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Updated 6:30 p.m.

Devonte Hart, a boy who in 2014 was at the center of a viral photo showing his tender embrace with a Portland policeman, is missing and at least five family members are dead after their SUV plunged off a cliff along the Northern California coast.

Devonte, now 15, is believed to have been in his family's vehicle as it went off a Pacific Coast Highway cliff Monday, killing his parents and at least three siblings.

Authorities continued late Wednesday to scour the crash scene, including the ocean, in search of the children believed to have been in the car and are missing, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office said.

The victims, former West Linn residents who had moved to Woodland, Washington, plunged to their deaths when their 2003 GMC veered off Route 1 near the town of Westport and fell 100 feet, eventually landing on its roof on a large rock at the shoreline.

The three children killed weren't using safety equipment and "came out" of the vehicle at some point, the California Highway Patrol said. The women were found inside wearing safety restraints.

Authorities on Wednesday identified the adults as Jennifer Jean Hart, the driver, and Sarah Margaret Hart, both 38. The Hart children killed were Martin, 19, Abigail, 14, and Jeremiah, 14.

The sheriff's office said they can't find siblings Devonte, Hannah, 16, and Sierra, 12. All six kids were adopted by the married couple, the sheriff's office said.

The crash occurred days after authorities in Washington tried to visit the family home multiple times after receiving reports of abuse and neglect concerning the children.

At a news conference Wednesday, Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman said officials have "every indication to believe" all six children were in the vehicle when it went off the cliff.

"We have no evidence and no reason to believe this was an intentional act," Allman said. He also said there are no skid marks or brake marks indicating why the vehicle went off the cliff. He said an investigation is ongoing.

The sheriff appealed for the public's help in retracing where the family had been in recent days.

In 2014, a photograph of a tear-streaked Devonte hugging Sgt. Bret Barnum during a tense "Black Lives Matter" demonstration in downtown Portland garnered global attention.

The photo, originally published by The Oregonian/OregonLive, was featured in national media, reached No. 1 on the social-sharing website Reddit and drew widespread Facebook attention.



http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n...f/2018/03/3_children_missing_after_calif.html
 
"Jen and Sarah were the kinds of parents this world desperately needs," said Portland photographer Zippy Lomax, who had known the family since 2012. "They loved their kids more than anything else."

The Hart family was a regular at Oregon festivals and shows, Lomax said, including the Beloved festival in Tidewater. They also joined presidential candidate Bernie Sanders onstage during a 2016 rally in Vancouver.


"They weren't plugged in to the technology," she said. "They preferred to lay [around] and read books and hang out with their chickens."

Devonte frequently wore the "Free hugs" sign that produced the famous photograph. Lomax said the sign prompted other memorable interactions as Devonte and strangers embraced.

But the reaction to that 2014 moment overwhelmed the family, Lomax said, with much negative attention focused on the multiracial family with lesbian parents.

"They got a lot of negativity from that, and they kind of closed off for a while, honestly," Lomax said.

The family frequently traveled together, Lomax said, taking scenic routes to explore new places and new vistas. She imagines that's what they were doing when the fatal crash occurred.

Court records and recent neighbors, however, portray a family that was at times strained.

The Harts and their children left their home Friday shortly after no one answered the door for a visit by the authorities, according to neighbors and the Clark County Sheriff's Office.

Bruce and Dana DeKalb, who lived next door, said they rarely spoke with the family, which about 10 months ago moved to the remote wooded area in northern Clark County.

Dana DeKalb said Devonte had come to their home a dozen times to ask for food, saying his parents had withheld it as a form of punishment. The teen would ask the couple to leave the food by the fence they shared so his parents wouldn't know, she said.


Such interactions prompted the DeKalbs to contact authorities, they said Wednesday outside their home.

A Clark County deputy accompanied Cowlitz County Child Protective Services to the Hart family's home Friday but nobody answered the door, Sgt. Brent Waddell, a Clark County Sheriff's Office spokesman, told The Oregonian/OregonLive on Wednesday.

The family and its SUV were gone the next day, Bruce DeKalb said.

Norah West, a spokeswoman for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, on Wednesday said the agency attempted to contact the family three times after receiving reports of abuse or neglect but was unsuccessful.

