DEAR EDITOR:

I wish The Vindicator editorial staff chose to write an opinion piece about the naked 4- or 5-year-old boy found standing on the lawn of a home on the West Side in August but they didn’t. From a Vindicator article on the story:

“A child 4 to 5 years old was found standing in the front yard of a home on North Brockway Avenue on the West Side about 9 a.m. Tuesday wearing no clothing, a Youngstown police report states.

When an officer arrived, he found the boy and observed that he appeared to be nonverbal, the report states. Officers could not locate the child’s home, so they contacted Mahoning County Children Services.”

The police couldn’t locate the family for an extended period but evidently did.

That story dropped right out of the news.

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