Posted on 06/23/2005 8:49:23 AM PDT by nuconvert
Search Enters Second Day for 3 Boys in N.J.
Thursday, June 23, 2005
CAMDEN, N.J. — Family members of three missing boys joined police and residents Thursday morning as a search for the trio, who disappeared while playing outside one of their homes, moved into its second day.
The boys, ages 5 to 11, were playing outside of one of their homes about 5 p.m. Wednesday when they vanished, according to relatives. Police used helicopters and search dogs to scour the neighborhood and some of its abandoned homes Wednesday night.
The boys, who are not related to each other, are: Jesstin Pagan, 5; Daniel Agosto, 6; and Anibal Cruz, 11.
"I turned my back for two seconds and they were gone," said Jessica Pagan, Jesstin's mother, who brought her son from their home in nearby Mount Ephraim (search) to the city to visit friends.
A passer-by at about 8:15 a.m. Thursday told one of the mothers the boys were seen late Wednesday near the Delaware River (search), about three blocks from the house where they had been playing. Friends and relatives headed there to continue searching.
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Heartbreaking. I know I'm a paranoid mom, but I don't let my daughter play on the front porch alone. I make her go into the back yard to play. Prayers to the families.
I expect it was longer than that if the following report is also true.
A passer-by at about 8:15 a.m. Thursday told one of the mothers the boys were seen late Wednesday near the Delaware River (search), about three blocks from the house where they had been playing. Friends and relatives headed there to continue searching.
In any case, may they be found safe very soon.
Nothing wrong with being a bit paranoid especially where the safety of your daughter is concerned. On my first trip to California at age 14, I was offered money by a strange man to "take a ride" - early training by my 'paranoid' mother made me take off in another direction at a run. Probably saved me a lot of trauma if not my life.
Safer than most in the most dangerous city in the nation? Isn't that like being bitten by the least poisonous cobra?
Camden is horrific. It is not just a slum - it makes those Shi'ite slums in Sadr city look good.
It seems the boys ran off. If they had been abducted there would have been noise from at least one boy. Three boys can make a lot of racket. Unless a group of men pointed a gun, but even then there would have been so sound?
It is possible once they got to the water that a worse fate befell them.
I feel horrible for the mothers of these poor kids. i told my children about this today, so they know I am not paranoid or "over-protective" but a smart mother who is all too aware of the dangers of prowling, sick perverts ready to hurt and kill children.
The very first thing I thought of when I saw this headline, was where the house was in relation to the Delaware River.
Not only does Camden border the Delaware River, but there are numerous offshoots of the river that course through the city. Oftentimes, the curiosity of the kids get them in trouble. Especially, if the neighborhood kids are showing an out-of-towner around. Too many city kids cannot swim and find themselves in situations from which they cannot recover.
As dangerous as Camden is, it is more probabble that there is a river connection
Prayers go out for these young ones.
I think you're right. It's the last residential street before the tidal back channel of the Delaware River between Camden and Pettys Island, just above the confluence of the Cooper River. Chances are they will be washed back and forth underwater for days before surfacing. Could even be pushed up the Cooper by the tide.
It's not an area where I recall a lot of drownings so there may not be as much S&R expertise as on other parts of the Delaware.
I HATE stories like this one. My heart breaks for the undoubtedly desperate families. May God provide swift resolution, one way or another.
Damn, all 3 found in a trunk of one of the parent's car.
I just heard. And the father of one of the boys found them.
How tragic.
I cannot imagine the pain. So sad.
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