WATERVILLE, Maine — The search for Ayla Reynolds has entered a new phase with the announcement Friday night that the case is now a criminal investigation.
“At this point, we believe that foul play has occurred in connection with Ayla’s disappearance,” read a press release from Waterville police Chief Joseph Massey. “The case has evolved from the search for a missing child to a criminal investigation.”
Massey said the Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit will take the lead in the investigation, though Waterville Police Department, the FBI and the Maine Warden Service will remain involved.
“Our commitment to finding Ayla and explaining the circumstances surrounding her disappearance is as strong as it was on Dec. 17,” stated Massey in the press release. “Every investigator involved in this case shares the hope of Ayla’s family and the public that Ayla will be located soon.”
Massey said a $30,000 reward for information that leads to Ayla’s discovery is still valid, and that anyone with information should call the Waterville Police Department at 680-4700 or the Maine State Police at 624-7076.
Authorities on Friday refused to say whether they have any suspects in the case. Ayla’s parents, Justin DiPietro of Waterville and Trista Reynolds of Portland, have continued to cooperate, investigators said.
Reynolds, age 20 months, has been sought by local, state and national investigators since the morning of Dec. 17 when her father, DiPietro, reported to police that she was missing from her bedroom. He said the last time he saw her, when he put Ayla to bed the previous night, she was wearing green pajamas with polka dots and the words “Daddy’s Princess” printed on them. Ayla also was wearing a soft cast on her left arm, which was broken in an unrelated accident, according to police.
Former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt said the odds of finding a child lessen if he or she isn’t found within the first day or two of disappearing, but he said that doesn’t mean Ayla won’t be found, even if it takes years.
“If you don’t get this child back real quickly, you know that it gets harder and harder,” Van Zandt, who has appeared on national television numerous times in recent days talking about the case, told The Associated Press. “You can’t give up hope.”
Scott Bernstein, founder of Child Recovery International, a New York City-based organization that helps find missing children, agreed that hope remains.
“One percent hope — but I’ll go for that 1 percent hope,” he said.
The Waterville Police Department said Friday afternoon that a press release about the search for Ayla would be circulated later in the evening. It was unclear whether there has been a break in the case or if the press release will reflect a continuation of the investigation. WABI-TV reported on its website Friday evening that a forensics team was back at the Waterville home where Ayla disappeared.
Authorities first pursued several scenarios at once, including the possibility that Ayla simply wandered away on her own. Intense searches in the Waterville area failed to find the toddler, and earlier this week, Waterville Police Chief Joseph Massey said the investigation had refocused on the possibility that Ayla was taken from the home.
Van Zandt said abductions of children by strangers account for little more than 100 out of the more than 750,000 missing-persons cases investigated in the United States each year. He said an investigation like this takes a steep emotional toll on everyone involved, including detectives.
“As an FBI agent working on these cases, you never turn off the emotional porch light,” he said. “You always leave on the light with the hope that the child will come home again.”
Police have not identified any suspects in the case and both of Ayla’s parents have said they do not know where their daughter is.
The search for Ayla has garnered attention from the national media. On Monday, a group of Waterville-area individuals and businesses, led by Waterville attorney John Nale, offered a $30,000 reward for information that leads to Ayla’s discovery. Tips from Maine and across the United States have poured in before and since the offer of the reward.
A group called Child Recovery International, in a press release circulated Friday, offered the following tips for anyone who discovers a child missing:
• Search though any closets, piles of laundry, inside large appliances or anywhere else where a child could crawl into or hide.
• If the child isn’t located, call a law enforcement agency immediately.
• If a child disappears in a store, immediately notify the store manager or law-enforcement agency, then contact police.
• When reporting a child missing, provide as much information as possible, including clothing, physical characteristics and any unique identifiers such as eyeglasses or braces.
• Request that the child’s name and identifying information be entered into the National Crime Information Center’s Missing Person File.
• After reporting the missing child to law enforcement, call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 800-THE-LOST (800-843-5678).
In my prayers and thoughts, please just bring her home!
What a sad and horrifying story — and not nearly as rare as we’d all like to believe.
My name is Rachel Jackson, and I work with PPP/Recovery Program, Bring Them Home, an organization supporting all servicemen and their families.
I recently watched a pilot for a show called JOE THE BLOODHOUND on the Bio channel, about a remarkable man named Joe Nick, who is a vet and retired K9 detective who uses dogs to find missing people. The show was amazing, because Joe is an amazing character doing amazing things – and really entertaining as a mystery as he sought to find a missing boy much like in your story..
I started an online petition to help bring this show to a series. 2400 people go missing in this country EVERY DAY – and Joe can help both find some of them, ease their families pain, and shed valuable light on this hidden epidemic.
Would you please help spread the word and sign this petition? And of course if you want, feel free to print the link to the petition: http://chn.ge/tPu33T
Thank you! Keep up the good work!
Fascinating and amazing.
Surprised someone doesn’t launch into a disparaging dissertation as he did after scoffing that the reward money would magnetize psychics into the search.
Dogs, God bless ’em, and any human who has the ability to locate missing people, especially children I’m sure would never be turned away in helping to find this little girl.
Shirley Harrison, a Maine psychic, surprised a police convention some years ago, when she suggested that the body of Cyrus Everett, a Ft. Fairfield news carrier could be found under a large object. Even more surprising was her summation that his body was in the vicinity of the apartment where Donna Mauch, a Ft. Fairfield cocktail waitress was murdered.
Police recovered the boy’s body pinned beneath a large log that apparently had been rolled onto him. The location was very close to the apartment where the cocktail waitress’s body was found.
I believe Ms. Harrison shared this story in her book “The Psychic Search” published by G. Gannett of Portland.
Police had already searched a large barn on the Ogunquit waterfront some years ago looking for 13-year-old Mary Olunchuck. An Augusta Douser with an amazing talent, predicted that the missing girl was still in state. He asserted she was inside a building which was close to water and her body covered over. Those who scoffed at him placing the location close to water, were surprised when he discounted the close proximity of the sea. The body of water he referred to was a fresh water stream that ran adjacent to where the girl’s body was found, buried beneath some straw in a large red barn.
This extraordinary individual has since passed on. He was asked by a Bangor reporter to help in the murder of an elder Bangor woman. After obtaining as city map, he advised police to look in places they wouldn’t normally search for clues. He also indicated that the suspect could be found in the Mt. Hope-Hogan Road area. Since detectives thought they had thoroughly scoured the apartment without success, they were happily surprised in their renewed effort to lift a palm print off the floor. Their original skepticism about the location of the suspect because of the close proximity of the Bangor State Hospital was dismissed by the Douser who told them to look close by. Subsequent investigation led to the arrest and conviction of an employee at the state highway garage at Hogan Road and Mt. Hope Avenue. The man had previously rented from the victim.
