The Enemy Within?
The exception is so prevalent, they may as well just add it to the penal code in every state and be done with it.
"Innocent until proven guilty...UNLESS a spouse or child goes missing."
Another child is dead and the mom is getting cross-eyed looks.
Five-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan is, likely, a murder victim. The little girl from Monroe, Mich. went missing on May 24 and a body fitting her age and size was found by some fishermen the other day in the River Raisin.
There hasn't been a confirmation yet, but who else is it?
Jennifer Buchanan, Nevaeh's mother, is a "person of interest" -- at least in the public's eye.
The Reader's Digest version is this: Nevaeh was playing with a friend in an apartment building, and then she was gone. The apartment she was to visit is upstairs from the one she lived in with her mother.
More than a week later, the body was found by the fishermen, not too far from Nevaeh's home.
Trouble is, Jennifer Buchanan was seeing a dude named George Kennedy, a known sex offender. Reports are that Kennedy may have owed some people some money.
THAT doesn't bode well.
Mom says, at one point, that she bade her daughter farewell as she was heading for the stairs. Then, last night on Nancy Grace's TV show, it was pointed out that mom now says she actually saw Nevaeh enter the upstairs apartment.
A discrepancy, which also doesn't bode well.
I must say, though, that after reading Jennifer's version of events, they sounded plausible. Sometimes, you can smell a rat through the newspaper. I didn't get that sense this time.
It seemed like the way Jennifer described it: daughter's going upstairs. Mom figures she's upstairs. Mom realizes she's not when another child knocks on the door and snitches that Nevaeh is outside in the parking lot, on a scooter.
Poor judgment is not a crime, though in some cases you'd like to prosecute it.
The wolves are out.
Nevaeh Buchanan
Why wasn't mom more vigilant in knowing where Nevaeh was, every single second?
It's easy to fire away from the peanut gallery.
But have those who criticize ever had a lapse in judgment in their lives?
I know I have.
I recall many years ago, my wife and daughter (she was probably 9 or so) slept in the bedroom as I shooed away a solicitor on the front porch. He was a young fellow, maybe 20, 21 years old.
He took a few steps, then asked to use my bathroom.
I said yes.
Talk about bad judgment!
He could have emerged from the bathroom with a knife, or a gun, and it wouldn't have been pretty.
But he did his business, thanked me, and left.
I heaved a sigh of relief, after pacing outside the bathroom, kicking myself for letting him into our house so easily.
He could have killed us all.
So I'm not ready to throw the book at Jennifer Buchanan because she was lulled into a sense of security that may have been false.
However, if she did indeed have something to do with Nevaeh's disappearance, then she needs to be punished fully, obviously.
These things tend to come back to the next of kin.
Wives go missing and more often than not, hubby was involved--deeply.
Kids drop off the face and if it's not mom or dad, it's not a stranger, either--usually.
It's no wonder that the police's protocol is to look at the loved ones first, before they look elsewhere. The answers are likely to be found without them having to walk so far as down to the end of the driveway.
I've been fooled before. I've heard statements and explanations of people's actions and whereabouts and thought, "Yeah, that sounds reasonable."
Then I've read, a couple days later, where everything unravels like a wool sweater caught on a nail.
Jennifer Buchanan can be accused of being a rotten, lazy, careless mother.
She won't need an attorney for that, necessarily. No court dates will be held.
Only time will tell if her story will hold water like a bucket, or a sieve.
"Innocent until proven guilty...UNLESS a spouse or child goes missing."
Another child is dead and the mom is getting cross-eyed looks.
Five-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan is, likely, a murder victim. The little girl from Monroe, Mich. went missing on May 24 and a body fitting her age and size was found by some fishermen the other day in the River Raisin.
There hasn't been a confirmation yet, but who else is it?
Jennifer Buchanan, Nevaeh's mother, is a "person of interest" -- at least in the public's eye.
The Reader's Digest version is this: Nevaeh was playing with a friend in an apartment building, and then she was gone. The apartment she was to visit is upstairs from the one she lived in with her mother.
More than a week later, the body was found by the fishermen, not too far from Nevaeh's home.
Trouble is, Jennifer Buchanan was seeing a dude named George Kennedy, a known sex offender. Reports are that Kennedy may have owed some people some money.
THAT doesn't bode well.
Mom says, at one point, that she bade her daughter farewell as she was heading for the stairs. Then, last night on Nancy Grace's TV show, it was pointed out that mom now says she actually saw Nevaeh enter the upstairs apartment.
A discrepancy, which also doesn't bode well.
I must say, though, that after reading Jennifer's version of events, they sounded plausible. Sometimes, you can smell a rat through the newspaper. I didn't get that sense this time.
It seemed like the way Jennifer described it: daughter's going upstairs. Mom figures she's upstairs. Mom realizes she's not when another child knocks on the door and snitches that Nevaeh is outside in the parking lot, on a scooter.
Poor judgment is not a crime, though in some cases you'd like to prosecute it.
The wolves are out.
Nevaeh Buchanan
Why wasn't mom more vigilant in knowing where Nevaeh was, every single second?
It's easy to fire away from the peanut gallery.
But have those who criticize ever had a lapse in judgment in their lives?
I know I have.
I recall many years ago, my wife and daughter (she was probably 9 or so) slept in the bedroom as I shooed away a solicitor on the front porch. He was a young fellow, maybe 20, 21 years old.
He took a few steps, then asked to use my bathroom.
I said yes.
Talk about bad judgment!
He could have emerged from the bathroom with a knife, or a gun, and it wouldn't have been pretty.
But he did his business, thanked me, and left.
I heaved a sigh of relief, after pacing outside the bathroom, kicking myself for letting him into our house so easily.
He could have killed us all.
So I'm not ready to throw the book at Jennifer Buchanan because she was lulled into a sense of security that may have been false.
However, if she did indeed have something to do with Nevaeh's disappearance, then she needs to be punished fully, obviously.
These things tend to come back to the next of kin.
Wives go missing and more often than not, hubby was involved--deeply.
Kids drop off the face and if it's not mom or dad, it's not a stranger, either--usually.
It's no wonder that the police's protocol is to look at the loved ones first, before they look elsewhere. The answers are likely to be found without them having to walk so far as down to the end of the driveway.
I've been fooled before. I've heard statements and explanations of people's actions and whereabouts and thought, "Yeah, that sounds reasonable."
Then I've read, a couple days later, where everything unravels like a wool sweater caught on a nail.
Jennifer Buchanan can be accused of being a rotten, lazy, careless mother.
She won't need an attorney for that, necessarily. No court dates will be held.
Only time will tell if her story will hold water like a bucket, or a sieve.
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