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Saturday, June 7, 2008 , Updated 9:09 a.m., June 10, 2008

UPDATEDx2: Mother leaves Dallas-Fort Worth Airport before her flight and without her son


The son is with Child Protective Services until they can reunite him with family members.

Jolanda Newburg and her 12 year old son had a layover at D/FW Airport between Arkansas and California Friday morning. Her son left to go the bathroom and Newburg was gone when he returned. Airport officials believe she left the airport on her own and possibly got a cab. While Newburg has not been found, airport staff have stopped their search. The son is with Child Protective Services until they can reunite him with family members.

UPDATE: She was found. One wants to find her despicable but one will probably be forced to feel pity since she appears to possibly require hospitalization. If only they gave a test before you are allowed to have kids. But you know what, if they did that, the species would dry up and die.

UPDATE 2: Hoo boy -- mother now says she was just doing "God's work" and is claiming she never left her child because she was there with him "spiritually." As you can guess, she underwent a psychiatric evaluation at Parkland and has been charged with a third degree felony of endangering/abandoning a child.


Posted by Laura S.; updated by T.G.; second update by Alex B.



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Pavel Lishin, verified:

Arkies, man. Arkies.

4 years, 11 months ago
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Kay, anonymous:

Pavel, This woman was/is from California.

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Kay, anonymous:

UpdateX2: The mother is charged. Guess they haven't located a reliable family member yet to take the boy home. Here's the update link FWIW:

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws...

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Pavel Lishin, verified:

So why were they in Arkansas?

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Scott Doyle, verified:

Pavel, I can't speak intelligently on the travel habits of peeps in Russia, but here in America it's not uncommon for people to travel from one state to another...and then back home.

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Jason Rice, verified:

Nobody goes to Arkansas on purpose. There must be a deeper horror here.

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Scott Doyle, verified:

Clearly, the type of people who abandon their kids go to Arkansas.

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Pavel Lishin, verified:

I'll admit it, I went there once. It was for a friend's wedding. We packed a cooler full of liquor, and I started drinking as soon as we crossed the state line, not wanting to have any particularly clear memories.

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Kay, anonymous:

AHEM..............! I was born in Arkansas. My mother was born in Arkansas. Her mother was born in Arkansas..... A couple of my children were born in Arkansas...A couple of their children were born in Arkansas.... We are all v-e-r-y nice folks IMNSHO. We all wear shoes and can pronounce OUACHITA (can you?).

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Ashley Lyell, verified:

Kay, just give in. Half of my family is from Alabama, and Pavel and company find it endlessly entertaining and think that when I go visit, I'm sitting in the dirt with a banjo and the confederate flag flying behind me. They're much easier to tolerate if you just ignore them!

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Scott Doyle, verified:

IMveryHO (not-so-honest implies you're lying to us all the time, btw) the parts of Arkansas I've been to had beautiful scenery, and that's about it.

I'll drive through it if it's on my way to get somewhere, but I'll make as few pit stops as possible.

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Chris Olson, verified:

Nothing wrong with Arkansas. My family from there are all hella smart and normal (except they're Cubs fans). Well, Uncle Fred isn't really normal, but he's still a smart dude.

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Kay, anonymous:

scott doyle..... IMNSHO = In My Not So Humble Opinion

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pnewsgal, anonymous:

Ditto...In My Not So Humble Opinion, the "H" stands for "humble" (no, not the Texas one)...not "honest"...

AND

Kay...and they are in good company with other fine folk such as Maya Angelou, Johnny Cash, Scott Joplin, General MacArthur...

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Pavel Lishin, verified:

Yeah, well, give a million monkeys typewriters, and eventually they'll pound out Shakespeare, too - statistically speaking, there will be at least a few people from Arkansas who aren't wasting my precious oxygen.

And nobody said the people aren't nice.

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Scott Doyle, verified:

oic, such is the problem with ridiculously long acronyms people.

Arkansas has crystals in the rough, no doubt - outliers, imo.

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Kay, anonymous:

Ashley,

You are right, and thanks for the idea. I guess I shoulda gone ahead and mentioned that we have indoor plumbing and no hidden-from-the-revs' moonshine-still up the mountain that is actually the backyard. Tho I do still have my great-grandfathers 100+ year old double barrel shotgun and use my Bowie Knife to pick the cornbread and black-eyed-peas outta my teeth.

(OK, I made that up about the Bowie Knife...but the cornbread, black-eyed peas are somewhat considered 'comfort foods' -- if you add iced tea.)

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pnewsgal, anonymous:

"Yeah, well, give a million monkeys typewriters, and eventually they'll pound out Shakespeare, too.."

or maybe a comment or two on the web...

Now where did I put that barrel...

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Kay, anonymous:

Scott Doyle,

Not only beautiful crystals, but an actual diamond mine.

Back in the olden days, we actually played outside when we were kids. That included digging in the dirt sometimes....and I dug up crystals all the time. Didn't know everybody else didn't do that too. :)

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Kay, anonymous:

Thanks 'gal for mentioning all those well-known folks....along with the monkeys on the web.

Perhaps, it's not well known that people in Arkansas don't "use up a Texan's oxygen". People in Arkansas breathe Arkansas Mountain air...with it's own built-in oxgen.

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Kay, anonymous:

Vanna, can I buy a "Y"? ...oxYgen...

:::keyboard batteries getting low?:::

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Scott Doyle, verified:

People from Arkansas can use wireless keyboards?

Apologies for the shameless crack, couldn't help myself. =)

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Kay, anonymous:

Understand whatcha mean, Scott Doyle. Otherwise ya coulda bit your tongue clean in half. Been there myself. :)

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Kay, anonymous:

Chris Olson, I bet your Arkansas Uncle Fred's not being 'normal' is simply a result of him being such a smart ole dude? That twinkle in his eye gives him away no doubt.

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