PA KING HILL: Missing from Philadelphia, PA - 7 July 2020 - Age 2 *GUILTY PLEA*

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'Somebody's Not Telling Us The Truth': Philadelphia Police Searching For Missing 2-Year-Old King Hill

Police say 2-year-old King Hill was last seen at 9:50 a.m. Tuesday near 31st and Page Street in the city's Strawberry Mansion neighborhood.
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Philadelphia Police Searching For Missing 2-Year-Old King Hill

Philadelphia police are searching for a missing toddler. Police say 2-year-old King Hill was last seen at 9:50 a.m. Tuesday near 31st and Page Streets in the city’s Strawberry Mansion neighborhood.


Police say King was reported missing on Tuesday night by his stepfather.

Philadelphia Police Capt. Mark Burgmann says King was in the care of a babysitter, who told the stepfather that she returned King to his biological mother. Burgmann says the mother is disputing that claim.

“The biological mother is claiming that she did not return a child to her,” Burgmann said. “At this point in time, we have no idea where the child is. So we are very aggressively investigating this to find out where the child is.”

Burgmann says police believe King may be in danger.


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MEDIA - KING HILL Missing from Philadelphia, PA since 7 July 2020 - Age 2
 
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Philadelphia police search for 2-year-old boy last seen on Tuesday

MISSING CHILD: Philadelphia police continue the search for a missing 2-year-old boy who was last seen on Tuesday morning.
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Philadelphia police search for 2-year-old boy last seen on Tuesday

Philadelphia police continue the search for a missing 2-year-old boy who was last seen on Tuesday morning.

Police say King Hill was last seen at 9:50 a.m. on July 7 at 31st and Page streets in Strawberry Mansion.

"We're just praying that you bring King back home," said neighbor Sheila Ward. "Please bring King back home safely."


The toddler's grandmother, Kimberly Hill, tells Action News that King's stepfather had the boy since the end of May.

The stepfather was to drop King off at the mom's house in two weeks for the toddler's birthday.

Instead, the mom received a text from the stepfather that set off the search for her son. The stepfather said a babysitter had dropped off King.

"She gets a text saying, 'Did you get the baby? She dropped him off at 33rd and Diamond.' That's the first time we heard of this babysitter. I don't know who this woman is," Kimberly Hill said.


The grandmother says she does not believe the stepfather had anything to do with King's disappearance.

At a Thursday evening news conference, police said that they've been able to talk to everyone involved, including the parents and the babysitter. Everyone was cooperative, police say, but they still have no new leads.

"Somebody's not telling us the truth because the babysitter is saying she returned the child to the mother. The mother's saying that she did not," said Captain Mark Burgmann.
 
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Philly Police Search for Missing 2-Year-Old, Mom Pleads for Boy's Return

Philadelphia police are asking for the public’s help in finding a 2-year-old boy who has been missing since Tuesday morning. The boy’s mother said she hasn’t seen him in a month after he didn’t return from a stay with another family member.
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Police on Missing 2-Year-Old Philly Boy: ‘Somebody Isn't Telling Us the Truth'

Philadelphia police are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing toddler.

So far there are conflicting reports regarding when King Hill, 2, was last seen.

The boy's mother said she hasn't seen him in a month after he didn't return from a stay with another family member.

Police initially said King Hill was listed as missing from his home along Page Street near 31st Street in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood around 9:50 a.m. Tuesday, Philadelphia police said Thursday.

During a Thursday evening press conference, police said the boy may have been seen over the weekend but they did not say by whom.

"Somebody isn't telling us the truth," Philadelphia Police Special Victims Unit Capt. Mark Burgmann said.

King's mother, Amber Hill, told NBC10 that she actually last saw her son in early June when she left him off with his stepfather, a trusted father figure who he normally spends time with.
 
What?? Another crazy one. Sounds like the one the other day, mom had him, person dropped him off with mom, mom says did not. Other said did too.

Two and three year olds do not get dropped off at street corners and then someone says did you find him or get him? Sitter said she dropped him at corner of such and such, or with you. Huh?

What kind of crazy stuff is this? People do not communicate when a child is coming back or being dropped off?

Yah, clearly someone is lying.
 
This sounds a bit like the case from yesterday with another little boy. Mom said her friend picked him up on July 4, friend said she brought him back but mom said she didn't. But in that case there was an active CPS case and the kids were going to be removed, so she was hiding him.

I know this is still pretty early but it doesn't sound like there's a custody dispute with King? He was with "step-father" though, not bio-dad? But he apparently spends a lot of time with him. Weird that a third party was supposed to return the boy. Had this ever happened before? They're looking for video surveillance to see if the babysitter actually dropped him off where she said she did. This does appear to be a residential area though, not like downtown Philly.
 
It does seem odd he was with a stepfather for so long. He is only 2 so it is not like any stepfather has been in his life for a large number of years. Not an accusation or anything, just saying it is not like this was some man who has been in a child's life for ten years and married the mother and adopted the child, etc. The child is too young. I also take stepfather to mean they were married, mother and him at some point?

