MISSING: Gabriel Johnson, AZ
Gabriel Johnson, 8 mos. old
On the edge of Casey Anthony’s upcoming check fraud trial, the world is shattered with another missing child. Elizabeth Johnson is suffering from Casey Anthony Syndrome.
The mother to 8-month old, Gabriel Johnson, has come up with numerous tales as to what happened to her beautiful 8-month old son. This is a mother who clearly did not want the responsibility of being a parent. Warning signs have been flashing, and ignored, since July, 2009 when Elizabeth threatened to harm the child if his father did not sign adoption papers.
How could this have been ignored? This woman ( I can no longer call her a mother, it trashes what that word signifies) destroyed her child’s crib, cut up his clothing and some of the father’s clothing as well, broke windows and a television set… all because she didn’t want to be a parent anymore. Patheti-sad!
Elizabeth sits in jail refusing to speak with police. It has been reported she text messaged the child’s father, Scott McQuery, to inform him she had kill Gabriel and tossed his lifeless body into a nearby dumpster. Her reasoning? She wanted to hurt Scott like he had hurt her. Apparently, the best option she could come up with was murdering her own child. The police stay optimistic that baby Gabriel is still alive even with a mothers confession to killing the child saying otherwise.
Also taking media spot light is “Adoptive Couple Number One”. I say “number one” because they are not the only couple approached with the option to take on the parenting role for Gabriel. This couple was approached in an airport and offered the chance to adopt baby Gabriel. Both seemed to agree this would be a good idea and continued to set up arrangments to transfer parentage to them from Elizabeth. This mother sought a closed adoption and refused any and all information on the family, their financial ability to care for baby Gabriel, their address, or anything that would ellude to the possible future for the child. She wanted to know NOTHING.
This couple is now heartbroken over the disapearance of a child they had gotten to know and grown to love in the short time they were exposed to him. The most confusing part comes when Elizabeth relays her latest story to police. According to the 23-year old mother, she gave Gabriel to a couple of strangers in a park and hopped a bus back home without him. The search is ongoing, and though the claims of his death have not been discounted, they are still optimistic that this child is in fact alive and in the care of complete strangers. Police are trying to get in contact with the mystery couple through the media, with plea’s to return the child to his family and no one would be prosecuted but the mother.
In the end, all i can see is a family that failed a child. This rings “Casey Anthony” loud and clear to me. I wonder how Casey’s family feel knowing that she gave this fool proof template of “how to lie your way through a police investigation?” I read all the media stories on this current tragic case of yet another child being treated like trash and I see not one, but two parents, that didn’t give a crap about their own child.
Logan Scott McQuery, the father of 8-month old Gabriel, had a history of ignoring the child and going 30+ days at a time without seeing him. He was given the opportunity to save this child and have him adopted, but at the last minute he got cold feet. It seems to me he was perfectly comfortable with forcing this woman to be a mother when she didn’t want to be one, but he himself could not be a proper father.
In court documents he speaks about the situations that led up to this event. In the document McQueary wrote,
“She has said several times in the past she doesn’t want the baby, has yelled and screamed at him when I would go to work, I would put him in his room, and when I would come back five hours later, he would still be in the room with no changed diaper and crying. I would ask her (Johnson) what she was doing, and she would just yell at me and say ’shut that thing up.’”
Just reading this one question comes to mind. Why didn’t he get her help? She clearly didn’t want the burden (which some of us see as a gift) of a child on her hip.
McQueary, who described his son as “always happy,” said he last saw his son on Dec. 8 after he and Johnson broke up, and although he said he believes Johnson is capable of harming the child, he believes Gabriel is still alive.
“Before she left, she told me I was never going to see the baby again,” said McQueary, who has known Johnson since middle school.
“I was scared when she first said it. When she told me she killed the baby, I tried not to believe the message. I didn’t want to believe it. I don’t know what makes her tick or why she would do this to me. When she had the baby, she was happy.”
To me, his court records show conflicting reports about how “happy” she actually was with this child in tow.
Over the course of the last year as case upon case of missing child, most being found dead, passed by , I grew pessimistic about the outcome of nearly every case I have come across. Is this what we want to teach our children? What in the world is going on in this country when children are as disposable as a Lady Bic razor? I watch the news and fear another case springing up without warning, a once enjoyable past time is destroyed by the moms who care more about their next bedmate and drinking than they do about their own children. This is what the world has become in a few simple words. “If you have a child it’s not the end of the world, you can always just kill them and lie to the police. Say you are insane, God told you to do it, you have post pardem psychosis and divine sources intervened and took your child from you. You want to party? Just drug the child and lock them in a closet, that should give you a few hours of worry free sluttin’ it up time. Your boyfriend is abusive? That’s ok, just give them the baby to hit and go on with your day like nothing happened, there’s no reason you should have to lose the man beside you just because of those pesky kids. Your boyfriend is a pedophile? That shouldn’t be a problem, just pretend he isn’t and refrain from doing a background check on him.” And last but not least, the now famous explanation. ” Tell the police your baby was kidnapped, a stranger took the baby. Ransom? It’s 2010, no one needs ransom these days. Just ditch the baby and your life will be perfect again!”
