OR JOSHUA McCOY: Missing from Hauser, OR - 9 Nov 2024 - Age 5 *Found Deceased*

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COOS COUNTY, Ore. – The Coos County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a 5-year-old who went missing over the weekend. Police say Joshua James McCoy has been missing since 5:30 p.m. on Saturday from a home on Stage Road in Hauser. That’s when his mother discovered he wasn’t inside the house after...

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Coos County Sheriff searching for 5-year-old boy missing since Saturday​

The Coos County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a 5-year-old who went missing over the weekend.

Police say Joshua James McCoy has been missing since 5:30 p.m. on Saturday from a home on Stage Road in Hauser. That’s when his mother discovered he wasn’t inside the house after the two of them had taken a nap.

Joshua is described as 3 foot 6 inches tall, thin, with brown hair and eyes.

The sheriff’s office says Joshua is autistic so he may not respond when called to.

Police are thankful for the community members who have offered assistance, but officers say the search and rescue team is not currently “seeking additional manpower due to the nature of the proven process of searches and evidence preservation.”

 

[GrandmaBear]

Welll so he was around for 4.5 years which could be all but 1/2 year of his son's life or could have been prior to his birth and for how many years of his life and then moved halfway or more across the country leaving mom to care for him herself, and leaving mom alone as well?

don't do FB but just trying to read between the lines here.

also it is not a judgment as I don't know enough.

I on the other hand find it odd you wouldn't be calling the mom if your son was missing if only to see what info you can get out of her. I'd sure want to know any darned thing I could possibly find out.

clearly there's more going on here than his just wandering off. that's clear with the little here and little they've said.

it is not the often sadly "typical" drowning apparently and I have my speculation on that without knowing a thing or a single rumor but since it is speculation I won't voice it. I will just say probably an attempted cover up for something else that happened.

you know fathers affect their children's lives when they step out of them too and leave the load with the other parent. again not a direct judgment or excuse but just trying to again read between the lines here.

he certainly did not transfer because the service transferred him because he is disabled and retired.

i'm sure those who do FB know more, more rumors anyhow, which not always, but sometimes are true.

all I know is this was not then a present father in his life at the time of his disappearance. and that he wasn't even calling her to find out more or all he could.

the pond he taught him to stay away from back when he was there doesn't seem to play in but I always have to wonder why you live near smetingi like that with the attraction to water that is often discussed on this site.

Joshua also sounds to have been high functioning per dad. Just mentioning and taking what I can glean from the links here. And I'm also saying intentionally the passed child's name.

I don't think dad was involved but he certainly wasn't present and apparently left him.

I'm not giving him some hero status at this point.

I'd like to know if there was a fight for custody, if he saw him regularly, if he was paying his support. IF she had him all the time, he would be the one owing. But perhaps he had him and he was only on a visit with mom, sure does not sound like it though.

That can put an extreme load and hard situation on the other parent.

Again I am commenting blind without the benefit of rumors and talk.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Father of Coos County 5-year-old boy found dead wants answers: ‘I can’t believe this has happened’

The father of Joshua James McCoy said hasn’t talked to the boy’s mother in a year.

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Father of Coos County 5-year-old boy found dead wants answers: ‘I can’t believe this has happened’​

Days after his 5-year-old son went missing and was then found dead in the Coos County coastal forest, his father wants one thing: answers.

This early in the police investigation, much remains unclear about the death of Joshua James McCoy, who disappeared from his mother’s home on Stage Road, between North Bend and Hauser, Nov. 9 while his mother was taking a nap. He was found three days later about 2 miles down the road from his home.

As of Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Coos County Sheriff’s Office said they did not know the boy’s cause of death.

“I want the truth, plain and simple,” the boy’s father, Lawson Amos McCoy, said. “I don’t care about anything else. My baby’s gone.”

McCoy hadn’t seen his son in about a year after moving back to Ohio, where he is originally from. Before moving out, however, McCoy, 47, said his family lived an idyllic life.

McCoy said he met his girlfriend, Angela German, when they both lived in Utah. The couple bought a house together and had a child. Then German got a job at a hospital in Coos Bay working as a nurse, and they sold the house and moved to Coos County and bought a house on an isolated stretch of road next to a large pond.

German worked at the hospital while McCoy, who received benefits due to a disability from his military service in the U.S. Air Force, took care of their son, McCoy said. The boy was diagnosed with autism and had trouble communicating, McCoy said.

German could not be immediately reached.

McCoy hadn’t seen his son since he left Oregon, he said. And he now feels guilty, convinced that if he hadn’t left, his son would still be alive, McCoy’s brother, Joshua McCoy, said.

“He thinks it’s all his fault, just because he left JJ,” Joshua McCoy said, referring to the name his family used affectionately for his nephew. The boy and his uncle share a name.

Joshua McCoy has created a GoFundMe fundraiser to help raise money to help pay for transportation, funeral costs, therapy, a private investigator, daily living expenses and a tribute and memorial.

“Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support during this unimaginably painful time,” Joshua McCoy wrote. “#JusticeForJoshua.”

Amos McCoy said he hasn’t been in touch with German, nor has anyone else in his family. He said he now regrets leaving.

Besides being impatient to get a precise cause of death, he wants the boy’s body transported for burial in Ohio, next to his great-grandfather and great-grandmother.

“I nurtured him and bathed him and fed him. I mean, I knew his favorite foods. I knew his favorite colors,” Amos McCoy said, then began to weep. “I can’t believe this has happened.”

