Boy, kidnapped eight years ago, to be reunited with his mother

[joeybee12]

Miguel Morin was 8 months old when, police say, his baby sitter took him for what was supposed to be just one night in 2004. The sitter, Krystle Rochelle Tanner, was Miguel’s godmother and friends with his mother, police say.

Now, eight years after his disappearance, Miguel will be reunited with his mother, Auboni Champion-Morin of Houston, pending a DNA test, Click2houston.com reported Wednesday. She says she never gave up hope that she would find her child.

"I prayed every night that he was safe, loved and he would come home one day," Champion-Morin told the Houston television station.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/14/10692052-boy-kidnapped-eight-years-ago-to-be-reunited-with-his-mother

[excuse not to write]

1. Wow!

This kind of case almost NEVER has a happy ending! Good luck to that little boy and his mom!

[riderinthestorm]

2. Why was he taken off the Missing Child lists? Why did it take so long to find Tanner?

A person of color perhaps? I really hate thinking that...

I'm really grateful the boy was found, and it sounds as though he's had a terrible time with Tanner, but this ain't gonna be easy for this mom and this boy. Sounds like he hasn't even been in school yet. My deepest hopes and dreams for them to have a life of joy and happiness however going forward!

[msongs]

3. have you ever known a person with no color? nt

[LanternWaste]

5. The colloquial in America is "white"

"have you ever known a person with no color?"

The colloquial (add emphasis, and most obviously implied in the post) in America is "white".

[Snake Alchemist]

7. Which person is "of color"? The person who took him? Or the person that lost him?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-03-15/missing-texas-baby-found/53541930/1?csp=34news

http://www.krqe.com/dpps/news/us/south/texas-baby-missing-for-8-years-found-will-go-home-nt12-jgr_4104644

[SenoritaBonita]

10. Parents are ethnic

Mom is A/A Dad looks Hispanic; the kidnapper was A/A

[Boudica the Lyoness]

4. They knew who took the baby and they knew that persons

relatives, yet the police gave up after two years and the mother just prayed??? There must be more to this. This doesn't sound right to me.

If someone I knew took my baby and I knew their relatives, I would not rest till I got him back. And it would not have taken 8 years...eight hours at the most.

[pacalo]

6. That's a very good point.

[Snake Alchemist]

8. Here

"Tanner, who was a friend of Champion-Morin's and Miguel's godmother, was a suspect after the boy disappeared. Tanner's relatives in Houston told police that she and the infant had vanished. The case went cold and was closed in 2006, said Chief Deputy Gary Cunningham of the San Augustine Sheriff's Department"

http://www.krqe.com/dpps/news/us/south/texas-baby-missing-for-8-years-found-will-go-home-nt12-jgr_4104644

[joeybee12]

9. I'm surprised they closed the case...I thought such cases

were never officially close, like murder investigations...no one might be working on them anymore, but they aren't officially "closed."

[SenoritaBonita]

11. Case closed

that is EXACTLY what I thought....the PD has to answer that question