What will you do if your child went missing?
Some many people wouldn’t like to discuss this topic. Mothers feel that it will make them look irresponsible or even careless. No normal parent would put his or her child in the line of danger. I haven’t been my usual happy self since a few days now, as much as I would love be happy, happiness had been far fetched.
I got this news about a young girl we all know in Paris; the girl’s mom is a colleague of my husband. Their family were somehow close to us. I learnt that the girl was kidnapped last Friday while coming back from school by some youths of the Niger Delta in Port Harcourt Nigeria. To think that I lived in that city before and had fond memories gave me goose pimple. What is even worst the possibility of my husband’s company sending us there. The young girl is a teenager, kidnapped by some youths and I can’t stop to imagine the horror the poor girl will be going through. My heart bleeds for her parents; you can only imagine what they are going through if you have ever been in that same situation.
I remember the day my child went missing; it was every horrible thing that you can imagine. The first few hours after your child is gone missing is always the most critical period, you are in a panic mode. You can’t seem to remember anything, crying and running around in utter confusion. Then imagine loosing a child in a city where language is a great barrier, who do you turn to? My child was found by the efficiency of the South Korean police and with the help of the locals who did everything in their power to help. Thank God for the security cameras they have everywhere. What happened or whose fault it wasn’t the issue then or now but writing about it will give me closure. That experience made me realise that that if you loose a child through death you will at least know what happened compare to a situation whereby you will never know if your child lived on or died. You will forever be hoping that your child will come home some day; I can’t wish that on any human being either friend or foe.
What will you do if your child went missing?
Would have the needed critical information at hand?
Would you have your child’s current poster quality photos at hand to distribute?
In that moment of panic and overdose stress be able to make available important information to aid the search? Join me in prayers for my young friend to come back home safely.
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Posted By 
tyna 
May 8, 2008 
may the young girl be returned unharmed…
this article really subdued me; don’t know why.
thanks for sharing this invaluable experience.
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nothing. I will be calm. accept the he or she is lost for ever. Then, I would look at the possibilities instead of impossibilities…
i think it is fair to be careful with shildren in the first place…
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