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Katrina is gone -- and so are many kids (fate of more than 1,300 children remains unknown)
Charlotte Observer ^ | 12/11/05 | TINA SUSMAN

Posted on 12/11/2005 6:02:00 AM PST by Libloather

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...one of the most anguishing and challenging consequences of the flight from Katrina.

I'm still wondering where all the parolees went...

1 posted on 12/11/2005 6:02:04 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

They'll be found right next to the 20,000 dead bodies, alive and well.


2 posted on 12/11/2005 6:06:20 AM PST by TexasCajun
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What the hell is 'Hurricane Victim Rights'?


3 posted on 12/11/2005 6:07:41 AM PST by TexasCajun
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I do hope these kids are found alive and well.


4 posted on 12/11/2005 6:09:58 AM PST by rdb3 (I have named my greatest pain, and it's name is Leftism.)
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For the children, this is all very sad...rather like the lives they lead prior to the hurricane. I wonder if anyone is considering advising some of these "parents" to clean up their dog vomit lives, quit breeding like bunnies and develop a little sense of responsibilty to others rather than just thinking about satisfying their own "needs".


5 posted on 12/11/2005 6:09:58 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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A teenage sister living in Baton Rouge when Katrina hit called the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children several weeks after the Aug. 29 storm, saying she had not heard from them or from their mother, Nicole Williams.

She waited several weeks to start looking for them??? The way some of these kids behave, it wouldn't surprise me if the parent(s) didn't even look for them.

6 posted on 12/11/2005 6:16:03 AM PST by REPANDPROUDOFIT
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Holy cow, man. Have you no shame? You are talking about cute cuddly bunnies like they are some kind of mind numbed heathens.

I for one am shocked!
7 posted on 12/11/2005 6:19:17 AM PST by gathersnomoss
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What the hell is 'Hurricane Victim Rights'?

Gue$$ -


Viole Washington of New Orleans, face to camera, receives a hug from a supporter Njere Alghanee from Atlanta, Ga., in front of New Orleans City Hall, during a hurricane survivors march, Saturday Dec. 10, 2005 in New Orleans. Katrina survivors from New Orleans and the Gulf South and their supporters from around the U.S. assembled at the birthplace of Jazz, Congo Square and marched to the city hall to present a Declaration of the People . (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)

8 posted on 12/11/2005 6:20:27 AM PST by Libloather (God bless America - and the blue states, too...)
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I'll bet most are with their single mom and living the good welfare life in some other city. The "mom" just hasn't gotten around to looking for the rest of the family.


9 posted on 12/11/2005 6:21:22 AM PST by PeteB570 (Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
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Don't they actually mean NO victims rights???? You would think that Katrina was isolated right there in NOLA.
10 posted on 12/11/2005 6:21:23 AM PST by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, over there, We won't be back 'til it's over Over there.")
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I would suspect that these missing kids were on the welfare roles and that they never existed, just like the New Orleans cops that never existed. They are for the purpose of scamming taxpayers money.


11 posted on 12/11/2005 6:21:45 AM PST by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: gathersnomoss

"Holy cow, man. Have you no shame? You are talking about cute cuddly bunnies like they are some kind of mind numbed heathens."

In Greece we make a wonderful stew, "stifado", out of bunnies! :)


13 posted on 12/11/2005 6:22:50 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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I do hope these kids are found alive and well.

I hope so too. Do you think it might be that the kids left with the adults who were caring for them before Katrina and those adults haven't thought to check in about the kids? I'm thinking along the lines of kids who were being raised by say, a Grandma or an Aunt instead of living with their Mom?

I'm guessing there's not a national data base of kids who are in school where missing school age children could be found by cross checking names. Thinking out loud here...don't kids have to have a birth certificate and shot record when they either start school or change schools. Mine is 29 years old and it's been awhile since I dealt with changing schools and such.

I guess the receiving towns/cities didn't keep records of refugee families they helped. I sure hope these children are just misplaced instead of being victims of the storm.

14 posted on 12/11/2005 6:26:08 AM PST by Sally'sConcerns (Native Texan, now in SW Ok..)
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Just as important!

Where daddy?


15 posted on 12/11/2005 6:26:40 AM PST by TexasCajun
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Protesters feared they would receive federal funds to rebuild their homes.

Eh? They are worried that they will get money?

16 posted on 12/11/2005 6:28:22 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (When the First Amendment was written dueling was common and legal. Think about it.)
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BINGO!


17 posted on 12/11/2005 6:29:38 AM PST by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party)
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.....I'll bet most are with their single mom and living the good welfare life in some other city.....

My bet would be they're living on welfare with granma in some other city. The mom took the opportunity to shuck the kids while she had the chance.


18 posted on 12/11/2005 6:29:39 AM PST by bert (K.E. ; N.P . Chicken spit causes flu....... Fox News)
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To: caver

Exactly what I was thinking. I wouldn't be surprised if a substantial number are "phantom dependents."

Then there are situations like the one in the article, where an extended family had not resumed contact (if they ever had it) with all the members, but honestly, how "Missing" can children be if they've been with their mother the whole time?


19 posted on 12/11/2005 6:29:42 AM PST by Tax-chick ("You don't HAVE to be a fat pervert to speak out about eating too much and lack of morals." ~ LG)
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And she's busy goin to the clubs trying to build up that welfare blanket again...


20 posted on 12/11/2005 6:31:28 AM PST by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party)
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