I honestly don’t think I want to raise my chidren in the world the way it is but I made the decision to have kids regardless of the world’s condition. I’m not just going to act like they don’t exist and rid myself of them to have an easier life. Children are a gift, not a curse. If you can’t handle having a child there are many many couples dying just to have a child — your child shouldn’t be “dyin” because you no longer want kids.
I am starting to think stiffer punishment for the death of a child needs to be implemented. No more insanity plea’s; no more bulls**tting your way out of it. You kill a child, your eyes should be poked out with hot, rusty wire hangers and your forehead branded with the words BABY KILLER. Walk around in general population with that on your noggin and see how long you last.
Resources:
Video of another couple who state they were adopting Gabriel
Maricopa Court Information – McQuery
Dade County Booking Info
ABC News – Tempe Police Ask for Help
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Great blog…. Thanks for writing it Morning Glory.
With so many bad things in our society perhaps all people need to undergo more positive structuring themselves? Where I don’t know. Schools should not be substitute parents and are IMHO failing at doing their job of education our children both physically, psychologically and morally.
Children should be living in good environments. Raised by parents who want them and are involved in being good parents and making decisions based on what is in the best interests of the child. Anger, revenge, frustration, and laziness need to not be in the solution.
There is no utopic solution that I can foresee… but damn it seems to hurt us more than it hurts these negligent, hurtful and criminal parents.
Thank you. I agree. The world is turning into negligent parents with disposable children. Its disgusting.
Children are being treated as chattel. Very sad.
This just pisses me off!!! My God what is wrong with these wemon? I do belive she did kill that baby for revenge, and should set in a jail cell for the rest of her life with KC!! And my God was there grandparents, aunts, uncles , sisters, brothers…ANYONE that would takle this child? My heart just breaks, and I hope she gets whats she deserves!!
thats the problem Dental. She wanted to give the child away, she had adoptive parents lined up and ready to go. Someone wanted this baby and she wanted them to have him. Her ex on the other hand didn’t. he didn’t want to take care of him but he also didn’t want to lose him as a son. I think it’s a situation where not only she failed, but he failed as well.
I couldn’t agree more. This case is so disturbing and heartbreaking.
The father of the baby KNEW she was neglecting and abusing HIS child and did nothing to find some help or find a relative to care for the child. I fear this child is dead, there is no imaginary couple who would never be able to enroll the child in school or legally get Gabriel medical attention without proper paper work, I’m in airports frequently and most people aren’t there to baby shop, again that pesky paperwork to get a child a seat home even if they sit on your lap they are required to be listed on the passenger manifest, babies aren’t carry-on luggage but how would this ignorant slob know that? What an stupid t**t, it’s like saying you are in a plane using the internet or some such twaddle that is nothing but moronic, and only proves you have no knowledge of how the real world even operates.
I don’t know why she would sit in jail if she knew her child was being cared for, well we all know she wouldn’t – which breaks my heart because it was all so needless, he’s adorable and there are families out there who would have adopted him and given him love and affection for a lifetime. They can put her in jail and even kill her but none of this had to happen, the father’s lack of action and the rest of the family’s apathy is what killed this child. Poor Gabe, his mother killed him and he may never even get a proper burial, I hope Dad does a better job with the next child, and you know he will go on to pick another crazy winner to breed with an another child will suffer due to his lack of brains and responsibility towards defenseless child that he allowed to be hurt and killed due to ineffectiveness. He must be so proud of the way he handled his crazy wife. He owed his son, he let Gabe down and poor Gabe never did anything but be a normal baby.
Great blog post Crim! This is becoming all too common on our new stations and TV media hosts. It seems like every week there is another child missing or murdered.
While watching the Fathers interview, I noticed he was talking about Gabriel in the PAST tense saying “had” and he “used” to. That bothered me a lot, considering they have not found him yet. It’s like the Dad really believes his baby is gone from what MommyFearest said.
Sad, sad… we need to step up and do more for these kids.
I think she was telling the truth when she texted him that she had killed him.
And I think he knows it, too.
Hi Princess, the father Logan does not have a mile long criminal record, where did you get this from?
