Update - Missing 15 yr old girl. Why was there little news coverage for Rosemary?

Question

Earlier I posted a question asking people to help try to find a missing 15 year old girl, Rosemary Edwards. Just before 8pm her father posted this on the family's facebook group:

"Dave Edwards (Portsmouth) wrote
at 7:59pm
I am sorry to tell you that a body has been found in Ashurst Woods that answers Rosemary's description.

Jen is in London and Lucy in Cardiff, and friends are driving to collect them so we can be together as a family.

Rosemary touched so many people's lives and it seems impossible to believe that she was so low that she felt life wasn't worth living.

Dave (Rosemary's dad)"

My thoughts and prayers are with the family. I wish people had given more attention to this case, and other missing people, instead of all the speculation over the McCann case, yes it was good to spread the word about Madeleine's disappearence but instead of discussing the guilt or innocence of her parents maybe we should turn our attention to helping other missing children &their parents

Answer 1

Oh the poor family my heart and prayers to them also ...The only thing I can speculate is that a !5 year old can run away on their own accord , as a 4 year old would not ....please do not think that as an excuse as I am with you and believe more should be done ...poor girl..x Edit truly cannot understand the mentallity of the persons who are doing thumbs down to the above genuine answers ..........

Answer 2

I agree with your point. There is a difference in the age though which makes a huge impact on how concerned people will be. If a 15 year old goes missing it is presumed that she or he will be a runaway rather than an abductee. The amount of teenagers who run away from home is quite high and I doubt that all the campaigning in the world would help her family to get any press coverage. Unless there is a body found, unfortunately these types of cases go overlooked. Even the police will spend little time looking for a 15 year old. They will however conduct a search for a missing 4 year old.

Answer 3

My heart goes out this family. I did not see your other post about this. Sorry!! I live way over here in the US and I could not have done much to help in her search but instead of questioning why YA people were not doing something. I would look hard at your gov't officials and other important people as well as the media and ask why they were not out there giving this young woman attention like Madeleine like she deserved. Rosemary deserved the attention right now not Kate and Gerry McCann. All missing children and adults no matter class, race or anything else should recieve equal attention in the hopes of finding them alive and Mr. Brown, Mr. Branson and Mr. Mitchell need to wake up and realize if they don't start giving the attention to all missing persons in their country they are going to just look like huge hypocritical idiots.

Answer 4

May God help all children and teenagers in the world

helping them understand that happiness does not come from

TV, brand shoes & clothes, ipods, videogames, hollywood crap of violence/sex/divorce, gangsta bad music and all materialist garbage that drive them away from love, kindness, charity, brotherhood, closeness with their parents, good company, good books, sports, nature, healthy food, community involvement and good old values with good old moral.

The industries related with entertainment (and their empty materialistic minds) are making all the efforts to make people specially young ones believe that you're happy only if you wear this cloth or if you wear that shoes, they make all efforts to make us believe that if we drive a certain car or we live in a certain type of home and eat certain garbages we're going to be happy and satisfied.

Satisfaction my friends come when you are in Peace with you, with your mind and heart and with the world around you.

But the propaganda on TV, magazines, outdoors, everywhere are only to serve one thing the money and the industries profit.

None of them are really interested in what is going on with you and you family and your friends.

In order to be happy you Dad, you Mom, you Son, you Daughter, brothers and sisters you have to love each other (and that comes not only kissing/hugging) you have do search for spiritual content, you have to look after what is healthy for your mind and body, you have to think locally and globally, what you have do help the elders in your family (not throw them in a home care and leave them alone to die there), you have to care after your kids and read and research what is really healthy for them, do not believe in propaganda/ads which tell you that their stuff is good, think about the poor in your city and what you can do for them, how you can help build up a better neighbor and community where you belong, buy locally, respect strangers and immigrants (they are here to help your country in some way), and most important of all, the reason why the past generations were more happy than us and they had more peace, less crime, less drugs and less blood is because they were more attached with



GOD.



Pray, go to your church whatever religion you have, do charity, forgive, respect and look after GOD's love.



Love all and above everything GOD.



I'll pray for this girl.

Everyday I pray for all the children, elders, natives, people oppressed by the money and the power from the countries who think can dictate rules to others.



I wish a better world for the children and teenagers of this world, a world with more love, understanding, tender and care.

God Bless Us All.

Peace be with you.

Answer 5

Unfortunately lots of teenagers run away, for a variety of reasons. A fifteen year old is very vulnerable but less so than a four year old. It sounds like she committed suicide, which is a tragedy, but not a crime. My heart does go out to her family, but it is a different sort of tragedy to that which happened to the McCanns.

Answer 6

I'm sorry to read this news....my thoughts are with the family.



Thanks for the link to missing people. I check missing sites anyway.

Answer 7

I'm sorry I didn't see your earlier post about Rosemary. How sad, my sympathies are with her family.

Answer 8

This is so sad. My sympathy goes out to the parents and family.

Answer 9

She's not cute enough and people assume the victim is in some way responsible if they're a teenager. That said, argument with parents, she runs off - what are the chances she was also kidnapped? Running away was her prerogative.

Answer 10

I'm sorry I didn't see your original posting. When are our children ever going to be safe?

Answer 11

well said a certain few people should seriously consider what is important in life not arguing over who's right and who's wrong about the mccann parents!!!!

Answer 12

Thats so sad so many kids go missing every day...there should be more focus on all of them!!

Answer 13

That is terrible. I read about this case not so long ago. I think it was generally presumed she was a runaway rather than anything more sinister. How dreadful that that wasn't the case. My thoughts are with her family.

Answer 14

omg the poor girl and family, my heart goes out to the family at the sad time, i can only imagine what they are going thru, the poor things, its sick who some gets more news than others, poor things my heart is breaking for them :(

Answer 15

Tried your link but it doesn't work.

Answer 16

i had not heard about this missing girl-that's very very sad,

Answer 17

I didn't see your post earlier, my thoughts are with her family also.

Answer 18

Thank you for letting us know.



This is a tragic time for her family and friends.



Will be thinking of them.

Answer 19

i have heard nothing

Answer 20

Was her family poor? Or was she a person of color? If so that's the reason she didn't get her name in the news like the story of Madeline whatever her name is.

Answer 21

wat imbassils are thumbs downing on such good answers to a very emotive subject..........ggrrrr it makes me wonder..

Answer 22

my prayers are with them too. thanks for update