Missing and Murdered Children

The two photos on the left are “composites”. One is a composite of what the child might have looked like at age 4 years, the other what he might look like now at age 12 years. I am not sure how composite photographs are created. I suppose in this case the artist would have to go by characteristics seen in photographs of each of the parents and then go from there. I think this artist has done a great job.Tavish Sutton. That is the name of the person these composite photos are supposed to represent. I have not read much about this case but I am intrigued by the sheer audacity that someone had to steal this child out of the hospital room.

Tavish Sutton was born on February 10, 1993. He was abducted from his hospital room on the morning of Tuesday, March 9, 1993 by an unknown person.

More details on the abduction from The Charley Project:

“Sutton was admitted as a patient in the Hughes Spalding pediatric unit of Grady Memorial Hospital on Butler Street in Atlanta, Georgia on March 6, 1993. He underwent minor surgery over the weekend and was recuperating in a semiprivate room in the ward during the early morning hours of March 9. Sutton was in the custody of the Department Of Family and Chidren Services at the time. He was last seen when a nurse checked on him at 6:45 a.m. When his room was checked again fifteen minutes later, he was gone.
Sutton’s mother was being treated for schizophrenia in a mental institution at the time of his abduction; neither she nor other relatives were considered suspects in his disappearance. The Georgia Department Of Family and Children Services has terminated her parental rights to Sutton’s three siblings and was seeking to terminate her rights to Sutton as well when he disappeared. She sued the hospital over her son’s kidnapping in March 1995; the suit was settled out of court for $600,000.
Authorities stated that a woman who was pretending to be pregnant may have abducted Sutton in an attempt to raise a child. No evidence supporting any theory has been recovered and Sutton’s case remains unsolved.”

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Music to read my blog by:

“Fool Number One” by Brenda Lee

I have been sitting here contemplating this year’s recent child murders that had the component of single parenthood.

I was a single parent for a period of time and I did not have the skills necessary to be a good single parent. The truth is that I should never have been a parent. I was not prepared for the immense responsibility and dedication required to be a good parent. My daughter was lucky that nothing horrible happened to her such as what happened to Sarah Lunde, Jetsetta Gage, Evelyn Miller, and Davion Mutts. We can only imagine at the time of this writing how things might turn out for Lydia Rupp, the eight-year-old recently kidnapped by her mother’s live-in boyfriend. Things do not look good at this point if what has happened throughout this year to other children in similar circumstances is an indicator.

Sarah Lunde’s mother was a single parent with a partying type of lifestyle which pretty much left Sarah out of her life. Her mother’s lifestyle put her in the position to be raising herself. Sarah’s mother hooked up with David Onstott for a period of time and exposed Sarah to him.

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