Toddlers do go missing, not just under their own volition.

Family members???? Is Crazy Anthony her nanny???

It would be easy to take a toddler if the person that took her had a key to the house and the toddler knew the person taking them.

Hopefully this won't turn out to be another sad story.

They probably didn't even need a key to get in. Most likely the house was unlocked. I have family up there and it always kills me when they don't lock the doors at night.

I would like to know more about the soft cast too. what happened there?is this another Jahessye Shockley situation where the parents have a history of abuse?

More like white babies missing from their beds. Not playing the race card, but that is who has reported their tots missing the most. Yes, the black girl in Arizona was missing, but she is 5 yo, not a tot.

Your point is what? Race had nothing to do with nothing here, then you had to bring it up. Oh, maybe Blacks are somehow one-up on this cuz their kids don't go missing like this? Dang.

Hey Valhall, I can think of a few black children that have gone missing lately and it was the parents later found to have killed their child and Im not playing the "race card" either.

Live in boyfriend???

She was missing from her father's home so live-in boyfriend would be unlikely though not unheard of.

val...you are playing the race card, and it doesn't matter how old or young...a child should not have to go through this..

It is sad that a child has to go thru this or is harmed, however... All children bear the errors/sins/faults/mistakes/poor chioces (call it what you will) of their parents. It may not be nice or the way it should be... but it is reality.

Yes I am playing the race card, but as far as tots (younger than 5) wandering out of the house/stolen from the house, it has mostly been white children. The woman who said her child was stolen from the house while she was drunk, this woman, I am sure the woman whose child in NC or SC who was found, Baby Lisa, etc. have all been white. Yes, I know it happens in all races, I am saying lately the child wandering/missing from the home is mostly white folks lately, that's all. I am not talking about the idiots black males who have been accused of killing their kids in Detroit (my child was car jacked) and the other one who had the kid and threw her over the bridge (can't remember the city) while she was in the carseat. I really wish folks would think about it before having kids and then don't want to be bothered with them.

Another thing, yes, it happens in all races, but I really wish that the police will investigate everybody because 9 times out of 10, it is a parent, boyfriend/girlfriend of parent, step parent, other family member, friend of family or neighbor who has done this before a stranger or child molester.

It's not mostly white kids that go missing. It's mostly missing white kids that get media attention. They just don't report as often if the kid isn't a cute little blonde.

Not playing th race card but several children from several races go missing nationwide, what I don't understand is only the white kids get reported in the news. Just stating what I see not being an a-hole.

I just can't believe that ANOTHER baby is missing from their bed.

Race has nothing to do with it.

Maybe that is right that only white kids seem to get reported on the news than other tots who go missing.

Wanna play the race card, Val? Ok, so let's play the race card. One of the reasons why most of the missing babies/toddlers are white is because the others got nuked, drowned, strangled, shot, beat to death or tossed out of the car by the baby daddy or baby mama's current live in.

Wow, are you serious my pov. You really wanna go there? Well haven't a lot of white kids been killed, molested, shot by the mothers, stabbed, etc., by other members of the family? I have stated that black men lately have been tossing their kids out. The point is it would be nice for folks to keep an eye on their kids, but on the news, will you deny that it is reported almost daily that there is a white tot that is missing from the home? that is what I was stating.

valhallaarwen,

I live in AZ and it took almost 2 weeks for Jahessye to be reported in national news. Baby Lisa went missing in MO about 1 week prior. The first stories on both of these kids went out locally almost immediately (not a surprise). Lisa gained national attention via online text stories 1 day after she went missing. Sites like the Huffington Post and UK's Daily Mail took 2 days to run a story on Jahessye.

Baby Lisa's parents were on TV talking to TODAY within 4 days of her being reported as missing. TODAY has yet to speak with Jahessye's mom. In fact one of the first nationally televised mentions for Jahessye were on shows like The View, where they only used her as a way to point out how much the media has saturated the news with headlines for "little blonde white girls" vs black girls.

On Oct 21st, 10 days after Jahessye went missing, her family was on local news here saying "where is our national attention???".

So people hating on you for "playing the race card" need to do their research before sweeping this pattern under the rug! Same thing happened with Laci Peterson. A pregnant LaToyia Figueroa was killed only a few years after Laci and there was barely any coverage.

