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01-05-2009, 02:34 PM
Sheriff: Parents didn't report boy missing for a decade
* Story Highlights
* Sheriff says no trace of Adam Herrman found after 1999
* Parents did not report him missing until recently
* Police say they don't know if he is dead or alive
* Adam was 11 or 12 in 1999
(CNN) -- Authorities in Kansas are looking for a boy who disappeared about a decade ago, but was not reported missing until a few weeks ago.
"We don't know what happened to Adam Herrman past '99, when he was last seen," Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said at a news conference in El Dorado on Monday.
"Is he alive, is he dead? That one I can't answer because we don't know."
Adam Herrman was 11 or 12 when he was last seen, Murphy said. At the time, he was living in a mobile home park in Towanda, a small town in southern Kansas, with his adoptive parents. The couple did not report him missing, Murphy said.
A few weeks ago, a person called Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Children's Unit with a "concern" regarding Herrman, Murphy said.
The agency did not immediately return CNN's phone call for additional information.
Wichita attorney Warner Eisenbise, who is representing Herrman's adoptive parents, said the couple "really rue the fact that they didn't" report Herrman missing. "They feel very guilty" about not doing that, he said in a telephone interview.
Eisenbise said the couple told him Adam had run away frequently.
Authorities have searched the Pine Ridge Mobile Home Park, where the family had lived, and discovered an "answer" to one of their questions, Murphy said, without explaining.
"We did find one of the answers we were looking for, but I am holding that one very tightly," he said.
haha seriously that effed that they didn't report earlier
* Story Highlights
* Sheriff says no trace of Adam Herrman found after 1999
* Parents did not report him missing until recently
* Police say they don't know if he is dead or alive
* Adam was 11 or 12 in 1999
(CNN) -- Authorities in Kansas are looking for a boy who disappeared about a decade ago, but was not reported missing until a few weeks ago.
"We don't know what happened to Adam Herrman past '99, when he was last seen," Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said at a news conference in El Dorado on Monday.
"Is he alive, is he dead? That one I can't answer because we don't know."
Adam Herrman was 11 or 12 when he was last seen, Murphy said. At the time, he was living in a mobile home park in Towanda, a small town in southern Kansas, with his adoptive parents. The couple did not report him missing, Murphy said.
A few weeks ago, a person called Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Children's Unit with a "concern" regarding Herrman, Murphy said.
The agency did not immediately return CNN's phone call for additional information.
Wichita attorney Warner Eisenbise, who is representing Herrman's adoptive parents, said the couple "really rue the fact that they didn't" report Herrman missing. "They feel very guilty" about not doing that, he said in a telephone interview.
Eisenbise said the couple told him Adam had run away frequently.
Authorities have searched the Pine Ridge Mobile Home Park, where the family had lived, and discovered an "answer" to one of their questions, Murphy said, without explaining.
"We did find one of the answers we were looking for, but I am holding that one very tightly," he said.
haha seriously that effed that they didn't report earlier