Update
Potomac Local spoke with the owner of community forum the Fairfax Underground, Cary Wiedemann, about T.J. Sadler’s disappearance.
According to Wiedemann, there may be reason to suspect foul play.
“If my mapping of online personas to real world identities is accurate, [Sadler] has been the perpetrator of harassment far more than the receiver. I have been trying to ban this individual from Fairfax Underground for years, going as far as deactivating dozens of accounts and banning hundreds of IP addresses. Due to the abusive nature of comments likely authored by this young man I had to take the nearly unprecedented step of banning entire neighborhoods of Verizon DSL users in the Nokesville area, as T.J. Sadler learned how to change his IP address…it’s worth nothing that this young man sparked the ire of countless individuals…I worry that this disappearance could be due to foul play, given how T.J’s online personas irked many,” said Wiedemann in an email.
Potomac Local has reached out to the Prince William County Police Department with the information given by Wiedemann in relation to this case.
“We are aware of the site and the postings. We still have no reason to believe that he left under any other circumstances other than his own accord,” said Officer Perok, public information officer for Prince William police.
Original post
It appears that Thomas James “T.J.” Sadler – a 14-year old Nokesville boy that went missing on June 3 – may have left home after being bullied online.
Lynn Sadler, a family nurse practitioner and T.J.’s mother, stated that she was struggling with her son’s disappearance.
“I’m not doing well. It’s just me mostly – there isn’t really any other family,” said Sadler.
Online harassment on community forum
According to Sadler, her son was severely bullied by anonymous individuals on a community forum site called the Fairfax Underground.
The harassment began after T.J. posted on the site back in December 2014. Commenters began posting personal information and records about T.J. and his mother, as well as photos.
“There’s been a lot of online harassment from my first ex-husband…he’s been posting pictures of me and my son – calling him homosexual…and then there was another individual who got on there with the screen name of ‘eesh’ and he’s also been terrorizing my son. They’ve posted all kinds of pictures of my face on pornography – my son’s face on pornography…calling my son gay. I presume this has what’s gotten to him all this time,” said Sadler.
Law enforcement unable to help
Sadler stated that she reached out to law enforcement for help with the online attacks, but was not successful.
“I’ve been to the police, I’ve been to the Commonwealth Attorney…no one’s done anything to protect my son from all of this. I’ve been harassed terribly too – I’ve even hired a private detective and they weren’t able to do anything because Cary – who owns the Fairfax Underground – won’t release any information about who’s doing these things,” Sadler commented.
Originally when T.J. was reported missing the Prince William police thought he had left on foot, but they later learned that he had taken his grandfather’s car and had left while his mother was at the hospital.
“I don’t know why [he left]. He’s been very sad and depressed. I’ve tried to do things to fix it…my father was in the hospital having a stroke at the time. I had talked to him on the phone and I asked him to do a couple of things to get ready for my dad to come home…and when I got home T.J. was nowhere to be found,” said Sadler.
The vehicle is a blue Ford pickup truck with the license tag ZMD-4856.
He is still missing
Sadler has pled on Facebook, and when she spoke with Potomac Local, for her son’s return.
“I’m so afraid that he’s not okay…I’m heartbroken. I’m destroyed. I can’t function. I don’t know how I’m going to face all of this,” said Sadler.
Officer Jon Perok from the Prince William police stated that T.J. Sadler is still missing as of this morning.
He is a white male, 6’5” and 220 pounds with collar length sandy brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a red and black striped t-shirt and blue jeans.
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