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Post by kiwimom Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:22 pm

Missing boy's mum: 'We just want him to come home'
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

POLICE will continue their search for a missing teenager
today after a door knock at Machans Beach yesterday failed to find any
more clues to his whereabouts.

Police hold fears for missing Machans Beach teen, 13
Declan Crouch, 13, has not been seen since Wednesday afternoon after he failed to return home.
Police say initial investigations indicate Declan has not been abducted.
His distressed mother, Ruth Crouch, said it was “out of character” for her son to go missing.
“He’s never done anything like this before and there’s no real reason for it
that we can see,” Ms Crouch said. “So we’re really worried and we just
want him to come home.
“I am now wondering how the hell he is
surviving because he is only 13, he is very inexperienced, he isn’t
street wise and I just don’t know how he would be surviving.
“He took nothing at all – he might have a bit of money with him from pocket
money but he hasn’t got a bank card to access his account. I know he
was bored at school so, maybe, this is a bit of an adventure, I don’t
know, but I just want him to come home and if he sees this, we want him
to know that he can just come home and he won’t be in any trouble.”
The Trinity Bay State High student was last seen getting off a bus at Machans Beach on Wednesday afternoon.
Cairns Police Child Protection officer-in-charge Glenn Horan said it appeared
Declan went home, changed out of his school uniform and left the house
without any personal possessions.
“He certainly doesn’t have
access to many funds and he had no phone with him and it does appear
that he hasn’t accessed any of his computer accounts,” Sen Sgt Horan said.
Declan is about 170cm tall with a slim build and
collar-length brown hair with a purple colour rinse through it, usually
worn over his brown eyes.
He was last seen wearing a black T-shirt with dark basketball shorts and thongs.
>>
Anyone who knows where Declan is, or who has seen him, should contact
police on 4030 7000 or call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2011/03/15/154155_local-news.html

Search continues for missing boy, 13
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GRAVE FEARS: Police are still
searching for missing teenager Declan Crouch, of Machans Beach, who
has been missing for five days.
Source: Supplied

POLICE and SES volunteers are continuing their desperate search for a
missing 13-year-old boy from Cairns who hasn’t been seen since
Wednesday night.

Trinity Bay State High School student Declan Crouch disappeared from his family home
in Machans Beach, a northern suburb of Cairns, after school.


About 17 SES volunteers searched through thick bushland and paddocks near
the boy’s home yesterday but failed to find any clues to his whereabouts.

A ground search and door knocks will continue today and possibly an aerial search by helicopter.
Declan was last seen catching the bus home from school on Hoare St, Manunda on Wednesday about 3pm.
His school bag and uniform were found at home.
Police said the behaviour was out of character for the 13-year-old.[
It’s understood he may have been upset after an argument with a family member.
He is about 170cm tall, slim build and collar-length brown hair which is usually worn over his eyes.
He may be wearing black or maroon basketball shorts and a black T-shirt.
Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/search-continues-for-missing-boy-13/story-e6freon6-1226020933330


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Post by kiwimom Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:27 pm

kiwimom wrote:Missing boy's mum: 'We just want him to come home'
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

POLICE will continue their search for a missing teenager
today after a door knock at Machans Beach yesterday failed to find any
more clues to his whereabouts.

Police hold fears for missing Machans Beach teen, 13
Declan Crouch, 13, has not been seen since Wednesday afternoon after he failed to return home.
Police say initial investigations indicate Declan has not been abducted.
His distressed mother, Ruth Crouch, said it was “out of character” for her son to go missing.
“He’s
never done anything like this before and there’s no real reason for it
that we can see,” Ms Crouch said. “So we’re really worried and we just
want him to come home.
“I am now wondering how the hell he is
surviving because he is only 13, he is very inexperienced, he isn’t
street wise and I just don’t know how he would be surviving.
“He
took nothing at all – he might have a bit of money with him from pocket
money but he hasn’t got a bank card to access his account. I know he
was bored at school so, maybe, this is a bit of an adventure, I don’t
know, but I just want him to come home and if he sees this, we want him
to know that he can just come home and he won’t be in any trouble.”
The Trinity Bay State High student was last seen getting off a bus at Machans Beach on Wednesday afternoon.
Cairns
Police Child Protection officer-in-charge Glenn Horan said it appeared
Declan went home, changed out of his school uniform and left the house
without any personal possessions.
“He certainly doesn’t have
access to many funds and he had no phone with him and it does appear
that he hasn’t accessed any of his computer accounts,” Sen Sgt Horan
said.
Declan is about 170cm tall with a slim build and
collar-length brown hair with a purple colour rinse through it, usually
worn over his brown eyes.
He was last seen wearing a black T-shirt with dark basketball shorts and thongs.
>>
Anyone who knows where Declan is, or who has seen him, should contact
police on 4030 7000 or call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2011/03/15/154155_local-news.html

