- Throughout the police search for her missing child, Simon maintained that she hoped he would ultimately be found alive.
- In an interview with WTOC-TV, Simon said she wanted him located “happy and alive. We want him back in our arms, holding us. That’s what we want.”
- “We’re just hoping that he’s in somebody’s house and they’re feeding him and maybe they wanted a baby or couldn’t have a baby,” she told WTOC-TV. “Maybe they thought they were his savior. That’s our best hope at this point.”
