SKY METALWALA - 2 yo/Male - Bellevue/ Spokane WA

BELLEVUE—
Bellevue police are searching for a two-year old boy who went missing Sunday morning on the 2400 block of 112th Avenue NE.

The boy's mother ran out of gas at that location and she left her
two-year-old in the car while she walked to get help — she took her four-year-old son with her.





When the mother and four-year-old returned to the car approximately an hour later, the boy was gone.

"Approximately an hour later she returned to the vehicle and the baby
was gone," police said in a statement, CNN reported. The boy was reported missing at 9:50 a.m.

The child, Sky Metalwala, is of Indian and Caucasian descent, with
brown eyes, dark buzz-cut hair, a dark green hooded sweatshirt and blue
and gray striped Carter pants. The picture above is what he was wearing when last seen.

As of 5:45 p.m. Sunday, the mother was still talking to detectives. The four-year old boy was back with family.

About 50 people, including police with tracking dogs, fanned out
around the area Sunday to try to find the boy, said Carla Iafrate, a spokeswoman for Bellevue police told CNN.

Iafrate said the parents of the boy are cooperating.

Police have cleared the scene and the search has been called off for the evening.

Anyone who sees a child matching this description is asked to call 911 immediately.
http://www.myfoxspokane.com/news/kcpq-bellevue-police-seek-missing-twoyear-old-boy-20111106,0,2630626.story

Here's a Satellite view of where the Mother allegedly ran out of gas.


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Why in such an area would you:
a) Leave a child behind
b) Take an hour to get assistance

Why in the world would a mother leave a baby by itself in a car and be gone for an hour??? Why didn't she take both kids with her. If I was going to walk more than 5 feet from my car (as in using a gas pump at a gas station) I would take all my children with me.

My first thought would be a good samaritan saw the baby crying in the car and got it out, but they should have called police. Hopefully the baby will be found, but shame on the mother for leaving it alone for an hour.

I posted at the same time as you Tom. I totally agree with your questions. Hope the baby is found but she should have never left it alone in the first place.

Initially when I posted the story I would have figured that they were in the middle of a desolate area. When I Google mapped it there are all kinds of surrounding properties including several parks that must have had all kinds of traffic at this time of the day.
There will be more on this as I do not think that Sky would have had the ability to get out of the car seat by himself and manage to get out the door.
That's another thing that's fishy. Why would the Mother have taken a picture this morning? Supposedly that's what we are looking at.

TomTerrific0420 wrote:Here's a Satellite view of where the Mother allegedly ran out of gas.


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Why in such an area would you:
a) Leave a child behind
b) Take an hour to get assistance

Very fishy!

Bellevue police search for missing 2-year-old boy


Police and search dogs fanned out in a wooded area of Bellevue on
Sunday, looking for a 2-year-old boy after the child's mother discovered
him missing from a car parked near the 2600 block of 112th Avenue N.E.


The parking lot of nearby Bellevue Montessori School, in a part of
Bellevue called Northtowne near I-405 and Highway 520, filled with
emergency vehicles as the search continued into the afternoon and then
into the chilly evening. Officers suspended the search around 6 p.m. and
had no immediate plans to continue in the morning.


"King County felt like they had done a very thorough search of a
pretty wide area for the boy and were confident that he wasn't there,"
said Officer Carla Iafrate, spokeswoman for the Bellevue Police
Department.


The search began after Bellevue police responded at 9:50 a.m. to a
call from a woman who said she had run out of gas and left the child,
Sky Metalwala, buckled into a car seat while she and her 4-year-old
walked about a mile to a Chevron gas station.
There, police said, the mother called a friend. The mother told
police the friend picked her up as she was walking back to her 4-door
silver Acura, but when they reached the car, the boy was no longer
there. The mother told police the car was not locked.


There was no sign of forced entry, police said.


"We don't know much, other than that the child is still missing,"
Iafrate said. "I don't know if the child got out on his own. We don't
have very much information."


Police did not find a gas can at the car, Iafrate said.


The child has brown eyes and dark buzz-cut hair and was wearing a dark-green hooded sweatshirt and blue and gray striped pants.


Detectives were working into the evening with the mother, who is from
Redmond, Iafrate said. The father, who lives in Kirkland, had also been
contacted.


