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Words of HOPE about Sean SIDI, from a Street Youth

Over the past 10 months since our son, Sean SIDI went missing from San Francisco on May 21, 2013, we have been blessed with the support of MANY -

Recently Lynn (Sean's mom) received an email from a street youth who was a former missing person, who we will call 'MM'. MM has lived in Golden Gate Park and is wise to the ways of the streets. She also has been on the look out for Sean (SIDI) - for some time now. MM is aware that Sean suffered a life threatening traumatic brain injury shortly before going missing, and may not be cognizant of who he is/we are.

 

THE email from MM said:

 

"I tried with a group to find Sean at GGP (Golden Gate Park). I was a missing youth for a few years and I know that a young person can be successful and healthy with his injuries. PLEASE DON'T GIVE UP HOPE."

 

Thank you MM for your letter of HOPE, AND for searching for Sean!! 

Lynn, Claude & Danielle SIDI

 

SOME COMMENTS POSTED ON www.facebook.com/findseansidi:

 

         Renee Callantine That's a wonderful photo. I was at the US District Court in San Jose yesterday and they have Sean's flyer prominently displayed on a stand next to the elevators. You are certainly doing the best you can possibly do to find him, and I pray that he comes home soon.
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FIND SEAN SIDI Really? Thank you SO much for letting us know Renee! Thank you also to the person(s) responsible for getting Sean's flier there! In part, HOPE comes from knowing that awareness of the search for Sean is still alive. Thanks to social media and most of all - to SO MANY COMPASSIONATE PEOPLE - we stand a chance of finding Sean. At minimum, I hope that the search for Sean brings awareness to the 2,000 people who go missing every day & how public awareness CAN make a difference to many who go missing. MANY missing (of which a good number are like Sean, that is, vulnerable and at high risk due to a cognitive medical condition) are found by alert, caring members of the public. In Hope, Lynn (Sean's mom

 

For more information about the search for brain injureed Sean Sidi, missing from San Francisco May 21, 2013, please see www.facebook.com/findseansidi orwww.seansidi.com. 

Sean is 19 yrs. old, Asian/White, 5'5" 120 lbs and slim build, dark brown hair & eyes, WEARS SILVER DENTAL BRACES, has dimples, and scar on right forehead from brain surgery. He has suffered a recent severe traumatic brain injury and may be disoriented and not know his name or prior life.

Photo of Sean with dad, Claude @ April 2012 at U of Colorado, several months before Sean's brain injury/accident in Nov 2012. Second photo of Sean & sister Danielle at U of Colorado Boulder. Sean LOVES to ski and was looking forward to getting in some skiing while attending U of Colorado (at Boulder). Sean went missing from San Francisco, CA May 2013. 

We have boxes and boxes of Sean's fliers we would like to distribute.   We will gladly mail a packet of Sean’s missing person flier to you ANYWHERE IN THE U.S. Please email lynnkching@yahoo.com with your mailing address, or send a message on FB to have a packet of Sean's fliers mailed to you.

 

The Last Time That We Saw Sean SIDI

On, May 21, 2013, the day that Sean vanished, he was not feeling well. He asked me, ‘Why do I feel so bad?’ I gave Sean a big hug before leaving the house to drop his sister Danielle at school. But somehow I knew that something was very wrong, and returned home to check on Sean, rather than continuing on to work. However, it was too late. Sean had already left the house when I arrived home. That was the last time that I saw Sean.

Almost 10 months have passed sinc...e Sean vanished from San Francisco, CA on May 21, 2013. While the trail has not gone completely cold, we have yet to receive 1 confirmed sighting of Sean. Our hearts ache so much for Sean. We try to maintain hope, but it is not easy as we know that Sean has not used his cell phone, bank card, email or FB account since he went missing. This is never a good sign. We are also acutely aware of Sean’s fragile physical and cognitive state – still in the early stages of recovering from a horrific accident that nearly killed him - just 6 months earlier.

We are doing our best to keep the search for Sean going, but this gets harder as time passes. We think that our ONLY hope of finding Sean, in time, is prayer, luck and the distribution and posting of Sean’s fliers – as far and wide - as possible.

We are thankful to those of you who are still posting Sean’s fliers & sharing our posts. Without you we would not be able to keep the search for Sean alive…We would be very grateful if you would share this post in hopes that someone will recognize Sean, and call us.

