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The Boy With Zane That Awful Wednesday
Topics: zane newton, missing boy, tragedy, accident, mourning, Family, south bakersfield
Posted by jennifer536 Mon Mar 24, 2008 13:03:50 PDT
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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.....

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Comment From: Tahany

Thank-you for your insight on such a terrible tragedy. My heart goes out to all involved. A fun ball game turns into a lifetime of sorrow. I hope "Friend" with the help of family gets all the medical attention he will need through out his life. Maybe "Grandma" needs help too, maybe she lashed out at the child under tension or she was just too quick to judge, like so many people do. Thank God there are still people like yourself, and the others who stepped in when they were needed, and gave without asking. Peace, Tahany