He said he was very grateful to the investigators on the scene who have been keeping him apprised of what they’re finding, including one who called to tell him that he’d found his son.

“I’d like to also thank everyone in the Coos County community for their donations, their love, their support, their prayers and reaching out to me,” McCoy said.

 

[Guess Who]

Father of Coos County 5-year-old boy found dead wants answers: ‘I can’t believe this has happened’

The father of Joshua James McCoy said hasn’t talked to the boy’s mother in a year.

www.oregonlive.com

Father of Coos County 5-year-old boy found dead wants answers: ‘I can’t believe this has happened’​

Days after his 5-year-old son went missing and was then found dead in the Coos County coastal forest, his father wants one thing: answers.

This early in the police investigation, much remains unclear about the death of Joshua James McCoy, who disappeared from his mother’s home on Stage Road, between North Bend and Hauser, Nov. 9 while his mother was taking a nap. He was found three days later about 2 miles down the road from his home.

As of Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Coos County Sheriff’s Office said they did not know the boy’s cause of death.

“I want the truth, plain and simple,” the boy’s father, Lawson Amos McCoy, said. “I don’t care about anything else. My baby’s gone.”

McCoy hadn’t seen his son in about a year after moving back to Ohio, where he is originally from. Before moving out, however, McCoy, 47, said his family lived an idyllic life.

McCoy said he met his girlfriend, Angela German, when they both lived in Utah. The couple bought a house together and had a child. Then German got a job at a hospital in Coos Bay working as a nurse, and they sold the house and moved to Coos County and bought a house on an isolated stretch of road next to a large pond.

German worked at the hospital while McCoy, who received benefits due to a disability from his military service in the U.S. Air Force, took care of their son, McCoy said. The boy was diagnosed with autism and had trouble communicating, McCoy said.

German could not be immediately reached.

McCoy hadn’t seen his son since he left Oregon, he said. And he now feels guilty, convinced that if he hadn’t left, his son would still be alive, McCoy’s brother, Joshua McCoy, said.

“He thinks it’s all his fault, just because he left JJ,” Joshua McCoy said, referring to the name his family used affectionately for his nephew. The boy and his uncle share a name.

Joshua McCoy has created a GoFundMe fundraiser to help raise money to help pay for transportation, funeral costs, therapy, a private investigator, daily living expenses and a tribute and memorial.

“Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support during this unimaginably painful time,” Joshua McCoy wrote. “#JusticeForJoshua.”

Amos McCoy said he hasn’t been in touch with German, nor has anyone else in his family. He said he now regrets leaving.

Besides being impatient to get a precise cause of death, he wants the boy’s body transported for burial in Ohio, next to his great-grandfather and great-grandmother.

“I nurtured him and bathed him and fed him. I mean, I knew his favorite foods. I knew his favorite colors,” Amos McCoy said, then began to weep. “I can’t believe this has happened.”

He said he was very grateful to the investigators on the scene who have been keeping him apprised of what they’re finding, including one who called to tell him that he’d found his son.

“I’d like to also thank everyone in the Coos County community for their donations, their love, their support, their prayers and reaching out to me,” McCoy said.

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I'm just not sure how you raised this child for 4+years then don't see them for a year. Not judging him because there very well might be a good reason. I just can't understand it, myself.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I'm not excusing the mother if she did something but yes, leaving one to deal with all takes a huge toll.

And IF no support on top of it, even more of one. No help, no resources.

I am waiting to hear more because I don't know what is being said.

I don't know if any of what I just said is fact but it sure could play in if so. Not an excuse though.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

I'm just not sure how you raised this child for 4+years then don't see them for a year. Not judging him because there very well might be a good reason. I just can't understand it, myself.

Complete rumor that there may have been a no-contact order. Which could explain no contact between the parents even now.
Otherwise there's no excuse, IMO.

 

[Guess Who]

Complete rumor that there may have been a no-contact order. Which could explain no contact between the parents even now.
Otherwise there's no excuse, IMO.

Usually if there is a no contact order between the adults, a 3rd party usually is ordered for the exchange involving the child, unless his no contact also included the child. That would be some pretty bad behavior if that was the case.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I'd have to agree it normally would not include not being able to see your chiild, sadly in some cases when they should be halted ffrom doing so imo. There would be either supervised vsitiation, meeting at a supposedly public or secure place (like that case in FL, name escapes me right now although they did change the meeting place but it sure didn't work out), or this dad here had to have done something so probably terrible l to have all rights cut off and if he did, well then that's saying something about him as well.

It's not an excuse if she did something to the child but it sure can give the other parent a major overload. I have my suspicions of how involved and whether praying support or not he was but it's only speculation so I'll leave it, and again haven't seen the rumors.

To me, from what is here which is the only place I've seen it, he walked out of his chiild's life and not a few miles away but states away.

But I will reiterate it is no excuse if she did something but I do wonder about the load she may have had, and any resources.

But then for all I know she too could be a total loser, drug addict, who knows. I don't know the FB stuff, etc. I'm not knocking those that do, I'm just saying I am commenting blind to all of that.

This case has not hit YT that I've seen unless it is on some channel I'm aware of.

That's where I sometimes will see on occasion such stuff touched on, like what's on FB, etc. But most of who I watch don't follow that or use that.

Anyhow, I'll just wait.

But I do agree a no contact order typically would not include the right to see their child or arrangements would be made to facilitate such.