{"id":1267,"date":"2013-10-23T06:45:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T13:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2018-04-03T09:41:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:41:40","slug":"1267","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/1267\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing in San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"L<\/span>earning that Madeline and Emily Dorcich<\/a> had been found was like a breath of fresh air until it wasn’t, because when you scratch beneath the surface something stinks! The girls were reported missing by their father after they failed to return home from a church event at San Jose\u2019s Del Mar High School around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 13, 2013.<\/p>\n

By Tuesday, October 15, friends and other volunteers, including members of Mr. Dorcich’ church, were posting fliers throughout the South Bay. The girl\u2019s father Chuck Dorcich said, \u201cI think they are somewhere in the South Bay. I can\u2019t imagine anywhere else they would be.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Chuck Dorcich set up a Facebook page \u201cFinding Madeline & Emily\u201d to assist in the search and quickly attracted the public\u2019s attention gaining more than 4,000 likes (including mine). It was renamed \u201cSafe and Sound: Madeline and Emily<\/a>\u201d after they were recovered at approximately 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 16. The page currently has 5,054 likes.<\/p>\n

\"Safe<\/a><\/p>\n

On Wednesday, October 16, the San Jose Police Department issued the following advisory: The two missing sisters (Madeline and Emily Dorcich) have been safely located and are with their biological mother. The entire incident was related to a child custody matter that will have to be resolved in family court. No criminal acts were committed and the San Jose Police Department will be closing the case and no further action will be taken.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

My questions are pretty basic. If Madeline and Emily\u2019s parents were engaged in a child custody battle, and Mrs. Dorcich had relocated to Pismo Beach, why did Mr. Dorcich say that he couldn\u2019t imagine that they (the girls) would be anywhere else but the South Bay? Mr. Dorcich said that the ordeal gave him empathy for parents whose children have gone missing. \u201cYou assume the worst.\u201d<\/p>\n

If I were Mr. Dorcich I would have assumed that my ex-wife were somehow involved, or at least checked with her prior to reporting them missing to the police, freaking out the Bay Area, soliciting an army of volunteers to distribute 1,500 missing flyers, and posting a Facebook page that grabbed the attention and solicited the sympathy of thousands.<\/p>\n

I will not go so far as to say that Mr. and Mrs. Dorcich used these lovely young girls as weapons against each other in a custody battle, but I will say that they need to re-evaluate their parenting skills and figure out their priorities because I don\u2019t see that the best interest of the children were served.<\/p>\n

As the parent of a child who really was missing, I do know what the parents of missing children go through. I also understand how families, friends, neighbors and communities are affected when the worst is feared. In this case there really wasn\u2019t anything to fear. Police, media and community resources were expended to recover two girls who were never really missing in the first place and nobody is being held accountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

earning that Madeline and Emily Dorcich had been found was like a breath of fresh air until it wasn’t, because when you scratch beneath the surface something stinks! The girls were reported missing by their father after they failed to return home from a church event at San Jose\u2019s Del Mar High School around 7:30 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-missing-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3199,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}