After being found behind a false wall in a home near Atlanta, a 13-year-old boy was returned to his mother on Saturday. The boy's father, Gregory Jean, and stepmother, Samantha Joy Davis, were arrested and charged with false imprisonment, cruelty to children, and obstruction. The community is shocked by what's going on. Julie Pizzaro, a neighbor who lived across the street from Jean, says, "they were really nice people, very open, they said come over anytime you want." Police visited the home to look for the boy after an anonymous source told them to check there. When they didn't find him, they thought the couple were no longer suspects. However, the boy had gotten a hold of a phone and contacted his mother telling her to tell the police to come back and look behind a false wall. It is still not clear which parent had legal custody of the child.
This article was written by Ralph Ellis, Jason Hanna, and Chandler Friedman of CNN News on Sun, November 30, 2014 at 2:40 PM. I found this story extremely interesting. I can't believe that so many of the neighbors had seen the boy but never knew that he was a prisoner. I wonder if there was any abuse to the child while he was staying with the couple. I also wonder how much jail time they will face. Hopefully the mother and son can make up for the four years that they were away from each other.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/29/justice/georgia-missing-child-found/index.html?hpt=us_c1
This reminds me of Elizabeth Smart and how even though she was so close to home, the public was not aware. It's incredibly shocking and heartbreaking that this boy was not found sooner, but I am happy he is home before the new year. (Elizabeth Muscari, 6th)
ReplyDeleteIf the boy could only just now reach a phone it shows the kind of environment he was brought up in. I wonder how they were able to keep the boy quite for so long and how neighbors didn't know. I agree with Elizabeth, all that matters now is that he is home safe.
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