Sound far fetched? Well, as Ripley said: Believe it or not.
I hear you on this.
I see no harm in law enforcement using psychics to try to help solve cases they are stuck on. I do think they need to exhaust traditional methods first unless a psychic comes up with something really specific that fits the evidence, then look into it. However…if they are stuck then why not?
Good link, thank you.
Just found this on another site
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/12/30/more-crime-tape-at-fathers-house-of-missing-maine-toddler/ Pretty interesting
Not getting a very good feeling about this…
me neither
And does this surprise you dkenzie? It doesn’t surprise me at all.
About what kevin. I told everyone from day 1 the dad was a suspect. Is that what you mean
Well I couldn’t say it because if you accuse one of them your post will get removed.
Why would you go hire a 20 thousand dollar lawyer to help you if you are innocent. Does not make sense kevin. If my post gets removed it does, but Bangor daily will understand when the headline comes up soon he did it
dkenzie you and I have been on the same page from day one but sadly we now have to tip toe about how we post when it comes to this subject.
Yes we have and now the truth will come out, i just hope and pray tis not true still, but i just believe its true Thank you kevin
I hope it is not true either but my brain tells me otherwise.
just because someone uses a lawyer it doesn’t mean he is guilty
Let me rephrase that then, why did he get a lawyer, for good looks Not
I could tell by the statements he hired a lawyer…but a $20k lawyer?
The lawyer wanted 30 thousand to represent him at first from sources i got. Again though if your not guilty why pay so much for a lawyer. Clue 1
Wow. I wonder if someone in the house that night is talking in order to get that reward.
If they are i am hoping they do not take the reward. Its sad a little girl lost her life, well at least it sounds like that right now. I cant say, but it looks like it.
If it’s anyone that was in that house and they didn’t come forward earlier and knew what happened then they can be charged with something I think.
Yes they can if the police decide too
Probably obstruction of justice or maybe even aiding and abetting I would guess.
Could be a number of things they can be charged with
20 thousand dollars for a lawyer? Sounds like he plans on needing him for a length of time. Didn’t hire him to just consult on how to handle the press. How the heck does he have 20 thousand? Again I wonder if he ever paid support for the child. Maybe the mom has a drinking problem, but perhaps he has something going on himself — how does he have that kind of money at his disposal?
Just to clarify this is actual information and not just another rumor, which attorney specifically do you have knowledge he’s working with?
Your pretty safe if your bashing or accusing the mother. BDN seemed to overlook all the mud slinging in her direction. Time will tell BDN — I’m thinking you picked the wrong parent to protect on your blogs.
Too bad all the people who have been bashing the heck out of the mother will never apologize or admit they were wrong.
Very true, i see you posted the same link. Thank you for doing that Maybe the people blaming a certain parent will apologize to her
Unlikely since they are already on here trying to claim she’s involved.
And they will because she was a drug addict. Like i said the truth will come out and if he did do it, then he iwll just confess soon
I thought she went to rehab for alcohol.
She did, and she has been doing good
I’m glad of that. I’ve been wondering if she may have relapsed during this whole nightmare and that this might explain some of the behavior on interviews that some people are jumping all over her for.
alcohol is a drug.
When someone says “drug addict” people picture illegal drugs like cocaine or heroin. There is Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous…two separate support groups for two different types of substances. They are different for many reasons…one being that alcohol is not illegal to buy or use. Calling the mother a “drug addict” when she is abusing alcohol is misleading. I don’t know her, so don’t know if she is an alcoholic or not…but someone addicted to alcohol is called an alcoholic, not a drug addict.
this doesn’t necessarily clear the mom
We will see soon who is guilty. Bet i know who it is
If you know then why don’t you give this information to officials. Im not a rat or a cop caller but I would let them know if I had a hunch about who did it and why its a missing child, not other extra ciricular activitys… In my opinion that is what I would do.
And…there was a lot of it — hundreds of posts on each story and most of it directed toward the mother.
Why apologize to the mother, watch she is involved…..her actions speak louder than her words….
Okay…that’s why they found evidence of foul play at the father’s house and took a bag of evidence out of the father’s house. That’s also why they have roped of a shed in the father’s back yard. Yes, that simply must mean that the mother hid evidence inside the father’s house and shed in his back yard on her 150 mile trip to and from Waterville from Portland with an infant in tow and then hid Ayla just to frame the father because she was all bitter over the relationship they never even had. Sure, that makes a ton of sense.
If she’s innocent, why doesn’t she show any grief or distress signs on any of the interviews? I think she’s responsible and that’s why she’s not balling her eyes out, etc. because of her daughter being missing. If it was my daughter, I would be going crazy wondering where she was, what happened, etc. Something with the mother sounds really fishy to me.
Look up trauma, grief and dissociation. You only think you know how you would behave in this situation. Fortunately for you, you don’t know for sure. The mother also has to be so angry because the father did not even bother to call her to alert her Ayla was missing and has refused to speak to the mother at all since Ayla vanished.
I may not know this but my mother certainly does. When my brother passed away back in 1987 because friends of his did not get him the needed medical help he needed after a night out with his so-called friends, my mother cried for months, which is NO EXAGGERATION. She often would say she needed to be with him, she was dispondent, never ate, couldnt sleep, and overall seemed completely run down. To this day she visits his graveside at least once a week and many weeks she will go daily. There is supposed to be a connection between a mother and child like nothing must of us men will ever understand. I do find it extremely odd that this woman is so well put together, even looking as if she has had a makeover since the first interviews. I agree that all handle grief in different ways but i also believe the majority of people find this very disturbing.
Her child has not passed away…she seems frustrated with the father for not giving her any information about what happened in that house that night. It seems to me that she’s using these forms of media to reach out to him (not in the most elegant way perhaps) she’s pleading, blaming and anything else she can do — she’s not grieving, she’s determined and helpless. Grieving for a child found not alive hopefully will not have to come. I bet we’d see a different mother if harm has come to Ayla. I think she along with many readers are still hoping that someone took the child and has her — to think of the other alternatives is disheartening.
This situation is not the same as a death that occurs and the parents know what happened to their child and the child is still there, even if only their remains. Your mother was able to get closure. A missing child is a lot more complicated with a lot more trauma and emotions. There is also still hope that the child is alive and will come home…and no closure. I can tell by her eyes in that video from yesterday that although she wasn’t sobbing at that point, she had been earlier. Her eyes were puffy and even the make up didn’t hide it completely. Even while going through intense grief a person does not sob every waking moment.
Thank you, OldWench for what you said here.
Just how public would most of you posting want your grief to be? This is stoic Maine, right? If her grief were palpable, visible most would be saying how much she is “overreacting.”, that she is acting…Can this mother win for losing?
