The family of the young girl tragically missing from Children’s Home Society in Rapid City has a message for State Senator Lynne DiSanto, who has used her office to interject herself into the story:
The family specifically noted “The situation is terrible enough without her (DiSanto’s) cruel and un-professional statements.” So, what does the Senator do when asked by the family of the missing child to stop? Of course, she makes it about herself:
This just isn’t drama that any family trying to manage a very tragic situation needs.
Please keep the family in your prayers.
Don’t be a prick, Pat. Lynne is almost singlehandedly keeping the Serenity story alive. There will be plenty of time later to take cheap political potshots at her.
I agree. The more we hear from the family the worse they look. The interview Chad gave to the RCJ was… uh… bad. It was bad.
It made me ask “how many psychologists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?”
Leave Lynne alone on this one.
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Do you think the wishes of the parent – the custodial family specifically – should be run roughshod over?
There are better ways to express that sentiment than, “So, what does the Senator do when asked by the family of the missing child to stop? Of course, she makes it about herself:”
I’m just calling it as I see it, buddy. Standing up to enemies is easy. Standing up to friends is harder.
There’s also another saying that applies in this situation: It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you aren’t worried about who gets credit. Or in this situation, “when you aren’t worried about posting on Facebook.”
Pat, you seem to enjoy people posting on your blog. Alternative media is a great way to inform and educate people.
Do you think the child should have entered a residential treatment facility without notifying the other parent?
The adoptive parents have joint custody and the mother didn’t even know she was there. Apparently she had been admitted in the fall. She had been there for months and her mother didn’t know. So much for Christmas.
If I were a lawyer representing either of her parents I would be telling them “don’t you dare give another interview to anybody.”
Lynn did a great job with all the interviews. I guess we will see how it all turns out. She would make a good investigative reporter. Mainstream media continues to get scooped from citizen journalists using alternative media.
The woman is all about herself and the rest of you aren’t worth a hill of beans.Using a missing child to get attention for herself is wrong and you folks supporting her know it. Shame on you!!!..
#whatever
Lynne is a freak and should respect the families wishes, after-all It’s not her daughter.
Go be a bleeding deacon elsewhere-
DiSanto is a drama queen. The only thing she is trying to keep alive is her media exposure. She is unabashedly exploiting this tragedy for her own benefit. Pat is not taking any political cheap shit, merely telling it like it is. If she has any decency at all she will follow the families wishes and stop interfering in a tragic situation.
The Elizabeth Smart case was exploited all over national TV. Thanks Lynn for all the effort you have put into this case.
Which family’s wishes? The biological parents, the adoptive mother, and a cousin have all met with Lynne, giving interviews. The situation is weird. The adoptive mother has legal, joint custody and has agreed to what she’s doing.
Notice the trash talkers are to cowardly to use their name.
Sorry, meant shot.
Anne apparently is an expert on everything, from 350 miles away.
Seems a bit odd the family is not wanting the exposure or the help to find Serenity. What are they hiding? I do agree that these posts in the way they are phrased are just trying to stir the pot.
Just because someone does not respond in a way that you might yourself doesn’t mean they’re hiding anything.
Judgements on how they react or what they say might be the very thing they’re trying to avoid.
Who would turn down those trying to form search parties? That is the part that I don’t understand. Most people with missing children are begging for help. I wouldn’t care if it was a chain gang doing the searching. The more boots on the ground the better.
Yes if you have Netflix you can watch the documentary about the abduction of Madeleine McCann. It’s got interviews with the guy running the Center for Missing and Exploited Children, advising that a publicity campaign is important, to get the word out that the child is still missing, because the public will forget the whole case in 24-48 hours.
This actually is a good illustration of why joint custody doesn’t work. In medical, legal matters, which parent calls the shots?
Which parent makes the decisions?
This is why parents with joint custody often end up right back in court, asking a judge to decide. Having had joint custody myself, having been there and done that is why I have opposed joint custody as the default position in divorce cases.
Anne- do you have children?
There would be no problem with joint custody if the parents put their child’s best interest first. The children should always come first.
When one parent consents to an emergency appendectomy but the other says wait, I want a second opinion, both sincerely believe they are acting in the child’s best interest.
It’s not as simple as you think it is. It’s usually more complicated, and it can take a judge to sort it out.
An interesting thing about this whole blog post is:
If the parents went to court and the mother showed the judge Ernie Allen, the former CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children talking about the importance of publicity in cases of missing children, (“The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann” on Netflix) a judge would probably decide that the mother is acting in the child’s best interest, not the father.
