Posted on 03/15/2002 2:31:52 PM PST by FresnoDA
1. There is a steady drumbeat for CPS to investigate the VD's, based upon their revelations of illegal drug abuse.
2. There are numerous inquiries as to why the VD's keep their STEAM CLEANER sitting out....if you have a dog which pees that much, wouldn't you keep it in the bathroom, on the tile? Or on a puppy pee pad?? That's what we did with our dogs...Also, STEAM CLEANERS
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One of the most outspoken critics was Douglas Pierce, who only days before posted a $10,000 reward ...He felt the parents lacked emotion, and said he was put off by what he described as their repeated rehearsals before facing the media.
Although he found no evidence to believe the van Dams are tied directly to their daughter's disappearance, Pierce said he decided to ask for outside protection for the children after observing the family, its public-relations team and a journal entry by Danielle
"Douglas Pierce is some kind of freak who came into our house," Damon van Dam told a Los Angeles radio station Thursday. He called Pierce "evil." "He is trying to start trouble for us," Brenda van Dam said. "We did not invite him into our house."
Pierce continued to post the reward offer on the Web. His Millennium Children's Fund is listed with the state of California as an active corporation first registered Feb. 26, 2000.
April 2001, Pierce filed a 990-EZ form with the Internal Revenue Service, listing the fund as a "children's public benefit charity." Pierce reported no income and no expenses for the 2000 tax year
H mm, was it dark and scary or overwhelming and sentimental?
Was she abused and neglected or did the poor little child seem to be happy, smart, above average in her language skills?
Did she seem ''well adjusted'' according to peers and their parents?
Anxiety, worries grip missing girl's parents http://video.uniontrib.com/news/metro/danielle/20020207-9999_1n7girl.html February 7, 2002
***The nonprofit Millennium Children's Fund has offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to Danielle's safe return. The child-advocacy group is based in Beverly Hills. Douglas Pierce, who works with the fund, spent an hour in the house with the family yesterday.
"I visited Danielle's room and it was very emotional, very overwhelming," Pierce said. "There were all her favorite things waiting for her." The room is painted in Danielle's favorite colors, pink with purple trim. Alongside Danielle's bed was her favorite toy, a giant green frog that she hugged at night. A Barbie doll sat near a collection of stuffed toys. A journal was open to the last entry, penned last week about good will, Pierce said.
http://video.uniontrib.com/news/metro/danielle/20020228-9999_1n28girl.html
Danielle often wrote her parents letters. The last night she was seen alive, she hugged and kissed her father as he tucked her into bed.
Her parents reported her missing Feb. 2 after her mother went to wake her and she wasn't in her canopy bed.
Her friends' parents described her as strong-headed but obedient. She loved to go to sleepovers with her friends, and parents didn't mind inviting her over, said Paula Call, whose daughter Sara was a friend of Danielle's.
"It's a joy to have her come to your home," Call said in an interview soon after Danielle disappeared. "She's really a well-rounded little girl."
http://video.uniontrib.com/news/metro/danielle/20020217-9999_1mi17vandam.html
"She enjoys being a little girl," said family friend Paula Call.
Danielle's friends and her classmates at Creekside Elementary School describe her as a sweet, quiet girl who laughs a lot.
Danielle is an obedient, well-mannered child who asks her mother's permission to cross the street or get a snack from the refrigerator. She likes to color and play with dolls, and she recently started taking piano lessons. She's enrolled in a ballet class and loves reading and writing.
The night before her disappearance, she was reading and writing while her father and brothers played video games. Later in the evening, just before she went to bed, she was teaching her 5-year-old brother, Dylan, to read.
Nearly every day she jotted down her thoughts in a journal she kept at home.Danielle sometimes explored complex topics for a 7-year-old, like how she could change the world, Call said. Brenda, a stay-at-home mother, was the "cookie mom" for Danielle's Brownie troop and volunteers regularly in her children's classrooms. "She loved for me to be there," Brenda van Dam said. The mother and daughter are very close, said Call, the family friend. Brenda van Dam, who has referred to Danielle as her "best friend," often took her daughter with her to appointments at a beauty salon, and Danielle would sit in a massaging chair while her mother got manicures. Last year, she took Danielle to get her nails painted and her hair styled for a father-daughter dance at her elementary school. Yesterday, her mother hung ribbons at a park near their home to keep Danielle in people's minds.
He may have felt something evil. It's easy to walk into a room and automatically know the vibes in it.
I do it all the time when I visit. You just know the mood as soon as you walk in. It's just there. Even if people aren't in the room.
I can pick up an object and do a pretty good guess about it's history. Anybody can. They just don't know it.
This guy devotes his life to children, and anything horrable will affect him more than someone who's heart isn't in it.
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