Imagine a nine-year-old girl who went missing. She's not as photogenic as Madeleine McCann, but there was a modest amount of publicity. The place where she went missing isn't that far from where I live - within about twenty miles or so.
Why wasn't there a McCann-level of publicity? Well, I suspect part of the reason is that the family are chavs. The mother has loved several men, giving each of them a child or children (seven children by five fathers).
Still, there was a certain amount of press.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/a..._feature.shtml
The local community pulled together and went out to help police with the search. Many of them gave up their time and money to help, and several businesses put up large rewards.
The young lady, still nine-years of age, was found alive and well in the bottom of a divan bed at her stepfather's uncle's house. She went under a police protection order immediately.
The stepfather was promptly charged with possessing indecent photographs of children, but at least the child's safe, now, right?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/w...re/7337258.stm for the latest.
Her mother has been charged by the police with perverting the course of justice and child neglect. They're also investigating links between her and the fund raised to search for the child.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Matthews for some other details.
Damn, but that's getting worse and worse...
Rapscallion
Why wasn't there a McCann-level of publicity? Well, I suspect part of the reason is that the family are chavs. The mother has loved several men, giving each of them a child or children (seven children by five fathers).
Still, there was a certain amount of press.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/a..._feature.shtml
The local community pulled together and went out to help police with the search. Many of them gave up their time and money to help, and several businesses put up large rewards.
The young lady, still nine-years of age, was found alive and well in the bottom of a divan bed at her stepfather's uncle's house. She went under a police protection order immediately.
The stepfather was promptly charged with possessing indecent photographs of children, but at least the child's safe, now, right?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/w...re/7337258.stm for the latest.
Her mother has been charged by the police with perverting the course of justice and child neglect. They're also investigating links between her and the fund raised to search for the child.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Matthews for some other details.
Damn, but that's getting worse and worse...
Rapscallion
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