Posted on 07/19/2005 9:34:10 AM PDT by AbeKrieger
CAMDEN, N.J. — Three boys who suffocated in a car trunk last month were alive for at least 17 hours, slowly succumbing while police searched their neighborhood, a lawyer for the family of one of the boys says. Lawyer Peter M. Villari told The New York Times that officials of the Camden County prosecutor's office went over details of an autopsy report with him, the newspaper reported Tuesday. The boys, ages 5, 6 and 11, disappeared from the yard where they were playing a little after 5 p.m. on June 22. Their deaths were ruled accidental. Relatives searched for the boys for three hours and then called authorities. A two-day search that included dogs, helicopters and boats on the nearby Delaware River ended when the father of one of the boys found them dead in the trunk of an inoperable car sitting just feet from where they had been playing. The autopsy report, which has not been released publicly, found that the boys died between 10:30 a.m. on June 23 and 2:30 a.m. on June 24, Villari said. That estimate was based on fluid and tissue samples and weather data, he said. Villari told the newspaper that responsibility for the deaths is now "squarely on the shoulders of the police." "I think the numbers speak for themselves," he said. "They were certainly alive when the police arrived and certainly well after the search started." Villari did no immediately return a call seeking additional comment Tuesday. The prosecutors' office had no immediate comment.
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Amen to your comment about lawyers.
Imagine the possibility of a police department being able to do more than one thing at a time.
It's not the parent's job to find their missing child. That's the cops' job.
It's the parent's job to sue.
Wow, your ignorance is showing.
you're obviously not involved with police, fire or EMS/rescue work - I am..... It would be top priority in any police department to find missing children....
The car is the FIRST place I would have checked. Any place where a kid could be trapped like the truck, a refrigerator freezer etc. Dear God how my heart hurts for those kids!
And your contention is that the police department in its entirety cannot chew bubble gum and walk at the same time. They have more than one person on staff at a time. LOL.
So they are to deploy officers in search of the missing child until that child is found?
BWAAA-HAAA-HAAA!!!
You can't even answer a simple question.
I'll repeat it, in honor of you adult ADD: When a missing child call is made, are the police supposed to drop everything else and keep searching until they find that child?
It's a "yes" or "no" question.
You can pull a trunk lid down from the inside, it's not difficult at all.
Sure, the river would be the next place I would have been checking after I thoroughly checked my property, my neighbors property and anywhere else in the vicinity that they would usually like to wonder to.
i think the village is responsible...
Why on Earth should they? Because the police didn't use his x-ray vision to see inside the trunk? because they didn't force their way into a trunk of a car? When children are missing from here on in, should every car in a certain radius be pried open now? What a horrible precendent.
It looks like you're looking for another pay day!!
"And if you don't know/can't find the owner?"
Call your superior, break it open. Unattended vehicles have no rights.
hmm interesting line of thought. Is that something the cops can only do? Or am I able to go to any parking lot and start popping trunks?"
It's a game! Go to a parking lot, start popping trunks, see how many you can pop before someone stops you. Then go back and try to beat that score!
Someone on the thread wrote it was a '92, which would not have the release. Same post also said though that there was a locking mechanism that could have prevented the kids from accessing the trunk from the passenger compartment, which is apparently what happened.
I have a young son myself and I just get sick whenever this story comes up. Time to move to a football thread or something else.
ADD? You're the one that deciphered my comments to mean that the police should drop everything. In case you don't understand, I agree with you that the parents bear the responsibility of looking out for their children. The police should now know to do a more thorough search. But I'll play along and in honor of your inability to comprehend, I'll restate my answer another way- No, the police department does not have to drop everything to conduct a search. They are capable of doing more than one thing at a time.
How long are they supposed to search?
I seem to remember that a few years ago, the city of Camden went bankrupt and was taken over by the state of NJ.
Do you know if that is true? If so, does Camden still have a police department, or is it under the juristiction of the NJ State Police?
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