SHOW compassion, readers/ posters. Please, show compassion. Offer emotional support, kind words/ actions and send prayers. If you live close by to this mother, offer her some support. Ask if she is okay, do you need a ride to a meeting (and you 12 steppers KNOW what I mean), can I be of service? She is going to need support no matter which way this case turns.
Namaste!
You’re very welcome. Grief never looks the same as it is…and when someone has unanswered questions and confusion about the traumatic situation it can make it much more difficult for that grief process to even begin. Coping is usually done quite subconsciously, and the person facing the process really doesn’t have control over how it plays out. It is what it is.
Absolutely! Thank you for your open mind, obvious emotional intelligence/ IQ and open spirit.
Well I woke up the other morning and my eyes were all puffy from a really bad cold, another day they felty crusty and looked receded. doesn’t mean I have been crying prior to going on TV.
No two individuals ever grieve the same way. I am so sorry your mother and the rest of you had to endure such a horrific loss, Jeff. It breaks my heart to hear of your pain and your mother’s pain.
My point is just because your mother reacted the way she did does not means her tie was any greater than mine to my son or Trista’s to her daughter and other baby. It is just different. Each person deals with emotions, etc differently.
Please, offer compassion, it goes a very long way to assisting others.
Namaste.
Jeff your so right about the bond between a mother and child. I like your Mom would be and do the same with maybe a few over nights crying over the grave.. but we all do have different reactions, and emotions. If she were my daughter, I would have been to his house banging on doors, and wanting to know now where she is.. Some woman are in complete denial, and shock, and don’t have any reactions. I honestly don’t know what to make of this situation, but am Praying like Hell, this baby is safe and will be returned.
I just watched the today show and there was a clip of her crying and clearly upset! Unfortunately, people are gonna judge others before they know all of the facts. Maybe she is guilty or maybe its dad! The police and FBI will find out the facts and then justice will be had or Ayla will be returned home safe. God bless our police force and lets pray for her safe return!
I do believe that the police are doing everything humanly possible to find Ayla, however, the sad thing, is the majority of these cases, and you are welcome to check the national missing person registry, continue to go missing, become cold cases and eventually forgotten in the media unless they pop up somewhere. I pray that will not be the case here. I still believe that there is no way she could have gone missing in a room with another child also in there, without at least ONE of the adults in that house knowing something about it.
You know what I wish? When it does come to cases like this… that they do leave the parents out of it. Seems all the focus on these missing cases are on the parents, we are like hawks, watching them, their movements, their eyes, their facial expressions.. Is not up to us to judge these parents.. our focus should be on Ayla. Let the Police, FBI, Marshells etc deal with the parents, and just feed us the facts..Is what we are all looking for in the first place, not who is going to win the bet, by saying which parent is guilty.. Keep feeding us the facts, like her pictures, and her green jamies and things, that way WE as citizens know what to look for, to help find her..
Perhaps you could give a class on how to react when your child is missing and your clearly not getting any information — so she puts herself out there — Good for her, she might not be crying and following the norm of a parent who’s lost a child, but she’s certainly not hiding. If she were hiding everyone would be saying she had something to do with it because she’s not acting like a mother who lost a child. Sounds like you know how she should be acting – offer her some help in how to articulate her frustration and being scared out of her mind because she can’t do anything to make Ayla return to her. Pegging her as guilty because she doesn’t act in the manner that you think a person should in a certain situation is pure stupidity.
Pssst….this just in…..Casey Anthony was ALL OVER the news when Caylee went missing, she was on just about every show out there, and then her actions after her disappearance started showing up, and she went into hiding until arrested. I am certainly not trying to compare the two, but I do believe that most of us, would be of far more emotional distress and out trying to find our lost child every day rather than flying all over the country interested in what interviews we could have on national television. How many people out there believe that if this case had not garnered the national media attention, we would not be seeing daily updates by the Waterville Police chief, and they wouldnt be making announcements about thsi turning into a criminal case after all of the public outcry. I congratulate all of you that have made your voices heard and demanded information regarding this poor little girl. Sadly that is not the case for the majority of missing children that disappear every day.
Uhmmm…this just in, in case you haven’t read about little Ayla. Ayla was with her father at the time she went missing (Caylee was under her mothers care). Ayla’s mother was 75 miles away. Ayla was put to bed in a home filled with adults — mother was not there (not one, including the mother of the other child sharing Ayla’s room woke up to the noise of an intruder entering the home — as the mother of a young child I sleep very lightly in case my child needs me). Ayla’s mother is not hitting the bars, stealing checks from friends and going on shopping sprees and all the other things that Casey Did Do! To compare the two mothers is a stretch. At least she’s out there — Where’s dad? Where’s the aunt that was in the house, Where’s grammy, that was in the house? And who knows who else was there, sounds kinda like everyone just flopped there. Trista and Casey have nothing in common, they have not acted in similiar ways at all — unless putting your face out there in an attempt to locate or talk to the person responsible is a crime, this seems to be the only common thread.
AMEN, justbeing!
I was listening to her on the today show this morning. She said that DiPietro was the last one to see Ayla “alive”. Sounded like a slip to me.
She had voiced in an earlier interview that she was beginning to think the father did something to Ayla. She could also be privy to information that the rest of us aren’t.
I agree!!! That shocked me.
When my son died at the age of 22 from a suicide, I did not cry when I had to ID him, at his funeral or even the year anniversary date. I COULD NOT cry for 18 months. I thought something was wrong with me. I cried after a particular song played on the radio that had, in part, been in his suicide note. In fact, I fell completely apart and then began working through the grief. I loved him very much. I am not coldhearted. Each of us processes differently, at our own rate, in our own time and it does not have to resemble what others think it should.
WHO do you or anyone else think you are to judge/ decide when and how someone SHOULD be reacting. Have YOU been in her shoes? Have YOU lost a child, ever? Have YOU or any of the rest of you pious, self righteous individuals ever had to deal with something like the loss of a 20month old child in this manner? IF you think you would truly know how you would react then you must be watching too many soap operas. From what I have read here, this poor mother would be judged as “bad” no matter HOW she reacted, what she did or did not do because so many have decided ” they” know it all and how it went down.
I truly pray none of you judging this mother ever have to go through what she is going through. A loss is a loss is a loss whether it be by the hand of another, disease, accident or suicide.
I truly ask that Universe grant all of you compassion, kindness, empathy and peace.
I pray that Universe grants this dear mother a moments peace, compassion, kindness and light / love.
Namaste!
So sorry for your loss. Some people simply don’t understand that a traumatic experience can and often does cause a person’s emotions to sort of turn off. It’s a defense mechanism some people subconsciously use as a way to cope with feelings they just aren’t yet capable of handling. No one knows how they would react until they are faced with trauma. For a young woman of only 23 years old who was numbing her feelings with alcohol to avoid facing them I’m actually not surprised she appears to be avoiding facing painful emotions now.
