Have You Seen This Child? Johnny Gosch Update
I must fess up, until I saw this today, I wasn’t aware of names of missing kids on the milk cartons. Johnny Gosch, missing since September 5, 1982, is featured in this picture along with 2 other unidentified boys! Johnny was one of the first kids to be featured.
The mother of a boy abducted 24 years ago said she’s bewildered by two photographs left at her front door, apparently showing her son and two other children bound and gagged.
The old photos appear to show 12-year-old Johnny Gosch with his mouth gagged and his hands and feet tied. The boy is wearing the same sweatpants Johnny was wearing when he disappeared while delivering newspapers on the morning of Sept. 5, 1982, his mother said.
“It’s like reliving it,” Noreen Gosch told The Associated Press on Thursday night. “But the bigger picture is, ‘Why are they doing this?’
The National Center for Missing Children is examining the other boys in the photograph and trying to match it with its database of missing children.
The police knew about Johnny, but what about those other 2 boys? How awful for the parents. Think about it for a moment..this person is taunting the parents and I hope they nail him!
I know it’s a long shot but maybe there is someone out there that can help. Here is the link to The National Center for Missing Children
Please spread the word. As his mother said, “Why Johnny Can’t Come Home.”
September 4, 2006 - 09:20 PM on September 4th, 2006
At one point in time, we executed kidnappers if the child died. Now we allow them to molest and murder the children only to be sent to a hospital for treatment. After which they promptly get out and go at it again with another child. Have you heard the story of the guy they caught and convicted on several occasions for child molestation who repeatedly beat the system by either pleading down to a misdemeanor or skipping town while the case was on appeal? the caught the guy with a 20+ year log book with coded entries for THOUSANDS of victims.
September 5, 2006 - 06:24 AM on September 5th, 2006
We also tried to make laws to keep these “rehabilitated” people a certain amount of feet from a schoolyard, yet the ACLU thinks we are violating their constitutional rights.
September 5, 2006 - 09:21 AM on September 5th, 2006
The “boy” is alive and has contacted his mother once, back in 1997 I think.
I think that’s the one of the hardest parts about this is that he IS alive, IS an adult now, and STILL refuses to contact his mother or “go home”.
What did they do to him that makes him stay away from his family after all these years?
September 5, 2006 - 09:48 AM on September 5th, 2006
Johnny’s mother says he called in 1997, but the police can not verify that. They aren’t saying she is wrong, but they can’t say for sure that it was him and not some hoax. That being said, what terrifies me more is the fact that the cops have no idea who the other 2 boys are or where they came from. Thank god for Amber Alerts! Much has been done since Johhny was taken, but much more needs to be done to protect our children.