Avonte Oquendo

 

The Search Is Off But No One Is Giving Up

 

By: C. Harrison/November 21, 2013

 

                                                          Photo curtsey of  ABC News/ Taken Nov 2, 2013

Avonte Oquendo, fanished from his school, the Learning Center Boulevard School in Long Island City, Queens; Friday, October 4, 2013–at or around 12:30 PM. It was also the last time anyone had seen him alive and in person on surveillance video. He was seen by the school’s security guard leaving the building. She asked him where he was going but he never answered. He doesn’t speak verbally and is autistic. The boy is 14-years old.

It is now going on in its 7th  week and still there is no sign of him, to the disappointment of all—including his parents, family and the police department—whom have all search tirelessly.  Thus far, no one I believe has given up hope.

In the limitation of time and the  cold weather setting in, we are basically out of time to find him. I believe someone, somewhere has found him and knows exactly who he is.

My gripe is with the security guard who first saw him leaving the school—–because they’re the first line of defense or gate keepers so to speak. In a case like this, in any school like this particular school with children who have disabilities and attend schools like this one, have parents who depends on the security of the school to keep their child safe.

So, I am asking,  how much does the security guards know about these children at this Learning Center School?  and if security guards knew of these children’s condition (They should have been brief) -why wasn’t this guard more alert and a where, especially because he didn’t answer her——even more so, question the fact or look to see if the child made it back to class? It was reported that she (the guard) actually reported Avonte, missing hours later when it was too late.

Security guards are the eyes and ears of the schools they oversee and something such has this shouldn’t have happen on their watch. Someone in that neighborhood knows what happened to this child.

 

If you know anything or saw something contact the NYPD.