Missing Kansas boy's uncle regrets not taking action

[proud2BlibKansan]

Kansas officials were unable to substantiate report of abuse
By TIM POTTER
The Wichita Eagle

Adam


WICHITA | One night, about four years before Adam Herrman disappeared from his adoptive parents’ Towanda, Kan., home at age 11, the boy’s uncle did something that still haunts him.

Sam Bush said he was living with the Herrmans at the time in 1995, and found their oldest biological daughter, Crystal, sitting on the stairs of the family’s home. Crystal was crying.

“I can’t take it anymore, what my mom’s doing to Adam,” he remembers her saying. Crystal was 17 or 18 then.

“I said, ‘Crystal, I know what your mom’s doing, but if you turn her in, do you realize the problems you’re going to cause with you and your mom? Let’s hope that it’s going to stop, that she’ll get better,’ ” Bush told The Wichita Eagle.

more . . . http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/974855.html

more coverage: http://www.kansas.com/adam/

Searches at river find no sign of missing boy

Search dogs zigzagged through the woods with their noses to the ground, and detectives and anthropologists followed with digging tools in hand Saturday in hopes of finding a grave site or bones.

But the six-hour search along the Whitewater River south of K-254 yielded no clues about what happened to Adam Herrman, who disappeared from a Towanda home a decade ago at age 11.

"At least this area has been looked at," Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said.

The search will likely continue this week along a roughly 4-mile stretch of wooded river banks, but Murphy said investigators, volunteers and search dogs would spend today resting.

more . . . http://www.kansascity.com/657/story/974962.html

[MadMaddie]

1. I am afraid that these kind of incidents are going to increase

due to every state cutting budgets. Enforcement of protecting these children in the system will be reduced.

The child never had a chance.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. It's such a sad story

No one reported him missing for 10 years.

[EFerrari]

3. When things go drastically wrong in a family, other members rationalize

because the alternative is just too hard to put arms around. At bottom, the idea that adults hurt children is pretty scary no matter how old you are. :(

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

4. So Adam went missing at age 15. I hope he turns up a run away.

It's possible. He might still be out there.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. He was 11

But yes, I hope he was a runaway.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

6. I read the article as being 15. 11? Good Lord. That is scary to think of.

[lonestarnot]

7. Poor little guy. We are all guilty of letting this happen.

:cry:

[lonestarnot]

8. .

:cry: