If your looking at this case in the light of today and making a judgment, your looking at it wrong This happened in 79 almost 40 years ago when life was much simpler and safer. People also had less reasons to distrust others. Even today, many moms put there 1st graders onto busses
Ill never forget this case. I was a new mother and just terrified that my child would be ripped from me. I was a single mom for years. I always had a live in Nanny because I was terrified of them being out without me. My daughter slept with me alot until she was 16. I used to sleep with my arms and legs around her because I couldnt bear the thought of looding her. Im so very heartbroken for parents who lose their children.
I would ask why the hell his parents allowed a 6 year old to walk down a New York City street by himself, but then I remember this happened in the 1970s when nobody gave a shit.
What a beautiful child. My heart goes out to his family. Somewhere deep inside I'm really hoping he turns up alive even though he was supposedly murdered.
This is so very sad. Let us not blame the parents. Let us learn and grow. His mother used the tragedy for good and put his face on the milk carton. How many others have been saved because of her bravery? Evil is out there
I’m so sorry- thoughts and prayers 😭😭 I rly cannot imagine the pain of losing a child- especially in this way. The good that came out of this is parents grasping the ugly reality of sin in the world and to keep careful watch & care of your children. To teach them at a young age to be self-aware, to not talk to strangers, and to protect yourself. When it didn’t happen as often and news stories weren’t shared widespread in the media, people weren’t as aware. But now they can be. We can equip our kids and be a support system for one another. It’s the 97% of good ppl in the world vs. the evil sick 3%
I didn't wall to school/home by myself or even the bus on my own until i was 12. Even then my mother always watched me from the window until i was on the bus.
poor father..How do parents carry on living after losing a child and not knowing....& .poor child...things are no different these days...worse even...someone told my sister when you have young children you have to have eyes in your bum...Thats so true. Never let them out of your sight..
Was the father ever looked at? In the interview he didn't say, I can't believe the fear my son had when he realized he was betrayed by an adult. The dad kept it unconnected. I can't believe the fear This child had..... my next question, why did the dad choose the words, betrayed by an adult. Betrayed is a strong word
Well, bc that's exactly what happened. An adult who this child had been taught to respect violated him. All adults who cruelly misuse children violate their trust. Horrid.
No, 6 is not old enough to walk around alone. Even without pedophiles and murderers on the street, a 6 year old can get seriously hurt by themselves. That's why it's the law that children can't be unsupervised until they're 12 or older.
When I was 6 my mom still drove me to school. Why the parents would allow him to do that on his own at that age is beyond my comprehension. I get that times were a bit different back then. But then again the principle of allowing your 6 year old child roam freely on the street is really bad idea. If I had a son or daughter that age I wouldn’t think to let them roam around on their own like that.
You guys have to understand that this was in the late 7s and it took weeks of him begging to walk alone and his mom actually watched him walk 75% of the way if you fallow the story you'd know that she were back inside to prepare for her at home day care center
For those asking why Etan was allowed to walk to the bus stop alone to begin with: In an article on the case it stated Etan's mother Julie ran a daycare out of the family home; that morning she had her hands full, which included the dilemma of Etan's older sister not wanting to get up. Julie told reporters Etan had been bucking for more independence, and took advantage of the business that morning to convince her to let him walk to the bus stop alone, assuring her he could do it; evidently she was reluctant, but finally agreed.
Some crazy dude claims to have killed him in 1979, you can search updates on youtube on suspects and case ended -- I didn't watch videos, just saw the headlines so might be misinformed!
If the answer never comes then justice will be held by the hand of God. Heaven bless this child's memory and God keep his parents through the rest of their traumatized lives.
It will be 40 years this summer. It started the missing child on a milk carton. I remember hearing about that. Nowadays it's a sad epidemic. Who knows what that child would become?
Yes this is very sad and it's the reason why my mentally deranged feral parents won't let me walk alone either anywhere and I am nearly bloody 30yrs old .Mind you I think my parents only do it for the bloody exercise
A different time. My mom use to let me and my older brother walked to school by ourselves in 76. I was 5 and he was 7. I know the world was shitty, but it was far more safer than it is now for a kid. Then again, it probably wasn't. We just couldn't get info within a split second and more technology is out there to know what we couldn't even fathom back then.
I thought the paper boy in Des Moines, Iowa was the first. We lived there from '77-'80, but I can't remember the exact year. It happened in our neighborhood and the dairy was just down the road. It was a simpler time as I'd never heard of child abductions or pedophiles and everyone was terrified for our children. Everyone did have to drive their kids too school but it was because we had record snow falls that started in November and piled up until late spring the whole time we were there. I do think they found his body. Have to see if I can find info about it....it's going to nag at me.
Nowadays we have Amber Alerts on our phones. It's sad to think it all started 40 years ago this year with that missing little boy. A couple of years later, John Walsh, who worked in a hotel, lost his son who was also missing, & it motivated him to be fully involved in fighting crime & searching for lost children.
What ever happened; the innocent child is still not found and I pray that they soon will get to know at least something about what happened to that wonderful little jewish toddler.
Johnny Gosch was also on the milk cartons, His mother said he had come after a few years and she invited him in and they talked, Johnny told her that he was still in danger but he wouldn't tell his mother where he was staying/living. The woman didn't have evidence so the police didn't do anything much else, They all thought the woman had gone mad. But his mother said he wasn't alone, He was with an older man. Potential kidnapper? But it doesn't add up, Why would a kidnapper let you see your mother? Or maybe that's who he was staying with? The mystery is still not confirmed. Johnny Gosch is still missing. Reply to me if you have any idea what happened to him and why? And do you think his mother saw him or is she going crazy?
Any ideas on what could have happened and why? Write them down here in the reply box and please be serious about what your writing since this is a very serious crime.
This child's mother is just as guilty for his death as the person who took him! How could she let him out without escorting him to the bus at his age at the time??? I gues she did not value his life as she should. Children are precious ones to parents who love them. True love gives protection until they are able to function alone! Not at that age!!
+Alex Card The article i read says he was the first :) newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/24/etan-patz-after-33-years-an-arrest-in-the-disappearance-of-the-milk-carton-boy/ and on wikipedia too :)
if you care so little about your child has to let him walk out of your sight for any moment at just six years of age, you are willing to let something like this happen. No pity for the parents. you guard what you cherish, and you don't guard what you don't care about. Again. No pity for the parents
+Emma Klinsmann i agree that it is the fault of the perpetrator,BUT these predators lurk around looking for opportunities and when parents neglect their duty this way they provide that opportunity.
Whoever come up with the 'genius' idea of putting a missing kid on the side of a milk carton wasn't too bright. It is the most ineffectual form of mass information disemination. Also, nobody pauses to look at those silly missing kids bulletins in Walmart with the "every second counts" nonsense. Every second counts? Really now..
Why would you say something like that? He is suspicious because he was working there and had access to kidnap Etan Patz. Not because he gave the child a dollar. Are you ignorant or just stupid? People take great offense of this because you act like it is fun and all games, when this boy disappeared so many years ago with nearly no trace. Now please go read a book, your grammar is highly out the window. And please work on your words and how to be human. I think you forgot it midways.
Well my excuse is I am Norwegian, English is not my first language what is yours? My grammar is not fucked, in case you did not notice I write full words. My grammar really do not matter in the case of a missing child. I am just pissed off at ignorance.
It is a different time his parents did nothing wrong we should not judge people who do not do things on just because. ....It's a accidents parents are not to blame children should not live in fear of the evil people that do wrong their day is coming.
Why would a mother let a6 year old go to his school bus by himself? I blame the mother.They should know better,i think the parents should be taken away from their son and he be with someone whos more protective
+Penguin Bruh It's impossible for people now to understand how free life was then and before. I walked over a mile to school when I was in kindergarten and the first grade. I know my mom followed me the first few days to make sure I knew how to get there, but once she knew I was sure of the route, I was on my own. That was in 1960. We played outside without adults all day until way after dark all summer, no one thought twice about it. When I babysat in the 1970s kids were still doing that. They ran back and forth between houses all the time, the neighborhood was one big playground and family. People weren't afraid, kids weren't scared, everyone watched out for everyone. Life was more fun, carefree, enjoyable, not nearly as stressed as it is now. The mom wasn't the problem, it was the degenerate person that took this little boy and killed him. That should never be in doubt. In our society today kids should be free to play, enjoy the freedom outside their doors. The degenerate, sick creeps that do stuff like this should be executed as soon as they are found guilty and removed from society. When stupid people started a misguided movement claiming they could be rehabilitated in the 50s and 60s, life changed for the good people, and that's why this sick stuff has ruined life for the kids of today. So don't blame the mother, blame the silly people who think these sickos deserve a second chance.
+zuzu petals Yep. It was still sort of like that in the 80's as well. Although, I suspect it might depend on where you lived. In a big city? Maybe not. But definitely in the smaller towns and suburbs.
+Winston S. Yes we lived in relatively small towns. Sacramento, Los Gatos, Mission Viejo, Petaluma. They were small in the 60s and 70s, not now. Things have changed so much since then.
Emily: Your answer comes from needing to blame someone because what happened is too much to think about. I remember when Etan Patz had gone missing. I was about 21 yrs old, this was the first missing child I had ever heard of. Believe me, the parents of this boy have suffered so terribly and don't deserve to be hated or blamed. It wasn't like things are now, now we hear of every child that goes missing throughout the entire country. I walked to school by myself often when I was 6 yrs old in Brooklyn, NY. in the late 1950s. I walked to school by myself every year of childhood. Now I would never let a child even stand waiting for a bus by themselves. Parents in general weren't as aware as we are now, as we have been more and more with every year. I lost a son to homicide when he was 35 yrs old and even now as a mother i think "Could i have prevented my son's death somehow?" I didn't know the dangers possible in his life. ( a terrible thoughtless, ex-girlfriend ) because outwardly there didn't seem to be dangers. I've never forgotten Etan Patz. The cruel murder of one's child is unbelievable. The parents don't deserve condemnation in this case. Today I say yes, parents must be with children, we know how dangerous it is for even one block for a child to walk alone.
... and a generation of snowflakes was born - Jonathan Haidt is right. With sympathies for the unimaginable terror of child victims and lost parents... the reality is that life is fatal no matter how you play the game. Parents (and children) need to learn to assess risks & rewards with some perspective. Insanity is criminalizing parents of "free range children" (key word: FREE)
how can people believe there is a god when things like this happen ? how could any god allow the parents to suffer like they have for all these years some evil sick bastard most likely took that kids life for a few minutes of pleasure and condemned his family to a life of misery what god would let that happen ?
If God controls ever thing we do or ever thing that happens wats the point of a hell or heaven and God wants to show his wrath and wat he is capable of.....and gods says that people who have suffered on earth will be rewarded in heaven only if there believers also it's more of a test he wanted to see after this much amount of time they still believed that God is the all knowing all merciful
And he has the most Adorable little face god bless the angels will take care of him and protect all those other missing children out there
You telling me to grow up ?
Christian Bozwell shut up
He wants the V
lmao
If your looking at this case in the light of today and making a judgment, your looking at it wrong
This happened in 79 almost 40 years ago when life was much simpler and safer. People also had less reasons to distrust others.
Even today, many moms put there 1st graders onto busses
6 is a pretty young age to walking anywhere alone even if it is just for the school bus, but his poor parents 💔 what a horrible price to pay 😢
becky 1981 exactly. You never know what sick people are out there looking for little kids to kidnap or something. You can never be too safe
I’m older than he was and I’m not even allowed to exit the building lol
@@br34dyt well, things were different back in the 70's
It was the 80s, 3 year olds literally wakes places lol
Things back then we're alot better and safer though it was very rare things like this happen
He has the most precious adorable little faces may he rest in peace in heaven
Amen
Ill never forget this case. I was a new mother and just terrified that my child would be ripped from me. I was a single mom for years. I always had a live in Nanny because I was terrified of them being out without me. My daughter slept with me alot until she was 16. I used to sleep with my arms and legs around her because I couldnt bear the thought of looding her. Im so very heartbroken for parents who lose their children.
Same
Be careful because sometimes cosleeping with a young infant can cause SIDS. Be a good mother and don’t smother
I would ask why the hell his parents allowed a 6 year old to walk down a New York City street by himself, but then I remember this happened in the 1970s when nobody gave a shit.
What a beautiful child. My heart goes out to his family. Somewhere deep inside I'm really hoping he turns up alive even though he was supposedly murdered.