Search continues for missing boy, 13
AUSTRALIA • Declan COUCH,13 ~ Machans Beach, Cairns - Queensland 939750-declan-crouch-missing

GRAVE FEARS: Police are still
searching for missing teenager Declan Crouch, of Machans Beach, who
has been missing for five days.
Source: Supplied

POLICE and SES volunteers are continuing their desperate search for a
missing 13-year-old boy from Cairns who hasn’t been seen since
Wednesday night.

Trinity Bay State High School student Declan Crouch disappeared from his family home in Machans Beach, a northern suburb of Cairns, after school.


About
17 SES volunteers searched through thick bushland and paddocks near
the boy’s home yesterday but failed to find any clues to his
whereabouts.

A ground search and door knocks will continue today and possibly an aerial search by helicopter.
Declan was last seen catching the bus home from school on Hoare St, Manunda on Wednesday about 3pm.
His school bag and uniform were found at home.
Police said the behaviour was out of character for the 13-year-old.
It’s understood he may have been upset after an argument with a family member.
He is about 170cm tall, slim build and collar-length brown hair which is usually worn over his eyes.
He may be wearing black or maroon basketball shorts and a black T-shirt.
Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/search-continues-for-missing-boy-13/story-e6freon6-1226020933330

Police say they still have no clues about the
disappearance of a 13-year-old boy from Machans Beach, north of Cairns,
in far north Queensland.
Declan Crouch was last seen leaving his home last Wednesday.
Detective Senior Sergeant Glenn Horan says police have searched many deserted places young people are known to hang out.
He says State Emergency Service officers will resume the search in bushland and along the Barron River this morning.
"Our plan is to search an area of Machans Beach," he said.
"After that, depending on what advice we get, we may broaden the search but it's a large area.
"We're not just going to speculatively search everywhere - we're doing that targeted.
"At this stage we're restricting it to the area round his residence."
Detective Senior Sergeant Horan says it appears the teenager has not
used social networking sites or contacted friends since his
disappearance.
"We've certainly got a lot of information from the public and as I say we're running out those inquiries," he said.
"Up until now none of those have culminated in the location of
Declan, so we're just keen to get any information so that we can ...
find him, talk to him and ensure he's safe."
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Post by TomTerrific0420 Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:54 am

POLICE have widened their hunt for a missing Cairns teenager to Victoria.




Friends of 13-year-old only Declan Crouch said he had been talking
about heading to Victoria before disappearing suddenly more than a week
ago, the Courier Mail reports.His heart-torn mother Ruth Crouch just wants her boy back.Her only son went missing from their Cairns home in what is every parent's worst nightmare.
AUSTRALIA • Declan COUCH,13 ~ Machans Beach, Cairns - Queensland 939750-declan-crouch-missing
The
Trinity Bay High School teen - popular with the girls and into music,
books, and computers - got off the bus from school, got changed at home,
and vanished, taking nothing with him.His mum wishes for nothing more than to see him to walk through the door."We all love him very much," a bewildered Ms Crouch said.