In the Maleah case in Texas, she kept referring to Darian as Maleah's stepfather and he was not, they were never married so just curious I guess what the relationship here was and if he was in this child's life since he was born, etc. (King).
 
GrandmaBear said:
It does seem odd he was with a stepfather for so long. He is only 2 so it is not like any stepfather has been in his life for a large number of years. Not an accusation or anything, just saying it is not like this was some man who has been in a child's life for ten years and married the mother and adopted the child, etc. The child is too young. I also take stepfather to mean they were married, mother and him at some point?

In the Maleah case in Texas, she kept referring to Darian as Maleah's stepfather and he was not, they were never married so just curious I guess what the relationship here was and if he was in this child's life since he was born, etc. (King).
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I do know of 3 different sets of families where the step parent ended up getting full custody of their step child when that marriage broke up. Sometimes the step parent is the better parent of all.
 
Guess Who said:
I do know of 3 different sets of families where the step parent ended up getting full custody of their step child when that marriage broke up. Sometimes the step parent is the better parent of all.
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I have seen it some too, that is why I am not saying anything about this stepfather, hard to say. He just might be the best and steps up for the sake of the child where perhaps others do not. I will say there is no (that I know of) custody possible by a step unless the child was legally adopted by the stepparent OR possibly if a parent agrees to it, perhaps a court would agree (I wouldnt even count on that). They have no legal standing unless they have adopted their spouse's child while married (from what I have seen in our state anyhow).

So yes, I am not throwing the stepfather under the bus, it is difficult to say, he may be the "best" parent involved here.
 
GrandmaBear said:
I have seen it some too, that is why I am not saying anything about this stepfather, hard to say. He just might be the best and steps up for the sake of the child where perhaps others do not. I will say there is no (that I know of) custody possible by a step unless the child was legally adopted by the stepparent OR possibly if a parent agrees to it, perhaps a court would agree (I wouldnt even count on that). They have no legal standing unless they have adopted their spouse's child while married (from what I have seen in our state anyhow).

So yes, I am not throwing the stepfather under the bus, it is difficult to say, he may be the "best" parent involved here.
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Sometimes the family you make is far better for you than the one you are born into. That's why I will never call out a family where the kids call the step parent mom or dad, unless it's been forced upon them to do so.

I have no idea on this one though
 
Guess Who said:
Sometimes the family you make is far better for you than the one you are born into. That's why I will never call out a family where the kids call the step parent mom or dad, unless it's been forced upon them to do so.

I have no idea on this one though
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I tend to keep my mind open when a step parent is present because there are many cases where they are the perp, however, that in no way means there are not VERY GOOD ones who deserve no such scrutiny.
 
GrandmaBear said:
Not much new here but boy, someone is NOT telling the truth...

Why would the stepfather leave the child with a sitter for how long who allegedly dropped him with his mom? But then it could be all the other way around...

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A 2-Year-Old Pa. Boy Is Missing, and Police Say 'Somebody Isn't Telling Us the Truth'

King Hill's babysitter said she dropped the boy off with his mother, but the mom says this isn't true
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Seems like the easy way would be to question this sitter. I sure hope that this sitter has proof of what happened and hope that the sitter exists.
 
Guess Who said:
Seems like the easy way would be to question this sitter. I sure hope that this sitter has proof of what happened and hope that the sitter exists.
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Yeah, depending on what or who to believe, seems like mother never heard of the person/sitter... However, in the People article above, it sounds like police talked to the sitter... However, a woman could just be lying for the stepfather. Truly hard to say what is true here. I would think LE would be able to determine who is telling the truth...
 

"I miss him a lot," King's mother, Amber Hill, said in an interview with local station NBC10. "They were looking at me like I did something to him, but I would never do nothing to none of my kids."

Hill told NBC10 the stepfather texted her earlier this week, saying he had left King with a babysitter she doesn't really know.

According to police, the babysitter said she dropped King off with his mother, but Hill insisted that never happened.


Search teams have been scouring the city's neighborhoods looking for any sign of King.
 
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"She gets a text saying, 'Did you get the baby? She dropped him off at 33rd and Diamond.' That's the first time we heard of this babysitter. I don't know who this woman is," Kimberly Hill said.
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Does anyone else find this odd? Stepdad supposedly texts mom saying "Did you get the baby?" NOT a text prior to the dropoff saying "Hey the babysitter will be bringing King by..." but AFTER?
 
The supposed drop-off location is just a few blocks from King's mom's home. Appears there's a playground, tennis courts, and baseball fields there. It would make sense to me for this to be a drop-off location. An easier to find, public place to meet instead of trying to find a house. BUT someone is still lying. Did the babysitter just say she dropped him here because of these things? Did stepdad tell the babysitter "His mom's at the park just drop him off there." Did mom actually get him there but say she didn't?

 
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