Thank you, OldWench. You are absolutely correct. I truly appreciate your compassion shown in your words. This girl needs support not bashing. May you be blessed. Namaste!
She acts like a woman several yrs ago who drove her sons into a river & they died in the car. I believe her name was Susan Smith. No emotion. Fishy is a good word for it
They found evidence at the fathers house because that’s where the child was taken from. It’s another story that doesn’t say anything that we didn’t already know. Whether it was the father, mother, grandfather, fairy godparent, that’s where who ever took the kid did it from. We all pretty much agreed that “someone” must have taken the child, which is “foul play”. Basically there’s no new information in this.
If there is no new evidence then why was the forensics team back at the house today and seen carrying out a paper bag today? Why was the shed roped off today?
If she was killed and brought to the shed, the cadaver dogs probably would have gotten a hit there. It could be as simple as they suspect that’s where the abductor waited. In the clip, they were also opening and shutting a house window (as someone else pointed out). Maybe that’s how they think someone got her out of the house. If we’re assuming the friends would “help cover something up”, he wouldn’t need to sneak her out of a window to get her out of the house.
As to the paper bag, we have no idea what’s in it, so how can it be assumed it’s some “proof against the father”? Maybe someone brownbagged lunch, we don’t know.
Either one of them could have done this, or neither of them. People seem to have their minds made up as which they almost seem to want to have done it, but we have nothing concrete yet. Half of the stuff we do know is rumor and accusation. Look at the thing with the lawyer claim where now he has a 20K laywer who wanted 30k, so he “must be preparing for a long defense”. Where have they said he even has a lawyer yet? Or that facebook rumor last week where they both found her alive, and found her dead (and her dad was on the run from the law).
If the rumors are true, the kids probably dead. I’m kinda hoping they turn out to be more gossip and nonsense. It’s the more “optimistic” of the two choices.
For someone to “hide in the shed” it would mean they were on foot. Tracking dogs would have picked up Ayla’s scent from being carried away on foot. It wasn’t cadaver dogs that were brought to the house. It was tracking dogs. Cadaver dogs were taken to the airport area. dkenzie actually is a pretty reputable source for information on this site. More than once he has posted cryptic messages that big news regarding a particular story was about to break and he has been right. We don’t always agree on things but he would not just post that if he didn’t know it to be true.
Didn’t a car get reported as pulling up to the house at 3AM, and a loud bang that got a neighbors dog barking? Being on foot wouldn’t be much of an issue if there was some sort of “getaway driver”. And if the dad took her away in his suv or the girlfriend’s car, wouldn’t they have found something in one of those?
Don’t know dkenzie, so for me he’s just another random poster making claims. If he’s right, then it would be hard to trust a lawyer (or staff member of his) who would let information about his client get out like that. What kind of inept (but expensive) lawyer makes his client look more guilty as his first action?
The neighbor heard the loud noise between 3am and 3:30 am. Whichever neighbor reported the car did not actually see the car as far as I gathered from reports. They HEARD a car, and there wasn’t any mention of the time.
Two cars from the residence were taken in for processing last week. It was Christmas and I’m pretty sure they have to send things out to be tested. It could be that they found something in one of those cars.
it was reported earlier today that both vehicles had been returned to owners. One being the dad’s and one a women from Portland. Let me see if I can find a link to that info.
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/policenarrowsearch_2011-12-29.html
Which means they are done processing them and have collected any evidence from them. Casey Anthony’s car was released as well.
I was just trying to be helpful.
a woman from Portland? Would that be mom?
maybe someone was in the shed and walked to a nearby car & then took off
She must have left a bottle of beer behind at the house when she drove the 75 miles from Portland to sneak into the house and grab her child without any of the other adults in the house noticing. Yup, I think thats the evidence they found — foolish!
Last time I checked, kids don’t sleep in sheds.
Police just announce foul play has occurred. :(
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/12/30/more-crime-tape-at-fathers-house-of-missing-maine-toddler/
A child is ‘missing’ from the house during the night with no one knowing where she is — I guess that would classify as something falling into the “criminal investigation” arena. Too bad it took this long to determine foul play occurred. Regardless of how the child left the house wouldn’t that justify foul play (unless she wondered out on her own, which was ruled out last week)
The police up until tonight must have thought the toddler bought a car and drove off. They just figured foul play might have occured, give me a break.
Actually, Ayla’s birth chart ( 4 apr 10) indicates a Cancer rising….(home and mama) and a saggittarian moon ( a traveler, also religion, independence), an Aries MidHeaven, right next to her Aries sun, (powerful, both together) and her mars (planet of war) is in leo……this mars in leo would say she would kick some butt, and the cancer would make her want mama and home, and the sagittarius is the sign of (hunter, travel, religion)…..all of these things happened under a Virgo moon ( 12/15-12/16)…..which is in charge of HEALTH, and great attention to DETAILs….an earth moon….and, so, we must keep an open mind of what the police are thinking…..2 kids were sleeping in that room, only one was taken…..this pretty much is telling….I think it points to WHOM…..consider this…DiPietro says he “has no idea”…….this is a cover…..to have (no idea) is only likely if you are a total moron……or from Vermont…….LOL…..we did not just fall off a turnip truck……of course, he has (an idea)….
Exactly! If you can predict Red Sox Baseball wins every 86 years you just might get us into the world book of records counting the number of losses and wins before that!!!
moon is aries with a touch of pixie dust and santa talking to tooth fairy. That means that the dad is guilty. Of course he is guilty…santa never ever talks to the tooth fairy with a pixie dust moon!!! You idiots!
we are mostly water. the planets affect the oceans, we are affected by the planets also. there is something to astrology. be more open minded.
There is nothing to astrology. Not one peer-reviewed scientific study has been replicated.
Long overdue, the Police wasted so much time, this case had numerous investigators and it takes until now to figure out the child can not walk out on her own based on the configuration of the house…really? The place is not a mansion, it can’t take this long to figure it out.
I am sure my comment will be removed because I am not sticking to the one side the source would like me to be on, but one of them parents must have a clue as to who has her, it sounds like everyone left the party, but someone brought home an extra guest…Waterville seems to be a bad spot to find people of authority to get stuff done in a quick manner…
And I’m not surprised at all and I wonder when an arrest will be made.
Why is this a surprise? It was totally a bogus story that the Father gave from the get go! When are Cops going to realize that in 90% of these cases the child will be found dead? This is another terrible symptom of the decaying state of our society!
