3-YEAR-OLD BOY LEFT BEHIND AT CORN MAZE EXPLAINED

The family who left their 3-year-old son at a corn maze in Utah last week? Yeah, it’s exactly what you thought. The family is a “plural” family but, said the father – named Robert – that’s not why he was left behind. Robert and his wife have 14 children. She took 11 of them to the corn maze last Monday. Her sister brought two or three of her own children, Robert said. The combined families were piled into multiple cars. Between the two sets of kids, Robert said, there were “about four blond-haired boys about the same height.” When it was time to leave, Robert said, his wife buckled the youngest children into car or booster seats, including the 3-year-old. Then the older children asked if they could have one of the free donuts offered at the maze. The older children got out of the car, while the wife waited in the car. She thought the 3-year-old was in the car with her, but “During that 15 minutes, he must have jumped out,” Robert said. Afterwards, everyone went home and some watched a movie. The outing and the movie were diversions from the family’s routine, Robert said. Family members who would have normally missed the 3-year-old didn’t notice he was gone. Also, Robert said, the boy doesn’t always sleep in his own bed. He often sleeps with an older sibling. “It was an oversight that we learned a lot from,” Robert added.
* See? Perfectly logical.
* The first lesson Robert learned? Get a vasectomy.
* Turns out there are three extra kids living there and no-one knows where they came from.
* Robert might want to cancel next week’s family trip to swim in the lake.
* Two words, Robert: Roll call.