Simon & TJ, thank you both for exposing this. It is shameful the way Diena is being treated. I personally feel that Diena is doing everything she can to expose this killer for Somer as well as to keep him from making another victim.

I’m so glad to see someone call it like it is — these “bloggers” that have nothing better to do than sit around a judge people in situations that they themselves have no idea what they’re talking about makes me sick! They need to get a life and stop trying to bring more pain to those already suffering from unspeakable loss. The hatred that spews from some of these people is beyond hurtful, and lacks the good judgment that they are accusing people they don’t even know of not having.

looking for justice, I agree with you but wanted to say that Diena has 3 living children. She has Somers twin brother, the 10 year old sister that was walking home with them and a 13 year old. Because there were 2 siblings walking home with Somer the media hasn’t mentioned much about the 13 year old.

Thank you Treece. I was not aware of the 13 year old.

Must say I am very surprised & appalled people are calling or writing Diena with such comments. Regarding the players in the Haleigh case, come on after following 9 months of antics & watching interviews…does someone not have opinions or thoughts on this case? That would be a too much to ask of an intelligent person. I have seen people get very hostile though & you have to scratch your head & wonder why they take a difference of opinion so personally (like the person’s opinion really matters in the scheme of the case) lol.

TJ regarding your observations:

- “Distrust of police” I agree & think that is mostly coming from lack of information, conflicting or ambiguous statements.
- I am not seeing the “hatred of men in general.”
- Agree with “appear to revel in the shortcomings of any woman” and that makes me sick when I see it.
- I think it is human nature to like people who agree with your opinion, or gravitate to like minded people, however a healthy debate is more thought provoking and can come up with the better answers.
- Most don’t even live in area—let alone in the state of Florida. OK GMAB on this one TJ, people who care about missing children do not care where they live. Also stats alone would no doubt show there are more people following this case that live outside of FL than inside due to population alone. So I need my pocketbook to wrap you on that one LOL.

Honestly, I wonder why these cases get so heated? But, I haven’t observed this as new. I have followed many missing children’s cases over the years & the Jon Benoit & Madeleine McCann cases were just as explosively-heated! I have wondered the psychology about this for a number of years but I have no answers. I just hope it is because people care deeply about these children. It seems not everyone has learned the simple concept; agree to disagree.

Thanks TJ for your thought provoking comments.

Somer was in the wrong place at the wrong time. How could anyone possibly fault Diena?

Now we have another missing 5 year old, this time in NC, and drugs are, once again, a major part of the parent’s lifestyle.

Are there more predators now, or are we just more aware of the problem because of advances in communication technology?

polly, you are absolutely right. wrong place wrong time. Somers mother did, and is doing everything correctly. how can anyone say how they would behave in this situation. I think if we are to take a lesson from this, it should be from this sad mother. Her tears are very real, (unlike casey and misty) her sad is hard to deny….my heart and prayers go out to her and her family.

This is information that I sent to the Sheriff:

Dear Sheriff,

In September 15, 2009 I had given information to a friend of mind, Jinah Kim, who works for NBC at Los Angeles about the person who had killed the girl at Yale University. I wrote his name was A. C., because of my stroke I had in 1997 and had lost 20% brain my name I had was Andrew Colin. On that night on NBC they had his name Albert Clark. So my A. C. was correct but I had a problem with my brain and I had Andrew Colin.

Yesterday I gave my information to Jinah Kim that the person that killed Somer Thompson at Orange Park, Florida, his name is P. H.. Out of my brain it came out Paul Hagerman. Please just notice that his name is P. H. Check it out.

Your friend, Richard

The problems happen very much around the World has nothing to do with God. It is the person that is in charge with the World for 9 more years. His name is Satan. When you see what happened at Fort Hood, Texas. One person killed 13 people and thought he would die. That is Satan item. When you see in Iraq and around it, some person comes in kills 50 people and what happens to him? He is killed at the same time. That is Satan item. Look in the Bible at Genesis 3:4 and notice Satan said: You positively will not die. What happened to Adam & Eve, they are dead.

That person that killed Somer Thompson his name is P. H., find him.

Richard

Somebody sure is!

Maybe the koolaid is spiked.

I think I’ll stick to coffee and energy drinks.

m2c, was not attacking no one,I have no hatred in me.

People can be so cold hearted to those of missing children or those that were killed. Put yourself in Somer’s mom shoes and tell me how you would have reacted to what happen. You cant cause you have never gone through a loss of a child, a missing child.. Get a darn life and stop putting this mother down she is doing all she can do and there was nothing she could have done that could have change the fact. All the things she could have or should have done would stick with her the rest of her life dont you think she feels bad enough. She is just like all the other single moms, there are alot of them that has child or children that are key latch kids. Cause there is only one parent in the home. She has to work to support her children. So stop giving this woman hell leave her alone and let her be.

Has for Haleigh I just wish someone would come forward and speak to say where this precious child is. I have my opionons on this case and Iam just going to leave it to that.

God please bring peace and comforting to SOmer’s mom please let all this ugly people put her down for something that wasnt in her control at all. Please bring whom ever done this to this precious child to an end and justice can be taken in.

God please bring closure to the Haleigh case that someone will come forward and this precious child is found.

Sorry, 5 o ‘clock. I didn’t understand your post.