He has a criminal record. Burglary and other violations. Maricopa County court records.
I give this mother a small amount of credit for the decisions she did make properly. This was all needless. She did find a couple to adopt this beautiful child. She left Gabriel with this couple for if i’m not mistaken a full week to bond. This family grew close to this child, this is the same couple featured on television. The father had absolutely no regard for the safety of the child or the mental well being of the child’s mother. She was crying for help, he listened to the cries long enough to have her thinking this was almost over, she was about to give her baby up for adoption to ensure a safe loving home. Daddy dearest backed out last minute. The more i read the less i like this father and the more i want to choke him. The opportunity was there staring him in the face! And now he says he STILL won’t give the child up if he is found alive?? At this point i would think he would do anything for the safety of his child, because we all know if he is found alive the state will give him back to the mother, and the mother knows the father isn’t fit so she sure as hell won’t give him to daddy dearest. What do we think will happen next? This again. Since this is not the first time she has told him the child was gone, while hiding him somewhere else.
None of this excuses it if she killed him, but if she simply gave her child away to a loving couple (which is yet to be seen) i think she did the right thing! Daddy was never going to agree with her and allow her to put the child up for adoption and he just wasn’t a fit parent. She wants a safe loving home for him. Lord i hope he’s no dead but this all looks so grim to me. After a year of umpteen missing children cases and most of them being found dead i have absolutely no optimism when it comes to a missing child. Then again i think we need to start searching for missing children as if they had a bomb strapped to them that would explode in a short time. Maybe then cops would jump on things and follow all leads. Ugh.. This world SUCKS!
BUT, you don’t shop for adoptive parents at the airport. Who in the hell walks up to a couple and says – “Hey, wanna adopt my kid?”. This chick used her baby to get back at the man who pissed her off. Simple as that IMO.
My feelings exactly, Princess – who shops for adoptive parents with total strangers they just met at an airport? What is the different between that and just standing on a street corner with a sign that says – Take My Baby Please. How the heck could she possibly know what kind of people these proposed adoptive parents really are; when did she have time to do a background check at the very minimum on them? To me, she reminds me of another Casey Anthony – she didn’t want the child, didn’t want her ex to have him either, and I fear that sweet Gabriel is no longer with us.
Elizabeth was approached by the Smiths in the airport, not the other way around as you assumed.
How do you know this? That’s not what the Smiths were saying.
The only thing that sucks is your disgusting opinion.
How dare you disparage the father who fought for custody of his child and won. Give the mother credit? The same mother who trashed his place and cut up his clothes and subsequently had a restraining order against her. The same women who stated that the only way you will see your cold blue child is in a trash bin? The same mother who abducted the child who is now missing for 3 weeks with no sign of or any cooperation from the mother? Try watching this and lets see what your opinion is:
http://www.kpho.com/video/22155911/index.html
Who the hell are you to say the father isn’t fit? He has done everything to show that he is a good father; unless your jaded opinion is that no man is capable of being a good father. He is the one that will be with his child again, noone else. If the child is alive, of course the loving father should be reunited with his child, are you insane?
The fact that you have made all your insulting remarks to the father in lieu of the fact that there has only been positive things said about him and furthermore even defended the mother, speaks volumes about you.
Honestly, both of these people don’t sound too fit. He with his mile long record and her who loses her kid. JMO
I agree. She went about it the completely wrong way. Dysfunctional as all hell but without debate she didn’t wanna be a mom. Which would make me ask the question “have you never heard of birth control??” That takes care of that pesky kid problem right there!.. I think she probably wanted a kid, then realized she was a s**t mother. IMO too little too late but at the same time forcing a parent to be a parent i think is what keeps leaving us with dead babies. There are so many options for “unwanted babies”, SOMEONE WANTS THEM! Killing them is never ever the answer.
All around, everyone failed this child. The mom, the dad, the entire family that sat back and watched this spin out of control and become what we have now. A beautiful little boy missing, possibly dead.
I keep going back and forth with this one. Though i can understand why the mother went after adoptive parents, i really can’t just ignore the fact that proper adoption is actually easier. She didnt want proper adoption, because that requires the father to sign off rights. Ugh. Yet another mess, and yet another child taking the fall for it. No one is suffering but that child IMO. These parents can move on, live out the rest of their lives. But this child, if alive will never be able to forget this. The media storm will be there to remind him.
This mother knew nothing about the people who were adopting her child. She didn’t know address, background, financial ability to provide a home. I think it sucks.
I think the people who wanted to take the baby were nuts too because the paperwork would never have added up and they would have always been looking over their shoulders.