About 50 emergency responders and King County Search & Rescue
crews were still searching the area as darkness and temperatures fell
Sunday evening.


"You have to be very meticulous," Iafrate said.


After police received the 911 call, they initiated reverse emergency
calls to the surrounding neighborhood to alert residents to be on the
lookout for a child. Iafrate said police have not issued an Amber Alert
because they don't know yet if the child has been taken.


"At this point we're just treating it as a missing child," Iafrate said. "We don't know anything more yet."


Anyone with information about the child's whereabouts is asked to call 911.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016707302_missingchild07m.html

I am in total shock - leave a small child while you take the older one and be gone for an hour???? No way - something hinky here.

The FBI has joined the search for a 2-year-old Washington state boy who
was last seen by his mother inside a parked car.

Sky Metalwala was reported missing Sunday morning after his mother
discovered him missing from her car in Bellevue, Wash.

The child's mother told police that she had
run out of gas and left the boy buckled into his car seat while she and
her 4-year-old daughter walked to a Chevron gas station, about a mile away.

When the pair returned to the silver Acura approximately an hour later,
the 2-year-old boy was gone, Fox affiliate KCPQ-TV reports.

The woman reportedly told police that the car was not locked.

The toddler is of Indian and Caucasian descent, with brown eyes and dark hair,
according to police. He was reportedly last seen wearing a
dark green hooded sweatshirt and blue and gray-striped pants.

His mother was interviewed by detectives
Sunday night, while the 4-year-old girl was being looked after by family
members, according to the station.

About 50 people, including police with
tracking dogs, fanned out around the area Sunday in their search for the
child, Bellevue police spokeswoman Carla Iafrate told the station.

Iafrate said the boy's parents were cooperating.

Anyone with information on the boy's whereabouts is being urged to call 911.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/07/fbi-joins-search-for-missing-2-year-old-washington-boy/

Yep, I believe her story--NOT!! Another damn not-mom. There is not one valid reason she can give for taking one child and leaving the other--she set this poor baby up to be taken or, she did it herself. Hang the bitch.

Authorities say the parents of a missing 2-year-old Bellevue boy are in a custody fight.
Julia Biryukova
(beer-yoo-KOH'-vah) says Sky Metalwala vanished when she left him alone
in a car Sunday when it stalled and she left with her 4-year-old
daughter to get gas.

Authorities say Biryukova
and Solomon Metalwala separated in March 2010 amid back & forth
protective orders and allegations of abuse and psychiatric problems.

An attorney for Metalwala
says that case worker had only interviewed the mother and that Child
Protective Services later conducted an investigation that cleared
Metalwala.

On Monday, investigators searched a 20-block area and even went door to door but found no sign of the boy.

The Bellevue Police Department said both parents were cooperating.
http://www.kndo.com/story/15982249/news-minute-parents-of-missing-wash-boy-had-been-cited-before

BELLEVUE, Wash. — The father of a missing Washington state toddler
said Monday that his estranged wife's story about the case - that the
boy disappeared from an unlocked car after she walked away for an hour
to go get gas - doesn't add up.

"I don't understand why she would leave a little baby in the car,"
Solomon Metalwala told reporters at his lawyer's office. "The whole
story is puzzling."

Julia Biryukova told investigators that her car ran out of gas Sunday
morning in Bellevue, and that she left her 2-year-old son, Sky
Metalwala, inside while she and her 4-year-old daughter walked to a gas
station, police said. She said a friend picked her up at the gas
station, and when they got back to the car, the boy was gone.

Court documents revealed that both Biryukova and Metalwala had been
cited for reckless endangerment in 2009 after they acknowledged leaving
Sky, then 3 months old, in their Cadillac sport-utility vehicle in a
Target parking lot on a 27-degree day.

Documents also show that the couple had filed for protective orders
against each other, with Biryukova saying her husband beat her and the
children, and Metalwala saying she had mental health problems and
invented the allegations.

Last December, a social worker determined that there was a
"preponderance of evidence" that Metalwala had struck his daughter hard
enough to cause bruising, court records show. The social worker also
said Sky had troubling bruises, but because the boy could not talk, it
wasn't clear where he got them.

