BOISE -- For many of you and your children, today was the first day of school -- an anxious, exciting beginning to a new year.?
But for two Boise fathers this was a day of profound sorrow.
For Marco Alcalde and Tony Principali this was a first -- not a first day of school, but the first day of school without their 7-year-old sons.
Both of their boys would be entering 2nd grade today, but each of their mother's allegedly abducted those children and fled the state or possibly even the country.? Federal arrest warrants are out for both women.
For Alcalde it happened 9 months ago. For Principali it happened less than two weeks ago.
They are strangers who share a unique bond.
After seeing the recent Amber Alert for missing Luca Principali, Alcalde reached out to the boy's father meeting with him and sharing what he could.
"It's really hard to explain the type of loss you feel when you have your child taken away from you. Every parent can imagine, but when it happens to you, it's just devastating," said Marco Alcalde. "I felt like if I could get to him or at least offer my hand to him it would be chance for him to feel that someone here in town who be able to really relate to him and accept his thoughts and his emotions and understand him."
Maxgian Alcalde would have started at Collister Elementary School in Boise today.
His father went without him wanting to make sure a spot would be saved in the event of his safe return.
Both of these apparent abductions are being actively investigated and anyone with information is asked to contact police immediately.
Police believe 7-year-old Luca Principali is in the company of his mother Katerina Principali.
They also believe Maxgian Alcalde was taken by his mother Maika Dunbar-Alcalde, who appears to have changed her name to Maika Sanchez-Dunbar.
