{"id":163850,"date":"2025-11-28T07:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T07:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/163850\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T07:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T07:27:06","slug":"mother-of-missing-boy-benjamin-spot-14-pleads-for-him-to-return-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/163850\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of missing boy Benjamin Spot (14) pleads for him to return \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The mother of a 14-year-old boy missing from Navan, Co Meath, has made an emotional appeal for help finding him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Benjamin Spot was last seen on his bicycle in Market Square, heading towards Kentstown Road or the Ramparts area of Navan, at about 5.55pm on Wednesday, November 19th. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">His bicycle was found at the Ramparts the following day, prompting intensive searches of the nearby Boyne river. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The missing teen is described as being about 1.55 metres (5ft 1in) in height, with blond hair and blue eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Thursday his mother Renata Molnarova, speaking to The Irish Times from her home in Slovakia, said she did not believe Benjamin had caused himself any harm or had \u201cgone into the river.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cMy son is a bright boy, he is really smart and he has good friends,\u201d Ms Molnarova said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ms Molnarova, who is separated from Benjamin\u2019s father who lives in Navan, said she felt sure \u201csomebody is not talking\u201d about the teenager\u2019s whereabouts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She said she is convinced he is alive and possibly staying with somebody outside of the Navan area. She appealed for any of his friends who might have any information on where Benjamin is to come forward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She said if he had come to harm locally, \u201che would have been found in the last eight days\u201d. She said he would have liked to go to Dublin and she thinks he may have taken a bus to Blanchardstown. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cSomeone must have some camera [footage] of where he went,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ms Molnarova asked for shopkeepers and anybody with camera footage of the area on November 19th to examine it for clues as to where Benjamin might be going. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cNobody is going to be in any trouble. We all love Benjamin and we just want him back,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ms Molnarova is to travel to Ireland on Saturday to take part in the search for her son. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She appealed for anyone in contact with him, who sees the publicity of his disappearance, to convince him to make contact with his family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda<\/a> on Thursday renewed its appeal for anyone with information on Benjamin\u2019s whereabouts to contact Navan Garda station on 046 9036100, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mother of a 14-year-old boy missing from Navan, Co Meath, has made an emotional appeal for help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-163850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}