You mentioned Dad as a person who might have done something — You will be deleted! BDN does not tolerate daddy being talked about at all — mommy is who they like to read about.
give me a break
It is true, they have removed several posts of mine that said the dad was involved from day 1. I mean several. Whethere they got flagged or not, Bdn will not say why they are defending the dad. We will find out soon who did what to her
Wow…they did it to me as well, and it didn’t take them long! Really, if they are going to do that, they should remove all of the posts that bash/blame the mother.
I am trying the route of blaming both of them then. Maybe if we say they are both involved and this is some kind of show, our comments might stay, if not, this article needs to be deleted as the “side of the day” had not been agreed on. I figure my comment only stands a 50% chance of being deleted rather then 100% if I blame just the Dad.
I have done my part on why i think the dad did it, if its true still, not saying it is. But They just remove posts because supposedly they dont want conflict on any part
The mother’s court filing also included paternity and child support. Look up Baby Kate.
the police like to stay optimistic in situations such as this.
You start to lose faith in this world after awhile, but it’s probably always been this way… she’s a beautiful child and I am so very saddened by this…
if you watch one of the videos the cops are looking at the shed and opening and closing the window!! I wonder if that was Aylas bedroom window and if someone was waiting in the shed to take her!! Just hope they find whoever took her!!
In my heart I think she went missing before that date,,and the father has something to do with it.. Lord I hope Im wrong, … because I want her to be found alive…If the mother is hiding her she needs to fess up, enough is enough!!
i agree!!!!!!
CAn I ask you why u believe this that she went missing before that night?
Apparently she was supposed to see a bone specialist the day before it was reported she was missing and her father never took her to the appointment.
Bingo, I think you are on to something…
Something else that was mentioned by the neighbors of the father has been bugging me. They said they had never even seen Ayla and didn’t even know she was living in the house. The mother hadn’t seen Ayla since November 21st. She said the father wouldn’t let her speak to Ayla on the phone, either. For all we know that baby may have been missing for a long time. When the mother filed for custody it was most likely emergency custody which is scheduled right away. Notification would have been sent out to the father immediately and he very well could have gotten that notification before he reported Ayla missing.
Bingo, great job on that. I heard the same thing. He is hiding something totally
It’s bugging me because this is Maine for crying out loud…everyone knows their neighbor’s business. For no one to have seen that baby is very significant.
because i read that at one point he didn’t take his daughter to an appointment and had to explanation why he didn’t, next because he said he would check on his daughter periodically through out the evening or night and he made it clear he had not that night she supposedly disappeared …(she had a broken arm and it was never disclosed how it happened) did he do that out of frustration of the baby crying for her mommy??? or was she in an accident????
It was on the news several times that the father supposedly “fell on the child” . This has been on HLN news and Nancy Grace–Channel 30 or 764, which you probably already know. And I don’t think anyone is very surprised that “foul play” is now being looked into–
i did not know that he supposedly fell on his daughter…
This is so sad. Waterville PD and eveyone else involved in the case, you need to be commeneded for a job well done. You worked hard and long hours on this case and you never gave up. Prayers are going out to her family.
That $30K reward is going to make somebody sing. I’ll give it another day or two.
NOW you think foul play is involved? I think that should have been the thought process the second someone made a statement suggesting she was a runaway like some sort of angry teenager…
What could be so bad in someones life to harm a child. It’s just so sad.
No one said the child had been harmed — “foul play” could simply be kidnapped or placed where someone can’t find her right now.
Foul Play definition from Merriam Webster: Violence, especially murder.
I hate hearing about stories like this, I can’t imagine as a parent going through something like this.
“A group called Child Recovery International, in a press release circulated Friday, offered the following tips for anyone who discovers a child missing:”• Search though any closets, piles of laundry, inside large appliances or anywhere else where a child could crawl into or hide.”
Did the copy desk take another night off?
So if I find a child who has been missing, I’m supposed to search my closets, piles of laundry, etc.? What would I be looking for?
Hint: “a child IS missing” and “through” instead of “though.”
So with the State Police taking charge, does this mean authorities believe Ayla is no longer in Waterville? Or does it mean authorities believe she has been killed, as Waterville Police are not authorized to investigate homicides?
They could be just trying to free up the local police and shift the cost to the state.
It’s been almost 2 weeks and it is just now being considered a criminal investigation? Really?When she wasn’t located the following day it should have been considered criminal. She obviously didn’t just wander out the front door.
WHO EVER DID THIS SHOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR ALL OF THE MAN HOURS INVOLDED IN THIS
Giving the cars back seems to say ok nothing here you can have your cars back. I think the police have it figured out and just waiting for that last little bit of info to close this. Lets hope its just a snatched child living with someone else.
WHO EVER DID THIS SHOULD HAVE TO PAY THE POLICE DEPTS BACK FOR ALL OF THEY LABOR
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/12/30/more-crime-tape-at-fathers-house-of-missing-maine-toddler/
Thanks DZenzie for this, I also have suspected the dad had something to do with it. The shed, a paper bag being removed, evidence found in the house..Yup, in cases like this, it is always those closest that are usually responsible. I hope she gets her justice in spades.
I would think dad would have answer’s inwhich they are looking for. Throw his a*s in jail and see if he talks. If they stole the baby Ayla from her home and no one knew it I would think this is child abuse on dad behalf.
Yeah, . Where is your “probable cause”? He may have done something? Well you may have “done something” too? Think of these facts admitted by the mother to Matt Lauer of the Today show. “So you got out of rehab in October?” Mother “yes” You have visitation rights correct? Mother “yes” How many times have you visited with Ayla since October? Mother “twice” three weeks after I got out of rehab and about three weeks ago” You filed for Sole Custody within hours of Ayla going missing? Mother “yes” Did you do anything to remove Ayla from the home? Mother “I wouldn’t do that”
Why would a mother who had the right to visitation, only visit her daughter twice in 2 months? Did the father remove her because the mother filed for sole custody? Did the mother remove her because she knew she would be denied sole custody? Or did either one of them owe somebody and was she removed for revenge?
She was living in a motel…which is where single mothers end up when they are homeless. Ever think that maybe she doesn’t have a car or money for gas? I heard her say in an interview that the father would not let her see Ayla and that he would not bring her to Portland. To me that sounds like she didn’t have a car or the means to get to Waterville.
That may be true, but her father seemed awfully upset. Perhaps he could have brought her there but again no one really knows the truth yet.
I may have, you mite want too watch the your mouth about me devonshire 11. The point is the parents are lying and they need to come clean..
And my point Little Bear is you are effectively accusing the father stating to put his butt in jail when it could be one or the other or someone or something else. And as far as your statement “you mite want too watch the your mouth about me “. It is, what it is.. me bucko.
We’ll see who gets arrested soon enough. If I had to place a bet it would be on the one that got the lawyer.
That’s where I’d put my money also.
