万花筒 2012-06-10&06-12 警方通过facebook找到迷路孩童父母

 police say a security guard in Springmaid Beach Resort found a five-year-old boy wandering on the pier¹ Thursday, looking for his family. Officers searched the beach for his parents couldn't find them and took the boy to a nearby precinct to get him to a cooler place where they could ask him some questions. And that's where police say a new investigated tool helped them out: Facebook.

Using what little information the boy gave them, detectives found what they thought was his stepmother's Facebook page.

And then by picture recognition, we were able to determine that yes, it was his famlily that we found.

So now they had his family's name but no hotel. That's when E911 dispatchers got involved. 

The child said he was staying in a big building so they called all the larger hotels in the area of the Springmaid area.

Finally, dozens of phone calls later and six hours after the boy was found, dispatchers tracked down his family at Compass Cove² resort, nine blocks away from Springmaid. Turns out the boy's father has recently remarried, the new family has 11 children. And the dad, 47-year-old Steven Steinmann of Kingsport Tennessee, told police he had just become aware his five year old was missing about ten minutes before police showed up.

Steinmann is charged with unlawful neglect of child. It's the kind of story that gives other parents nightmares.

1 pier   

n.码头；桥墩，桥柱；[建]窗间壁，支柱

参考例句：

• The pier of the bridge has been so badly damaged that experts worry it is unable to bear weight.这座桥的桥桩破损厉害，专家担心它已不能负重。
• The ship was making towards the pier.船正驶向码头。

2 cove   

n.小海湾，小峡谷

参考例句：

• The shore line is wooded,olive-green,a pristine cove.岸边一带林木蓊郁，嫩绿一片，好一个山外的小海湾。
• I saw two children were playing in a cove.我看到两个小孩正在一个小海湾里玩耍。