The Boy With Zane That Awful Wednesday

WELL IT HAS BEEN A HARD PAST FEW DAYS FOR THE BOY WHO LOST HIS BEST FRIEND . HE HAS WITNESSED HIS FRIENDS DEATH IN A PLACE THEY WERE NOT SUPOSE TO BE PLAYING AND WAS WARNED NOT TO ENTER. ( BUT BOYS BEING BOYS ) THEY DECIDED TO ENTER THE SUMP AREA THAT MOURNING. THEY WERE PLAYING BALL OUT THERE CHASING EACH OTHER YOU KNOW TYPICIAL PLAYMATES. THE CLEAREST IT IS TO US AFTER SITTING DOWN WITH " FRIEND " ZANE WAS GETTING THE BALL N SLID AT ONE POINT FALLING IN THE HOLE SOMEHOW. BEST TO " FRIENDS " KNOWLEDGE ZANE HIT HIS HEAD AND ALL OF A SUDDON HE WAS FALLING AND DIRT WAS FALLING ALL OVER. AS " FRIEND " WAS WATCHING THIS IN UTTER SHOCK ZANE WAS BURIED UNDER ALL THE DIRT. " FRIEND " THEN WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT FELL TO THE GROUND TRYING TO HELP ZANE. I ASKED HIM DID HE EVER HEAR ZANE OR SEE HIM, AND HE SAID NO. HE TRIED TO MOVE SOME BIG DIRT CLAUDS THAT WERE TO HEAVY FOR HIS 9 YEAR OLD HANDS. ( OH AND MIND YOU HES A LITTLE GUY REAL SKINNY ) "FRIEND " WAS IN SHOCK . THIS WAS NOT WHAT HE WAS SEEING . HE PANICED THEY WERE NOT SUPOSE TO BE IN THERE . THEY WERE TOLD NOT TO SO ITS GOING TO BE HIS FAULT FOR ZANE IN THE GROUND AND FOR BEING IN THERE. THEY WOULD TAKE HIM AWAY FROM HOME. THEY WOULD BLAME HIM. SO HE PICKS UP ZANES SWEATSHIRT AND STARTED BACK TO ZANES HOUSE. WHEN HE GOT THERE HE DID WHAT MIND YOU 3 PHYCIATRISTS HAVE SAID PERFECTLY NORMAL FOR A 9 YEAR OLD TO AS ONE SAID GET AWAY FROM THE TRUTH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. NOW I WONT GO INTO DETAILS WHAT HE SAID TO ZANES MOM OR THE POLICE DEPT. HIS STORY YES CHANGED AND STARTED BEING QUESTIONED GIVING OFF SIGNALS HE MIGHT BE LIEING TO COVER UP SOMETHING BAD. WELL A BREAK CAME IN A MAN AND WOMAN WHO LIVED NEXT TO THE SUMP HAD SEEN THE BOYS . THE WOMAN SAID ONE OF THE BOYS GOT HIS PANTS CAUGHT ON THE FENCE THATS HOW SHE KNEW IT WAS HIM. WELL AS WE ALL WAITED IT WAS CONFORMED THAT ZANE WAS FOUND IN THE CONVERT IN A SUMP RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER FROM HOME . NOW WHEN THE TIP CAME IN THEY ASKED " FRIEND ABOUT PLAYING IN THE SUMP. THIS IS WHEN HE LET IT ALL OUT HE TOLD THEM WHAT HAPPEND AND HOW ZANE FELL , HOW HE TRIED TO HELP HIM , HOW HE WAS SO SORRY FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO GET ZANE OUT , HOW WE WAS SORRY HE LIED. I ASKED HIM WHY HE LIED, HE SAID I WAS SO SCARED THE LIES JUST CAME OUT MY MOUTH. HE WAS NOT EVEN THINKING CLEARLY. IM 32 AMD I CANT IMAGINE WHAT HE SAW OR HOW MUCH TRAMA AND SHOCK HE WAS IN . WHILE THEY WERE WORKING ON GETTING ZANE OUT THE FAMILY OF BOTH BOYS SAT IN NOW SHOCK. I WENT TO "FRIEND'S " GRANDMOTHERS HOUSE " FRIENDS " MOTHER N STEPFATHER WERE IN UTTER DISBELEVEMENT THE BOY WAS SITTING IN A CHAIR JUST STUND AND TRYING TO GO BACK TO BEING A KID JUST THE DAY BEFORE BY TRYING TO PLAY A GAME HIS FAMILY HAD HIM PLAY. WE WERE TRYING TO GET HIM TO TALK HE WAS SILENT AND PALE . HIS GRANDMOTHER THEN CALLED HIM A MURDERER ! OK THIS IS A 9 YEAR OLD HIS MENTALLITY COULD NOT EVEN PROCESS WHAT HAD JUST TOOK PLACE EARLIER ON AND HE HEARS SUCH AN AWFUL THING NO I DO NOT CONDONE HIS LIE BUT I DO BELIVE THE DOCTORS WHEN THEY CLEARLY STATED THIS IS WHAT A 9 YEAR OLD MIND DOES. GET FAR AWAY FROM THE