Mom Abandons Boy During Dallas Layover

Source: abcnews

Mom Abandons Boy During Dallas Layover
Authorities Say Woman in 'Emotional State' Left Airport as Son, 12, Used Restroom

By DAVID SCHOETZ
June 6, 2006

Authorities in Texas are looking for a woman who may have abandoned her son during a layover this morning at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
The Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Department of Public Safety identified the missing woman this afternoon as Jolanda Newberg.

Newberg arrived at Dallas/Fort Worth around 8 a.m. on an American Airlines flight departing from the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport with her 12-year-old son, according to airport police. The pair were expected to board an American Airlines flight a few hours later to San Jose, Calif.

Newberg never showed up for the flight.

Authorities scaled back the search after canvassing the airport grounds for any sight of the woman, who is wearing a sling on her arm. They believe she may have taken off on her own in a taxi.

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and since they said her arm was in a sling, I couldn't help but wonder if she was abused.

Her name is known? Which means her credit cards are known. Her address is known.

And, presumably, this is a healthy normal boy who knows his own name and address? Or have they left something out of the story?

well, of course there is. I hope they find her soon & get some answers... if there are any.

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa080606_wz_missingmom.6ec1f3b.html

Search ends for missing mom at D/FW
05:45 PM CDT on Friday, June 6, 2008
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Airport spokesman David Magaña
June 6, 2008
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D/FW AIRPORT — Staff have quit their search for the mother of a 12-year-old son who vanished at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Friday morning.

Jolanda Newberg (also known as Jolanda Muñoz), was on a layover with her son when she disappeared from Terminal A around 7:45 a.m.

Brandon Newberg told airport officials that he had gone to use the restroom, and when he came out, his mom was gone. He notified police about an hour later.

Airport spokesman Brian Murnahan says it is now believed that Jolanda Newberg was in a "questionable emotional state" and left the airport grounds on her own.

will have a hard time getting over this.

He'll be replaying the "hour" b/w his moms disappearance and him telling the police in his head over and over the rest of his life.

what is b/w?

:shrug:

I had not seen it before myself, so I could be wrong.

nt

Judging by the context, I'm thinking it's short for 'between'.

nt

I can't help but wonder what the hell.

I hope he has other family to care for him.

Kids tend not to survive for 12 years when their mother is "an awful person". It's much more likely that she's a distraught one at the end of her rope for some reason. Have some charity.

At the risk of sounding misogynistic, would we be saying the same thing about charity if it was his dad who left him at the airport due to emotional reasons?

their kids, whereas fathers often do. So when a mother does it, we can safely conclude that something is going on for her that's powerful enough to override some strong prescriptions.

Now, it's more than possible that the difference can be accounted for by the different social and economic expectations --i.e., maybe it ain't his fault. That's something that could bear being studied, if we can ever create a situation where childcare and bonding are choices freely available to both parents, and kids are raised without sex-specific rules about how men/women "should" be. Right now, the water is too muddy to come to any conclusions about causality; we can just about trust the factual data we can see on the surface.

at airports... :sarcasm:

There is a huge difference between leaving the kids when a relationship breaks up. And leaving the kids when they go to use the bathroom.

I don't think men have a greater incidence of the later.

Neither sex has a monopoly on bad parenting or mental illness.

I think you'll conclude that you've misunderstood.

What a ridiculous statement. Of course she's an awful person.

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa080607_lj_missingmom.cc27eac.html

Woman who went missing at D/FW is charged

05:43 PM CDT on Saturday, June 7, 2008

DALLAS — A woman who abandoned her 12-year-old son at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Friday has been charged with abandonment or endangerment of a child, a third-degree felony.

Joland Newberg was on a layover with her son, when she disappeared from Terminal A around 7:45 a.m.

She returned to the Rental Car Center at the airport Saturday where a witness alerted the authorities.

Newberg, a 46-year old resident of South Lake Tahoe, California, was charged this afternoon after undergoing a psychiatric evaluation at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. After the evaluation, doctors returned her to police.