Missing and Murdered Children

According to the NCMEC the Amber Alert has been cancelled and Jackie has been located safe.

A Michigan Amber Alert was issued today for 13-year-old Jackie Dewayne Taylor of Highland Park. He was last seen on Monday afternoon walking away from 20101 Yacama Drive. It is reported he has severe mental and physical disabilities.¹

Jackie is a black male with black hair and brown eyes. He is 5′0″ tall and weighs 100 lbs. His top front tooth is missing. Jackie has a scar on his left wrist. Continue reading

1. ’Amber Alert Issued for 13-year-old Boy,’ ClickonDetroit.com,January 29, 2008, http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/15167281/detail.html. [↩]

Updates on Gage & Hannah: January 22, 2008
Updates on Chioma Gray: January 22, 2008

First I want to say that I am not first blogger to mention the disparity of news coverage of missing children cases. I wonder why some missing children receive so much coverage by the media when other children receive little or no news coverage. One population who usually receives little to no news coverage are the endangered runaways. It does not seem to matter whether they are 12 or 17 years of age; as long as they are considered runaways the media really as a general rule does not cover such stories even when those runaways are believed to be with adults.

Having said all of that, I am really surprised to see how a story about two runaways from Michigan is being covered by the media - more so - the spin they are putting on the story. The runaways are 15-year-old Gage Petherbridge and 13-year-old Hannah McConnell from Vienna Township, MI.

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