didn't turn up in the "Home room" classrom with the rest of her charges. The implication made by the reporting child is that Kyron disappeared sometime between the departure to tour the science fair with the sub teacher, and the return to the homeroom. This strikes me as highly unlikely.
2. If the reporting child believed that Kyron was in school
for an hour on the day he went missing, I have about 16 questions for the poor kid. Others would be able to corroborate sightings of Kyron.
3. The reporting child's claim that he saw Kyron's step mom leave without him strikes me as possibly suspect. I would be very curious to know the facts and circumstances around his claim. He would have to have observed the SM physically exit the building with the door closing behind her to make that a credible statement, in my view. How likely is it that a 7 year old, on the exciting day of the science fair just happens to watch a parent exit the building, and that parent just happens to be associated with a missing friend?
4. I am in no way suggesting that the reporting child is fabricating this information. I have no reason to believe that the child doesn't believe his statements to be true. I am only suggesting that the fine details, which are so critical here, may have been beyond the capacity of this child to accurately articulate.
5. And finally, the reporting child's grandmother's proffer of his account of the event to the press is pretty shocking and outrageous parenting, particularly in view of the LE's request to refrain from public disclosure of the child's account.