The disappearance came during a bitter custody dispute. Metalwala's
lawyer, Leslie Clay Terry III, said that a mandatory mediation session
last Tuesday produced an agreement that would have allowed his client
some visitation rights.

Investigators searched a 20-block area and even went door to door but
found no sign of him. The FBI, King County Sheriff's Office and a King
County helicopter were enlisted to help.

The Bellevue Police Department said both parents were cooperating,
and Biryukova had consented to have her vehicle and home in nearby
Redmond searched. Biryukova did not immediately return a call seeking
comment.

"We're looking at it from all angles, at this point," said Bellevue
Police Maj. Mike Johnson. "Missing person, abduction, foul play has not
been ruled out."

In December 2009, officers in Redmond cited Biryukova and her
husband, Solomon Metalwala, for reckless endangerment. A shopper who
heard the baby crying in the SUV called police, and a responding officer
reported that the car felt cold.

Paged inside the store, the couple said they had left the baby in the
car for 15 to 20 minutes because they didn't want to wake him up.
Surveillance video of the parking lot later proved it had actually been
55 minutes.

The case was dismissed early this year after the pair completed a
year of probation, 40 hours of community service and a 10-week parenting
class, said Ian Goodhew, a spokesman for the King County Prosecutor's
Office.

The couple had been together for 14 years. He was 21 and she was a
15-year-old high school sophomore when they began dating, according to
one of her court declarations.

Her mother, Nadia Biryukova, wrote in a court declaration that they
married in 2003 in her kitchen just before he was to be deported to
Pakistan.

The couple separated in March 2010, court records show. In June 2010,
the same month Metalwala filed for divorce, Biryukova, 30, filed for a
protection order on behalf of herself and their two children.

She said Metalwala, 36, had a severe anger problem, was verbally
abusive and that he had beat her for the first time on Christmas Day,
just weeks after the incident at the Target parking lot. The reason was
that she had allowed Sky to sleep later than expected, she said.

"He became furious like I have never seen him before, he grabbed me
by my hair (in front of our 3 1/2 year old daughter), dragged me into
our hallway, threw me down on the floor and then threw me against a
decorative column we have in the entrance of our home," Biryukova wrote.
"He continued to assault me with his feet - by kicking me and then he
took out his car keys and continued to scratch me in any area he could."

The abuse escalated after that, with Solomon telling her to go live on the street and work as a prostitute, she said.

"The most, most recent have been his threats to kill me if I say
anything against him or if in any way I proceed with action of seeking
custody of our two small children," Biryukova added. "I live in constant
fear for my life and my children's life. Please investigate and help
me!"

He responded that she had mental health problems and was
involuntarily committed to a mental clinic in 2010. But earlier this
year a social worker with state Child Protective Services reported that
caregivers found her to be in good mental health and an appropriate
caregiver for the children.

CPS received six referrals about the family from late 2009 to late 2010, state officials reported in court documents.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016712880_apusmissingbellevueboy6thldwritethru.html

Boy vanished amid parents' bitter divorce


The Sunday disappearance of 2-year-old Sky Elijah Metalwala came only
four days after his parents endured 11 hours of mediation aimed at
ending a bitter divorce in a compromise that awarded custody of the
couple's two young children to their mother but allowed visits with
their father.


Sky's mother, Julia Biryukova, said the toddler disappeared after she
left him alone in her unlocked car in Bellevue on Sunday morning after
she ran out of gas.


According to police, Biryukova said she walked with her 4-year-old
daughter to a Chevron station about a mile away. She called a friend who
picked her up before she returned to her car.


When they arrived at the silver Acura Integra more than an hour later, Sky was gone, police said.


Police said there was no sign of forced entry into the car nor was
there a gas can or any indication of car trouble. Police said the car
started right up.


An extensive search of the area near the 2600 block of 112th Avenue
Northeast, where the car had been parked, was suspended Sunday evening.
Police resumed the search Monday morning in the area surrounding
Biryukova's Redmond home, according to Bellevue police. The FBI also has
joined the search.


The boy's father, Solomon Metalwala, said police also searched his Kirkland home.