We have printed Sean’s fliers in BULK and would be happy to mail a packet of fliers to anyone, anywhere in the U.S., if you email lynnkching@yahoo.com with your address. You may also send a message on FB.

With Gratitude,

Lynn (& Claude) Sidi

see www.facebook.com/findseansidi or www.seansidi.com for more information about 19 year old Sean Sidi, who suffered a severe brain injury shortly before going missing from San Francisco, CA on May 21, 2013. Sean, age 19 is Asian/White; 5'5" 120 lbs, slim build, dk brown hair and eyes; wears silver dental braces, has dimples and scar on right forehead.

Picture of Sean (left) with good friend Nobuo Bravo.
Sean and Nobuo have been the best of friends since they were 6 months old.

 

POSTING FOR SEAN SIDI

THE POSTING OF MISSING PERSON FLIERS IS THE PRIMARY WAY MISSING PERSONS ARE LOCATED.   OUR ONLY CHANCE OF FINDING SEAN IS TO POST, POST & POST. 
 
ON MARCH 16, 2014, The FOCUS/3-Children organization will be leaving on a ROAD TRIP to distribute their MISSING CHILDREN BINDERS (in which SEAN is INCLUDED) TO POST OFFICES THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. THEY WILL ALSO BE posting Sean's and other missing children's flier's on COMMUNITY BOARDS throughout southern California. This is 1 of 5 annual trip planned in 2014 (see below). 

CLICK ON '14 PHOTOS' TO SEE SEAN'S FLIER IN THE BINDER. 

THANK YOU FOCUS/3-Children organization for HELPING US RAISE AWARENESS OF THE SEARCH FOR OUR BELOVED SEAN, AND ALL THE OTHER MISSING CHILDREN BY DISTRIBUTING THE BINDERS TO POST OFFICES & POSTING THE FLIERS ON COMMUNITY BOARDS...FAR & WIDE. 

WE CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR ALL THAT YOU DO!!!

For more information about the search for critically injured Sean SIDI, age 19, missing from San Francisco, CA on May 21, 2013, see www.seansidi.com or www.facebook.com/findseansidi.

If you would like to help POST Sean's missing person fliers anywhere in the U.S., please email lynnkching@yahoo.com with your mailing address and we will mail a packet of fliers to you. 

 

 

 

SO. CAL ADVOCATES FOR THE MISSING HELP IN THE SEARCH FOR SEAN SIDI in SAN DIEGO

IT WILL TAKE A VILLAGE TO LOCATE SEAN.  

Thank you So. Cal Advocates for the Missing for spreading the word about the search for Sean SIDI, in San DIEGO!!   Time is short for Sean, and given his condition - Sean could be ANYWHERE. We are desperately hoping someone will SEE Sean (very likely among the HOMELESS) and CALL US.....It is our most fervent HOPE...POSSIBLE ONLY WITH HELP FROM EVERYONE...LOOKING, CARING, SHARING, POSTING & PRAYING so that Sean may COME HOME TO US, soon...
Please Help us Spread the Word, Sean could be anywhere !!!!
 
See www.facebook.com/findseansidi or www.seansidi.com for more information about the desperate search for critically injured Sean SIDI, age 19, missing from San Francisco, CA May 21,2013

HOW WE FAILED SEAN SIDI


There are no words to express the sense of loss, devastation and agony that torment us every second of each day, since our son Sean (SIDI) vanished from San Francisco, CA on May 21, 2013. 

For the rest of our lives, we will live with the guilt of knowing that we failed to protect and locate Sean, when he went missing (on May 21, 2013) and needed us the most. We know that hundreds would have rallied instantly to help us find Sean had there been a way to communicate the call for help to everyone that day. 

BUT THE SYSTEM FAILED US, AND WE FAILED SEAN. 

In California (unlike some other states whose silver alert includes cognitively impaired young adults), there is NO equivalent of an amber or silver alert for citizens to be on the lookout for a young adult with a serious medical condition. 

Instead, one is left to do the best they can - on their own. 

It took us 2 days to get media's help. To make matters worse, police erroneously pinged Sean’s phone to a wrong location. By the time police correctly pinged Sean’s phone to the eastern end of Golden Gate Park, almost 10 DAYS after Sean went missing, it was TOO LATE. For the most crucial hours and days after Sean vanished on May 21, 2013 – he was left to fend on his own, ill and in the early stages of recovering from a critical brain injury, (very likely) with no memory of us, wandering - lost and cold. Sean has now been gone for over 8 months. 

