'We love you': Mom of missing Scottie Dean, 14, begs him to come back as insider says family is 'broken'
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EATON, INDIANA: The mother of 14-year-old Scottie Dean Morris, who may be in "extreme danger" since his March 16 disappearance, has broken her silence. Felicia Morris pleaded with her missing son to come home, saying, "I know that you're mad and confused. Everyone is out looking for you and we're not trying to scare you."
Felicia told Scottie, who reportedly ran away from his home in Eaton and for whom police are searching, that he was "not in trouble" She said, "I love you and I want you to come home," adding, "If you're in a house and they come to you, you don't want to go out because they're the cops. Reach out. Me and Dad will come to get you." The mother went on to say, "I need to know that you're safe," The Sun reports.
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Who is Scottie Dean Morris?
Scottie was last seen at 8.30 pm March 16, when the boy disappeared. At that time, he was wearing a white T-shirt with some telltale handwritten statements on it and red and black shorts. He has brown hair and blue eyes, is 5'4" tall and weighs 150 pounds, according to the Eaton Indiana Police Department bulletin. Police issued a Silver Alert March 17 and are asking the public to call (765) 396-3297 or 911 if they have information about the boy. In addition, Eaton residents were asked to check their security camera footage or doorbells for signs of Scottie, while hundreds of volunteers went out to search for Scottie alongside police.
Following Scottie's disappearnace, many expressed their distress over the t-shirt and blamed the parents, Felicia and Brian Morris. One of them commented, "This is devastating. Who could do that to their child?"
Chynia Cain organizes vigils for missing Scottie Dean
However, Chynia Cain, a 24-year-old teacher and a mother-of-three, who has been organizing candlelight vigils for Scottie at her local church, told The Sun, the boy's family is completely "broken." She said, "My heart is grieved for sure," and added, "all I can think about is his poor family and everything they're enduring right now and everything that must be going through their minds. I've spoken with [Scottie's] grandma and mother. They're all broken, they're all grieving; they're just wanting their boy to come back home. There's a lot of pain in their homes right now."
"All I do know is [Scottie's] mother said that he was very upset and he was stomping. But it's one of those things where we all know, as humans, how strong our feelings can be sometimes. I don't why he was wearing [the t-shirt] but my statement on it is, whether or not it was a form of parenting, as a parent there's always a time that you may make a mistake. There's always a time you may discipline in a way that you never expected you would ever have to do. And I look at it and I'm thinking of John 8.8: 'the man without sin can cast the first stone.' I'm not here to judge, I'm not here to look at that and think of anything other than the fact this boy needs to be found. That's all that matters at the moment," Chynia expressed and said that there's a "dire" urgency to find the boy. She said, "On Saturday a lot of us woke up with snow and the ground and that was really hard to see, knowing we hadn't found him yet. When he left home, he was in a white t-shirt and black and red basketball shorts. I'm just praying to God that he's covered up and he's got as many layers on as possible, or he's warm in someone's home somewhere." "We're all looking. We're looking out of our cars, we're looking around and in ditches, just hoping we can find Scotty. We've had search parties on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and again today. We've been doing as much as we can," Chynia added.
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