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Authorities in Kansas are looking for a boy who disappeared about a decade ago, but was not reported missing until a few weeks ago.
“We don’t know what happened to Adam Herrman past ‘99, when he was last seen,” Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said at a news conference in El Dorado. “Is he alive, is he dead? That one I can’t answer because we don’t know,” he added.
Adam was 11 or 12 when he was last seen, Murphy said. At the time, he was living in a mobile home park in Towanda, a small town in southern Kansas, with his adoptive parents, Doug and Valerie Herrman. The couple did not report him missing, Murphy said.
A few weeks ago, a person notified Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Children’s Unit of a “concern” regarding Adam, Murphy said…
“They feel very guilty” about not doing that, he said in a telephone interview. The couple told him the boy had run away frequently, he said, and they believed him to be either with his biological parents or homeless.
Although the Herrmans did not report him missing, “they were very worried about him,” he said.
Well, that’s good enough, I guess. For some.
Ah, but, they probably prayed for his safety.
I thought this stuff only happened in Florida…
The headline gives a different story as if actual biological parents did not report the child missing. It’s obvious to me this child was possible abused by these adoptive parents considering their lack of concern. Or the child had serious issues and should not have been placed in a home. Ether way the story is by no means reflects the story title.
Florida is the new Kansas.
Just convict them of murder and give them the chair.
He might be doing real good.
This is to long of a time frame. If something bad happened, finding the body will be VERY HARD.
Kansas….
Those responsible for losing him probably thought he was off riding about on dinosaurs with Jesus, yo know, like the Bible says.
I like #3 jescott418’s attitude. How do I know he is against gay adoption?
PS–does anyone know if it is the law anywhere that missing kiddies must be reported, and if so in what time frame? Not that any of my kiddies are missing.
He changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg and is currently CEO of Facebook.
#10 – I’m sure the law must have something to that effect in it. Even backwards ass Kansas law.
From what I understand of the story he was with his adopted parents when he went missing. Apparently, their rationale is that the boy often ran away so they thought he found a suitable place this time to live. The child would be 21 years old. The Butler county Sheriff is treating the case as a homicide. Which they should. It is odd how the media can not do simple math. What is even more odd is in the KC metropolitan area the biggest news of the day is a grocery store downtown.
#10 & 12,
There would be several laws that could cover this. Reckless endangerment and child abandonment are two quick ones that come to mind.
If the child was adopted, that would mean he has accepted the new parents as his. His natural parents would have lost custody, probably for being unfit parents. It is very rare for an adopted child to continually run off to his natural parents.
The more likely scenario is the child was still in foster care.