Okay Mr or Mrs wonderful have a good New Years. Maybe Next year I will be perfect as some people that write on here. Thank you for your time BUCKO
more likely neglect than abuse
Because broken arms are the result of neglect…
That’s some fine detective work there, Lou.
Took them 2 weeks to come to this conclusion…OMG..
Will the parents be taking polygraphs now that it is official that foul play was involved?
Only if the volunteer to take one. No one can be forced to take a polygraph “test”.
It is very unlikely that a stranger entered the house in the late night hours and abducted the little girl. It was most likely someone close to the little girl and I can only pray that it is one of the parents hiding her from the other out of of love. If this is the case it is time to set everyone’s mind at ease, bring her home and fight for her legally!
If the state of Maine wants to cut programs lets eliminate DHHS. They” think” they know whats best for the child, The only ones that do know what’s best for the child is the family. If they really knew what’s best for the child we wouldn’t be having this discussion today. This is happening all over the country , “thinking ” is not the same as knowing the actual facts.
“The only ones that do know what’s best for the child is the family. ” Is this correct? the opinion seems to be here that 1 of the parents is responsible. Aren’t they “family?”
Yes, the meth head mother seems to be ideally suited to raising children. In fact she she has a couple by a couple different men.
Who said she was a meth head? Alcoholic, yes but haven’t heard anything about anyother drug.
Wow imagine foul play? I thought she just packed a little suitcase and took the car. Good grief, of course there is something amiss. I don’t know if they will ever find her but I hope and pray they do and then put her someplace where the adults are capable of caring for her and don’t have “friends” or “enemies” that might do somtehing like this.
House full of people in that house…most family of Ayla’s. All in hiding, probably together making sure the story is solid before coming out with it. Hopefully one of them took her to make sure the mother didn’t get her back — or — something happened accidently or on purpose and they are all covering. I keep thinking about what if any medication she is taking for her broken arm. If it were you or I and we broke our arm we would be on pain medication — did she get too much? I guess without knowing exactly when the child went missing it would be hard to check the remaining dosages to see if too much was gone.
They’re not BinLaden and company; the house is a crime scene, so they have to stay elsewhere. They’ve (at least the father, reportedly) been in contact with the police and has been cooperating. Someones being nice enough to put the family up for a while, and probably doesnt want to have reporters stalking the address. Not a big “tell” of anything inherently in that.
Unfortunately as to the other part, I’ve thought of that possibility as well. “If” he was partying that night and the kid got herself hurt, then that would be one of the only reasons I could think of him to be involved in the way people mention. But again, wouldnt they have found something in one of those cars were that the case?
I’m still thinking/hoping she’s with friends or family of one of the two. I’m hoping the only sad part is that she goes back into the custody of one of these two seemingly unfit parents. Maybe this whole thing will make at least one of them grow up a bit.
The father didn’t give a statement, his lawyer did. It’s obvious by reading the statement that it was written by a lawyer.
As for someone hiding the baby…I don’t think that’s the case. Who is going to risk serious prison time for hiding that baby? IF that were what happened the person hiding her would have come forward by now.
Again, the lawyer thing is just speculation based on how you believe a lawyer would write. Maybe he does have a lawyer, but dkenzie never named the one he’s supposedly paying the 20k to, and it hasn’t been validated by the media, so we just don’t know.
And is Dkenzie friends with the mom? He/she seems to be aware of the current status of the mothers sobriety (from other posts). If so, then that’s kind of a biased source, isnt it?
I have always got the impression he was somehow involved with or had contacts in law enforcement, but I could be wrong. He (or she, not really sure) does always seem to know things before they become public. He won’t say much, but I haven’t seen him be wrong yet.
Like when he (dkenzie) stated that the cocaine ring bust here in Bangor in early November was a case of people putting bath salts on Halloween candy and giving it to kids? I have seen him be wrong on here plenty before…
I don’t recall seeing him say that.
parents have stolen their kids before and they disappeared for 40 years or life, one for instance was Steve Jobs !
Who the heck said anything about BinLaden and company? It’s a father and his “people” that are covering up the welfare of a 20 month old child. A little combative about someone saying daddy might have more knowledge than he and is possee is telling? Keep thinking that the mother zapped herself there from Portland and as someone stated above drank a fifth and took time to take a pregancy test (oh and leave the bottle and test stick behind) and take the child. O.K.!
I was commenting on your assertion that they were “in hiding”, like they were trying to evade justice somehow, when it’s more simply a matter of they CANT stay at that house while the investigation is going on.
You guys complain about how unfair it is for the mother to be questioned in any way for her strange behavior and choices she makes, but seem intent on going out of the way to blow any action by the father out of proportion. How do you rationalize that hypocritical standpoint?
It’s not “defending the father” to point out flaws in the logic in the rush to convict him. I’ve said numerous times it could have been either parent, or neither. It’s also not ‘bashing” the mother to point out contradictions in her story (which there have been a few). I’ve seen both dirtbag mothers and dirtbag fathers around here, so I’m not taking either for granted. I’m also not going to automatically assume because of gender stereotypes that she “automatically cared about the child more” when it’s so far taken 2 kids before she decided to get her life straight (supposedly).
I’ve seen mothers who have no real concern for their kids, and many fathers who cant be bothered to support their own kids. I think both these parents have some blame in this, and neither really seemed to act like a responsible parent. Even in the “best case” for the father, he was neglectful enough that his kid got taken right from his house. That’s not giving the guy a pass, or “taking his side”.
To be blunt/honest, I hope they find the kid alive and neither of these parents gets to have custody, as neither seems grown up enough to raise a kid.
I’m responding to the bashing of the mother in everyone of my posts, I reference the father as the one who should have protected his child, he took on the responsibility when he took the child from the place that Trista left her while seeking treatment. Then the only words he can utter are “I don’t know what happened” when the child is taken, for godsake his child could be dead and all he can do is hide behind a faceless blanket statement; “I don’t know anything” muttered by someone else. I don’t know Trista, where she comes from or anything else. But, for people to be tearing her apart the way they are in these blogs is unbelievable. Not everyone comes from a place of wealth, proper education, or parents who care. She may be one of these people again I don’t know. However, I look at the pictures of the child (most or all taken during the time she was with her mother – I say this because of her age and it is known that the dad didn’t have anything to do with Ayla until Oct. 18 months after her birth) and can see that she is a happy child, looks well nurished and is engaging with those taking the pictures. These photos to me don’t fit the picture of a child who’s mother didn’t take care of her child and only cared about gaining the spotlight because her child is taken.
Someone talked.
What is very sad about this story is that children are born to very irresponsible parents….though the mother sought treatment for her drug addiction….she should not have had a child with such a problem….and if she had all these fears of her child’s father she should have not allowed him to take the child and gone to the police immediately….these poor kids that are born to young people who can’t even take care of themselves on their own let alone a child….I may sound critical but I have seen so many young people not taking precautions in a relationship and then end up abusing, abandoning and God forbid murdering them…so many grandparents are raising their grandchildren in Maine ……sad situation…God bless all the little ones who are living in such a situation….
