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Sounds like his family was hiding him.

So the family hadn't called the police.... Community members did. It seems that the family didn't give a shit about where he was. Weird

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Over a dozen children were shot last weekend. Who the fuck cares about a baby that was found 8 months later? Live in reality people.

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I think alot of people would want to know a little kid was found safe after 8 months. Too many times they either get found dead or never get found at all.

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…because he’s Asian/ Pacific Islander?

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It's possible to care about both you know.

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I think he reffering to other story, where family pretended that their kid got carried away by ballon, but in reality he was hiding in the attic

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Awww sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays. Don’t be jelly, somebody cares about you too lil boo boo bear.

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Yep! Despite what most people believe most abduction/missing child cases are not stranger danger, they're a parental abduction. Typically it's a custody battle though sometimes it's them avoiding a child protection investigation. I suspect that child is not now going to be going back to their parents but rather to a CPS foster family.

his parents should be arrested for naming him Bread.

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125 kids/yr abducted in the 'stranger danger' scenario in the USA. 80% are rescued.

Statistically, stranger danger is a myth.

25 kids per year not being rescued doesn’t make it sound like a myth at all

Whoever came up with the nickname Brxsan too

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Out of millions upon millions of kids?

I bet more kids die from choking than are kidnapped by strangers each year, but I’m too lazy to look it up

This is one of those things where the odds are infinitesimal, but the result of being unlucky are absolutely catastrophic. It happens to very few people. When it happens, your life is over. You will spend the rest of your life looking for and longing for your child to come home. And of course it isn’t just your life that became awful, and the things you may imagine are happening to your child could be exaggerated or wishful thinking, and how will you know?

That's like winning a million dollars in the lottery.

Assuming the above stat (125 kids kidnapped by strangers/year) is correct, then kids are more likely to be murdered by their parents than kidnapped by strangers.

Edit: According to this article, about ~350 people under 21 are kidnapped by strangers every year.

Just because there are statistically more likely scenarios doesn’t make something a myth. It’s not a myth to win the lottery despite very few actually winning compared to the amount of people that play.

I think you're taking it too literally.

Stranger danger was a thing that was drilled into the heads of kids in the 80s and 90s about vans pulling up and nabbing children, but that entire thing was massively out of proportion to reality and probably did more damage to society than it helped. It's closer to mythology than it is an actual danger faced by kids.

Seems like parents/family hiding him from CPS.

Yep. This is my point.
Strangers aren't your enemy, are not dangerous. There's a strong likelihood that any stranger you asked for help would not harm you, and is, likely to help you.

The immediate recoil and fear of someone you don't know has allowed wedges to be driven into our society, and I feel it's broken our culture up.

Who the fuck is only capable of caring about one thing at a time? You are fucking mentally deficient and seriously need to consider getting some help you smooth brained fucking moron.

I care about more than most - but everyone should feel uncomfortable about the realities we're ignoring.

Literally just commenting on the whitewashing of news.

Don't understand where all these personal attacks are coming from. You all seem really satisfied with yourselves, so whatever.

And too many times, the death of children is packaged into a larger story. Forgotten individually, and instead become a statistic. Were you following this story closely for the last year? Why?

That sooo wasn't my point, and I don't understand why you folks think I was personally attacking you.

I like where you're coming from though. Read some of your comments. Good thoughts.

In fact it is advisable for a child to approach any adult, male or female, if they feel threatened or are in need of help.

It's weird to use "under 21," because that mixes in violence against young-adult women, where the abduction is either domestic violence or human trafficking (forced sex work)

Seems like different types of crimes/risks than "stranger danger" child abductions.

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