Well, this really sucks.
Yesterday, we covered the story of Timmothy Pitzen, the kid who was found after going missing back in May 2011. It was reported that a boy in Kentucky had said that he was Timmothy, having escaped from his captors at a nearby Red Roof Inn.
Tragically for James Pitzen, Timmothy’s father, and the rest of their family, the boy is actually not his long-lost son, and nor is he a boy.
Below from CNN:
Brian Michael Rini showed up Wednesday in a Kentucky neighborhood and said he was the boy, who had been held captive by two men for seven years, authorities said.
DNA tests done at an FBI lab showed the man is not Timmothy Pitzen, who would be 14 years old.
Not much is known about Rini [below], other than police in Kentucky have said he has been arrested in the past, though Newport Police Chief Thomas Collins didn’t specify where…
Brian Rini was released from an Ohio prison on March 7, according to the state department of corrections website. It says he served almost 14 months of an 18-month sentence for burglary and vandalism. The page notes he started a three-year parole period when he was released. Parolees are not allowed to leave the state without permission.
Rini is 23, so he was really taking a chance.
If you ask his brother, Jonathon Rini, this isn’t exactly out of character:
Jonathon used profanity when describing his brother to CNN and said Brian used his name in 2017 when stopped by the cops for a traffic violation. Jonathon found out when he received a letter notifying him his license had been suspended, according to a police report from the Ohio town of Norton. He told police it was his brother, who was in the Medina County jail.
“I don’t want to talk to him anymore,” Jonathon, 21, told CNN.
Brian is trash, and he clearly has zero empathy for Timmothy’s family, who have been forced to relive the terrible day when the then seven-year-old went missing.
From the 2:40 mark below, you’ll hear Kara Jacobs, Timmothy’s aunt, talking about how devastated the family is:
I hope they put Brian behind bars for a while, and he gets the help that he needs.
[source:cnn]