The mother sought treatment for ALCOHOL abuse. When we hear the term “drug addiction” we picture addiction to illegal drugs like cocaine and heroin. This mother went to try to get help for a problem with drinking at only 23 years old. To admit you need help at such a young age when you have only been able to buy alcohol legally for two years is a huge step and shows that she doesn’t want her life to be wasted on the wrong path. The father went to the relatives she left Ayla with and took that baby. After he took her she ended up with a broken arm and now she has disappeared. People need to lay off the mother. Ayla was in her FATHER’S home and care. Just because the mother is young and hasn’t been coached on how to act or look in an extremely difficult situation where the other parent refuses to tell her what happened in that house the night Ayla went missing doesn’t change the fact that she was an hour and a half away and had just filed for custody. If she were going to try to just go sneak in and take her baby back she would have at least exhausted the legal means to try to get her back first.
you don’t know that
It has been widely reported that the mother entered a 10 day rehab for alcohol.
The official term for drug addiction is, well drug addiction. The official term for alcohol addiction is alcoholism.
The mother’s age has been widely reported as 23 years old.
Admitting you need help to quit drinking is a huge step for anyone, and the most important step in getting sober.
You can’t purchase alcohol legally until you are 21 years old. Since she is 23 that means she has only been able to legally buy alcohol for 2 years.
The article I linked to in another post reports based on police logs that the father went to the police and asked them to accompany him to take Ayla away from the grandmother and aunt. The police called DHHS to ask if they could do this and they gave the okay. Ayla was NEVER taken from the mother by DHHS.
Ayla had a broken arm when she disappeared. It has been documented that she was in her father’s care when this happened.
Ayla disappeared while in her father’s care. That has been documented by the father’s own statements and official police statements.
The father has only released lawyer prepared statements and has not spoken to the press at all to ask for the return of his daughter. His statement made it clear that he doesn’t want the media involved. It is common knowledge the the media has helped locate missing people by way of alerting the public and therefore helping the police get tips to help them solve the case. Even the police are speaking to the media because even they know they need the help of the public. We have no reason to believe he isn’t speaking to the mother since he’s not speaking to anyone else unless he has no choice…like with the police. Again…this is widely documented.
The mother filed for custody in court the day before Ayla disappeared. If she had concocted some elaborate scheme to steal the baby back then why would she file those papers? Who exactly would continue to hide this baby for the mother (or father) and risk going to prison for decades over it? They would have come forward and turned the baby over by now.
So what, exactly, was your point again? All the facts point away from the mother. There is not a single person coming forward reporting seeing the mother in the area or travelling between Waterville and Portland that night. With the media attention this has gotten if the mother had been in that area someone would have seen her and they didn’t. You are pointing your finger at the mother ONLY based on her lack of public sobbing and behavior in the media that you don’t understand. You don’t understand it because you haven’t been in her shoes. All the facts and evidence point to the father or someone else in that home with him knowing something about it. You may as well get used to that because the new activity at that house indicates that they know something they didn’t know before and found something that will lead to an arrest very soon. I wouldn’t be surprised if an arrest happens today.
he isnt speaking to the anyone else because he doesnt want to get his story screwed up one lie and one lie only .
Nothing “official” about alcoholism alcohol addiction is alcohol dependence — ism is slang.
I would not rule out the mothers drug contacts maybe she owes a big drug debt. Anyone could be involved.
It is true, she has been on the news teling her story and looking for her daughter. You might want to watch tv more
there were four people in his house
And…Who was responsible for the child?
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So what your saying is, that the mother drank while pregnant with Ayla??, seeing as she was only able to drink legally for the last 2 years, that would make her 4 months from her due date right?…and just because she wasnt of age, doesnt mean she wasnt drinking before, there are A LOT of VERY young kids that drink, and get addicted, so she could have actually been drinking from a very young age, either way, still not mother material!…..i will say however, that when this is all said and done, it is proven that the mother had NOTHING to do with this, i will write my apology for thinking it was her, but will you, if it turns out the father had nothing to do with this?
I said no such thing. What I said is that her drinking problem had to be fairly recent development since she is only 23 and could not even legally buy alcohol until the age of 21. Seeing as she was pregnant for much of the time she has been able to buy it that reinforces my opinion that this was a new problem that she was getting help for.
Yes, a lot of minors drink, but access is far more limited when they can’t buy it themselves.
If I were you I’d start preparing that apology now. Look up the definition of foul play…Merriam Webster gives the definition: Violence, especially murder. The police made the announcement of foul play being involved about two hours after returning to the father’s house with specialized investigative equipment borrowed from Mass., and after carrying a bag of evidence out of the house. The evidence of foul play was found INSIDE the father’s house. Again…foul play means violence and harm caused to someone. Now I’m just curious how those blaming the mother are going to concoct some explanation that places the mother inside the home harming her child the day after filing for custody. The mother haters need to start looking at the evidence and where it points.
Well of course they are going to be taking evidence from the fathers house, thats where the child was when she went missing, its not like they’re going to take it from the local church is it??
And yes if the mother took the child she would be in the house, and so the evidence may have her DNA on it, whos to say she hadnt planned this and done the custody thing so as not to make it look like she did it?..if shes smart she would have a whole lot of alibi’s to make it not look like she did it!
You seem to have A LOT of input to everyone that even mentions the mother has something to do with is, so im assuming you are Trista!
Okay…DHHS never took Ayla from her mother. The father pursued taking Ayla and went to DHHS to get permission and then to the police to assist him in taking her.
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/police-log-offers-insight-into-custody-questions_2011-12-30.html
where do you get all this? take a break
I got it from actually reading the article and looking at the facts logically…you should try it sometime.
Ya don’t say…
Which dirt bag?
HELP GOD!!! SHINE YOUR LIGHT! Our heart’s are aching!
What took them so long? They have to be the most dumb police dept in Maine.
I would bet that they knew and believed this all along…but that they had to consider every possible scenario. If they jumped towards foul play they would be criticized for not searching and looking at the possibility that she just walked out and was lost.
2 weeks is actually good time, it takes a long time to put a case together they need evidence to present it to the DA and state police
The PD isn’t showing their entire hand to the public. I am sure they knew a long time ago it was foul play. Why be so critical when you don’t know the whole story?
If and when I have been to ” a party” and someone comes up missing, I would use the phrase, the last time I saw him/her was “time” and “place.” DePietro uses that language concerning his baby daughter? I find that very wierd. Why does he say, “the last time I saw Ayla was Friday night. I couldn’t find her the next morning. (Like she was a casual acquaintance) A parent is panic stricken and uses language like, “I got her ready for bed and put her to bed around 8:30. I couldn’t find her in the morning around 9 am.” Who talks like that about their toddler daughter?