Officer Carla Iafrate, spokeswoman for the Bellevue Police Department, said both parents are cooperating in the investigation.
"No arrests have been made at this time," she said. "All
possibilities of what may have happened to the child are being
investigated."


She said there are still "many unanswered questions."


Investigators are asking anyone who may have traveled along 112th
Avenue Northeast, between Highway 520 and Northeast 24th Avenue
Northeast, from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Sunday to call Bellevue police at
425-577-5656.


The couple's 4-year-old daughter, Maile Metalwala, has been taken
into protective custody and placed in foster care, according to a
spokeswoman for the state's Child Protective Services.


Efforts to reach Biryukova, 30, and her attorney were unsuccessful.
Her younger brother, Stanley Biryukova, said she was crying frantically
when she called him Sunday afternoon and explained what had happened.


"I'm hoping they'll find the child," he said.


It wasn't the first time Sky had been left unattended in a car, according to court documents.


The child's parents were charged with reckless endangerment in 2009
after leaving Sky, then 3 months old, in their car while they shopped at
a Target store on a 27-degree day. Paged inside the store, the couple
said they had left the baby in the car for about 20 minutes because they
didn't want to wake him up, but surveillance video showed it was closer
to an hour.


Both took parenting classes and completed community service before
the case was dismissed in February of this year, court documents show.


Metalwala, 36, said Monday that the incident was a learning experience.
"I really made a mistake," he said during a news conference at his
attorney's Bellevue office. "And I learned a very valuable lesson."


Metalwala's family is from Pakistan, and Biryukova, who is Ukrainian,
immigrated with her family from Russia when she was 12, court records
say.


The two met at Bellevue High School when Biryukova was 15 and
Metalwala was 21, according to court records. She became a U.S. citizen
at age 19.


In a declaration made by Biryukova, the couple were married on Feb.
10, 2003, in the kitchen of Metalwala's family home in Kirkland because
he was facing deportation to Pakistan.


The couple began experiencing financial troubles around the time Sky
was born in September 2009. They were hounded by bill collectors and
faced foreclosure on a house and condominium, court records say.


Biryukova was committed to three mental-health facilities, the first
time on her 29th birthday in March 2010, according to court records. But
a psychologist's evaluation concluded three months later that she was
not psychotic and suggested she agreed to be committed only "under
spousal duress."


One psychologist who evaluated Biryukova wrote later that year that
although she was dealing with "a severe form of obsessive compulsive
disorder, I do not believe that interferes with her ability to be a
compassionate, effective parent to her children."


According to court documents, Metalwala filed for divorce on June 4,
2010, and the proceedings have been bitter, punctuated by accusations on
both sides. Both have filed for protective orders against each other,
and each has had custody of the two children at times.


Biryukova accused her husband of being controlling and physically and emotionally abusive.


"The most, most recent have been his threats to kill me if I say
anything against him or if in any way I proceed with action of seeking
custody of our two small children," Biryukova wrote in court documents
in June 2010. "I live in constant fear for my life and my children's
life."


Metalwala denies the allegations of abuse and says Biryukova invented them to spite him and manipulate the divorce proceedings.


He claimed in court documents that she is mentally unstable and has
obsessive compulsive disorder that prevents her from being able to keep
food in the house or allow the children to sleep in their beds.


Court records also show that Child Protective Services (CPS) had investigated the couple.
In one instance, Biryukova reported her husband had left bruises on
their daughter by striking her, and a social worker told the court there
was evidence to support the allegations. A full CPS investigation,
however, showed the complaint to be unfounded, according to Metalwala's
attorney, Leslie Clay Terry III.


Terry said the mandatory mediation in which the couple participated
last week was intended to bring a close to the bitter divorce. Both
parties had compromised, he said, and an agreement that granted custody
to Biryukova but allowed visitation with Metalwala was signed by both.


"On Friday, she called and said she'd felt pressured and wanted to void it," Terry said.


Metalwala said he is praying that his son simply is being hidden somewhere and that he is safe.


He has a message for whoever may have him.


"Please, sir or ma'am, if you have Sky, please bring him to the
police, fire department or the hospital. Thank you for taking care of
Sky this long, but please return him."


