PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — A 2-year-old Arizona boy walked 3 miles barefoot through brush and steep terrain into a mine pit where he was found dead, still clad in the pajama top and diaper he was wearing when he wandered from his home two days earlier.
I'm sorry, but that does not pass the smell test.
So who killed him and dropped him in the mine?
Emmett Trap’s body was discovered around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday by search and rescue personnel after going missing Monday night, said Yavapai County sheriff’s spokesman Dwight D’Evelyn.
“It’s amazing he got that far, and tragic,’’ D’Evelyn said. “The teams out there were devastated. They were so adamant that they were going to find him.’’
Damn near a miracle.
Emmett’s mother told authorities that she and her four children were at home in Dewey-Humboldt when she awoke from a nap Monday night and couldn’t find him. The boy apparently had wandered off with the family dog, but the dog returned when called.
Isn't that child neglect?
Dozens of searchers on foot, horse, and all-terrain vehicles were planning to focus on mine shafts, open wells, and septic tanks Wednesday. Then someone alerted authorities to what appeared to be baby footprints in a former mining area that is about 3 walking miles from the family’s home.
Searchers converged on the mining pit and “sadly Emmett was in that pit,’’ amid sludge, hardened mud, and other fluids.
“It doesn’t appear he could get out once he got in there,’’ D’Evelyn said.
The boy’s body was taken to a medical examiner’s office, where an autopsy will be performed, he said. No foul play is suspected.
The family’s yard wasn’t fenced and Emmett had wandered off short distances before, but family members told authorities he always came back, D’Evelyn said.
What?
No one was WATCHING HIM?
The discovery weighed heavily on the hearts of search and rescue members, some of whom also were looking for another 2-year-old boy authorities say is presumed dead.
And ANOTHER KID is MISSING?
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