What the heck is going on? Why does this same "we put them to bed then in the morning they were gone" story keep reoccurring? People, if you don't want your kids, there are other ways of getting your precious freedom back!! I'm not buying all this crap about someone coming into the home, all stealth and ninja like and taking babies! Who would do that? That's incredibly bold! Am I the only one here not buying what these parents are selling?

I pray this little one, like all the others still missing, is safe and in the company of someone who just wanted a baby to love. Let's just hope...

Lolly thank you. I only knew about Jahessye was due to Huffington Post. Then Nancy Grace talked about her as well. The national media was all up in the baby Lisa story until the next one came along. I was just pointing out the obvious.

Not necessarily abuse, my nephew broke his arm when he fell down stairs that didn't have a hand rail (at their house) stairs that are outside.

Hey, I was one yrs. old, fell off of a couch trying to stand up before anyone could catch me and did a header into a cast iron radiator. I have a scar on the bridge of my nose very faint now at 59 yrs. but hey, I lived. Kid's are meant to bend, break, bruise, it's called growing up in lifes experiences and teachings.

Let's see if they hire an attorney!

I must be blind! After all; I am 57 but where the hell is the soft cast on this picture that I'm looking at?

You guys may have all been hurt when little BUT you didn't also go missing!!!!! Think people ....... Please Pray for this family

Sweetvic,

Consider the possibility that the picture you looked at was taken before the child broke her arm. Did you think you were looking at a live photo?

Sweetvic,

She was last seen wearing green one-piece pajamas with polka dots and the words "Daddy's Princess" on them. She had a soft cast on her left arm.

Did they update since ya read the article? Happens quite often.

I have 8 brothers and their antics as they were growing was crazy, they loved to play sports climbed trees roughhoused with each other and just did normal kid stuff. Usually a couple of them had something in cast at least once a year

My daughter had a soft cast made of leather. When she was 2 and fell while walking up the ramp part of a swingset, she put her hand out as she landed. Toddlers bones are flexible so instead of breaking the bone curved a little. They called it a buckle fracture.

I have a niece who had three broken arms by the time she was 2. No abuse, just a condition with her bones which caused them to break during normal falls. Children that age fall down and off things a lot.

But I feel sorry for anyone who actually does have their child abducted, because with all these parents lying about it, it is hard to take them seriously.

My VERY first thought Pam!

My first thought also with all the abuse you hear about now.

Wouldn't you check on this child during the night. Surely she would need a diaper change. Maybe even a bottle.

You're right. Every child with a broken arm, scrape on their knee, or bump on their head obviously must have been abused. People with your mentality are one of the problems in this country.

Not necessarily at 20 months old! My daughter was sleeping through the night at that age and did not need a diaper change or a bottle. Needless to say, alot of toddlers going missing these days. REALLY sad. I am fighting right now for my daughter having been physically abused by her stepmom. Everyone is worried about reuniting them. And all I see are the signs that she will be further abused by this woman and I refuse to let my child to go "missing" while in the care of her dad or stepmom. Uggh, makes me just sick... Unfortunately our system is so screwed up and allows abuse to continue even when reported.

Keith Stone maybe I'am having a Senior moment.

pam: Just for the record & I'm NOT trying to absolve anyone of anything, but when my oldest was born, he had bl-lateral clubfeet. ( both feet ) For 7 weeks, he wore hard casts from his hips to the tips of his metatarsals ( toes ), with the casts being regularly changed as he was growing so much at that time, as all babies do.

Believe me, I got some strange looks. I, now a nurse, did not know about how severe clubfoot was treated in those days ( 1968 ) as I'd never seen a case before. I do know that casting has changed since then. I thought my Dad was going to have a stoke the 1st. time he picked my son up after the casts were on. Luckily, my husband & I were young, & in our 20's because today, we'd have mimicked my Dad's reaction in a heartbeat.

Hope we find out what happens to this darling beautiful, little girl & she gets home safe & sound for Christmas. Prayers!

