There are two little Chippewah boys who are missing here in northern Minnesota,

[Beausoir]

It's 4am and I can't sleep because of the worry for them.

They are Chippewa boys from the Red Lake Reservation.

Ages 2 and 4. They have been gone for 3 days.

It is cold up here and those little fellas don't stand a chance.

I am amazed that I haven't seen a thread about this here on DU.

Please send good thoughts out to those boys. If they are still alive, they are cold and thirsty and scared.

http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_329143236.html

[monarch]

1. I've been worried about them too. n/t

[laylah]

2. May they be found safe! n/t

[DemonFighterLives]

3. Very sad story

I can't help but think that someone took them. The last I heard was the searchers were checking some bear dens, but never heard any more.
:dem:

[SeattleGirl]

4. Oh my God. Many of my husband's paternal relatives live

on the Red Lake Reservation! Holy crap! :cry:

[JI7]

5. i have seen it on the news but haven't really looked into details

[JI7]

6. how did they find out they were missing ?

i mean, when were thye last seeen. they are pretty young that it seems unlikely they would have been allowed to go out to play alone.

did the parents just findthem missing in the home ?

[Holly_Hobby]

11. Their mother left them outside to play - alone

She checked on them often, but within a span of 10 minutes, they were gone. Who in their right mind leaves a 4 y.o. and a 2 y.o. alone outside? One of my neighbor's does this with her 4 y.o. and it burns me up.

[Ms. Toad]

18. I'll withhold general judgment,

but in this instance the mother said >>he "loves water" and had wandered off before, "but we always found him. This is the first time we didn't find him." After the first time he wandered off, that should have alerted mom to watch more carefully.

(I'm withholding general judgment since I don't know the setting in which this family lives. I suspect I was occasionally outdoors by myself and/or with siblings at that age without constant parental supervision in a rural setting in which that practice was not particularly dangerous.)

[seabeyond]

22. we were out in the middle of nowhere in az... i know we were. i only

started allowing boys out alone lol when son hit 9 working on ten. i still dont allow my just turned 9 out there alone unless his older brother is with him. that is extreme on the other side. my issue has more to do with the pitbulls across the way though. i would never leave young ones alone... but how i raise my kids are not like others.

truly just the saddest. will be thinking of all up there

[Alamom]

7. I've seen the story on CNN. Not a lot of details.........

I am hoping and praying they will be found.

This tends to make you hope it's a family dispute and someone has them and is taking care of them.
It doesn't sound like they have leads in that direction though.
Very sad.

[EST]

8. First I've heard of it-been pretty sick.

Can you provide greater detail?

[democrank]

9. Heard about this last night.

I so hope this turns out well.

[rodeodance]

10. Fox news had this on last evening.

[katinmn]

12. They've been missing since Wednesday. I've been worried, too

http://img.viacomlocalnetworks.com/images_sizedimage_327071017/lg

[zanne]

15. Those poor babies.

I hope it is family-type abduction.

[Vinca]

13. It's odd tracking dogs haven't found them.

It doesn't look good.

[riverwalker]

14. this is last day of searching

they will call off the search after today. They still need volunteers, so if you are in No. Minnesota, they can use the help. Very rugged rural area, vanished within 20 minutes from their yard.

[wellstone dem]

16. This is so very sad, this is the same reservation where

there was a school shooting a few years ago.

[LWolf]

17. Deja Vu.

We lost an 8 yo boy at Crater Lake recently.

http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-17/116436052393810.xml&storylist=orlocal

2 and 4 yo, and gone in the winter cold for 3 days? The best I can do is hope that it was relatively quick. :cry:

[elehhhhna]

19. If they used infared the first night, and found nothing, even in the lakes---

then it was an abduction, yes?

So, did they use infared? Or are "they" still searching for Natalee in Aruba?

Red Lake is, IIRC, on an Indian reservation--a high poverty/no jobs semi-remote town. It was the scene of a school shooting a year or so ago.


I'm thinking (hoping?) some soon-to-be-caught slightly loopy woman wanted two toddlers to love, and went to the poor side of town to find 'em.

[undeterred]

20. that would be a best case scenario right now

[Beausoir]

21. I doubt it was an abduction. The boys were wanderers.

They live in the woods...many ponds and lakes in the area.

Extensive air searches show no broken ice, but that doesn't really mean much.

I can tell you, they don't stand a chance after last night. It got cold..really cold.

Red Lake is just up the road from me and it is very hard living up there. Times are tough for those folks.

[Nikki Stone1]

23. Any news on this?

...

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. There have been several threads

Look in LBN.

[Nikki Stone1]

25. I did look. Link, please?

Thanks

[roguevalley]

26. I pray for them. I cannot even conceive of my terror were they mine,

even as bad as I worry about this now. God help and preserve them all.

[NMMNG]

27. Those poor children.

:-(

[The Straight Story]

28. Kicking with some prayers (nt)

[GreenPartyVoter]

29. Oh no! Those poor babies! That poor family. :^(

[Bushfire]

30. Mon dieu!

J'espere les enfants sera trouver tres vite!

[Bluebear]

31. Where are you, Avery and Tristan?

:(

[malaise]

33. What a sad event

How do parents deal with two toddlers disappearing out of thin air. :cry: :cry:

[B Calm]

32. Beausoir, do you live near Red Lake?

[Beausoir]

34. I'm about 60 miles away. They have called-off the search.

They will still be working the case, but not on a large scale.

Where did they go?

[mnmoderatedem]

35. Sadly enough

the search has been called off. Looks like the worst possible outcome...