AMBER ALERT-KENNEWICK/RICHLAND WASHINGTON

KomoTV (ABC) ^ | 2/5/03

[HairOfTheDog]

RICHLAND - Benton County and Kennewick police have issued an Amber alert for a missing 5-year-old girl.

Police say she may have been abducted about 8 p.m. Tuesday from her home in Kennewick.

Police chief Marc Harden of Kennewick says the girl was playing in a bedroom, came out and asked her mother if she could go to the store with her grandmother's boyfriend.

The boyfriend returned and the mother asked where the daughter was. The chief says the boyfriend said the little girl was not with him.

Maynard says investigators have ruled out a custody dispute. They have searched the neighborhood without finding a trace of the girl.

Sofia Juarez is Hispanic with black hair and brown eyes. She was wearing blue overalls, a red shirt and white tennis shoes. She is missing four of her top front teeth.

More than 100 people are searching for the girl. It's her fifth birthday today.

Anyone with information should contact Kennewick Police at (509) 628-0303 or 800-841-7953.

[jra]

Are they more important?

If it were one of yours, it would be.

You're obviously someone who has never truly enjoyed an embrace with your own child.

God bless you, you sound like you need it.

[SouthernFreebird]

Flame away.

You ain't worth it....

[Maedhros]

Dudette. I'm not bothered.

My screed against Amber alerts was not directed at the frequency of posts about them on FR but against the frequency with which the authorities release them and the dubious nature of those releases. I post something similar every time I find an Amber alert thread. I guess I forgot the [/rant] tag.

In retrospect, I should have left the To: field blank. My diatribe was not aimed at you.

[mombonn]

I've said it before; I'll say it again: yawn.

How cold and unfeeling. May you never find yourself in need of an Amber Alert, and have someone else yawn in your face.

[Txslady]

There is nothing wrong with you posting an alert about a missing child.

I signed up to receive emails of missing children in my state and surrounding states. They also send emails stating updates - including those that were found because of the email alerts that were sent out.

Some people just don’t understand the importance of getting these children’s faces out there in case somebody has any information that can help in the recovery of them – before it is too late.

[HairOfTheDog]

Are you always a troll? - Or just when missing children threads are posted? I don't know how to frame my complaint.

[HairOfTheDog]

Frightened? What an odd question! No dear.

[Txslady]

What does this have to do with a missing child?

[mombonn]

Thankfully, I haven't encountered you in the past. I plan to keep it that way in the future.

sheesh

[Dianna]

"The grandmother's boyfriend...."

I also thought this was odd. What are the chances the child disappeared from her home, in the evening, at the very same time everyone apparently thought she'd gone to the store with grandma's boyfriend?

[Chad Fairbanks]

It's like the space shuttle - "This Child was doomed, and her parents knew it! She never should have been born in the first place! < insert foamy mouth/wild gesticulations here > "

[Spunky]

I live 300 miles away, but a poster on another thread asked me to post this for him as a favor.

HOTD, Thanks so much for posting this.

I can't believe all the people who are throwing a fit about an AMBER ALERT either.

I guess we just have to remember that there are all kinds of people in this world and they get on FR also.

P.S. I am a female. :-)

[Txslady]

...and I don't agree with your analogy.

If you think attacking this lady for posting a missing child alert is going to further your cause - you are wrong. IMHO

Personally, if it were abused I would think the administrators of Free Republic would deal with it in a more appropriate way then you have tonight.

[HairOfTheDog]

My apologies, I am also female! Ha!

Dang androgynous screen names!

[Chad Fairbanks]

Oh thank god... I thought I was gonna have a 'crying game' moment...

< Chad sets down the toothbrush and the washcloth... >

[Spunky]

Bump for

Sofia Lucerno Juarez
5 years old