Dad sat me off the side of his motorcycle when I was a tot, to find that the first thing I would naturally grab for was the shiny chrome exhaust pipe at my level. Burned my hand badly, hospital, bandaged and bagged. The next week, again on the Air Force base, someone pulled out in front of Dad in his 55' Bel Air. I was conveniently standing in the center of the back seat, and launched over the front at whatever speed the car had been travelling. Lucky for me the steel dash with those neato radio knobs stopped my body from hitting full force! Hard on my face though! We laugh now, but my parents were nearly brought up on charges in the 60's! Accidents, however unfortunate or frequent, DO happen. And yes, my face still hurts, and I'm sorry it's killin' you. Dad!

Well, there have been plenty (one is too many, imo) of cases where the mother was involved in a missing child case. In this case, the toddler went missing from her father's house and, according to the article, the parents live separately. So, unless the mother broke in and took her daughter out of his house, I highly doubt the mother was involved in this particular case.

Yeah, Tricia, because she was found not guilty, there are several children missing.

We all know that if she was found guilty, it never would happen again.

I doubt the fact that she got off makes one believe you can get away with it. First off, it's not always a mother (or father).

Secondly, I honestly think that, if you are capable of such a thing, it won't matter what's going on with other people...you will do it. I mean, can you even imagine what is inside a parent to even think of doing this?

No matter who did it, let's just hope it's someone who actually, in some warped way, thinks they can do better and is loving her as much, if not more, than the parents do.

First, there is a need to obtain all of the facts prior to popping off at the mouth. Once the facts have been ascertained, two objectives occur. The first is not to blame prior non convictions for the actions of the perpetrator (should there be one). Second, ensure that the prosecuting attorney does the job for which he is paid. Don't know how much of the Casey Anthony trial you watched, but the PS was way over confident (to the point of snickering during defense statements) and he LOST the case. The defense attorney owned the smug PA.

@Tricia

What do you mean "Now everybody is missing a kid"? Are you missing your kid? I am not missing mine! As a matter of fact there isn't a missing kid in my county period!!!

Casey Anthony is a creep and a lowlife and she will answer to what part she had in her daughter’s death someday! But setting the criminal justice system up so that they convict ANYONE charged with a crime pretty much does away with any constitutional protections we have (which by the way are getting fewer and fewer in the name of homeland security) and would only worsen the problem of innocent people sitting in prison for crimes in which they are simply not guilty of! If you were sucked up into our CJS and convicted of killing your child and sentenced to either death or to life in prison yet you knew 100% that you were not guilty, would you still support a convict at all cost criminal justice system that was set in place simply because of the Casey Anthony trial?

There are more innocent in prison now than anyone wants to admit to! There are also many MANY folks in prison for "crimes" that shouldn't even be crimes that can land a person in prison, crimes that are victimless crimes, like a guy getting caught with a pound of weed or a tiny bag of cocaine maybe a few xanax that are not prescribed to him, all of which can and will get you a prison number on the first offence if you don't have the money for a high priced mouth piece to represent you in court!!!

Besides, what gives you the notion that the father had anything to do with the little girl’s disappearance? What I read said nothing about him being a suspect or anyone else for that matter!!

The Casey Anthony comment is really dumb. Now "everybody is missing a kid"? What? In the U.S. here is one story....up in Maine. I don't know of anyone else....do you?

Baby Lisa is the one who comes to mind who is STILL missing. A little 5 yr old was murdered in Georgia recently after she went missing. They found her in a dumpster/compactor a few days later. There are kids missing every day. Just because one kid is in Maine, you think that's it. If this column is where you get your news, I pity you.

Let's try this just one more time. Before you can be sent to jail for the rest of your life, the state has the duty to convict you with real evidence, not just 'everybody knows'. The Anthony case was decided the way it was because there was absolutely no real evidence of how the child died. Did someone likely kill her? Probably. That's not enough. The jury in the Anthony case rendered the only legally supportable verdict.

Before I left active practicing law, I tried several cases that were reported in the press. I rarely recognized the courtroom because of the slant of the reporters and editors. Sometimes it favored my case, more often not. Neither gave the public an accurate picture of the actual trial.

The Nancy Graces of the world do all of us a disservice. Not everyone is guilty. Defending the accused is what the founding fathers wanted us to do. The jury does the right thing, almost every time. When it is wrong, it is nearly always in the state's favor because some exculpatory evidence was concealed by the state.

