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Two Cypress families were frantically searching from Houston to San Antonio for their missing teen daughters.
Liana Andrews, 16, and Kacie Watson, 14, are church friends and vanished on Friday night. Lianas grandmother was watching the pair and went to bed. Liana and Kacie were both in Lianas bedroom on the phone giggling, said Lana Turner, Lianas mother. Thats the last time anyone saw them.
Liana sent a message to her grandmother that said they would be back home on Saturday around 1:30 p.m. The pair never showed up. Andrews only has a learners permit, but when she and her 14-year old friend vanished, so did her mothers car, a 2001 Gold Chrysler Sebring. It was found days later abandoned in Downtown San Antonio near the courthouse with some of their personal belongings still in it.
No girls would leave their makeup and clothes, said Ernestine Lomaz, Watsons grandmother. Not those two. They wouldnt leave their makeup and clothes in a car. The families believed the girls went to see a man they met online so police consider them runaways.
The families want it reclassified as a missing persons case. This is not a runaway case, Turner said. My daughter and her friend are in danger. I know that and I want them found.
If you have seen Liana and Kacie, youre being asked to call the Harris County Sheriffs Office at 713-221-6000 or report it on the countys missing persons website.
http://bossip.com/823263/missing-black-girls-alert-2-teens-missing-after-meeting-man-at-mall-they-met-on-internet-video/
cali
(114,904 posts)doesn't sound good.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)I hope they are found safe and the scumbag that took them arrested.
JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)In NJ - but will parse out on my social networking sites. Those are 'my girls' - shame on me if I don't.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)pnwmom
(108,977 posts)pnwmom
(108,977 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)I only took my wallet.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)Why the hell does everyone assume a teenager is a runaway?
Let's say these two young ladies did run away from home. Is that a reason to shrug it off and do nothing? A missing child under the age of consent is a missing child, whether or not they went missing intentionally.
I hope they come home safe. They don't sound like runaways to me. When they do come home safe, someone needs to sit them down and teach them some scary facts about the internet.
Someone upthread mentioned the FBI has gotten involved. Good. Hopefully they can track that guy down through his IP address.
Here's hoping that Liana and Kacie are found safe and sound. I don't know anyone personally in Texas but I can call the Sheriff's Office and ask that it be reclassified as a missing persons case.
Good luck and prayers to both families.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)Considering all the thousands of people who go missing every year, I think there would be plenty of cases for them to discuss daily, and it could potentially do a lot of good.
skydive forever
(444 posts)The media never seems to cover missing black kids, only missing white kids. Its really sad that I'm so jaded that that is my first thought. My prayers for the kids and their families.
skeewee08
(1,983 posts)I sure do hope the media covers this.
LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)They don't mention missing boys, either. It's usually white girls, specifically blonde white girls. I hope they find these girls soon. The longer they stay missing, the less hope there is they'll be found alive. I hope a lot of parents are talking to their kids tonight about meeting people from the internet. There's plenty of adults that need to think about it too.
Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)And yes i am a white man and said it.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)Why isn't the media all over this?
skeewee08
(1,983 posts)and returned home to the family.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Praying these girls make it home alive. God knows what horrors they've experienced.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)In the hopes that publicity may save them.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)and I'll be sharing this.
this comment really bothered me:
Are runaways are somehow considered lessor priorities? It seems that way, considering a woman named Michelle Knight. She was considered a Runaway in Ohio -- the police stopped looking for her.
She wasn't a runaway, it turned out.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)Trailrider1951
(3,414 posts)There is NOTHING on Houston's channel 13 about this.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/index
WHERE IS THE AMBER ALERT???
PotatoChip
(3,186 posts)It seems to me that there certainly ought to be one.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)Yikes. What a nightmare.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)BainsBane
(53,031 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)Ilsa
(61,694 posts)Geez, how could the police be so dense about statutory rape of at least one of the victims? What about the predatory nature of a man on the internet? Can't they at least research that on the girls' computers?
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)alerts. Where's John Walsh when you need him?
redqueen
(115,103 posts)FarCenter
(19,429 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)to my cousin and her husband in Houston and my nephew at UT-Austin. Doesn't hurt to have as many eyes looking as possible.
JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)They are still missing