Police start search for boy missing 10 years...

@Foxxee (3651)
United States
January 6, 2009 8:29pm CST
Just read about a really disturbing story that leaves me confused… A child went missing 10 years ago & his parents never reported it…. I don’t understand why the parents wouldn’t report it, it doesn’t make sense. Investigators only recently learned that Adam Herrman has been missing for 10 years… Adam was 11 when he disappeared in 1999 from a mobile home park in Towanda where he lived with his adoptive parents Doug & Valerie Herrman. The one thing that really stands out at me is the excuse the parents gave when asked why they never reported their adopted son missing… The excuse was: They assumed he found one of his siblings or went back to his biological parents. . . . Does anyone else find that a little weird? What is missing here? These parents are hiding something… I hate to say it, but it kind of sounds like the Anthony Case… we all know Caylee Anthony’s mom pulled the same crap & look how that turned out. I’m sorry, but if you fail to report your child missing, something is wrong! Here is a link to the story if anyone would like to read more about it… http://news.aol.com/article/hunt-begins-for-boy-missing-10-years/294287?icid=200100397x1216735142x1201070798
5 responses
@dodo19 (47117)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
7 Jan 09
This is very disturbing. If one of my children went missing, whether they were adopted or not, I'd still report as soon as I thought that something was wrong. I know that they have to be missing for three days and everything. But I'd still report it after three days and try to do some search on my own. This is very ridiculous, not to mention suspicious. The boy was 11, when he went missing. 11! Just a child. Assuming that an 11-year-old boy found his real parents. I could buy it, if he was 17, or something. But certainly not 11. This whole thing is very odd.
@Foxxee (3651)
• United States
8 Jan 09
If its a child by law you have to report the child missing the minute you notice the child is missing. In some cases they make you wait 24 hours, but I do believe that is for older kids & that is do to runaways. No matter what I would make a report & have the whole town looking for my child with me. So I don't understand some of these parents who wait... It's soo un-parent like..
@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
7 Jan 09
Something doesn't sound right. My question is why no one else missed him either. This sounds very strange. I hope they find him alive, but don't have to much faith in it.
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
7 Jan 09
That is very weird and very disturbing. I bet the parents had everything to do with the disappearance or they know who had a hand in it.
@howard96h (11640)
• New York, New York
7 Jan 09
Naaa something doesn't sound right with this, you don't just assume this or that happened and then never reported it, this is crazy. I hope they do a big investigation and find out what is really going on. What kind of people are they?
@lynnemg (4529)
• United States
7 Jan 09
Yes, this story sounds all too familar, the time frame is just much longer. I do not understand why these parents would come forth to report him missing now, after 10 years. Their story seems pretty weak, in my opinion. Did they do something to him and the guilt has finally gotten the better of them? Adoptive parents, biolgoical parents, step-parents, whatever the case, they are PARENTS and should be a lot more caring of their own children. To say that they believe that the bot found one of his siblings or went back to his biological paretns is lame because any good paretn would have been checking into it a long time ago instead of waiting. If any of my kids was even 5 minutes late getting home, I would be very worried. If it got to the point of being 20 or 30 minutes, I would begin the search and include everyone in it unitl they were found or came home. I remember when my 8 year old was younger and we were all outside playing. I yelled for him, and he didn't come, I walked round the house, in the house, and he wasn't there, I immediately began looking for him. I checked with neighbors, I walked around the block, I yelled and yelled for him. Thank God I found him safe and sound close to 45 minutes later. He was hiding behind an old bookshelf in the neighbors back yard under an eave. I had tears streaming down my face. I told him how scared I had been, and his reply to me was,"Mommy, I was trying to play hide and seek. You found me!" I don't htink I had ever been so scared in my life. For me, it is uncomprehensible how any parent could wait to report their child missing and not go on an all-out manhunt for their child until the child is found.