(About how the next woman will suffer because of this).
If you make her pay for the search, the next time someone is abducted the family will have to decide whether they want to pay for the police if it turns out to be a runaway. That would be a bad thing. We want people to call the police. We pay the police for this.
Those who volunteered to look for her have a right to ask her for an apology, but I think making people pay whenever the police or ambulance of firefighters get involved and it turns out to be a false alarm is just asking for trouble.
I would think differently if it seemed she had taken purposeful action to make them look for her (like that college girl who reported herself kidnapped and then hid for several days).
great point.
It is also funny that everyone has decided these 2 people are wealthy.His home is a small house probably worth less than $200,000 in a zip code with $2milliopn $ homes.I believe her step father is a police officer.He is the administrator of a medical practice.His father is a city court judge and small town lawyer.
Do we want the police to provide trinkets and first-class plane tickets to those who file false police reports as well? That behavior, as what happened in this case, will encourage more of these phony stories.
I would think differently if it seemed she had taken purposeful action to make them look for her (like that college girl who reported herself kidnapped and then hid for several days).
She wanted everybody to look for her. If she didn't, then why not simply leave a note, or make a phone call, saying she needed to go off and think alone for a while? She didn't even have to tell her fiance -- all she had to do was tell one person. And even when she eventually turned herself in, the first thing she did was tell police a phony story of being abducted. That's not exactly innocent behavior.
No. SHE has to pay, not the family. And it is no one's decision except the police on whether to search or not. The family is not directly involved in the decision.
This has no chilling effect one way or the other.