TRAMATIC THING THAT TOOK PLACE. LATER ON THAT NITE HE STAYED AT MY HOUSE, SO HIS MOM AND DAD COULD PROCESS IT ALL AND WHAT THEY NEEDED TO DO FOR ZANES FAMILY AND THEIR OWN. I ENDED UP TAKING " FRIEND " HIS SISTER AND MY OWN 2 DAUGHTERS TO TAKE A CANDLE , SIGN , AND A PUPPY . I ASKED HIM IF HE WAS OK AS HE LAYED THE PUPPY DOWN AFTER STAREING THRU THE FENCE. THE NEWS WAS BEHIND US AND SEEMED NO TIME AT ALL THEY NOTICED HIM . LIGHTS WHEN ON AND BRIGHT. SO I HAD MY OLDEST DAUGHTER ERIN TO GRAB HIM , AND TAKE HIM TO THE CAR. LATER ON AFTER WE GOT BACK HOME , MY DAUGHTER SAID HE WAS REAL UPSET IN THE CAR. I ASKED HER WHY AND SHE SAID HE THOUGHT THE NEWS WAS GOING TO MAKE HIM LOOK AT ZANE. HE WAS THEN LAYING ON THE COUCH . HE LOOKED BLANK I ASKED HIM WHAT WAS HE THINKING. OF COURSE HE SAID ZANE. HE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS REPLAYING IT IN HIS MIND. FINALLY AT LITTLE AFTER 1 IN THE MOURNING HE FINALLY FELL ASLEEP. I STAYED WITH HIM AND EVERY COUPLE HOURS HE WOULD REACH OUT GRABING AHOLD WHAT WAS AROUND HIM. THEN NEXT NIGHT HE WENT TO THE CANDLE LIGHT CERAMONY. WE ALL LITE OUR CANDLES AND A MAN STARTS FLASHING CAMEREA IN " FRIEND'S FACE. SO ME AND FAMILY CIRCLE AROUND HIM SO HE COULD SHOW HIS RESPECTS TO ZANE AND HIS FAMILY. CAN YOU BELIVE THE NEWS CASTER FROM FOX NEWS CALLED THE POLICE DEPT. AND TELL THEM THAT THEY NEED TO COME DOWN BECAUSE WE WERE IN THE WAY OF TRAFFIC. CAN YOU BELIVE THAT ! HE WAS WANTING THEM TO COME AND BREAK US UP SO HE COULD GET " FRIEND " ON NEWS EVEN AFTER WE ASKED HIM AND HIS CAMEREA MAN , TO PLEASE DO NOT PUT HIM ON THE NEWS HES A CHILD AND HE HAS ENOUGH TO DEAL WITH NOW AND FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE THEN TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH BEING RECONIZED AS THE " FRIEND THAT LIED " ( JUST ONE OF THE NAMES WE HAVE HEARD " THAT NIGHT CRYING IN HIS SLEEP WHICH FOLLOWED NEXT NIGHT WITH TALKING I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND. TONIGHT SO FAR SO GOOD AS I SIT HERE ON THIS COMPUTER TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO JUST LEAVE HIM BE HE IS SORRY FOR WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO HIS FRIEND . ZANES MOM HAS TALKED TO " FRIEND " AND SHE IS GOING TO BE THERE FOR HIM THEN I THINK ALL OF YOU THAT IS JUST HURTING HIM EVEN MORE TO PLEASE JUST STOP . THERE ARE ALOT OF WHAT IFS. THIS WAS A SAD TRAJADY AND HE WILL ALWAYS BE SORRY AND BE SORRY HE COULD NOT GET ZANE OUT. BUT IT DID TAKE THE POLICE OVER 2 HOURS TO GET HIM OUT. EVEN IF HE TOLD THE TRUTH IT WOULD NOT HAVE SAVED HIM HE DIED IN LESS THAN 5 MINS. I GUESS ITS EASY FOR PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW EITHER FAMILY TO JUDGE. HE WILL GET THRU THIS WE WILL HELP HIM SURVIVE. HE WILL ALWAYS BE REMINDED BY ME AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO LOVES HIM THAT ZANE KNOWS HE IS SORRY AND HE WISHS HE COULD GO BACK . I DONT KNOW HOW I WOULD HAVE REACTED BUT I KNOW I WOULD NOT BE ADDING TO HIS PAIN . HIS FAMILY OR ZANES. TUESDAY IS ANOTHER DAY OF PAIN WE WILL ALL HAVE TO ENDURE AND WE WILL GET HIM THROUGH IT . HE HAS A HARD ROAD BUT NO HE IS NOT A MURDER OR SOME CRUEL BOY HES A BOY WHO LOST HIS BEST FRIEND RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM.....

