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Idaho tot??

mima — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:13:25 GMT

I don't understand this at all. The parents go for a walk in the woods and leave him with the grandpa and the grandpa's friend. The grandpa thought the tot was with the parents? How could that possibly happen? The parents didn't tell the grandpa to watch him?

How could he have been kidnapped? It's not like there are gobs of people around to kidnap him when you are camping.

Anyone else confused about how they didn't know who was watching him?

Re: Idaho tot??

JustJazzmom — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:27:39 GMT

Article

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mima — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:30:16 GMT

Thanks for the article. It says the grandfather thought the parents had him and they thought the grandfather had him. I do not get it. The parents didn't say "dad, can you watch him?" They just left and assumed the grandpa would watch him?

Not clear at all.

Re: Idaho tot??

beach-mom — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:31:40 GMT

Something doesn't make sense. This is a two-year old. As you said, MIMA, did the grandfather know he was in charge?

I would never let a two-year old out of my sight, and if someone else was watching him, I'd make sure that person wouldn't either.

Prayers for this baby to be returned to his family.

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151949 — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:36:47 GMT

We were camping once - went out to dinner and came home around 10PM. There was a naked little boy about 3 years old playing with a toy truck in the gravel of our driveway when we got back. There were only lights on in one other camper so I picked him up and carried him over there.Iasked the people who were sitting outside if he was thers and they said no. So i asked if they recognized him and they said no. A few min later, as I was carrying him toward the campground owner's house to see if they recognized him, a woman came running out from the camper where I had just been saying he was her son, and her parents were drunk and didn't see him leave while she was in the shower. I asked the kid if that was his Momma and he said yes so I handed him over. LOW LIFES.

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tansy — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:38:25 GMT

The father said something about the campgrounds being small. It sure didn't look that way in the coverage:/

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mima — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:39:26 GMT

@151949 wrote:
We were camping once - went out to dinner and came home around 10PM. There was a naked little boy about 3 years old playing with a toy truck in the gravel of our driveway when we got back. There were only lights on in one other camper so I picked him up and carried him over there.Iasked the people who were sitting outside if he was thers and they said no. So i asked if they recognized him and they said no. A few min later, as I was carrying him toward the campground owner's house to see if they recognized him, a woman came running out from the camper where I had just been saying he was her son, and her parents were drunk and didn't see him leave while she was in the shower. I asked the kid if that was his Momma and he said yes so I handed him over. LOW LIFES.

OMG, that's horrible.

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mima — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:40:30 GMT

@tansy wrote:
The father said something about the campgrounds being small. It sure didn't look that way in the coverage:/

I saw that, but it is not small. I don't know why he said that. There are woods there!

Re: Idaho tot??

tansy — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:43:31 GMT

I'm sure the dad is under suspicion, MIMA. That comment was weird:/

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Sweetbay magnolia — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:22:53 GMT

Grandpa has dementia?

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NoelSeven — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:29:12 GMT

How can it happen?

Accidents happen all the time, it's a part of the human condition.

Maybe grandpa is hard of hearing or forgetful or has a form of early dementia.

Maybe the toddler wanted to play hide and seek and slipped away. There are many possibilities that are not nefarious but are plausible.

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mima — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:45:16 GMT

@NoelSeven wrote:
How can it happen?

Accidents happen all the time, it's a part of the human condition.

Maybe grandpa is hard of hearing or forgetful or has a form of early dementia.

Maybe the toddler wanted to play hide and seek and slipped away. There are many possibilities that are not nefarious but are plausible.

If I knew the grandpa had dementia I wouldn't have left my child with him. If he was hard of hearing, I'd make sure he heard me. I don't think I'm over protective either.

The grandpa also had a friend with him. I feel sorry for the grandpa, I'd feel like it was all my fault even if it wasn't.

The mom also said there was no one around their area. I find it unlikely he was kidnapped.

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NoelSeven — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:09:44 GMT

Others don't always know when someone begins dementia, and there are other medical possibilities that could be totally unknown.

There isn't always someone to blame, accidents happen.

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staciesmom — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:06:14 GMT

I don't know why, but the first thing that came to my mind was possibly taken by a bear. The other thing that occurred to me was a possible drowning, but I think I read they checked the water thoroughly. Really sad.

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sidsmom — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:20:11 GMT

I'll admit, I didn't know anything about this story when I read the headline.

Explaining that....am I the only one that got a chuckle from the thread title? Idaho=potatoes, tot=tater....I was thinking it might be a story about potatoes. . But once opening, of course it wasn't.

Back to regularly scheduled programming.

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mima — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:49:42 GMT

I just read gobs about this on Websleuths. Wow! It took me forever. They also had links to lots of articles.

Where are the interviews with the grandpa and his friend since they supposedly were the last to see him?

Conflicting stories on the time when the dad and child were at the store before this happened.

The grandma which wasn't on the trip said the grandpa just turned his head and the child was gone. I thought the grandpa thought the child was with the parents. Why would he tell the grandma that then?

It was very interesting.