I've heard cases where a child goes missing and sooner or later the parents are suspects for murder(example: McCanns and those parents whose baby was Sabrina).
If they did murder the child then why are they making effort to notify the world that their child is missing?
Was there a case that the parent actually killed the child but reported them missing?
2007-09-20 04:38:06 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Actually, the numbers show that most abductions are family related and does not involve a stranger. When a child is missing you have to call the cops, at that point others get involved and make phone calls to the media and other sources of help to locate the child and although the police focus on the family, other investigators are concentrating on other options. Think about this too. If your child is out on your front porch playing and you go in to pour another cup of coffee and return to find that your child is missing you search frantically for what seems to be an eternity, you call the police, there is only one genuine response from the mother and this responce has a few characteristics, the characteristics of the response really cannot be faked and someone who is trained will notice.
2007-09-20 04:55:02 · answer #1 · answered by Miss Candi 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A parent would have to report it. There is no way they can just say "what child?" when people ask them about it and pretend the kid never existed. At some point the neighbors, friends, or grandparents may notice the lack of child and get slightly suspicious. Therefore the parents have to report the child missing and concoct a story that is plausible to tell police and reporters.
2007-09-20 04:44:49 · answer #2 · answered by that_guy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Isn't that what you would do if you commited a crime? take the heat off of yourself. everyone knows when a child goes missing the first suspects are the parents. just like when a married man or woman dies, the police first go to the spouse. The reason for this?? More times than not, they are usually the ones who are guilty
2007-09-20 04:42:20 · answer #3 · answered by Kristi 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If parents were never looked at as suspects then they could get away with the murder of their child.
When a child goes missing, everyone is looked at as a possibility. That's just the police doing a proper and good job.
2007-09-20 04:42:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, many in history. Children are forgotten in hot cars, had rage of parents taken out on them, & had so many other atrocities acted upon them, it is ridiculous! Then, when the rage is over, the parents try to blame someone else! How about that woman in the South (surprise) who drown her two little boys, who were found holding each other's hands for comfort, & she said she was car jacked, & described them & everything? Didn't she have a new boyfriend or something? They got in the way. Sick & disgusting.
2007-09-20 04:44:40 · answer #5 · answered by fairly smart 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because parents have the most access to their own children.
And if a child goes missing eventually family/friends/neighbors would notice and they would report it and then the parents of course would look even more guilty for never reporting it in the first place. So of course, even the guilty have to report it.
*AFM - you're thinking of Susan Smith.
2007-09-20 04:46:16 · answer #6 · answered by Peace 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the parents were guilty, they would need to cover up. If they kill their children and don't tell anyone then people around them will start asking them questions such as the teachers, other family members, friends.. etc.. So the best way to cover up is to invent that they are worried for their kids too... put the blame on someone else so they don't go to jail..
2007-09-20 04:43:31 · answer #7 · answered by Tesorito 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
there probably was... it's all really just standard procedure for the police to suspect the parents... especially if there actions are questionable(leaving madeleine alone at home while they went out to dinner).. plus it gives the public an impression that the police are doing something about the case even if its just out of desperation
2007-09-20 04:42:19 · answer #8 · answered by Jimbo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are notifying the world to throw suspicion off of themselves. I mean its neglect to leave three kids alone in a hotel room. Susan Smith comes to mind. She told police a black man carjacked her and took her two boys. It was later found that she pushed her car into a body water with her sons still strapped into their car seats.
2007-09-20 04:41:33 · answer #9 · answered by imthemeek 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
some police consistently blame the parents for msiing babies because of the actuality they provide them too plenty freedom and to the factor the place they might pass lacking. yet no longer all police do this.
2016-10-05 01:42:57 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