No jokes or wicked comments today – but I promised my Twitter friend Chris I would try to help. Please read this entry, link to it, tell others and help find this young lady who may be with her 37-year-old “boyfriend” – her family is worried sick and Kevin Childs, if the allegations are true, needs to be locked up.
Please help get Manessa back and protect other girls.
From the above site – How to Help:
We’re reaching out to everyone we can. There are several things we hope will help.
1. We don’t know if she has access to a computer. If she’s not being held against her will and does have access, we’re expecting she will try to reach her friends by logging into her mySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/prettygirl224. If you are a mySpace user, please leave her a message that let’s her know that she is loved and appreciated, that her life still has great value and potential and that she should return home.
- Update – As of December 2nd, Manessa still hasn’t accessed her mySpace account since November 17th, and all comments are moderated by her. This means that nothing is getting through. A colleague and friend, Chris Penn, created a new myspace page where a number of her friends have come to join and show their support at http://myspace.com/savemanessa
2. Leave her a comment on this website in the ‘friends’ or ‘others’ section. Let her know she’s loved and appreciated. Let her know what it was like when YOU were 16, and what you think of what she’s doing, and encourage her to figure life out while with people who really love her.
3. Please Digg this story. We’re trying to get it in front of as many people as we can as quickly as we can. We need people to see this so they can start keeping an eye open for the two of them.
4. If you are a friend and know something, PLEASE SPEAK UP. She apparently isn’t living whatever dream she was running to. Her best friends haven’t seen her for weeks. There are a number of ways to get information to those who need it.
- Email us at savemanessa@gmail.com
- or call the hotline in the US – 860-906-7398.
- In Florida, contact the Hernando County Sherrif’s department @ 352.754.6830. The Detective handling this case is Det. Randy Williamson.
- In Bristol, contact the Bristol Police Department @ 860.584.3011. The Officer handling this case is Officer Scott Thomas.
5. The Donovans (Mom & all 3 sisters) run a family operated business which, as of Saturday, Dec. 3 are closed for business. Since the whole clan is in CT, no one to mind the shop. They are accepting donations on their business website.
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December 4, 2007 at 3:51 pm
yndygo
I had twitted about this after jeremiah owyang posted it, and put it out there at a few of my different blogs…
I’m glad that they took my friend Bill’s advice (a few comments down on the main page) and included the information that makes it look less like a hoax.
I sure hope they find her soon.
Usually, not hearing anything like this is NOT a good sign.
December 30, 2007 at 8:50 pm
aithene
Wicked,
Thanks for the extra mention. We appreciate it. As you’ve probably already heard, Manessa has been found. The site has been updated with current information, and will probably be down soon, just to draw attention away from Manessa at this point.
I’d leave it up for the Kevin Childs information, but there is very little we can do with it, and in general, most people just don’t want to get involved. I’m not expecting much to happen with him.
Thanks for you help, and I’ll see you kicking around the twitterverse.