2-year-old boy missing in Washington state

[seabeyond]

Authorities are searching for a 2-year-old boy in Bellevue, Washington, after the boy's mother said he went missing when she left him in her car to get help after she ran out of gas.

The mother, who was not identified in a police press release, ran out of gas Sunday morning in the northwestern area of the city with her two children, a 4-year-old and 2-year-old, in the car, authorities said.

The woman took the 4-year-old with her when she went to seek assistance, police said, leaving 2-year-old Sky Metalwala behind.

"Approximately an hour later she returned to the vehicle and the baby was gone," police said in a statement.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/06/us/washington-missing-boy/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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what kind of sense does this make. there are all kinds of wrongs here

[Maccagirl]

1. No words.

n/t

[virgogal]

2. Words fail me.

[CakeGrrl]

3. Doesn't make sense.

I wonder what her excuse would be for leaving one of the children, but there isn't one as far as I'm concerned.

And if she had a cell phone, it's even more inexplicable.

[elfin]

4. Simple - You carry the 2 year old

And hold the hand of the 4 year old.

Plus - no cell phone? No red flashing lights while you wait?

Stinks.

[seabeyond]

6. my kids are that age spread. and i can remember a few times, in bad situations

and never thought of leaving one behind let alone the 2 yr old that would be afraid to death. horrible to imagine an hour of fear.... even if nothing happened to him.

i cannot envision it in any way.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. what. the. fuck.

I'm with you on "all kinds of wrong". Where to start.

[Pisces]

7. Doesn't pass the smell test.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

8. That 2 year old was never in that car.

Something happened and this is a ruse to cover it up. Does she really think anyone is going to buy this bull?

[uppityperson]

9. picture and local story

http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/bellevue-police-search-missing-2-year-old/nFXM6/

[YellowRubberDuckie]

10. Yeah, If that sweet face were mine...

...there would be no leaving him in a car alone. What the hell? What a moron for her to think that people are really going to buy this. And that 4 year old will talk.
Mom is such an idiot. Another Susan Smith.
Duckie

[uppityperson]

11. I'll wait and see before casting judgement.

[pnwmom]

14. The mother's story alone is bad enough. All she had to do

was sit in the car with her children and ask some passerby to call the police to get her help.

That her best story is that she deliberately left a toddler in a car is a very bad sign.

[renate]

12. I don't really want to jump to conclusions

If he'd just fallen asleep and she didn't expect to be gone for more than five minutes, I can imagine why she'd leave him. Walking around with one child would be a lot easier than walking with one and carrying another. Admittedly, I never left a sleeping kid in the car even in our own driveway for a single moment, so I can't quite fathom her thought processes, but I was probably being overcautious; if she truly didn't expect to be gone for long and he was happy/sleeping/not making a difficult situation even more complicated, I can't blame her.

And I also wouldn't be surprised if a Good Samaritan found the kid and he's safe and sound. While I wouldn't bust into a car to take a 2-year-old who'd been left alone (I'd just stay by the car and call the police), I can imagine that someone else would. At least, I sure hope that's what happened.

[seabeyond]

15. you were being over cautious? you ever missing a 2 yr old? the thing, you dont know what is going

to happen. even if you think 5 minutes, the next thought is, what if it isnt. the end result, something happened to the child because of her neglect, if this is the case.

i have never left a 2 yr old, sleeping or otherwise, for 5 minutes or an hour. and i dont consider it over cautious, just being a responsible parent.

[pnwmom]

13. A four year old is likely old enough to know what happened.

I hope he is somewhere safe, with someone -- other than the mother - who he trusts.

I cannot, cannot imagine leaving a car by the side of the road with a toddler alone in it. The mother should have sat in that car with her children and asked a passerby to call for help.

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. I don't believe her story. Why would ANY mother leave their two year old alone in a car

while taking the 4 year old with her? She's lying.

Poor baby. :(

[CoffeeCat]

17. I think people are selling their kids...

There have been a couple of recent missing-children incidents that are so suspicious, yet
the police cannot find evidence linking the parents to foul play when their kids go missing.

I think the Internet has linked child predators with soulless people who would rather have
the money than their children.

There are so many stories about "parents" who prostitute out their children, via the Internet,
for money. I am wondering if many of these parents take it a step further and just sell them.

I know it's awful to think about, but I think it's possible--and very sad.

[Horse with no Name]

18. Wow.

I can't even imagine this.

A 2-year old left in a car. ANYONE could take him.

He must have been alone and frightened. Poor baby.:cry:

[uppityperson]

19. UPDATE, more on this happened in the past with this family & custody dispute...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/sky-metalwala-missing-was_n_1080847.html
It wouldn't be the first time Sky Metalwala had been left alone in a car. When he was just 3 months old, court records revealed, his parents left him in their sport utility vehicle in a Target parking lot for 55 minutes on a 27-degree day. They only came out of the store to get him after police arrived and asked for the vehicle's owner to be paged.

The toddler's disappearance Sunday in Bellevue, a city of 122,000 across Lake Washington from Seattle, came at the height of a custody fight between his parents, Julia Biryukova and Solomon Metalwala. They separated in March 2010 amid back-and-forth protective orders and allegations of abuse and psychiatric problems.

[spanone]

20. left a 2 year old behind? good god.