Damn that's extreme, but I am really glad he was alive and OK
I'd love to sit down with a tall drink and here this one from the begininng!
Regards,
Mary
I wonder if this dude only got custody because he was a police officer. Just because you're a Police Officer or in the National Guard (love how they threw both of those in there btw) for that matter doesn't mean you're a decent person.
Age difference says a LOT too.
Not saying what they did was right but, sometimes you have to do what you have to do.
What did I miss? I thought the mother ran off with her child.
There wasn't nearly enough info!! Was he living in the wall? Was she? How did they find him? Was he calling for help? Why did she run with him? Was she justified?
When I read the subject line I thought of the movie The Orphanage & I thought he'd been found dead.
They prolly told him that bad people were after him and he couldnt show his face or he would turn into a lump of salt or better yet disintegrate when exposed to the sun. These things happen all the time. Awesome moms rock!
Dang! This is not only the summer of celebrity deaths but found missing children...and alive!
Thank goodness he's alive, I read the header and thought he wasn't.
When dealing with the state about custody of my son, and my mentally ill stepson's actions that had DCYF investiagting, being in the Army Resereve and a Corrections Officer went against me not for me. They are occupations that are consider high risk for domestic violence. The only benefit was income.
MARION, Ill. -- A southern Illinois grandmother said Monday that she hid her 6-year-old grandson and his mother in a crawl space in her home for two years during a custody dispute with the boy's father to keep the youngster safe.
Diane Dobbs, 51, spoke to "Good Morning America" from Marion, Ill. She's out on bond after being charged Friday with aiding and abetting.
Dobbs is accused of helping to hide her grandson, Richard "Ricky" Chekevdia, since his father was awarded temporary custody two years ago.
Ricky and his mother, 30-year-old Shannon Wilfong, vanished in November 2007. They were found Friday hiding in a small crawl space in Dobbs' two-story home by police who were responding to a tip. Wilfong is charged with felony child abduction and was being held on $42,500 bond.
Dobbs said Monday that authorities haven't fully investigated allegations that Ricky's father, Mike Chekevdia, sexually abused him, and she was trying to protect the boy from his father. She said she doesn't plan to plead guilty.
"We were on our own and we had to do what we had to do and that was make sure our grandson was safe," Dobbs said.
Chekevdia, a 48-year-old former police officer who's a lieutenant colonel in the Illinois Army National Guard, has denied any wrongdoing.
"I was investigated three times, and I complied with everybody's desires and wishes in those investigations, and every one of those investigations were unfounded," Mike Chekevdia told "Good Morning America."
The boy has been staying with one of his father's relatives while state child-welfare workers continue to investigate the abuse claims.
Authorities have said the boy, who turns 7 on Sept. 14, was in good spirits and physically fit.
Dobbs said Ricky and his mother didn't live in the crawl space full time at her rural home in southern Illinois' Franklin County, about 120 miles southeast of St. Louis. She said the pair spent less than 5 minutes there during the past two years.
"My grandson had the run of the house, when we were outside we would go fishing, we would do weenie roasts, we've done fireworks on the Fourth of July, he's helped me plant my flower garden in the back," she said.
She said Wilfong had been home-schooling Ricky, who she described as a "very bright child."
"He's the light of my life," she said. "I've been there ever since that little boy was born."
No published telephone listing for Diane Dobbs could be found Monday by The Associated Press.
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktl...,1018866.story