Kyron Horman And Habeas Corpus
KYRON Horman the missing Oregon schoolboy turns 8 soon. The case has focused on Terri Moulton Horman, his step mother and the last person known to have seen Kyron. She saw him on June 4 at his school’s science fair.
Terri Moulton Horman has been directly blamed for the boy’s disappearance by the natural mother and Kyron’s father and her husband, from whom she is now estranged.
The speculation has been fierce as the police rely on the media to extract a confession. But there is no official suspect. There is no sign of the boy. And there is no proof a crime was enacted. The case is being carried out in the court of public opinion where anything goes.
On the Early Show, CBS News Correspondent Bill Whitaker is talking with former federal prosecutor Laurie Levenson. Whitaker muses on a Terri Horman confession:
“I don’t know that even a confession itself would be enough. You have a lot of circumstantial evidence, but we don’t have the key evidence. We don’t have the boy.”
Habeas corpus predates the 24-hour media news cycle.
In other news, security has been upped a Portland, Oregon, schools:
Any adult visitor will be required to wear an official PPS color-coded badge — yellow for visitors, green for volunteers who’ve been through a criminal background check. And adults who visit frequently will be pressed to upgrade to the green pass…
Hillsboro also has switched to a color-coded badge system. An orange badge signals an approved volunteer who has cleared a state or national criminal background check.
What colour do people up to no good wear?
Posted: 9th, September 2010 | In: News Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
September 10th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
It is a sad commentary that it took a child to go missing for a small county school with people who have the the small town mentality that nothing can happen to their children to wake up and join the real world in the realization that bad things can happen to our children no matter where we live.
Where I live and my children went to school it would have been akin to trying to break into Ft. Knox for even a parent to try to go into and take a child out of the school without anyone’s knowledge. One way in through the front door and even parents are stopped and have to show ID and put on a badge. Other side doors were constantly monitored. At every school a policeman is stationed and patrols the grounds watching the children outside going into school before school, during school and leaving school. Your child isn’t in the classroom for first class roll call a parent receives a phone call from the school within a hour at home or at work questioning where your child is.
Yes, it is also a sad commentary on the way the world is today that our children have to be so closely guarded but the fact of life is there are those predators out there unknown to many or possibly known to many but unknown to be a predator who prey on our children.
September 9th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
No color
September 9th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Surely, all the police have to do now is monitor the local greeting card shops and follow anyone who buys a birthday card for an 8 year old. Old fashioned policing I know, but it could just work
September 9th, 2010 at 3:29 am
Same color as the good ones. That way nobody can tell who they are. So, what happens when some one has been bad, decides to be good, has a child that goes to school, and then gets criminal check? Can they go to their child’s school at all? To teacher conferences, or school activities?
How bad do you have to be to be disallowed from entrance to the school? For example, someone has a legal designation of “sexual predator”. One, a teenager legally committed rape simply because a girlfriend was under age of consent. Another person a teacher and mother in her 30′s, having an affair with a student of hers. Neither is likely to be the type of predator that will steal someone like Kyron. Some one who can steal, or make a fake color coded tag easily is who I fear. Some one with no criminal history. Maybe a mother, father or teacher.
25 hr/day high definition video on every school entrance/exit and driveway should definably be a priority.
September 9th, 2010 at 3:02 am
Well, rainbow coloured, natch!