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016709944_missing08m.html

Oh brother...what a mess between the parents. It's he said, she said, but I'm almost sure that one of them arranged to have the baby taken away and hidden, most likely the mother. The father is asking why she would leave the baby alone so I don't think it was him. Who knows if there is child abuse involved, but her story doesn't add up and I think it's a shame to involve expensive searches if she arranged the baby's abduction.

Police suspect 'foul play' in disappearance of Bellevue boy

by KING 5 News
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:48 AM
Updated today at 9:01 AM

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Bellevue police say they suspect foul play in the disappearance of 2-year-old Bellevue boy Sky Metalwala.
"Given the limited amount of information we have, the fact that there's really no solid leads to follow up on in regard to where he might be. Absolutely, we suspect foul play," said Major Mike Johnson, Bellevue Police Department.
"Someone close to this family knows what happened to this child," he added.
Johnson said police have not received any new clues in the past 24 hours. They do have a second polygraph test scheduled with the missing boy's father, Solomon Metalwala, Tuesday morning. Meanwhile, the boy's mother, Julie Biryukova, has declined to take a polygraph test.
Two-year-old Sky hasn't been seen since Sunday morning. The toddler's mother said he disappeared when she left him in an unlocked car after she ran out of gas on a Bellevue road.
"We don't even know if he was in the car," Johnson said. He said it was "highly unlikely, but possible" the boy could have gotten out of the car by himself, but the information "just doesn't add up."
Police have not named Biryukova as a suspect, but investigators did search the Redmond apartment where Biryukova lives with Sky and her 4-year-old daughter, including the building's dumpsters, and were expanding the radius of the search at the residence.
Meanwhile, Biryukova's 4-year-old daughter is staying with another family in state custody.
Sky's father took a polygraph test Monday night that came back inconclusive. His lawyer said Solomon was too tired to give an accurate result and would take another test later to clear his name. Solomon Metalwala spoke publicly Monday night.
"I'm a dad. I'm going to be strong for my son, who's out there," said Solomon. "Please to return Sky to the police officers, to the fire department, to the hospitals."
Solomon Metalwala said he has not seen his son in nearly a year due to a custody dispute with his ex-wife, Julia Biryukova, Sky's mother.
Biryukova told police on Sunday morning she took her 4-year-old daughter with her and left Sky in the car in the 2400 block of 112th Ave N.E. When she came back about an hour later, she said Sky was gone. Investigators said the boy's car seat was still in the car and there were no signs of forced entry.
Search teams went door-to-door and combed an area roughly 20 city blocks long Sunday. Police suspended the search in the wooded residential neighborhood around 6 p.m., but continued to follow up on other leads, including questioning the mother at headquarters.
"Search and rescue is confident that the child is nowhere in this area," said Carla Iafrate, Bellevue police.
The North Towne Chevron, a little less than a mile from the scene, said the woman called a friend from the gas station to come get her.
Iafrate said at least one of the car doors was unlocked, and that the vehicle started when they tested it, but cautioned that that was possible for a car that has been sitting for some time.
Complicating matters is a prior incident at the Redmond Target store two years ago, where the parents left the same child, then just a baby, sleeping in his car seat as the two shopped. An onlooker called police. Sky was left alone for nearly an hour.
The boy's father admits it was a stupid mistake and can't imagine how his ex could have done it again.
“Why is Julia out here at 8:50 a.m., especially in Bellevue, she lives all the way in Redmond. She has done something. I don't know what she has done,” Solomon Metalwala said.
Bellevue police would not comment on whether the parents' background was pertinent to this case, but said they are keeping all scenarios on the table.
"Right now we don't know. We can only go off what the mother told us," said Iafrate. "But we're going to search beyond that, and since we can't find the child right here in this area, we're going to be asking other questions."
Police would like to hear from anyone that may have travelled along 112th Ave N.E., between SR 520 and NE 24th Ave N.E., Sunday morning between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m.
The missing boy is half Asian Indian and half Caucasian, 2-foot-2 and 39 pounds with brown eyes, a dark buzzcut hair and was last seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and black and aqua blue sweatpants and white socks.
The car is a silver, 1998 Acura Integra three-door coupe.
Anyone who saw these people or this vehicle on November 6 is asked to call (425) 452-2564 or email pdtipline@bellevuewa.gov

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