Focus on Parents in the Case of the Missing Kids
Where Are the Children?
Matthew 18:12-14
"If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won't he leave the ninety-nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? 13 And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that didn't wander away! In the same way, it is not my heavenly Father's will that even one of these little ones should perish."
There are children who go missing all over America everyday. Some wander off and others are taken either by predators or disgruntled parents. Two cases remain in the news and in both cases the police are focusing on the parents.
The first case is baby Lisa Irwin who went missing on October 4th from her Kansas City home while her mother and two half-brothers were in the house. The mom, Deborah Bradley, has refused to cooperate with the police since initially telling them that the baby was placed in her crib around 6:40 pm.
The baby's father, Jeremy Irwin, came home from his night position at 3:45 am and discovered his daughter was missing. Deborah Bradley has admitted to being intoxicated before going to sleep at 10:30 pm and said she thought Lisa was asleep.
The second missing child is 2-year-old Sky Metalwala who went missing when his mother, Julia Biryukova, supposedly ran out of gas and left Sky in the vehicle near Interstate 520 in Washington. Biryukova said she left Sky in the carseat inside the car, left the doors unlocked and walked with her 4-year-old daughter a mile to a nearby gas station.
It was only after the mother arrived at the gas station that she phoned a friend for a ride back to the vehicle and discovered her son missing. Police report that no gas can was found at the scene.
There are also other details in Sky's disappearance such as his parents being cited for leaving him alone in a vehicle 2009 when he was just months old. The parents are currently in the process of divorce.
Both of these missing child cases have haunted me. We come from a long line of people who lift our children up, cherish them, protect them and love them. To even imagine that a parent could be responsible for such a crime sends shivers up my spine.
Let us pray that the kids will be found, they will be unharmed and somehow reunited with those people who truly love them. I hope it is their parents but lately, I'm beginning to wonder.
Sources:
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PublicHomeServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US
Published by Michele Starkey
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46 Comments
Post a CommentI read that on April 4, 2012 there are still no clues to baby Lisa's disappearance. The parents and their attorneys meet for questioning together and refuse to talk separately. Little Sky remains missing, as well. The parents are divorced and the dad has custody. What a tragedy when children go missing.
Superb reporting on this timely and vitally important issue. Well done, thanks!
Every parent's worst nightmare.
Children have always born the brunt when it comes to suffering. For instance: while some 100,000,000 died from war this past century, 5,000,000 children die from hunger-related causes *each year*. By the way: the "little ones" in that scripture refers to straying Christians of any age. Such ones are all viewed as precious little ones.
let us pray that all this will stop and there will be no more missing children, or abused children anywhere in the world
Every child is important.
Rather than conjuring excuses, worthy parents should step up first to be investigated and cleared.
When I was growing up, I roamed around everywhere by myself. Today, if I had children, I don't believe I could let them do that. Such a shame.
This is sad. I have seen a few small children left sitting in vehicles alone. This is a sign that they are just too much trouble for the parents, so they just do things the easy way and endanger their lives without thinking twice.
It is incredibly sad to think of how children go missing. I hope these children are found safe and sound.
Sophie