The McCanns were advised to hire a PR firm to do it. Lynne is doing it for free.
Nonsense, both parents would consult with the Drs. and see what is best for the child. Shouldn’t be any different than a married couple making that decision. Put the best interest of the child first.
Tara and Anne- you’re both dumb and wrong about an emergency appendecatomy.
It’s like two hens fighting over another hens cricket.
Nothing like “Republicans” trying to overreach into another person’a family business.
I am not fighting with anybody. Just stating my point. I have mediated a few child custody cases. Most parents want what’s in the best interest of the child. Just try not to get attorneys involved.
How many children in SD are in custody of the state?
What’s that got to do with it? The kid wasn’t in state custody. She has parents. Two of them, with joint custody, which is already one too many.
So, Serenity was not in state custody when she went missing? Does the Children’s Home Society have a contract with the state?
Focus! Everyone let’s just focus.
The most important issue is the safe return of Serenity Dennard. The story has run the news cycle and all but cold. We need to this story in front as many people as possible, every truck driver, every flight attendant, everyone working at hotel and motels as many people as possible This story needs to go nation wide and then some. It that takes some DiSanto Drama, then so be it. If that means stepping on toes on the way, crunch away.
Whatever it takes to bring this girl back safe.
Do I think this was planned? I don’t know and don’t care. These little side shows are a distraction to real goal. Let’s bring Serenity back, then work on rest later.
MC…….is it true you don’t like controversy or answering tough questions, do you?
Ms. Disanto is all about Ms. Disanto, and about drama. The picture when you do the googles on “drama” is that of Ms. Disanto.
Grudz it doesn’t matter. Lynne is articulate and photogenic and is doing what experts involved in missing child cases say needs to be done: get publicity, and lots of it.
If the parents can’t garner the public interest or sympathy, Lynne can do it, to make this into what Ernie Allen calls a “transcendent case.”
I was skeptical of the search efforts, figured they were just looking for remains, but have since realized that was also a publicity opportunity. Get the cameras out there, put it on social media and all the news broadcasts: the child is still missing, everybody needs to keep looking for her.
She looks like a painted clown shaped like a bowling pin. She acts like a junior high drama queen who is only about herself.
Grudz is is being insanely stupid and cowardly again hiding behind a fake name so he can slander Lynn….NICE.
Ms. Volesky, you are a very pretty young woman, and no doubt very passionate in many ways, but you should broaden your vocabulary. You should try the word “besmirch” or “defame”, for clearly you know not what slander is.
Try looking up synonym Mr. Murphy.
I don’t think she holds the record at South Dakota Political Memes. lol
Grudz you are insanely stupid and a coward.
This is a law enforcement issue, not a legislative issue. She needs to stay in her lane.
The child’s mother has the legal right to enlist the support of anybody she wants, and if her ex-husband doesn’t like it, that’s between them and a family court judge. The mother has accepted Lynne’s assistance. The mother can also hire PR agencies & private detectives, raise money, and organize search parties if she wants to. And the father can declare he wants everybody the mother brings on to butt out, but they aren’t working for him!
If he wants them to stop, he needs to tell it to a judge. Because that’s how joint custody works.
Anne, that’s how marriage works too.
She is in her lane. The Legislature appropriates money to Law enforcement and DSS.
Excuse me ,,,,,Lynn is a SD State Senator. I believe the state has contracted out millions to Children’s home Society so Lynn has every reason representing the state of SD to ask these questions.
Stormy DiSanto finds a way to put herself in the limelight again. Why does this not surprise anyone?
The way I see it DiSanto is bringing much needed attention to a missing child case. Asked several co-workers if they knew about Serenity. Nope, not one of them knew anything. We are East River so maybe that plays a part, but when asked about Mollie Tibbetts they knew all about her. Why? Because of all the attention her case received.
Kind of like calling yourself……The King.
Lynne Disanto has done 1000x more than anyone else in the state of SD to aid in finding Serenity Dennard. The adoptive dad and step mom haven’t even went as far as putting up missing posters! Neither of them have mentioned they love, missed, or wanted Serenity to come home! Lynne was offering this nut case a ride to aid in searching the hills and to show her what has already been searched! Sad that an attention seeking religious cop caller has to bring attention to herself in order for Serenity’s name to get out nationwide! This little girl deserves ALL of the nationwide attention she can get, to get home safely to her adoptive mother, Darcie Gentry! Not this wolf crying nut case! Lynne did no wrong. She has done an amazing job keeping Serenity’s name from turning into a cold case.