Giovanni Colon-Gonzalez, 5 Missing 8/15/08 MA-PR

Father of missing Lynn boy offers no clues

(NECN: Brad Puffer, Lynn, Mass.) - The father of a missing five-year-old boy from Lynn, Massachusetts was back in court today on child endangerment charges, but he's still not talking.

36-year-old Ernesto Gonzalez appeared in Lynn District Court for the first time since his arrest on child endangerment charges three months ago. But, this brief and typical pre-trial hearing offered no further clues to the location of his five-year-old son Giovanni.

"We are asking the public's help in giving us any tip or nay information they have about his case to help find this little boy," said Steve O'Connell of the Essex DA's office. Daisy Colon, Giovanni's mother, sat in the front row. She has only talked to Ernesto once since his arrest.

Colon says she dropped her son off at his apartment for a weekend visit in august, but Giovanni was gone when she returned to pick him up. There has been no sign of him since.

"This case has taken us from Lynn to Lawrence to Puerto Rico with no sign of him yet, but we are not going to give up."

Investigators have traveled also to Florida, believing he may have been taken there. They have searched a nearby pond with divers and several areas with dogs - all looking for clues to what happened.

While many leads have now dried up, the district attorneys office still believes someone holds the clue that could break this case.

"Even if you saw Ernesto that weekend without Giovanni please tell us when and where that was we will follow every lead we get and we will spare no expense and we will spare no manpower in order to try and bring this little boy home."

Coutersy of necn.com.

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