The boy told the story, not the lady (old woman, as you called her)...You don’t know the terrain there and you don’t know how the “search” was organized...
The man who found the child said he was soaked through and scratched and cut from the thick undergrowth...
Law enforcement said there was absolutely no evidence of a crime...
Don’t you think it’s best just knowing the kid is safe????
I’ve organized search drills probably 50 times and participated on at least half a dozen lost child searches over the past forty years.
If the search was done according to Federal or State guidelines, they would have found the kid. No doubt about it.
There is just too much hinky with this story—starting with the search, but including what kind of a moron let’s a three year old play next to a wooded area, let alone one with freakin’ bears?
I’m sorry, but you can believe in bears and angels protecting children...but I tend to stick to the truth.