If this baby were alive people would be realizing the best thing to do is to turn the baby over to a safe haven because there would be no raising this child. What would be raised are many questions of a chid his age just “showing up” without proper paperwork that can be verified.
Sad to say I feel the baby is not with us and that this sicko mother killed a poor innocent baby.
It sucks! Not only can’t you trust society with your children you can’t trust parents with their children. There is nothing and nobody beyond and above the radar in this world today.
I agree angel. Schools require current and up to date immunization records, how the hell was that baby supposed to get those? Was mommy dearest gonna enroll him in school, take him for shots but not take him home and care for him like any other mother would? All around this i read FAILURE. And that’s the worst failure you could ever endure, failing your OWN CHILD.
The problem is “fashion accessory” babies. Once the novelty wears off..it’s disaster. Birth control is widely available for almost nothing. I hear women cry “I couldn’t afford birth control!”. Oh puhleeze!! But you can afford to raise a child??!!? I guess these imbeciles don’t think that far ahead.
Good Point Cheryl Isn’t that why there are too many chihuahua’s because of the movie Legally Blonde and they are shipping chi’s to the East Coast for adoption
Personally, these people shouldn’t even qualify to own and be loved by a dog… standards are just too low. It is so sad. Society is self-destructing from stupidity.
I really hope-and want to believe-that this was a black market underground adoption. She may have killed Gabriel-but I think she sold him or adopted him, knowing that would hurt three father more. To know his child was alive, and NO ONE could ever find him. I believe this was arranged and planned, and she is not talking to give whoever has him time to get where they need to go-which is more than likely
out of the country. She may have been promised a lawyer by the same people who arranged the adoption and cautioned not to talk until she had one. I really really prefer to believe that, than to think this little angel is dead.
Many young women think they’re Britney Spears. Drop a baby or two then party on. It’s no big deal right?
Re: “Casey Anthony Syndrome”
I hope we are not going to give Casey more fame with this phrase. Also, I don’t feel these (can’t call them Moms and they don’t even seem human to me) .. whatever, certainly aren’t suffering but thy sure inflict suffering on many others. I guess I would have to say they are afflicted.
MorningGloring, you have done a great job in writing about this missing child. You have informed me of things I wasn’t aware of and that’s one of the reasons I enjoy coming to BH. I always tend to learn something when reading here…
When i have been able to catch updates here and there about this case, I always see the father understandably upset. I was never aware of the abuse he had witnessed. Knowing this now makes this case even worse IMO. It seems as if he wanted all the glory of being called “dad” but none of the responsibility. Why on earth would you let someone leave with your child after they had just told you that you would never see them alive again? Why would you even leave them alone with that child if you had witnessed verbel abuse and neglect? I think most of his tears come from guilt. Guilt from allowing this monster to take this little boy and guilt for just watching the abuse without notifying anyone of it! I’m sure he loves his son but why does everything bad get told AFTER something happens? As for any couple agreeing to “adopt” this child, they had to have a screw loose ! If a total stranger ever approached me with such an offer I would wonder first thing what the hell was going on! How could anyone with half a brain think something like this was on the up and up? They could take the child home and 2 days later have the police at their door accusing them of kidknapping. So IMO even if they could provide better for this child, they weren’t any fitter! I’m not going to say a thing about the mother because I’m sure we all feel the same way! If this child is alive a don’t think he is with any upstanding citizen looking to adopt. I think he would be placed with a friend who was willing to hide him. Someone who believes anything this mother has said and thinks that what they are doing is both temporary and the best for the boy.
There’s some weird things going on with the Smiths as well.
The Smiths were waiting at the airport for Elizabeth, they didn’t just “happen” to be there. The Smiths know exactly Gabe is, and it was preplanned where to put him. Probably some where in Mexico. Wait and see, they KNOW.
I’m amazed that no one can get the Mother to talk! Surely, someone in the FBI/LE is trained to do this. In the meantime make jail as tough as possible for her. Make her clean toilets or mop floors. She seems to be settling in nicely. That should change! Make it TOUGH!
This story breaks my heart..I am 22 years old, have 2 baby boys and a baby on the way i could never even fathom the idea of hurting my children I don’t know what is wrong with these horrible people that think its okay to hurt a innocent child. They need to torture this little girl (not worthy of being called a woman) for what she has done to this poor baby. I think that stronger punishments need to be in place for baby killers I think they should have that punishment put on them the same thing that they did to their innocent children. NO baby asks to be born, i just think its the most horrible crime one can commit is to kill their child, breaks my heart. I pray that by some miracle the baby is still alive somewhere and I hope that poor excuse of a human being gets exactly what she deserves.