This story utterly amazed me!
A Michigan man has come forward claiming to be Stephen Damman, the 2-year-old boy who disappeared over 50 years ago after his mother left him and his sister alone outside a Long Island, NY bakery.
According to Lt. Kevin Smith of the Nassau County Police, in the 1950s, it was not uncommon for young mothers to leave their children outside when grocery shopping.
An 81-year-old woman who had young children during that time told the Associated Press, “They [children] would all be lined up outside the supermarket. We never worried. We never thought about it.”
On Halloween in 1955, Marilyn Damman entered a Long Island bakery leaving her 2-year-old son, Stephen and 7-month-old daughter, Pamela outside with a stroller. Ten minutes later, Marilyn came out of the bakery and could not find the stroller or her children. Around the corner she found the stroller with only her daughter inside.
Over 2,000 people assisted in the search for Stephen for 28 hours, after which the county’s assistant chief inspector, Leslie W. Pearsall, called off the search. According to The New York Times, Pearsall decided the case should be left up to police detectives.
The Associated Press reported the family received a ransom note in Nov. A public plea was made to the kidnappers, which emphasized Stephen's anemia and his need for medication.
Authorities are awaiting DNA tests to determine if the man who claims to be the missing boy is actually Stephen.
According to an official inside the investigation, the man believes he never fit in with his family and began searching missing person cases around the country.
Stephen’s father, Jerry Damman, 78, said “it’s very possible” the Michigan man could be his son and believes the man paid him a visit last fall.
The man approached the Nassau County Police and federal authorities over the past few months. The man’s name has not been released.
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Looking at him as a child and an adult there is a likeness. How would you approach your supposed parents with this? "Mommy did you kidnap me in the 50's?" It makes me wonder how many other adults are out there that are part of a family they don't really belong to. It also makes me think about the nature and nurture argument. Does this man have any personality traits of his real father or of the father that raised him? Or both? The nature ad nurture argument has always intrigued me.
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I remember being left outside shops when I was little, it was what people did back then.
So maybe......
Oh god - I am going to be wondering about that all day now you llwnt!