Summer Wells’ brother were removed from their home. This happened in July 27, 2021. According to Summer Wells’ dad, “it’s probably better for them” because false theories and speculation about what happened to the girl drove him to drink.
Summer Wells is the 5-year-old girl that went missing from their family home in June 2021, till now, no one knows her whereabouts.
Summer Wells’ father, Donald Wells confirmed in an interview with WJHL-TV that indeed, his sons were taken to a safer place by the child protective authorities.
“They come at me and said – either posing – said they had the inside scoop with TBI (Tennessee Bureau of Investigation) and that they knew I sold my daughter for drugs, and I flipped out. I flipped out,” Wells told podcast host Jennifer Youngblood. “I believed that stuff. Like an idiot, I believed it and I flipped out, started drinking, and everything else. And that’s why they took our kids.”
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Why were Summer Wells Brothers removed from the home?
Speaking in another interview with Kingsport Times-News, Wells noted that the Department of Children’s Services did not give any reason for taking the boys from him.
The Department of Children’s Services took this decision weeks after all efforts to find Summer Wells proved futile.
Although no reason was given by the Department of Children’s Services, it is believed that they wanted to keep the boys safe.
This is because, since the search for Summer Wells started, people have been trespassing into the home of the family. This could pose risk to the younger boys.
“Right now it’s not safe at my house,” Wells told the newspaper. “There’s too much going on and people are crazier than hell, and right now it’s just not safe at my house. There’s too much going on. Too many crazy people coming around trying to start stuff.”
“We’ve had a few people come in the middle of the night. We had one – I don’t think he’ll be coming back to our house anymore though,” he added.
How long will the Summer Wells Brothers be away?
The duration for which Summer Wells’ brothers would be away wasn’t given. However, a spokesperson for the Department of CHildren’s Services told Fox News that due to the ongoing investigations, they can not divulge any details.
Wells and his wife, Candus Bly, have both said they believe Summer Wells was taken from their 11-acre property along a rural road. Bly said she brought the girl inside from gardening and left her with her three brothers. They lost track of her within a few minutes and she hasn’t been seen since, she said.
Investigators say the circumstances surrounding her disappearance have yet to be determined – but they said they were looking into “all possibilities.”
Hawkins County Sheriff Ronnie Lawson told the newspaper Monday that social media was causing unsubstantiated rumors about the case to be taken as fact by some.
“There’s a lot of incorrect information, and a lot of advice coming from social media that’s hampering the investigation with stuff we’ve already done many times,” he said.