She said there had been no sign he was unhappy.He was
well-liked, had a tight-knit circle of friends, loves reading adventure
and fantasy books, listens to music on his iPod touch and burns off
energy by jogging in nearby bushland, she said."I just want him home."Police
including 10 detectives have launched a three-day ground and aerial
search of the canefields and croc-infested waterways around his Machans
Beach home including the flood-engorged Barron River.Yesterday they also issued an inter-state alert after friends said Declan had been talking about visiting Victoria."We don't know if there was a trigger for him to disappear," said Detective Senior-Sergeant Glenn Horan."We are in the dark as to what made him leave."But, in the eighth day of a vanishing act, police hold grave fears for his safety and welfare.Det
Sen-Sgt Horan said the Year 9 student had not argued with his mother
recently and any home troubles were nothing more than the usual teen
angst."His friends are worried too," he said."They are concerned and are urging him to make contact."He
did not elaborate on the Victorian connection but confirmed officers
have seized the teen's Facebook account and computer for clues.Declan's Facebook and bank account have not been touched since before he was last seen about 3pm last Wednesday.Deputy Police Commissioner Ross Barnett said there was no evidence the boy had been kidnapped."Normally with an abduction someone would put up a fight and no-one heard yelling or saw anything unusual," he said.It is hoped he might be in hiding with a friend "for his own reasons"."As
each day passes though, the concern for his safety heightens and the
likelihood that he may have had an accident, or that something else has
occurred becomes a real possibility."Reported sightings have filtered in from across the State, but have failed to produce any leads.Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/missing-teen-may-be-in-victoria/story-e6frf7l6-1226023096188
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Post by kiwimom Sat Mar 26, 2011 12:48 am

RUTH Crouch is close to despair.
Just over two weeks ago, the Cairns mother said goodbye to her son
Declan in the same way she always did when the 13-year-old trudged off
to school.
She has not seen him since.It was raining in Cairns on Wednesday March 9, the day her 13-year-old son never came home.Declan
caught the bus from Trinity Bay High School, where he'd started in Year
8, and arrived home before anyone else that afternoon.Police think he dumped his school bag, got changed and then left again, but do not know where he went.Ms Crouch told The Courier-Mail
yesterday Declan had put his bag away, put his school uniform in the
laundry basket and locked the door behind him when he left three things
he never usually did.She is clinging to the hope her son has run away after tensions between the two over her monitoring of Declan's internet use.

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"I didn't make myself very popular," Ms Crouch said."Declan
was very careful and deleted all his history on the computer. He
realised I spied on him and I know he's annoyed about that."If he didn't like that and he couldn't accept those boundaries he might have run away."Declan, who she said was a spontaneous teen, took nothing with him when he left home that afternoon."I can't imagine him working out a long-term plan."Police
say the teenager hasn't accessed his bank account, made contact with
friends via social networking site Facebook or been in touch with his
family.On Wednesday this week two weeks since he disappeared
they launched a nationwide appeal to help find Declan, amid grave fears
for his safety.It has now become the biggest missing persons
investigation since the disappearance of Sunshine Coast teenager Daniel
Morcombe in 2003.Computer equipment and a number of personal
items were seized from Declan's home as part of the investigation and
his Facebook page is now controlled by the Queensland police.More
than 30 police from Cairns and various units including the State Crime
Operations Command, the Homicide Investigation Unit and the Child
Protection Investigation Unit have now been assigned to Declan's case.Mammoth
searches of dense mangrove forests, a network of tidal creeks and the
Barron River, a known crocodile haunt, have also failed to give police
and SES volunteers any clues as to Declan's disappearance.Although
police have followed countless leads, spoken with Declan's classmates
and door-knocked homes in Machans Beach, they are struggling to make
headway on his disappearance.A classmate has told authorities she
waved to him from her mother's car when it was pulled over on Machans
Beach Rd between 4pm and 5pm on the day of his disappearance.Police
have also followed reports where an unknown man only days earlier
offered a young woman $100 for sex on the same road where Declan was
last seen.Ms Crouch said the family was coping as best they could."We're trying to keep busy, trying not to think about where he might be or what might have happened," she said."It's terrible walking past his empty bedroom every day."Ms Crouch said Declan was well-liked and had a tight-knit circle of friends."I just want him home," Ms Crouch said.Police yesterday called for public assistance to find Declan.Contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or crimestoppers.com.au

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/the-day-declan-crouch-never-came-home/story-e6freoof-1226028346343
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Post by kiwimom Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:38 pm

2nd June 2011

Police are searching a swamp in northern Cairns after finding what they believe to be human remains.
The discovery, made close to the home of Cairns teenager Declan
Crouch, who went missing in March, was made by police who have been
searching swamps near Machans Beach for several weeks.
Police have established a crime scene and lighting has been set up in
the area to help searchers and forensic officers, who are combing the
swamp for further remains.
Declan, 14, has not been seen since he left his Machans Beach home on March 9.
His mother Ruth has reportedly been informed of the find.
After the teenager went missing, police used a mannequin dressed in
similar clothing at the place he was last seen to try to draw more
information from the public.http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/02/3233184.htm?section=justin
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Post by TomTerrific0420 Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:43 pm

POLICE are investigating the possibility that missing Cairns teenager Declan Crouch may have committed suicide.




