| Your daughter is eighteen years old now.
Like most kids that age, she is not ready to leave the nest, yet wanting more
freedom. It is Saturday evening, she has planned to stay
over night with her girlfriend and will be home by noon on Sunday to have dinner at a family
gathering at her grandmothers. Sunday at noon she has not returned, and you are angry at her
for being late. Dinner is eaten without her. You intend
to tell her about being more mature and responsible. You arrive home after the family gathering and place a phone call to your daughter's friend, and terror replaces your anger as you learn she never
arrived at her friends home. This is the story of a family's heartbreak, of anger at the Judicial
system, and a lovely young girl that never got the chance to become an adult and useful citizen
and corrupt officials who didn't care.
My Granddaughter was Missing
A child missing, is a nightmare
for any family to endure. My heart goes out to those who have missing loved ones. I pray for
their safe return. Most parents with teenage children know their habits, friends, and favorite
places to hang out or visit. if our child is of age to leave the nest and choose not to, our
heart and mind knows something is terribly wrong when they can not be located.
When we learned Christy had not arrived at her friends home, we started calling all
her friends. Mixed with our fear was hope that she was somewhere safe and denial that foul play
had befallen her. This was a small, rural community, but crime was not
Unheard of in this county. Christy had called me late Saturday afternoon. We
talked for over an hour. We made plans to meet on
Monday. Now Monday had arrived and I was still on the phone calling her friends, who by now were also
worried and placing calls to each other. All, it seemed, had last seen or spoken with her on Saturday. I advised
my daughter to go on to work. To sit at home would be
admitting the worse. Her third call to me from work she stated she was going to the police and demand
they talk to the boys who, she had learned, had given Christy a ride to her
friends. Thirty minutes later I received a call that Christy had been
found.
My worse nightmare had become a reality. |