Court records in Minnesota show Sarah Hart received a 90-day suspended jail sentence and a year of probation in 2011 after her six-year-old daughter arrived at school with bruises on her stomach and back. The girl told a teacher, "Mom hit me," according to records.

Shortly after, the family moved to West Linn, where they lived until relocating to Woodland.

Bill Groener, who lived next door to the family in West Linn, said they kept to themselves and the kids mostly stayed indoors – even in good weather. Groener said the only contact he had with the family is when they went out to get the mail.


"Something," Groener said, "just didn't seem right."

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n...f/2018/03/3_children_missing_after_calif.html
 
Why do they say "safety equipment" instead of "seat belts"?
 
Clearly a mass-murder suicide, and easily preventable had authorities sought a warrant and arrested them last Friday when they refused to open their door.

Appears they had no business having control over any of those kids, but got continual passes on abuse charges due to being lesbians.

That's more murders than most school shootings.

Do we ban 2003 GMC's, all motorized vehicles, lesbianism, child welfare investigators for triggering them...? :dunno:

Maybe Barfo knows?
 
MARIS61 said:
but got continual passes on abuse charges due to being lesbians.
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MARIS61 said:
lesbianism
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What's up with you? You have been really going out of your way to say hateful things lately.

Lot's of fucked up parents move often to stay one step ahead of children's services, it has nothing to do with them being lesbians.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
What's up with you? You have been really going out of your way to say hateful things lately.

Lots of fucked up parents move often to stay one step ahead of children's services, it has nothing to do with them being lesbians.
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Not what I said at all.

I have no problem with anyone's choice of sexual orientation, and there are many gays and pansexuals among my closest friends and in my family.

I have a problem with authorities treating them differently, as the only way our laws and rights work is if Justice is blind. They even made a statue to emphasize it.

Any "white-trash" parents with similar charges would have lost the children and be doing hard time, but 7 years of looking the other way caused these murders.

As in Parkland, the blood of children is on the hands of government failing to carry out the very basic duties they are paid to do.
 
MARIS61 said:
I have a problem with authorities treating them differently, as the only way our laws and rights work is if Justice is blind. They even made a statue to emphasize it.
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There has not been enough information reported by the media to jump to such a conclusion. You have no proof that what you're accusing children's services of is true.

There is no rule or law that allows lesbians to get away with being bad parents compared to straight parents.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
There has not been enough information reported by the media to jump to such a conclusion.

1. You have no proof that what you're accusing children's services of is true.
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1. Does nobody read the articles they post?

A Clark County deputy accompanied Cowlitz County Child Protective Services to the Hart family's home Friday but nobody answered the door, Sgt. Brent Waddell, a Clark County Sheriff's Office spokesman, told The Oregonian/OregonLive on Wednesday.

The family and its SUV were gone the next day, Bruce DeKalb said.

Norah West, a spokeswoman for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, on Wednesday said the agency attempted to contact the family three times after receiving reports of abuse or neglect but was unsuccessful.

"Knock-knock, anybody home? Guess they don't want to surrender, we'll try again tomorrow."

"They're just child abusers, so we're powerless to arrest them if they don't want to open the door." :dunno:

SlyPokerDog said:
2. There is no rule or law that allows lesbians to get away with being bad parents compared to straight parents.
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2. Exactly. There is no rule or law that allows illegal aliens to get away with rape and murder compared to legal citizens either.

And yet, in both cases, due to political PC by the far left, people have been murdered en masse due to shielding and coddling by authorities of heinous criminals identified as Democratic supporters.
 
MARIS61 said:
Clearly a mass-murder suicide, and easily preventable had authorities sought a warrant and arrested them last Friday when they refused to open their door.

Appears they had no business having control over any of those kids, but got continual passes on abuse charges due to being lesbians.

That's more murders than most school shootings.

Do we ban 2003 GMC's, all motorized vehicles, lesbianism, child welfare investigators for triggering them...? :dunno:

Maybe Barfo knows?
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I know you are leaping to conclusions. You don't know that going over the cliff was intentional. You don't have any data that shows that they were treated any differently by authorities than anyone else in a similar situation.

barfo
 
MARIS61 said:
1. Does nobody read the articles they post?