1st face on a Milk Carton was Johnny Gosch. Johnny has never been found either.
*one of those*
this is true. Johnny Gosch was the first.
Johnny Gosch was the second. Etan, Johnny, then Adam Walsh
SECOND
Joe Chris no they was the 2 child
You guys have to understand back in their day it was safe it was not common for a child to be kidnapped.
This is so very sad. Let us not blame the parents. Let us learn and grow. His mother used the tragedy for good and put his face on the milk carton. How many others have been saved because of her bravery? Evil is out there
this is why I do martial arts
Gamingarch or pepper spray
Makes NO SENSE 😂😂
@@snaketortillas1091 ye it does, martial arts is a self defence technique
Ok why should a 6 year old walk to a bus stop on his own anyway ?
JonoX you're not special Americans do it too
Kt D Back then things were safer and we trusted people. Yes it happened but not as often as it does now. Now,nothing is safe.
JonoX stfu!
Deborah Chapman Things weren't safer. People just believed they were because no one discussed child sex crime.
it was back in the day
He looks like like he was so friendly and sweet child but whenever I see a picture of someone missing or dead I get chills
He is 42 in 2015😞😭😭
43 in 2016 😭
44 in 2017 😭
Marissa Carreno 47 in 2020
Recubs he’s 47 now
My mom freaks out when I go out on my own and I'm 18 and yet some parents have no problem letting their six year old child go out without an adult
Mom:do your homework
Me:I am I'm learning about this missing kid
I remember this story, it was so sad. I hope the parents get some answers.
They did in 2017
I’m so sorry- thoughts and prayers 😭😭 I rly cannot imagine the pain of losing a child- especially in this way.
The good that came out of this is parents grasping the ugly reality of sin in the world and to keep careful watch & care of your children. To teach them at a young age to be self-aware, to not talk to strangers, and to protect yourself.
When it didn’t happen as often and news stories weren’t shared widespread in the media, people weren’t as aware. But now they can be. We can equip our kids and be a support system for one another. It’s the 97% of good ppl in the world vs. the evil sick 3%
I didn't wall to school/home by myself or even the bus on my own until i was 12. Even then my mother always watched me from the window until i was on the bus.
poor father..How do parents carry on living after losing a child and not knowing....& .poor child...things are no different these days...worse even...someone told my sister when you have young children you have to have eyes in your bum...Thats so true. Never let them out of your sight..
are you real?
Was the father ever looked at? In the interview he didn't say, I can't believe the fear my son had when he realized he was betrayed by an adult. The dad kept it unconnected. I can't believe the fear This child had..... my next question, why did the dad choose the words, betrayed by an adult. Betrayed is a strong word
Well, bc that's exactly what happened. An adult who this child had been taught to respect violated him. All adults who cruelly misuse children violate their trust. Horrid.
my parents will NEVER i mean NEVER let me do that
Where is Johnny Gosch he was the first boy missing on the milk carton
But he went missing after Etan
Think about it we should be free to walk where we want. He was 6 thats old enough he was where he was supposed to be it's the criminal who is not 😈
right can't even walk down the damn street smh
No, 6 is not old enough to walk around alone. Even without pedophiles and murderers on the street, a 6 year old can get seriously hurt by themselves. That's why it's the law that children can't be unsupervised until they're 12 or older.
Len the Trendy Tetraodontiforme You must be an idiot. This was back in the 1970's when people didn't do stupid shit like rape children and kill them.
Len the Trendy Tetraodontiforme Also its common sense, walk on the sidewalk and don't get hit simple right?
Are you insane 6 is old enough so you telling me a 6 year old cannot get on bike or walk up and down their own street......now thats crazy
@1:26 it's sounds like he's saying dozens of Asians
When I was 6 my mom still drove me to school. Why the parents would allow him to do that on his own at that age is beyond my comprehension. I get that times were a bit different back then. But then again the principle of allowing your 6 year old child roam freely on the street is really bad idea. If I had a son or daughter that age I wouldn’t think to let them roam around on their own like that.
