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I am asking you all, begging you to please forward this email on to anyone and everyone. As most all of you know, I have a 5 year old daughter named Kelsey Brooke Jones. We are from Southern Minnesota. She has been missing since 4 pm Oct. 11, 1999. The police were notified shortly after. If anyone anywhere knows anything, sees anything, pleeeeaaaase contact me if you have my number. The police don't recommend I put my number online, but you can contact the Police, a missing persons report has been filed. I am including a picture of her.
All prayers are appreciated!!
I received this message in my inbox just this morning from a well-meaning soul who wanted to help this family. But the problem is, this family doesn't need any help. Kelsey Brooke Jones is not missing. I'm sure that you all receive these on a daily basis; with different names and stories attached. The trick with this legend is that some of these pleas are real. Most are false, but there have been some stories over the past few years that have been real pleas for help from the families or missing children. So what do you do when you receive one of these messages? If you really want to help, what you should do is check the website for The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (www.ncmec.org) and look up the child's name. By law, the police have to report missing children cases to The National Crime Information Center. It only takes a minute, and if the child's name is not there, delete the message, or even better, take the time to reply to the sender and tell them to follow the same procedure in the future. This particular message screams urban legend because of the details. Or lack of them. There is no description of the child's height and weight, the clothes she last had on, where she was last seen, or even the city where this occurred. Even if this girl was missing, what would you accomplish by forwarding this message? The legend says to call the police. But it doesn't give the exact location, so where do you call? In this case, there was a real Kelsey Brooke Jones in Minnesota. Ms. Jones was at a friend's house, and was reported missing to the police, but was found so quickly that they never filed a report with the NCIC. No one is sure if this message actually came from her mother. But it is still circulating like crazy over the Internet, and this incident took place 4 months ago and was resolved in a matter of hours. As with most e-mail pleas of this type, it is easy to spread the original message, but it is not quite as easy to spread a message that says that the child is safe and to stop forwarding the message to everyone you know. Go To Page: 1 2 |
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