Posted on 07/31/2009 5:15:25 PM PDT by Doogle
Police investigating the disappearance of an Idaho boy missing for a week said Friday they are afraid the child may have been the victim of a tragedy.
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I was AT the landfill this afternoon when the police and news came in and cordoned off a section.
“...afraid the child may have been the victim of a tragedy.”
Do they mean victim of a crime? It ain’t Aeschylus or Shakespeare.
Where you helping with search ?
I wonder if the mom took a lie test ??
No I was dumping trash, just there at the same time coincidentally.
Gonna go out tomorrow and help with search though where ever the current search will be.
A really sad and tragic family circumstance.
I have always wondered how a woman could wilfully crack the skull of her own young child, and then get 29 days of work release, fined $75.50 and put on probation for two years. That's the mother of this child and that's what she did to one of her other children
She could not have full custody and only had visitation rights. The husband, who is a veteran and by all accounts a decent person, has full custody of this boy. This occurred when the child was supposed to be with the mother...but my understanding is that she had gone somewhere and left him with the "boyfriend".
The boyfriend himself has multiple entries on his record, including burglary, battery and possession of drug paraphernalia, and he legally cannot be near the woman's other daughter...but the record on that case is sealed.
He is the one who said that the little boy wanted to go to a friends to some kind of party, but he wouldn't let him go, but did let him play alone outside and then later noticed he was gone. This was last week and the child has just dissappeared.
My guess, is his story is under minute scrutiny as to when someone other than him actually last saw the boy...and exactly where the mother was the entire time.
Very tragic envent here in the Boise area. Big search went on today all over the area where he went missing. Over 1,000 searching.
LATEST BOISE POLICE UPDATE - SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, ROBERT MAY BE VICTIM OF TRAGIC EVENT
I'm thinking that some people will bow to a parent's rights rather than the child's rights (think abortion).
This story is so sad :(
A crime would be an atrocity.
Holy God,
We commit Robert to You, praying that You will rescue him from these horrible circumstances. Bless this precious child with Your love, Father, and save him from those who would harm him. We know that You love him more than any humans could possibly love him. Hold him close to you, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Amen.
Is this the mother of the child or his current wife? Either way, not really someone I'd want taking care of MY kids. If this is the mother, who in their right mind would allow her visitation?
Makes one wonder what hole they crawled up out of and why some of them are allowed to be out of prison.
Unfortunately, I bet that most of them are on the taxpayer dime.
This is from the Idaho Statesman, July 29, 2009
Trail of tragedy follows family of missing 8-year-old Boise boy
On the fifth day of an exhaustive search for a missing Boise boy, court documents revealed a family tale of abuse, tragedy and more.
Robert Manwill's mother is on probation for fracturing the skull of Robert's infant half brother, a boy the state removed from her custody.
Robert's mother's boyfriend has been convicted of burglary, battery and possession of drug paraphernalia, and is banned by the courts from being alone with Robert's half sister.
Robert's father, meanwhile, has already lost a son. In 1993, his first wife stabbed their 4-year-old boy in the chest. She spent 10 years in a federal prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
Boise police won't talk about the family or the details contained in the court documents.
The family has declined to comment except for brief statements by Robert's aunt. But police have repeatedly said they have no suspect - or even evidence to believe there is one - in Robert's Friday night disappearance at the mother's Boise Bench apartment, and have no evidence of any foul play.
"We've had questions from the media ... who we have talked to,what can we say about certain people," Boise police Deputy Chief Jim Kerns said Tuesday. "It's the very nature of police investigations that until the case is concluded - in this case, until we find Robert - specifics and details of this very active priority investigation cannot be released."
Police say the family is cooperating fully.
"We have a single focus - that's to find Robert ... he's an 8-year-old little guy and he needs our help," Kerns said. "We remain hopeful we are going to find Robert."
Here's what the court records say:
ROBERT'S MOM
Melissa Scott Jenkins pleaded guilty in March to a misdemeanor charge of injury to a child, after an October 2008 incident that left her infant son with a fractured skull.
According to court records, Jenkins "did willfully inflict" the wound "by striking the child's head on a surface, causing a fracture to the child's skull," on Oct. 19, 2008. She was sentenced to 29 days of work release, fined $75.50 and put on probation for two years.
In February, at least, the child was still in the care of the state Department of Health and Welfare, court documents said.
Jenkins, reached by phone Tuesday, declined comment and directed inquiries to Trisha Burrill, the boy's aunt who has spoken on the family's behalf.
Burrill, flanked by Jenkins and several other family members, addressed a group of reporters Tuesday night while clutching Robert's teddy bear.
"We are a joined family at this time in this crisis," Burrill said. "We are acting as one, with one goal in mind. To bring Robert back."
HER BOYFRIEND
Daniel Edward Ehrlick - Jenkins' boyfriend and the father of her infant son - has served time in Idaho prisons and faced multiple charges.
An April 2008 court document outlining Jenkins' visitation rights with her 2 1/2-year-old daughter states that the girl shall never be left "alone with Danny Ehrlick." The document does not say why.
Ehrlick, too, attended press conferences with the family.
ROBERT'S DAD
Robert Manwill's father, Charles Manwill, has had custody of the boy since January 2008, according to court records.
The records show Jenkins was admitted to the hospital that month for early pregnancy complications and was unable to care for Robert, who has lived with his dad in New Plymouth ever since. Jenkins has visitation rights, and the boy was visiting her the night he disappeared.
Almost 15 years earlier, Manwill was an officer at Fort Polk Military Base in Louisiana, in his early 20s and married to a woman named Silke Fatma Manwill.
In November 1993, according to federal court documents and Louisiana newspaper reports, Silke Manwill "upon sudden quarrel and in the heat of passion" stabbed their 4-year-old son, Michael, in the chest.
She was charged with first-degree murder; that charge was dropped when she pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
She served 10 years in federal prison and was released in 2002, federal documents show. Her sentence included five more years of supervised release.
Why is it so often that the people that have children are the last ones that ever should ?
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