You guys have to understand that this was in the late 7s and it took weeks of him begging to walk alone and his mom actually watched him walk 75% of the way if you fallow the story you'd know that she were back inside to prepare for her at home day care center
For those asking why Etan was allowed to walk to the bus stop alone to begin with: In an article on the case it stated Etan's mother Julie ran a daycare out of the family home; that morning she had her hands full, which included the dilemma of Etan's older sister not wanting to get up. Julie told reporters Etan had been bucking for more independence, and took advantage of the business that morning to convince her to let him walk to the bus stop alone, assuring her he could do it; evidently she was reluctant, but finally agreed.
R.I.P Etan Patz so sad 😣
The trail for the murder is going on still right now I believe, but they got a confession from a guy who said he strangled Etan in that basement.
This news report was nearly 3 years ago. Did they find anything in that buidling, and what was it and how long did it take?
Some crazy dude claims to have killed him in 1979, you can search updates on youtube on suspects and case ended -- I didn't watch videos, just saw the headlines so might be misinformed!
Finally a news reporter who shows sad emotion on a sad case unlike every other one who proceeds to act happy 😤🙄
Am I the only one who thinks six is way to young to be walking alone????
No
We walked to the school bus from age 5. I don't know.
Parents did it. The boy never left the apartment that morning.
If he wasn’t found when his face was on a milk carton then he’s dead.
He looks like tht boy from girl meets world
Can feel the pain of the parents, how dreadful to have to live with that
If the answer never comes then justice will be held by the hand of God. Heaven bless this child's memory and God keep his parents through the rest of their traumatized lives.
Serious question here: is N.Y.P.D = New York Police Department? i could have googled it but fukkit
Yes that is correct
It will be 40 years this summer. It started the missing child on a milk carton. I remember hearing about that. Nowadays it's a sad epidemic. Who knows what that child would become?
Poor little Ethan and poor parents my god the pain they endured
I don't understand why parents let their 6 year old walk by themselves. I was 9 or 10 when I started waking to school alone
IKR
Well, it's the 70's. Folks weren't quite as worried about things, such as their kid getting kidnapped, back then.
cause maybe he lived nearby
+scrappyjoe1861 Not true, we were just as worried then as we are now. He should not have been walking alone. My parents would not allow such a thing.
+Connie Lee Alright, if you say so. I wasn't around back then, so I'll assume you're right.
When I was 7 I started walking home from school by my self and I go to Northmoor.
Isn't so good to put your school on the Internet...
+lilypie It really isnt someone could come and shoot up your school so please dont again
lilypie "time to shoot up a school"
I feel so bad..
Bless him
2020 anybody 16.2.20
Did they find him it's 2014
Now 37 years
i feel bad for etan patz
No wonder he was on the milk carton he was gorgeous.
*Why don't you have a seat over there?*
Deer Lord ?
Marshall Mathers Ever heard of Chris Hansen?
Deer Lord Yea isn't he like a journalist or something, but what about him?
Deer Lord Lol i'm not. Idk, I just think he was so gorgeous, and no one mentioned it yet, i'm no pedo, unless I don't know it...
I remember this and now I read and follow
i read that in america about one million children have been reported lost ...maybe some found, others murdered ...but one million ??? oh my goodness.
Yes this is very sad and it's the reason why my mentally deranged feral parents won't let me walk alone either anywhere and I am nearly bloody 30yrs old .Mind you I think my parents only do it for the bloody exercise
Absolutely sad
A different time. My mom use to let me and my older brother walked to school by ourselves in 76. I was 5 and he was 7. I know the world was shitty, but it was far more safer than it is now for a kid. Then again, it probably wasn't. We just couldn't get info within a split second and more technology is out there to know what we couldn't even fathom back then.
Etan Patz looks like Derek Hough
no he doesn't, Derek Hough is a hideous creature, that child was cute looking.
is he still alive? it doesnt tell us
+ToyStar He's assumed to be dead as he has been missing for so long and there is no evidence that points to him being alive either.
I thought the paper boy in Des Moines, Iowa was the first. We lived there from '77-'80, but I can't remember the exact year. It happened in our neighborhood and the dairy was just down the road. It was a simpler time as I'd never heard of child abductions or pedophiles and everyone was terrified for our children. Everyone did have to drive their kids too school but it was because we had record snow falls that started in November and piled up until late spring the whole time we were there. I do think they found his body. Have to see if I can find info about it....it's going to nag at me.
that was pretty common back in the 70's and also waht do you expect? leaving your kids out of your sight when they are 15? 18 maybe?
