It’s been nearly a week since 7-year-old Kyron Horman was last seen. Investigators say the child went missing from his elementary school on Friday, June 4, 2010.  The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office was immediately contacted and a search throughout the Portland area ensued.  Last weekend, the Major Crimes Team stepped in to assist, and now the FBI is involved.  There are expert search teams from the entire state combing the immediate area of where the child may have been taken. Sheriff Dan Staton said, every piece of ground within a 2 ½ mile radius of Kyron’s school has been covered, and the efforts today will go back over those areas.

Kyron’s family has reached out to the public, but not in person, or on camera.  They issued a statement and urged the community for help with looking for Kyron.  The family asks folks in the immediate area to please search their properties, buildings, sheds, any small places a child could hide.  They say their reason for not appealing to the public in person is because they don’t want to take the attention away from Kyron.  On a personal note, although I respect the family’s decision to scale back their public appearances, I also understand that they need the media to help find their son.