Can we all agree to simply pray for the safe return of this child?

What about the little boy "Skye" that is missing in Seattle....????? Mother left him in the car while she "went to get gas" to return to an empty car.....But the police did tests on the car and it didn't run out of gas.

@Leeanne

I thought that the point was children missing due to the actions of their parents not because of a neighbor or some transient sex offender!!!

Yes Joe they're other missing babies. There is Baby Lisa in KC Mo. missing from her crib. The family is not co-operating. There is one here in Calif that said she left her baby in the car because she ran out of gas, and someone stole him. The car was not out of gas, and she did not have a gas can with her when she returned. There is another where the father says someone stole his baby girl was stolen from his car. So this isn't the only one. I know of some others that have been missing for a year or more, and have never been found. Sad to say, in at least half of these cases one or more of the parents killed them.

It could be possible that other mothers think they could get away with murdering their children since Casey Anthony did.

Casey Anthony was neither the first nor the worst case of a mother allegedly killing her child or her children. If the cases reported in the media indicate anything is that these crimes are not well planned, or the result of a rational, "can I get away with it" thought process.

Yes, I think that either the prosecution or the jury in the Casey Anthony case dropped the ball. But neither party is responsible for every case of a parent killing their child.

I do believe that, whether you believe Casey Anthony is guilty or not, the verdict in the case sent the message that if you just lie and lie and lie and NEVER tell the truth, you can get away with anything. Even if you think she was truly innocent, you can't deny the fact that she lied to everyone about what happened (remember "Zany the Nanny" who "kidnapped" her child?) What kind of message does that send?

I do believe that, whether you believe Casey Anthony is guilty or not, the verdict in the case sent the message that if you just lie and lie and lie and NEVER tell the truth, you can get away with anything.

You mean, for people too young to have watched the O.J. Simpson case unfold?

Controversial acquittals have been happening in our society at least ever since Lizzie Bordan was accused of taking an axe to her parents, and probably for a lot longer than that, and parents, or step-parents have been occasionally murdering their children for centuries. Remember the story of Hansel and Gretel.

But there are also at least as many cases wherein the liar has been found out and the murderer convicted.

No s--t look at our presidents parents....

Dano: You're right about the president's father. But, his mother did her best and raised her child herself, untill faced with cancer, she decided to ask her parents to take over.

dano...WTF? So you knew the parents? Has nothing to do w/the President's parents...you just have to bring your Obama bashing into this, don't you?

Yeah, look at president's parents, especially the Bushes!!

Where in the article did it say there was a Mexican parent?

You don't know why she had a cast on, so don't jump to conclusions yet. I would like to think it was a simple fall and that it had nothing to do with abuse.

Ummmm Tom, who is Mexican?? If you are referring to "DiPietro" that would be a strong Italian name. OMG!!!! Get a frickin' clue you bigot!!!

Bluepanther, you are right about not jumping to conclusions on the arm. There are so many ways a 20 month old can injure their arm. I work at a peds hospital and it is far more common than anyone can imagine.

the soft cast can be from any number of causes. Toddlers fall down a lot...she could have landed wrong. I know my 2 year old managed to ram his wheeled runabout into the open door threshold when his older sister left the door open and he took a tumble onto the porch. It happens. soft casts are also used to correct defects, such as an arm not developing correctly. Let's not accuse the parents too quickly.

A better question is was there any sign of entry into the home?

Liza Null:

Yes, a 20-month0old baby is soooo in control of their own body and surroundings. There's absolutely NO CHANCE the wound occurred legitimately.

My daughter knocked her front teeth out at preschool. If it had happened at my house these days there probably would have been a lynch-mob of peasants who judge a family based on one article ready to burn me at the stake.

Children DO have accidents. That does not mean there is abuse. People need to quit jumping to conclusions even if that is the only exercise they get.

And Robert children are abused. So unless we find out what happened to her arm, it means nothing. A large percentage of child murders are commented by one of the parents.

Liza, I don't know if you have ever had a 20-month-old, but they DO get hurt! They are just starting to run and jump, and have no fear and don't realize that they could get hurt. Accidents do happen at that age. I think now that the baby is missing, the soft cast on the arm does raise a little more suspicion, though. But, you can't just assume it was abuse.

