Kyron Horman is just seven years old. He’s a second grader at an elementary school in Oregon. He hasn’t been seen since 8:45 a.m. on Friday, June 4th.
The morning of the incident, his school was having a science fair held before school so that working parents could attend. Portland School’s spokesman Matt Shelby said to CNN, "You had a situation with lots of parents and friends coming through the school, going class to class." Kyron’s step mom reported that she last saw him walking down the hall on the way to his classroom. Kyron never made it to his classroom. 90% of the students at his elementary school were questioned and no one saw Kyron after 8:45.
People have been very helpful. Tips are coming from all over and the community has their support for the family. Shelby said that counselors have been made available to anyone at school that might need someone to talk to over the incident. Police are working very hard to find Kyron. Even Portland Police bureau's air unit is out there looking for the boy.
I really do hope that he is found. Just seven years old and all that innocence…. One could say that the school should have held their science fair at a different location than the school. Some place with more room for people to walk around so that everybody would be less cramped. It would have been a lot harder for Kyron to disappear if there hadn’t been a packed hallway for him to get lost in. Also, one could say that there could have been better security. Visitors could have been stopped at the door and only admitted if they were a parent or a guardian of a child attending that school.
However, I do not agree with these ideas. Security may have done no good at all. It may not have been a stranger that took Kyron away, it may have been a family member of his or a parent of another child attending that school. And he may not have been stolen at all. Kyron could have run away.
Also, the school chose to hold the science fair at the school before school started because they wanted parents to attend. And what’s the point in having a science fair if parents can’t come?
The situation is awfully sad. But there’s really nothing that could have been done different unless all trust was abandoned for safety issues. If humans abandoned all trust, we’d all be in padded rooms with no life what-so-ever. I feel terrible that this boy is lost; however, life without risk is no life at all. Unfortunately, life may have been lost for this little boy.
Article Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/08/oregon.missing.child/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/200902/stress-decreases-risk-taking-in-older-adults
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