Yes, Polly. I believe there was a report that someone tried to snatch a child a week before Somer disappeared but I think the people in the car contacted police and explained that they thought the child needed help and all was smoothed over. (Am I mistaken, folks?)

When we all read dont we take the text in different context. Cuz we all think and see into things differnt.I suppose he gets tried of all the bull. I do!

5 o’clock! Yes, we often get the wrong impression about a poster so we really should try not to assume. But that’s hard.

TJ may have gotten his impression from the number of female callers to the BNN radio show. But I’ve seen other blog sites where there were men bashing different people in this case (including Ron) as well as all ages of women.

m2c, do you have a link to that? I’d appreciate it.

Polly, if that is the report you mean I’ve looked and can’t find it. It should have been in one of the early reports before she was found.
Remember people were talking about an incident nearby the week before? But later I’m sure I saw mention that those people in the car had gone to police to explain what happened so LE wouldn’t be on a wild goose chase. I’ll keep trying to remember where/when I saw it.

thank you simon for this article. i agree t.j. has summed up the situation very well.

i am not going to comment on the sickos that send hate mail to grieving parents. i wish someone would screen diena’s mail and calls for her. how much can a parent take. and she still has to function as a mother to her other children, her other grieving children.

i know various aspects of haleigh’s family are pushing our own personal buttons as well as our hearts for the various people involved. t.j., i hope your reminder to keep this all in perspective will help. this is about haleigh first.

this case has been going on for so long now, maybe, it is just natural that some of us are taking things to personal. we should stop it, or it will ruin the blog. some are talking about finding a way to start over from the beginning, finding facts to post, and taking a fresh look.

i want to thank t.j. for the work you are doing on the haleigh case. you have been consistently dedicated, thankfully professional and managed to that while having a big giant heart. and, as for today’s op-ed, someone needed to say it. i respect so much the way you have gone about all of this. ms.p.

Hey Estes, you sure it’s not 80% of you brain that is gone?

Innocent until proven guilty, I say. That includes us little old ladies carrying purses. I guess we could stick our money in our bra.

Although there is plenty of suspicion and bizarre behavior to go around involving Haleigh’s family members, there are also those on the internet who as so hateful on all sides of this equation that one would think a civil war involving old ladies swinging purses is about to erupt.”
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I am glad TJ is aware of the hate, and hopefully will help lead ppl in a more impartial direction. I do believe the media has a big hand in the hate fest that has plagued many cases, like the mentioned Cummings, and now Thompson case. Shoddy, reporting needs to stop! Journalism needs to be done with more reponsibility. Some media appear to even plant the seed, where they will run with unfounded allegations to stir the pot! Its time for the ppl to demand better. Un many cases, these victim’s families, are victimes too. In the cases mentioned, we have certainly not had enough/any evidence that proves guilt, or certainly not enough..Many ppl who cud be in their showes, cud easily live an unethical lfe, but in no way, does that make them killers/kidnappers. I am hoping that many ppl reading TJ’s article, will stop and think about how their negative opinion, helps spread hate. This in not the answer. It seems that this “hate”that is aired from the peanut gallery, over and over, has helped facilitate poor judgment and negatively influenced ppl, like TM who felt it was ok, to to wasted donars money, by setting up a sting operation where he has only interferred, if anything. Im not justifying his poor judgment, I am merley trying to show that the peanut gallery is influential, and should try and remain impartial, where there is no known evidence suggesting otherwise.
God Bless Somer, and Haleigh and their families…and please help bring Shaniya home!

Shaniya’s Mom sold her, now this is a sad day for all. I pray they find her safe and before someone used her for sex this is sick.
Mother of missing 5-year-old Shaniya Davis is charged with human trafficking
http://www.app.com/article/20091115/NEWS/91115015&referrer=LATESTHEADLINE

pat,

i don’t know if you saw these other articles. mostly the same info.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/15/shaniya-davis-still-missi_n_358226.html

http://www.examiner.com/x-30067-Knoxville-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m11d15-Father-of-Shaniya-Davis-begs-for-her-return
in the examiner article.
“It is suspected that she knowingly provided her daughter to Mario Andrette McNeill in exchange for drugs or cash.” i really hope that they are wrong about that.

this last article also says, shaniya was with her mom only three weeks.

boy, i hope there is a way to find her soon. people need to tell what they know.

ms.peridot
You are welcome to copy my post anything thing to help.

The assumed anonymity of the web allows groups of like-minded hate-filled sub-humans to gather like a pack of rabid hyenas to rip into shreds any person they choose (for any reason, no reason and imagined reasons), then wait for the victim to twitch (another news item or rumor) and dive in to rip

mc2…You attacked me for hate…when I have none. You are the one you are writing about.

Tara,

I dont necessarily think its flet with hate, as a writer may write such a statement about in this case Diena…

I think it wud be an expected proper assumption that this womens baby was taken from her in such a heinous way, that she will never have inner peace again…

While ppl will write things like ….

” Somer was not safe as possible if it’s true that she had a habit of going off alone. No child is that does this. That’s all that some people have said, and it’s not hatred of Diena, men, cops, society, or anything else.”

It is indicative of callousness… wud you actually be able to utter these words to this mother who is broken, in pain? These words imply thats she didnt care ” enough” …. Is that really fair? just sayin…