The soft cast reference was simply used for identification purposes. Neither the police nor reporter had any reason to use it for more. Stop jumping to conclusions. The baby is 20 months old, for crying out loud. Toddlers bounce.

I can't speak of this child with the soft cast but do you remember the case where the parents bought the child to the hospital because his bones kept breaking and they were accused of child abuse but the child had brittle bones, that was in Tennessee, I believe. They finally found a doctor who go tthem out of it, so maybe that could be why she has a cast.

Diane-1839427: Just a thought for you and others...

Right now, it doesn't make a fsck why the kid's arm is broken. The kid is MISSING, and you're worried about a cast?

Priorities people. And sense.

Agreed.

Babies don't just disappear out of their beds.

And where was the parent at the time the baby disappeared?

Drunk like baby Lisa's Mom?

What reason could be given that someone just didn't hear anything?

We know our homes.

We hear everything.

We all do.

Nancy: Baby Charles Lindburgh, Jr. disappeared from his home in the middle of the night. Not only were the parents home, but domestics were in the house. There was an accident, the ladder fell and the child was killed in the fall and no one heard a thing. Of course, considering the circumstances, had the kidnapper been successful at getting away with a live baby, there is a good chance he would have killed the baby, anyway.

Thanks, Matilda. I just finished reading about the Lindbergh case after seeing the "J. Edgar" movie, and you hit the nail on the head. We forget there were a lot of kidnappings of wealthy kids in that time (1930-32) who were generally returned when ransom was paid. Police believed ether was used to silence the toddler because they found ether in Hauptman's garage along with about $14,000 in gold certificates that were part of the ransom Lindbergh paid (Hauptman had already spent $36,000). The Lindbergh case was used by J. Edgar Hoover to get legislation passed making kidnapping a federal offense & giving the FBI much of the authority it has today.

My son was 2 when he fell out of bed on the side next to the wall & hit the back of his head on the sharp edge of a floor board. It caused a 2" cut to his scalp, which bled a lot & had to be stitched together in the ER. He did the same thing about a year later when he was 3 & was stitched up again. Good heavens, today the doctor would have to report it as suspicious. He was actually the more cautious of our two children, but his older sister was just plain lucky she didn't get hurt since she was a climber from the age of 1. Good doctors & nurses have seen a lot of children get hurt from accidents & can usually figure out if it resulted from abuse.

Agreed. Parents who ignore their children's crying come to mind. They are too consumed with their own needs to meet the demands of children. Reminds me of those parents who unfortunately lose a child to "drowning" when they are on the phone or the internet and NOT paying attention.

This isn't the dark ages. People whose kids drown in the bathtub go to jail these days, no matter what the parent says they were doing they had no business leaving the bathroom, everyone knows that.

F. Walsh: Have you heard of Casey Anthony? Her child, according to her defense, climbed into the swimming pool on her own and drowned when Miss Anthony was there and not paying attention. And she wasn't even found guilty of child neglect!

There are also alot more people in this country now. Twice as much as when I was a kid so it makes sense that this kind of thing would happen more often.

Spikeyspider: I agree Christmas is the worst part of the year. Then every Christmas after brings back all of those horrible memories. I am sure not everyone's families have been plagued with Christmas deaths. They're the lucky ones. I wish this holiday would be banished!

Diane, it is because people have turned Christmas into something it shouldn't be. It's supposed to be a remembrance and celebration of the birth of Jesus, and nothing more.

Spider I agree. Ever since the Casey Anthony case I have found MSNBC more than willing to jump on a missing/ dead child case. I also read an article that child murders are becoming more frequent in TV shows and movies. It's about the shock value, more emotion = more money in the end.

This news site went as far as posting a rumor that there was a mass grave of children in a Texan's backyard- before the police verified. It was just a crazy person making an accusation.

Mommy04: You're right, it does happen. But remember little Caylee Anthony and her alleged "kidnapping?" I think that is what is making everyone a little more skeptical of the "kidnapping" stories told by parents these days. It is unfortunate for parents who are really telling the truth, but people are going to "question" it now due to the recent false report in Florida.

