How Could You? Hall of Shame-T.J. and Nate Frey-Child Deaths
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From Prescott, Iowa, adoptees T.J. Frey, 11, and Nate Frey, 9, “had been playing behind their family’s house in Prescott, southwest Iowa on Saturday afternoon but failed to return home.
Family members launched a search and discovered the boys’ belongings near to a hole in the ice around 20 yards from shore. Their parents, Tom and Leisa Frey, immediately alerted authorities.
Emergency crews, including a helicopter and dive team, arrived on the scene within minutes.
Creston Fire Department officials wearing ice suits entered the pond and found one of the boys right away, around one foot under water near to the hole, the Des Moines Register reported.
They found the other body about 20 minutes later.
Both of the boys were taken to hospital by helicopter, but they were pronounced dead.
Authorities said they do not know what the boys – who were described as inseparable – were doing on the ice, but suspect they were simply playing.
‘It was a beautiful day,’ Corning Fire Chief and Adams County Emergency Management Director Donnie Willett said. ‘They were out exploring.’
Their parents have four of their own children and adopted a baby boy several years ago, friends told KCCI. They later adopted the baby’s two brother – T.J. and Nate – to keep them together.
‘It was a loving and supportive family,’ John Walsh, the principal at St. Malachy School in Creston, where the boys were students. ‘They had a good home. Lots of love.’
Walsh added that the boys, who were always together, were good students. T.J. played the trumpet, Nate played the saxophone and their teachers said they were both good readers.
Grief counselors were at the school on Monday to speak with the boys’ classmates.
On Saturday temperatures reached 46 degrees, which was unusually warm, the Register reported.
Iowa Department of Natural Resources officials added that ice is inherently unsafe.
‘We never say there’s such a thing as safe ice, because ice thickness varies on bodies of water,’ DNR spokesman Mick Klemesrud said. ‘Never trust ice.’
The boys will be remembered at a funeral service on Saturday at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Creston.”
[Daily Mail 12/3/13 by Lydia Warren]
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I don’t understand why this made the hall of shame. It looks to have been an accident. The type that could happen to any family. At that age, I was regularly playing in the woods and creek near our neighborhood. I was often acres from home. I don’t see any indication that the adoptive parents did anything to contribute to this. So can you help me understand why they made this list? There isn’t any evidence of abuse or neglect in the article.
The hall of shame also contains accidents and other untimely deaths.
I am the mother of T.J. and Nathan. I just want to say that maybe I Cary many resentments toward the Frey’s for their lack of supervision over my children, in my heart I do believe it was an accident. I love my children more than some think and not a day has went by since the day they were taken from me, that I haven’t thought about them. I just ask that people not judge the Frey’s harshly. Thank you
Hi Maxine my name is Corey Frey if you are telling the truth then I am your son my name is Corey Frey the biological brother of T.J. and Nate so are you my biological mother?
Hello Corey… I’m just seeing this for the very first time. Yes. I am your biological mom sweetheart. 😢🧡 I have missed you every single day for so long and all I ever wanted was a chance to tell you that I LOVE YOU and I’m so sorry for everything you’ve been through. I never meant to let any of this happen. And I mean it, from the bottom of my heart! I think about you and your brothers EVERY SINGLE DAY. Everybody misses you so much. I would love to talk to you about everything sometime and I hope we can, whenever you’re ready. You can call me anytime at 913-603-2451 or you can email me at sugarbearburton@gmail.com and I’m also on Facebook This is the link https://www.facebook.com/sugarbearburton I really hope I hear from you Corey 💛🧡❤️ Please reach out to me .
Love
Your Biological Mom,
Maxine Burton
Corey,
Please find me? If you don’t want to I understand, but I promise you I will always try to find you. I love you with all of my heart son. I promise.
Love always
Your biological mom
Maxine