Beethovencould not hear it, and thismadehimverymorose, as the winter approachedherealized that hishearingwas nobetter, and that it was likely to get worse, and he might end up totallydeaf.
The FARC is widely dispersed and has a decentralized command so the group's leaders may not have realized they no longer had the boy or they may have thought they could quickly recover him.