I understand what Casey did to Caylee but not every parent of a child who goes missing is Casey Anthony. I gave Casey the same chance I am giving to all the parents who has a missing child until there is proof that they did something wrong we should treat them as Innocent not call them bad parents. I said the same thing about Casey until I found out that her child was missing for 31 days with no report made that she was missing for that long, if a child is missing that long and the parent did not call police the parent knows what happened to the child. Can I remind you that Casey did not report her daughter missing her mother did. Casey would never have called the police at all and that is what the difference between her and every parent that reports their child missing.

And one more thing can we drop the Casey Anthony subject Please. That piece of trash is not worth my time to talk about. She is a murder and got away with it and she is not the first and she will not be the last because for every innocent person sitting in jail the guilty one is running free on the streets and they also got away with murder.

The article said that she has a 'soft cast'. The caption on the picture said that it was an 'undated picture' from facebook, so it may not show the cast.

the cast is on her left forearm. It is almost invisible because of the angle of the arm and the position of the hand. But, look carefully. It's there.

really? it must be one of those new "invisible" casts..there is NO cast in the picture because the picture was obviously taken when she didn't HAVE a cast, it says right under the picture that it is an 'undated' picture taken from Facebook

That picture is NOT a picture of the baby immediately before she went missing. Man, have you people ever read an article before? The picture is just a random picture showing a good view of the baby's face...the cast is on her arm NOW...the picture was from some other time. Good lord.

A toddler her size is capable of just about anything. She could have gotten outside, wandered off and froze to death.

She could reach the door, open it and wander outside? At 20 months, she would have needed to drag a stool or some support over to the door and then somehow move it back ..... course then when she slipped out the door, she wouldn't have had any way to close it from the other side.

THINK people, think!

My son at 13 months could unlock and open a door it was the first thing he learned to do after he learned to walk. he was younger than this child. I did not know he could open it until I came out of the bathroom and the front door was open and he was gone. Luckily he had only made it to the driveway and as soon as he saw me coming he took off going as fast as he could playing his game of run away from mommy, he was proud of himself for unlocking and opening the door. I caught him took him inside and then installed a lock at the top of the door that remained locked at all times. Things like this can and do happen. I had no clue he could unlock and open the front door but he did and he got out and he was busted before he got to far and we fixed the problem and it never happened again. But if this would have happened when I was sleeping at night I am not sure it would have had the same out come. I was awake and didn't know he had unlocked and opened the front door I didn't hear a thing. If I didn't hear it when I was awake what makes me think I would hear a thing when I was sleeping.

Blue Wasabi, my son would use a toy to push the latch up that he couldnt reach on our door at 15 months. I had to get a safety hook lock and put it up higher. Little kids are incredibly smart, lucky for me when I first realized he could do it he did it right in front of me and went out and I was right behind him. There was no sign left of what he'd done. A toy sitting on the floor by the door isn't suspicious.

My grandson was smaller than this girl and still in diapers and moved a cooler over to the door and unlocked it and got outside while his aunt was watching him and turned her back for just a moment to get him a snack. He was fast.

At 20 months, wouldn't she still be in a crib? Unless she could get out of the crib, how could she get out the door in the middle of the night? And, wouldn't they have found her by now close to her home? A toddler that small can't wander TOO far away on her own without SOMEONE spotting her the next morning.

My daughter figured out how to get out of her crib by age 11 mo. I woke to find her asleep under her crib, in the tub curled up under the bath rug, climbing up the kitchen cabinets, etc. Once I heard strange sounds from the kitchen & found her holding the egg carton, entranced at holding then dropping an egg at a time then squishing her toes in it. Another time she brought a container of ice cold Kool-aid to our bedroom & poured it on her father. At 3 she figured out how to unlock the gate & took her brother for a wild tricycle ride down our hill. About that same age, she crawled over the fence & I found her hanging by the top of a swing set that was missing the swings. She came by her adventurous spirit naturally, which has stood her in good stead as an adult.

Sums it up mighty well! Let the conspiracy theories commence!

Love your description! It's SO true!! Strange addiction, huh?!

agreed. my older brother had a surgery that required a hard cast for months...nobody accused my family of abuse. they just ducked every time he flailed his leg in their direction. :)