It's so sad to have your child go missing, get killed, and have no closure. Now after all these years there may be some sort of closure. I pray for the family this must be heart breaking. I hope justice is served for Etan. I know he has been in much better place all these years but it is thise who are left behind who suffer so much.

The guy didn't do it. He is three bricks short of a load.So he will go to trial, but the result will either be an acquittal or a hung jury.

This is so sad. If he had any siblings I bet his parents became overly protective and never let them venture out alone. This society we live in where children are murdered is just sickening.

this has to stop on sickos doing stuff to the chrildren killing sex abuse let the die the way that kid dies if not he will go to hell for surew

I lived in New York City when Etan disappeared, my son was two years old. I felt so sorry for his parents and when I see his little cute face, it still tugs at my heart. I think just about every parent feels for his family. I must admit I wondered why they allowed him to go to the bus stop alone. NYC was a very dangerous place even back then, but I can't judge them to harshly, the mother said Etan wanted to do it so badly I know the parents have suffered extremely because of their decision. We moved out of the city when my children started elementary school but I always took them to the bus and was at the stop when they came home. I was blessed to be able to work part time until my oldest child went to Jr High School and then a friend next door looked after them when I went to work full time until they were old enough to care for themselves. Parents have a hard time sometimes when it comes to child care. I pray for the family, this sort of thing is hard for anyone who has lost a child.

Look at his face!.....OMG,how heartbreaking! I'm so sad right now....WTH

Pixie1 you said some great things I Am glad I visited this site again; But there's little hope for the next 4 years you said that but there are things at work that you do not understand OK Sure we were lied to for the first four years but that is changing everywhere cops are starting to see that they have been enforcing allot of useless laws that have been oppressing the people; Our teachers have noticed that just school is not enough they are starting to take them out-to nature where they can learn way more than in any classroom, that it's valuable to show children that frogs, are very important mice an trees, they are a part of-us and maybe science was pressing these kids too hard. OK in the opposite direction than they should have been-going inn. Just wait tell next year when you see bubble schools made of glass, so children can actually play in them in the winter, even filled with butterflies and all sorts of harmless creatures, which are equally as important to us. OK where nature is a fun thing it can also be dangerous and is equally important to teach them, that even they have their place, to be seen but not touched also; Things like dangerous snakes, mountain lions and wild bears, “OK Science” These teachers taking telescopes with them, so they can study space, teachers can take them out-of the classrooms with the parents’ permission and bring them along also make parent teacher-bonds stronger so that children trust them more. OK so they can be called a friend a teacher is just a teacher, if all they do is stand there and talk ever here blah, blah, lol If they do all this other stuff they can become a friend, also and even someone the parents can one day confide in. But we must be careful there are some awful kinds of programs, that have harmed this open- resource and that is CPS made to destroy families harm the parent-teacher trust, and those awful setbacks will have to be dissuaded if we are to move forward and reach space! And enter the higher understanding of what we really are, why we are here and what is best for us all! Not just the wealthy the true wise men-women that made our country, the founding fathers of America new we must learn to stand up for what is right! To put away our differences and look beyond what we want, they knew this day would come where the rubber meets the road! And speak out about all this communist nonsense that our country is so stuffed with like you said!

Good luck

If this is true then jail time is not an option ,,,Executed is on the top of the list.......

Or maybe he just trying to gain attentions. What if one day he said it's not him that he was depressed then there's no evidence to hold him behind bars.

Poor little boy, he has the face of an Angel in this picture. Why must the innocent ones always suffer on this EARTH?.....absoulutely heartbreaking!

omg please leave the children alone. ethan had every right to live. it a lot of sick bastard walking around looking for innocent people kids to harm. put these monsters away burn them i dont care. poor ethan, his parents will never get over what happen to there baby boy. never..... it just goes to show this world is very sick and it get sicker and sicker with these sick #@#%*@ walking around this planet like its okay to harm a innocent child. how can you look at yourself in a mirror or get up in the morning, these monster do not have a soul they are just a lump of flesh, there soul is already in hell burning, they are zombies. i have no feeling for anyone who harm poor innocent kids. you are pass being sick you fu-king animal

rip ethan

As a mother it is very hard for me to sympathize with

wouldn't he be 40 years old now??

He needs to pay the price, what a scumbag. Hope he dies a horrible death (Dalmer)....

i @!$%#ing hate you all......stay away from my family you dirty mother@!$%#ers!

This case caused an axiety on us young parents back then. Children had their finger prints recorded at the local police. We became more vigilant and paranoid about the people around us. I cannot imagine the parent's pains all these years still waiting for their son to come home. Our society has to do better diagnosing the mentally ill so they are under watchful eyes before they cause harm.

Now, if any of you people who are assuming he is guilty have actually looked up the real information on this case you would find that the DA didn't want to go forward with this case because they felt he (the bi-polar schizophrenic Hernandez) likely wasn't the killer and that there was nothing connecting him to the case other than a confession from a man who is schizophrenic and likely thinks he did even if he didn't do anything. They also complained that the move forward was purely political between NYPD and the Feds, each trying to show who had the bigger badder manhood with the case when neither one had anything to go on. Look up the article written by LAURA ITALIANO and JAMIE SCHRAM on the New York Post as an example of this information. All easy to find that there was no evidence of Molestation, murder, or anything. For all they know the child could have been simply kidnapped and sold off into child slavery in another country. (Or sold off in this one. God knows it does go on in this country.) Look at the evidence given, don't let the 'press' prey on your emotions to make a dollar. I feel bad for the child's parents for not ever being able to have closure and the press and police department using them to make money.

well who freaking cares if he has an illness u still dont kill or harm kids hope he is put on jail time for a huge huge amount of time or be killed like that poor little boy was lets see how he likes it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My prayers are for the family. May they finally get closure and watch this man die.

I hope the police taped the whole interrogation. Mentally ill person off his meds and how long did this interrogation take? I will wait for the trial to judge. Former member 528th MI (interrogation) unit.

The saddest part of this whole story it took so long to find this person and the parents have suffered so long. Now that he has been found I hope he frys but that won't happen because there are to many bleeding hearts out there and sadly that is a fact.

We all know or should know that the easy way out and making not earning more money is for a lawyer to claim mental illness. I think that when this happens the legal representative should we legally responsible for the aftermath of the so called mental illness individual. Pirate Dave

This is a tragic story and the boys family has lived with this nightmare for so many years, I hope they have some closure, but I also wish this person never leaves prison. All will stand before God someday and be judged for their sins....

10 minutes. Thats the maximum amount of time it should take for the court and judge to take this losers confession and convict him. No jail time. Have the chair ready in the next room and rush him to it. Throw the switch and it's over. Stuff him into a trash bag and throw him on the dump. The case is closed at minimal cost to the tax payers. The family doesn't have to hear any more from this a-hole and he gets an express ticket to GOD where the Al Mighty will pass the final judgement.