A story out of Kansas today reports that police are looking for a missing boy who disappeared ten years ago, and the adoptive parents are listed as 'persons of interest'. The boy, Adam Herrman, who had been adopted by Doug and Valerie Herrman when he was 2 1/2 years old was 11 when he disappeared in 1999. The family attorney stated that his clients had not harmed the child, and the only thing they were guilty of was not reporting him missing. The boy was a problem child according to the lawyer and had run away on several occasions. When he failed to return home, the Herrmans thought he had found relatives or possibly returned to his birth parents.
Details of the case are sketchy enough, and I'm sure that there are plenty of questions that remain unanswered, such as why on earth was he not reported missing 10 years ago? Didn't anyone notice something out of the ordinary? How did the police find out about this? Authorities have chosen to treat this as a death situation until they have reason to suspect any different. They have put out a public plea to the now 21 year old to contact them should he be alive.
I do not claim to be an expert on this case, but I sincerely believe the fault is with the Herrmans. By not making the call to police ten years ago, I find them grossly negligent of their parental responsibilities.
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