Online community pushes renewed search for missing toddler

It wasn’t long after hearing the story of 2-year-old Sky
Metalwala disappearing after his mother claimed he was
left in the car in Bellevue, that JV wanted to help. So
she turned to an online community aimed at helping law
enforcement solve crimes, especially against kids.

She and thousands of others have traded tips and theories
on Websleuths.com in an effort
to find Sky.

She says the community includes experts from all walks of
life with tangible skills in forensic sciences, research
and other professions.

“It was directly as a result of the forum that the time
frame for when Sky actually went missing was narrowed
down,” she says of the volunteer crime fighters who
identified a calendar in some photos of the boy’s mother,
who remains a person of interest, but uncooperative in the
investigation.

JV and several others are also trying to pressure law
enforcement into increasing efforts to force Julia
Biryukova to cooperate with an online petition calling for her
arrest. And she questions why police haven’t arrested
her, even for abuse of her young daughter, who was
emaciated when she was removed from the woman’s custody
following Sky’s disappearance.

From the petition:
“On the very same day he went missing, she got a lawyer
and has since, not cooperated with the police’s request.
And (she) is not even looking for her child.”

They have never once went to the media and plead for his
return, Julia and her brother, Stan, both have active
Facebook accounts that they still use and don’t even have
his missing picture up. Julia’s account has one picture of
Sky, but there are tons (sic) of her daughter who she
favored,” reads the petition.

JV hopes the renewed pressure ultimately leads to
Biryukova’s arrest.

“Then she could be in jail where hopefully, she is less
comfortable. She might crack, she might talk, we might
figure out where this little boy is.”

In the meantime, she says she’s most concerned with
keeping Sky’s case front and center.

“We want to make sure that Sky’s name is still in the
news. He’s important to us even if he’s not important to
his mother.”