9-Year-Old Autistic Boy Found Dead in Miami Canal After Mother Reported Him Abducted

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14. Two things...

First, stranger abductions are incredibly rare. One of the rares crimes in the nation. Missing or abducted children are far more likely to have run away, gotten lost, or been abducted by a parent or other close relative/friend. It would be basically unheard of for a stranger to abduct a child right infront of a parent. When it does happen, it is a much less obvious or brazen thing. A predator will wait for a child to be left alone or unwatched before making a move like that. When it does happen it is almost always a sexual predator, not someone trying to get money or something else.

Secondly, when a child disappears the parents are automatically the first suspects that need to be looked at.

So yeah, I think you are right on with this. The story is highly unlikely to be true. It's not the way something like that would happen, it's the way somebody thinks it would happen, so it is the story they make up.