Comments on: Child Goes Missing For Ten Years, And His Adoptive Parents Didn’t Think To Report It?

By: Johnny

Johnny — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:21:53 +0000

Sad story.

To the author of it; ‘most stupidest’? That makes you look like a moron insulting morons. Please use proper grammar.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:28:25 +0000

Obviously, he could not have been legally adopted if they were still receiving money every month. I know from experience that once a child is legally adopted, all outside subsidies stop. Maybe that was the problem. They adopted him, stopped getting money and regretted the adoption. An 11 year old child that keeps running away is either looking for his biological family, or is being abused. If it is the first, the biological parents may not have reported it so the authorities would not take him away again, if it was the second then he is most likely dead.

By: Emmy

Emmy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:19:54 +0000

They sound almost as fun as the guy who sold his 14-year-old daughter for some beer and meat. For reals tho, wtf?

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:25:42 +0000

About the comment on the biological son, we shouldn’t be surprised if the source that tipped off the police wasn’t him. He’s barely an adult now himself; it may have been that only recently did he find the chance to get away himself and report what he knows. I don’t even want to imagine what that home life was like. He may have had to seek counseling to figure what is up from down before he even understood the reality of Adam’s missing.

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:54:22 +0000

Someone did know what happened…their adult son. Why didn’t he say anything to the authorities when he became an adult? I get that it’s hard for kids to rat out their parents when they’re a minor living at home, but once you move out, there’s no excuse for keeping silent.

Hopefully Adam Herrman did run away to his family of origin and it’s all a big misunderstanding. Of course his family probably sucked for him to have been taken away from them in the first place. Ugh, that means his whole fucking life was filled with pain and disappointment. How awful.

By: Felicia

Felicia — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:53:07 +0000

As a foster care/adoption social worker, all I can do is shake my head and say WTholyF. And thank all the powers that be that 99% of adoptive families aren’t total fuck nuts like this family.

Kids in foster care drew the genetic short straw the first time around, when it came to parents. They deserved better then and they sure as hell deserve better the second time around. I have no words to describe how I feel about the perfect storm of failure that let this poor boy down. This goes above and beyond being let down by the system. I can’t think of a punishment harsh enough for everyone who failed this child.

By: Bailey

Bailey — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:26:48 +0000

That poor baby! No excuse for this. Even if turns out he wasn’t physically or emotionally abused while with the adoptive parents, not reporting his absence was an abuse in itself!

By: West

West — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:10:35 +0000

CJ- yes, it’s fraud. And it’s also my bet as to why they didn’t report him missing. Same income, less output. That is, of course, assuming they didn’t have anything to do with his disappearance to begin with.

“Really Rue” my ass. They do not feel guilty about not reporting him. It was deliberate.

If they had something to do with it- they’re bastards. If they didn’t have anything to do with it- they’re still bastards.

By: Anne Brighton

Anne Brighton — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:07:58 +0000

They fraudently continued to collect adoption subsidy payments ($700 / month) until the boy was 18. Don’t you think that’s a darn good reason not to have reported him…especially if you did something to the poor child?

My question is where the hell were the adoption authorities? Where were the truant officers? Where were the neighbors? Didn’t ANYONE notice this boy was simply not there anymore? How can such a thing happen in this day and age? It boggles the mind. We can track somebody’s expensive Lexus when it gets swiped but we can’t keep track of a defenseless little boy?

By: CJ England

CJ England — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:27:46 +0000

If they took money after he was gone, that’s fraud,isn’t it?

I don’t know if these people are just the most uncaring, selfish people on the planet or flat out murderers, but why didn’t someone else notice this child missing. Like others who posted here, that scares me most.

I homeschooled my kids so we didn’t have that daily school contact, but you can bet your sweet patootie that had one of them disappeared, a plethora of people would have asked why!