[Calico Cat]

I knew it. Unfortunately, whenever I hear about 'the mother's boyfriend' or 'the stepfather' in a story about a child's disappearance, I jump to the same conclusion, and it never fails: the boyfriend/stepdad always seems to be involved. Poor little guy.

[CFW]

It took us about 5 minutes to figure that out.

[Arthur McGowan]

It's really creepy, but it's true: If the child does not carry the man's DNA, the chances of abuse or murder are vastly higher.

[wimpycat]

I knew this was coming. Based on the predictability of child killers, I can recite for you almost to the last detail of what has happened. I won't commit to whether Step-Daddy was regularly abusing the baby, but I think on the day in question, he hit the boy, or flung him against the wall; in other words, during a single episode where Step-Daddy was in a rage, he killed the boy. I'll even allow that he didn't really "intend" to kill him, but things got out of control and he killed the boy by some sort of blunt trauma to the head. Step-Daddy panicked and hastily concocted this cockamamie story about being in the park.

The alternate theory, of course, could be that he had it in for this boy from the beginning; that Step-Daddy wanted Mama all to himself and resented the presence of the boy, resented having to take care of him while Mama was on cruise, and he was going to kill the boy sooner or later, one way or another and it took every ounce of his feeble brain power to concoct the cockamamie park abduction story.

[KC_Conspirator]

Unfortunately, whenever I hear about 'the mother's boyfriend' or 'the stepfather' in a story about a child's disappearance, I jump to the same conclusion, and it never fails: the boyfriend/stepdad always seems to be involved.

Its a documented fact that boyfriends, live-ins, and step parents make the great majority of child physical and sexual abuse cases. Of course, liberals will tell you that there are all sorts of 'new types' of families and that nickel and dime divorce is a no thing privation - all of it is a huge lie.