LEESBURG – Trenton Duckett, who was 2 when he disappeared while in his mother’s care in 2006, was remembered Tuesday in an annual candlelight vigil.
“It’s all about keeping his name out there,” said his father, Joshua.
The child’s mother, Melinda Duckett, called police on Aug. 27 of that year to say that someone had cut the screen on his bedroom window and abducted him. But she gave no clear answers to pointed questions and after giving a TV interview she shot herself at her grandparents’ home.
He would be 20 now, if he is alive.
“He wouldn’t know if he had been abducted,” his grandmother, Carla Fort said at the vigil in front of City Hall.
Fort and Duckett still hold out hope that he is alive.
“I believe so until someone can show me evidence otherwise,” Duckett said.