My child is missing in phila 3/7/2919
Nowadays we have Amber Alerts on our phones. It's sad to think it all started 40 years ago this year with that missing little boy. A couple of years later, John Walsh, who worked in a hotel, lost his son who was also missing, & it motivated him to be fully involved in fighting crime & searching for lost children.
What ever happened; the innocent child is still not found and I pray that they soon will get to know at least something about what happened to that wonderful little jewish toddler.
***** Ok,but have they found his body?
Johnny Gosch was also on the milk cartons, His mother said he had come after a few years and she invited him in and they talked, Johnny told her that he was still in danger but he wouldn't tell his mother where he was staying/living. The woman didn't have evidence so the police didn't do anything much else, They all thought the woman had gone mad. But his mother said he wasn't alone, He was with an older man. Potential kidnapper? But it doesn't add up, Why would a kidnapper let you see your mother? Or maybe that's who he was staying with? The mystery is still not confirmed. Johnny Gosch is still missing. Reply to me if you have any idea what happened to him and why? And do you think his mother saw him or is she going crazy?
Any ideas on what could have happened and why? Write them down here in the reply box and please be serious about what your writing since this is a very serious crime.
poor kid was just trying to learn
This was made into an episode of Law and Order if I'm not mistaken.
This child's mother is just as guilty for his death as the person who took him! How could she let him out without escorting him to the bus at his age at the time??? I gues she did not value his life as she should. Children are precious ones to parents who love them. True love gives protection until they are able to function alone! Not at that age!!
hope they get who done it rip baby boy
he wasn't the first on a milk carton. Johnny gosch was the first missing child in a milk carton.
on* :)
+Alex Card The article i read says he was the first :) newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/24/etan-patz-after-33-years-an-arrest-in-the-disappearance-of-the-milk-carton-boy/
and on wikipedia too :)
Did they find his body? RIP Etan
if you care so little about your child has to let him walk out of your sight for any moment at just six years of age, you are willing to let something like this happen. No pity for the parents. you guard what you cherish, and you don't guard what you don't care about. Again. No pity for the parents
not the parents' fault but they contributed to it.
+Emma Klinsmann i agree that it is the fault of the perpetrator,BUT these predators lurk around looking for opportunities and when parents neglect their duty this way they provide that opportunity.
I thought he was walking to the school bus alone at like 12 or something not 6
This a Mandela Effect for me, in my world Johnny Gosch was the original milk carton kid and started the whole campaign.
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So horrible. It's crazy that this little face that we look at is now nearer to the age of 40, hopefully.
Did they find his remains? Who’s the suspect??
😢
He was killed by the carpenter. He lured the boy into the basement and killed him. Then, he was tried in 2012
Whoever come up with the 'genius' idea of putting a missing kid on the side of a milk carton wasn't too bright. It is the most ineffectual form of mass information disemination. Also, nobody pauses to look at those silly missing kids bulletins in Walmart with the "every second counts" nonsense. Every second counts? Really now..
I nerver said dont alive, nerver
Was there a Criminal Minds episode based off of this? I feel like there was. This is way too familiar.
No it was Blue Bloods
Thank you.
lel just cuz the black guy gave em a dollar now he is suspicous
shut the fuck up you pathetic piece of shit...
Lizard McFly umm no
Why would you say something like that? He is suspicious because he was working there and had access to kidnap Etan Patz. Not because he gave the child a dollar. Are you ignorant or just stupid? People take great offense of this because you act like it is fun and all games, when this boy disappeared so many years ago with nearly no trace. Now please go read a book, your grammar is highly out the window. And please work on your words and how to be human. I think you forgot it midways.
Well my excuse is I am Norwegian, English is not my first language what is yours? My grammar is not fucked, in case you did not notice I write full words. My grammar really do not matter in the case of a missing child. I am just pissed off at ignorance.
lol i was kidding by this comment I didn't accually think that
:(
omg
Did they find his remains or what?
who's here from jessii vee?
Johnny Gosch was the first.