After nearly three months of intense searching and a nationwide
appeal, police believe they may have discovered the 13-year-old's body
just 300m from his family home.Police divers found skeletal
remains in a hard-to-reach pocket of tidal wetlands behind his Machans
Beach home, in the northern beaches of Cairns.Teams of SES
searchers and police have combed the area since Declan vanished on March
9, at the height of far north Queensland's monsoonal wet season.He caught the bus home from school that day, dumped his school bag, changed clothes and disappeared without a trace.When
asked directly about the possibility of suicide, Detective Senior
Sergeant Glen Horan said there were "signs" found with the remains that
indicated the death was not suspicious, but would not elaborate.Until yesterday, police were stumped about his fate. Still, there are questions to be answered.The
remains need to be formally identified through forensic testing and a
cause of death needs to be determined. Yesterday, Sergeant Horan said
certain areas had not been safe to search until now, when water had
subsided."It was only the special skills of our dive squad searchers that got into that area," he said."It's a tidal wetland. On different tides there would have been water over the ground."Sergeant
Horan said that even if the divers had arrived earlier, it was unlikely
they would have been able to reach the place where the remains were
found.From Declan's home, it is a time-consuming trek through
dense, boggy, mosquito-infested bushland to reach the spot. It is not
known how Declan may have got there, although he did have a habit of
exploring alone in the bush.Declan's mother, Ruth Crouch, will continue to hold out hope that her son is alive, until official confirmation otherwise.DNA testing, clothing analysis and checks of dental records will be used to identify the remains.Mrs Crouch has always insisted that Declan had run away, but was safe, and that he was not in the bushland near their home.Family friend Jane Halls said the realisation that Declan could have been found so close to home was a shock.She said there was no indication that Declan was depressed."If that's what's happened (suicide), then it's a surprise," Ms Halls said.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/suicide-suspicion-in-case-of-missing-teen/story-e6frg6nf-1226068259563
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Post by TomTerrific0420 Sat Jun 11, 2011 3:32 am

Family and friends of Cairns teenager Declan Crouch are struggling to cope with news the 13-year-old took his own life.
Police divers found Declan's body in a mangrove swamp
area near his Machans Beach home on June 1 but his grieving family have
had to wait over a week for DNA confirmation that it was the
13-year-old.
Cairns Police Detective Senior Sergeant Glenn Horan said
the death was not suspicious and it appeared the teenager had taken his
own life."There is some evidence that Declan has taken his own life," he said,
adding that the boy's family had asked him not to disclose further
details.
Family friend Jane Halls said Declan's mother Ruth was trying to come to terms with her loss.
"You only have to be a parent to understand how she is
feeling, even though we can't put ourselves in her exact position, we
can all feel for her," she said.
She said Ms Crouch was worried about how Declan's friend's would take the news and wanted to reach out to them.
"Ruth's big concern is for Declan's friends and them hearing the news, she's very concerned about how they will handle it."
Ms Halls, who has known Declan since he was a small child, said she would always remember him as "a lovely kid".
"I'm upset that he won't be there for the future for us to see him grow into an adult and have his own family."
She said Declan would be farewelled at a private funeral
once family members were able to arrive from interstate and overseas but
Ms Crouch also wanted to hold a memorial for his school friends.
Det Horan said Declan's school, Trinity Bay High, had arranged support services for the teenager's schoolmates.
Declan disappeared on March 9, a month shy of his 14th
birthday, prompting the largest police search for a missing child in
Queensland since the abduction of Sunshine Coast teenager Daniel
Morecombe in 2003.
Up until the discovery of his body, his family had
remained hopeful that he had run away from home and was being sheltered
by a friend.
Det Horan said Declan's death should raise public
awareness of youth suicide and urged teenagers who were struggling to
cope to seek help from services like the Kids Help Line or beyondblue.
"We obviously want to avoid situations like this where youths choose to take their own life," he said.
"I know things like this have kind of been hidden in
society and people don't like to talk about it when people take their
own lives but if people spoke about it more perhaps we could avoid it a
little more as well."
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/missing-cairns-teen-took-his-own-life-20110611-1fxre.html
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