We will continue to search for Sean until the end. However we are under no illusions as to the possible consequences of our failure to locate Sean, soon after he vanished on May 21, 2013. 

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See www.facebook.com/findseansidi or www.seansidi.com for more information on the desperate search for critically injured Sean SIDI, age 19, missing from San Francisco May 21, 2013. If you would like to post/distribute Sean’s missing person fliers (anywhere in the U.S.) please email lynnkching@yahoo.com to have fliers mailed to you. 

Sean is 19 yrs., is asian/white; 5'5" 120 lbs slim build; wears silver dental braces; right eye droops slightly; bump on right forehead from brain surgery; has dimples. 

Photos of Sean after 2 brain operations - several months before going missing on May 21, 2013.

 

SEAN SIDI FLIERS CONTINUE TO GENERATE TIPS

Thanks to all of YOU posting in MARIN, someone called in a tip from Novato yesterday after seeing Sean’s flier posted at Safeway.  The person who called it in provided very detailed information, which allowed us to locate “Sean”. Unfortunately, it was not Sean.   While we were disappointed, we were glad that we were able to confirm this sighting.

In total, 3 tips were called in over the past 10 days: 2 from Novato and 1 in San Francisco THANKS to so many of you posting and reposting.  In truth, the tips are following the fliers. 

We are trying our utmost to get fliers posted in EVERY city in California and beyond.   You can make a big difference in our search for Sean if you can help us post 1 or 2 fliers near you (and re-post the fliers until Sean is found).

If you are willing to post and/or distribute Sean’s fliers (ANYWHERE in the U.S), please email lynnkching@yahoo.com.

For more information about the search for brain injured Sean SIDI, age 19, missing from San Francisco, CA May 21, 2013, see www.seansidi.com or www.facebook.com/findseansidi.  Sean, age 19, is Asian/White; 5’5” 120 lbs and slim build; dark brown eyes; dark brown wavy hair (AFRO if untrimmed); wears SILVER DENTAL BRACES; BUMP on RIGHT FOREHEAD from brain surgery; RIGHT EYE droops slightly.  Sean may seem lost or confused.  

Picture below of Sean Sidi (April 2012) and sister Danielle at U of Colorado - Boulder where Sean accepted a seat.

  

 

A Picture of SEAN SIDI is worth a 1,000 words...


Thanks to fliers being posted by all of you, tips continue to be called in. Two tips were called in over the last 3 days. 1 tip was called in from Novato and 1 from San Francisco.   In both cases, the caller thought the person they saw resembled Sean - but was not sure. (THANK YOU to those who called in the tips!!) 

WE DESPERATELY NEED A CONFIRMED SIGHTING OF SEAN.

IF YOU THINK THAT SOMEONE RESEMBLES SEAN, PLEASE TAKE A PICTURE WITH YOUR CELL PHONE. TEXT THE PICTURE TO 415.713.5913 or email lynnkching@yahoo.com. NOTE THE LOCATION, DATE AND EXACT TIME OF THE SEAN SIGHTING. PLEASE CALL ALL TIPS IN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. 

MANY PEOPLE HAVE TOLD ME THEY KEEP A PICTURE OF SEAN'S FLIER AND STORE IT IN THEIR CELL PHONE FOR REFERENCE. 

We know that it is NOT easy to recognize Sean, and that some of you have gone to extreme lengths to help us find Sean. One person stopped his car in the middle of traffic, before the on- ramp (in SF) to the freeway, blocked traffic, and ran across several lanes of traffic, when he thought he saw "SEAN". Upon catching up with "SEAN" and taking a closer look, he realized that he was mistaken. By that time a police officer was running towards him. Fortunately, for him - when explaining why he had stopped his car in the middle of traffic - the POLICE recognized the name (Missing) Sean SIDI, and let him go with a stern warning! 

We do not have many post-injury photos of Sean, but have posted as many as we have. Below is a description of SEAN SIDI, missing from San Francisco, CA May 21, 2013: 

Sean is 19 yrs old, Asian/White 5'5", 120 lbs slim build;
dark brown eyes; dark brown WAVY hair (AFRO if untrimmed);
BUMP on right forehead from brain surgery;
wears SILVER DENTAL BRACES;
RIGHT eye droops slightly;
has DIMPLES. 

For more information about brain injured Sean Sidi, age 19 who vanished from San Francisco May 21, 2013, see www.seansidi.com or www.facebook.com/findseansidi