Evidently there were other people in the house that evening of Dec. 16th. They must have seen DePietro putting his child to bed….when and where. What are those people saying? Everything is so shrouded in mystery….one has to wonder if Ayla was in that house at all on the evening of Dec. 16. Was she missing before that evening?
This case is sounding more and more like the “baby Lisa” case. The mother and father haven’t talked to police since sometime in Oct., and the mother says ” she put Lisa to bed at [whatever time] and when the father came home from work at 4 AM Lisa was not in her bed.
I was actually thinking more along the lines of Baby Kate, actually.
I don’t know the story of Baby Kate. What happened in that case
The mother thought the father came to pick her and baby Kate up to go get a paternity test. She loaded the baby in the car with the father and ran inside to grab something and he took off with the baby. He was found four hours later with the carseat, diaper bag and had the baby’s clothes in his pocket. The baby disappeared and still hasn’t been found.
ya and they dont check on here until 9 in the morning ,what kid sleeps that late ?
I don’t want to sound cliche’ and I’m not a huge believer, but maybe a psychic calling could help
I can’t believe two people actually “liked” this absurd suggestion…
YA THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Took two weeks to figure that out.
Seriously?? I am sorry but her being possibly pregnant has absolutely nothing to do with her child being missing. And who is to say that the bottle is hers? If my child went missing I might need a nip of something to calm myself. Nosey nosey silly people.
Her or his comment is a lie, probably the dad
Are they sure she was actually there that night? Did any of these “other adults” in the home see her? A house full of adults makes me wonder if it was a drug house. Did DHHS check this place out before putting her there?
Doesn’t sound like they checked it out. Another news report states that the father went to the police to assist him in taking Ayla from the grandmother, they called DHHS and they told the police they could help him.
Well that rumor is wrong
Can you clarify how you know the specifics of the father’s lawyer situation (name of the lawyer would be nice), as well as how you know seemingly such personal information about Trista? While I don’t believe many of the rumors going around, you’re putting yourself in a position of “inside knowledge” of the situation without really explaining how you’re in a position to debunk certain rumors and kinda spread others. Not bashing, just would like to understand.
My concern is that Ayla is being kept by someone who has no intention of returning her. That person may apply for medicaid or other benefits in order to care for her. Won’t they need Ayla’s social security number? Perhaps the police should be on the look out for someone trying to use Ayla’s identification for just such purposes. Whoever snatched Ayla didn’t intend for all this media attention.
You can’t be serious…
Steal a child from a home in the middle of the night and you don’t think it will cause media attention. Alright!
For people who keep insisting that the mother stole the baby and has her in hiding or that the father is hiding her from the mother…look up the definition of foul play. Here is the definition from Merriam Webster: Violence, especially murder.
They don’t believe Ayla is alive. I’m sorry to be the first one to say it, but that’s what foul play refers to. This means that they must have found something yesterday to support that belief. The reward of $30,000 is a lot of money in hard times. Someone who knew something must have gone to the police with information to try to collect that money.
Where’s the link to this story?
It’s not a story…it’s a poster trying to make a tasteless joke.
You know guys what I am wondering, I have faith that Ayla will be found, that maybe someone has her, and is to scared to bring her forward. Who ever does have her is facing a very long prison sentence, and also like Casey Anthony, will they be made to pay every one back for the search?? I honestly think that law enforcement should name a spot and a time to leave her off, with NO questions asked. I don’t care if there is an arrest made or not, I am more interested in her coming home. I have faith that a lot of you feel the same way… Bring her home with no questions asked………..
The neighbors never saw Ayla…ever. That is a red flag. The mother reports that the father would not let her see or talk to Ayla on the phone. The last time she saw Ayla was November 21st. I’m beginning to think that baby has been missing for a lot longer than has been reported. I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the father reported Ayla missing two days after the mother filed for custody, paternity and child support. That’s long enough for the father to be notified and realize that there is going to soon be a court order for him to show up with the baby for a blood test or turn her over to the mother. If Ayla was already gone how would he cover his butt? Call and report her missing.
Did any family besides who was at the house that night see her over Thanksgiving? That would be odd if she hasn’t been seen since the 21st.
I have no idea. I don’t know any of the people involved, despite accusations to the contrary. I’m just really mad that the father was allowed to just show up and take Ayla from the mother’s family without anyone making sure she would be safe there. Bruises, broken arm and now she has just vanished from the home as the result of foul play. There needs to be a law that protects children from being just handed over like this. If that had not have happened none of us would be talking about this right now.
oh, if only filing with the courts for such things resulted in FAST responses….. personal experience: file – wait 6 months for an initial court date – in which child does not have to make an appearance…. so…. I have no idea what the dad did or the mom did or what anyone thought – but filing in court does not bring immediate anything…. for anyone… ever….
One of the family is involved, most likely one of the four that she was living with !
It’s just been reported by the baby’s mothers cousin Lisa that the mother is pregnant by a third man and is back drinking. The rumour around Waterville is that the paper bag removed from the house yesterday contained a used pregnancy test kit and a bottle of Jack. ( I REMEMBER A TIME ,MANY YEARS AGO WHEN MY GIRLFRIEND TOLD ME SHE WAS PREGO ,I COULD HAVE USED A COUPLE BOTTLES OF JACK,BOTH FOR ME.)
And the source of the rumor is…?
Dunno not my rumour the part in caps is my contribution.)
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All of you are doing a disfavor to yourselves, this state, and this country by making rude and ludicrous comments based on rumors and assumptions, you all should be ashamed of yourselves.
I am hoping for a good outcome and have learned my lesson not to come out and accuse one or the other. Ayla is always in my thoughts and my heart goes out to all who miss and love her. So much more I want to say,but I won’t because I will be flagged for saying the wrong things. I will say though,that there are posters on here that sound like they have nothing in their lives except to be on here all the time defending one or the other parent.
No you haven’t…right now you are on the other article bashing the mother…again.
BDN again I ask you, take out comments accusing the father until further info is obtained. You stated that if people accused someone of something comments would be deleted.
I’m guessing that you know the father. I’m really sorry, but my advice for you would be to prepare yourself for the worst because it’s not looking good. When the police come out and say they found evidence of foul play two hours after bringing in that special equipment from Mass. it most likely means that they have found trace evidence in that house that tells them that baby was harmed inside that house. That’s what foul play means. I actually expect the announcement of an arrest any minute.
Comments blaming the father — Seriously!
I hope that this girl is alive but after all this time I bet that something very very sad has happened to her. And the person or persons involved should pay deaply!!