A Clark County deputy accompanied Cowlitz County Child Protective Services to the Hart family's home Friday but nobody answered the door, Sgt. Brent Waddell, a Clark County Sheriff's Office spokesman, told The Oregonian/OregonLive on Wednesday.

The family and its SUV were gone the next day, Bruce DeKalb said.

Norah West, a spokeswoman for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, on Wednesday said the agency attempted to contact the family three times after receiving reports of abuse or neglect but was unsuccessful.

"Knock-knock, anybody home? Guess they don't want to surrender, we'll try again tomorrow."

"They're just child abusers, so we're powerless to arrest them if they don't want to open the door." :dunno:
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Yes, I read that article. What does that have to do with them being lesbians?
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Yes, I read that article. What does that have to do with them being lesbians?
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some folks assume most lesbians are probably democrats and liberals and some folks have a thing for real men around here. just guessing...can't figure out if they want the cops to invade their home or the govt to not invade their home....hard to sort through
 
MARIS61 said:
1. Does nobody read the articles they post?

A Clark County deputy accompanied Cowlitz County Child Protective Services to the Hart family's home Friday but nobody answered the door, Sgt. Brent Waddell, a Clark County Sheriff's Office spokesman, told The Oregonian/OregonLive on Wednesday.

The family and its SUV were gone the next day, Bruce DeKalb said.

Norah West, a spokeswoman for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, on Wednesday said the agency attempted to contact the family three times after receiving reports of abuse or neglect but was unsuccessful.

"Knock-knock, anybody home? Guess they don't want to surrender, we'll try again tomorrow."

"They're just child abusers, so we're powerless to arrest them if they don't want to open the door." :dunno:



2. Exactly. There is no rule or law that allows illegal aliens to get away with rape and murder compared to legal citizens either.

And yet, in both cases, due to political PC by the far left, people have been murdered en masse due to shielding and coddling by authorities of heinous criminals identified as Democratic supporters.
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You're so full of shit...
 
If I had to guess, those tracks are probably from them slamming their breaks on.
 
I can't imagine what would bring a person to do this...no matter how shitty life gets, the children are robbed of life...really baffles me.
 
There's no way that's intentional. The tracks go all the way over the edge. That, to me, says they tried to slam their breaks on but it was too late.

If you head towards a cliff and you gun it, you don't drag your tires over the edge. You would sail out because momentum would carry you. They wouldn't have landed where they did. To me, it looks like they tried to slam their breaks on but couldn't stop and skidded over the cliff.
 
Natebishop3 said:
There's no way that's intentional. The tracks go all the way over the edge. That, to me, says they tried to slam their breaks on but it was too late.

If you head towards a cliff and you gun it, you don't drag your tires over the edge. You would sail out because momentum would carry you. They wouldn't have landed where they did. To me, it looks like they tried to slam their breaks on but couldn't stop and skidded over the cliff.
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I'm not sure. It was a Tahoe right? Limited slip rearend?

If they were sitting there looking out and someone floored it I think that might explain the tracks. Digs in at first and spins the tires the whole time so no real speed is gained. Then as it goes over it is spinning the rear tires that are still spinning and drag over the edge.

Intentional? Maybe
 
Natebishop3 said:
If I had to guess, those tracks are probably from them slamming their breaks on.
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Natebishop3 said:
There's no way that's intentional. The tracks go all the way over the edge. That, to me, says they tried to slam their breaks on but it was too late.

If you head towards a cliff and you gun it, you don't drag your tires over the edge. You would sail out because momentum would carry you. They wouldn't have landed where they did. To me, it looks like they tried to slam their breaks on but couldn't stop and skidded over the cliff.
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I don't know if we'll ever know but to my amatuer detectiving it looks like the dirt is more disturbed at the start of the tracks and less disturbed at the edge of the cliff. That looks more like someone punched the accelerator and the SUV spun the tires in the loose dirt and gained traction as it accelerated. Slamming breaks tends to push the dirt forward so the tracks would get deeper as it moves towards the edge of the cliff, not shallower.
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
I'm not sure. It was a Tahoe right? Limited slip rearend?

If they were sitting there looking out and someone floored it I think that might explain the tracks. Digs in at first and spins the tires the whole time so no real speed is gained. Then as it goes over it is spinning the rear tires that are still spinning and drag over the edge.

Intentional? Maybe
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Bastard! Beat me by two minutes.
 
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