Zane's best friend Garrett

A terrible thing happend to a little boy that was only 9 years old. His name was Zane Newton of Bakersfield CA. He was playing with his friend Garrett who is also 9 years old . They were playing outside around 10 am , they decided to go into a field that had a sump located it in it. The boys were playing tag having fun like always. Zane noticed a ball and took off to pick it up. Unfortantly Zane stumbled and slid. The sump fell in on him. The dirt sufficated him to death.

To Garretts disbelif he watched his friend fall into a colvert and start being buried alive. Garrett got down on his hands and knees and tryed to start digging his friend out . There was no use the dirt clauds were too heavy for his little hands. So Garrett panicked because he knew they were not supose to be playing in this field. Also he just witnessed somthing that even I as an adult can't even imagine seeing.

As for when he went back he did what any normal 9 year old would have done it was backed up by a phyc. at Kern Medicial Center . He thought he would be blamed for what just happened he was scared ! He did not intentially lie to hurt anyone expecially his best friend. He was in shock and disbelif. We know that Zane knows he was there trying to get him out . He is in heaven playing ball and he knows Garrett loved him and will always miss him.

A lot of people are trying to crucifie him for lieing ! People he is 9 years old . Physically and mentally ! As for the people talking about how his parents should be sued for the costs of the amber alert and money spent. Come on do you not think this family and this boy have payed enough ? If it was your child was in his shoes would you be standing up saying yea sue me ?

Regardless of if he lied or not it would not have saved Zane . The baby died within a few mins. Boys are Boys ! Why was it so easy for them like all the other kids who have snuck in there to play ? Where were the signs ? The barbed wire on top so impossible to climb over ? The pieces of fence missing which next day they fixed ? Day too late I might add !

Garrett loved his friend and he never wished any harm and did not realize what was really taking place. I still even feel it's a bad dream and I'm 32 years old. Garrett needs everyone's love and support right now . He is a baby. He has only been here for 9 years on this earth . Why do we have some cruel adults out here making it even worse on the baby. He has enough hurt and grief to deal with . He nor his family need people making it even harder. If Zanes mom and family still love and are here to help Garrett then why can't the rest of you ?

R.I.P. Zane Garrett will always miss you just like trhe rest of us

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The Boy With Zane That Awful Wednesday

Zane's best friend Garrett