Yet, the article says, "About a half hour later, Thomas returned without the boy and ran away when his relatives asked about the boy."
Generally, insanity applies when the perpetrator's grasp of reality is such that they are truly unaware of their wrongdoing. People who are unaware of having done something wrong seldom run away.
1 I don't know what happened, but I know that what I read in the Tampa paper was more complete than the WaPo version.
2. The Tampa paper's version made me take step back from my initial reaction to the story's headline.
So, in this case, please excuse my reluctance to rush to judgement before I know the 'rest of the story' beyond what WaPo wants to tell us.