Probably the boy is 66 years old
Luz YRP If, and I hope he is, he is still alive then he is now about 41 years old. where do you get this 66?
sylvani1 42*
It is a different time his parents did nothing wrong we should not judge people who do not do things on just because. ....It's a accidents parents are not to blame children should not live in fear of the evil people that do wrong their day is coming.
Evan Patz
they have the wrong man !
Why would a mother let a6 year old go to his school bus by himself? I blame the mother.They should know better,i think the parents should be taken away from their son and he be with someone whos more protective
+Penguin Bruh It's impossible for people now to understand how free life was then and before. I walked over a mile to school when I was in kindergarten and the first grade. I know my mom followed me the first few days to make sure I knew how to get there, but once she knew I was sure of the route, I was on my own. That was in 1960. We played outside without adults all day until way after dark all summer, no one thought twice about it. When I babysat in the 1970s kids were still doing that. They ran back and forth between houses all the time, the neighborhood was one big playground and family. People weren't afraid, kids weren't scared, everyone watched out for everyone. Life was more fun, carefree, enjoyable, not nearly as stressed as it is now. The mom wasn't the problem, it was the degenerate person that took this little boy and killed him. That should never be in doubt. In our society today kids should be free to play, enjoy the freedom outside their doors. The degenerate, sick creeps that do stuff like this should be executed as soon as they are found guilty and removed from society. When stupid people started a misguided movement claiming they could be rehabilitated in the 50s and 60s, life changed for the good people, and that's why this sick stuff has ruined life for the kids of today. So don't blame the mother, blame the silly people who think these sickos deserve a second chance.
+zuzu petals Yep. It was still sort of like that in the 80's as well. Although, I suspect it might depend on where you lived. In a big city? Maybe not. But definitely in the smaller towns and suburbs.
+Winston S. Yes we lived in relatively small towns. Sacramento, Los Gatos, Mission Viejo, Petaluma. They were small in the 60s and 70s, not now. Things have changed so much since then.
Emily: Your answer comes from needing to blame someone because what happened is too much to think about. I remember when Etan Patz had gone missing. I was about 21 yrs old, this was the first missing child I had ever heard of. Believe me, the parents of this boy have suffered so terribly and don't deserve to be hated or blamed. It wasn't like things are now, now we hear of every child that goes missing throughout the entire country. I walked to school by myself often when I was 6 yrs old in Brooklyn, NY. in the late 1950s. I walked to school by myself every year of childhood. Now I would never let a child even stand waiting for a bus by themselves. Parents in general weren't as aware as we are now, as we have been more and more with every year. I lost a son to homicide when he was 35 yrs old and even now as a mother i think "Could i have prevented my son's death somehow?" I didn't know the dangers possible in his life. ( a terrible thoughtless, ex-girlfriend ) because outwardly there didn't seem to be dangers. I've never forgotten Etan Patz. The cruel murder of one's child is unbelievable. The parents don't deserve condemnation in this case. Today I say yes, parents must be with children, we know how dangerous it is for even one block for a child to walk alone.
He is long dead
Useless
this is the worst ida made my pratnts
what? i cant understand you
dam you auto correct
+Faiza Mohamed damn and its idea
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Stop with this false propaganda. We all know damn well you guys ain't gonna do a damn thing.
... and a generation of snowflakes was born - Jonathan Haidt is right. With sympathies for the unimaginable terror of child victims and lost parents... the reality is that life is fatal no matter how you play the game. Parents (and children) need to learn to assess risks & rewards with some perspective. Insanity is criminalizing parents of "free range children" (key word: FREE)
how can people believe there is a god when things like this happen ?
how could any god allow the parents to suffer like they have for all these years
some evil sick bastard most likely took that kids life for a few minutes of pleasure and condemned his family to a life of misery
what god would let that happen ?
If God controls ever thing we do or ever thing that happens wats the point of a hell or heaven and God wants to show his wrath and wat he is capable of.....and gods says that people who have suffered on earth will be rewarded in heaven only if there believers also it's more of a test he wanted to see after this much amount of time they still believed that God is the all knowing all merciful
I believe there is a power for good, if you want to call it a god then fine, but I do not believe this power is all that caring about us humans
is he still alive? it doesnt tell us
They declared that the boy is dead in 2001