Ashley update:
My Opinion:myspace does not know much about service or children's protection.
Its been 8 Days, Ashley has logged in everyday, and yet they have yet to do one thing to tell anyone where she is. Today, when I asked them for the IP address they refused to give it to me and said the police had to give it to me, the supervisor, claimed the police could have asked for it at any time, and no supena was needed; who lying the police or myspace?
warning this is true and shocking
I have a story that I never wanted to share--but I know the police will really enjoy this:
In 1993 I worked at the Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa, a beautiful place nestled in the hills , between Kenwood and Sonoma, I loved it. I met and talked to and Harrison Ford on the very first day of work. The second day, I did wine event for the Knights of the Vine the oldest and largest wine makers in the USA, and the third was the first of many Sonoma Wine Auctions, were I assisted in sales of more than a million dollars of goods-for children's charity.
A stellar job, with the rich and lovely. In the background for this amazing place, to keep up with all the demands was more that 3 head chefs, just in this one Banquet Dept.But there are three restaurants all together, dozen of trained chefs, but one woman-- one woman head chef. I wont use her name, because she would not want me to, I will call her Chef Jane, for this story.
See Chef Jane lived just outside Kenwood, the property she owned was large and bordered on the towns of Petaluma and Kenwood. It's a very wealthy community, and well known for its tourists and wine and schools and food, and soon it would be know for the missing child Polly Klaas.
I would drive down the road past her property to go home each night, and pass the evening shadows, but one night i felt something aweful in my heart, as I do when I just know something is not right. I felt some dark shadow pass through me, call it intuition, but this was sadness... I went home and prayed, and in the morning it was on the news, young girl missing from the window of her house....
What did anyone do? What would you do? Your child is missing...
People looked for many many days...but she did not show up..Chef Jane became more and more upset, she knew what she asked the Police to do , but no one listened to her. After a month passed, Chef Jane-- said, now I have to go and look for myself... and it turned out as she worried it would, she was devasted--she had to testify, she had to find this herself?...That was when the truth came out.....
You see-
Chef Jane, called the police the night the missing girl was reported, and reported a unwanted car and a man on her prop. You know what the police told her, basically that-- she was in an odd area and they weren't sure what police station should answer....She said there is a strange man and a girl on my land!! Please...then they said-- " YOU crazy woman, if you are so afraid take your GUN and look yourself...."
I believe her.
Polly Klaas died because no one would listen to Chef Jane and worse the information was so lost--that when the police came accross the car and the guy, they let him go! Polly was just a few feet from the car and the police did not even know.
THIS CHANGED EVERYTHING WHEN CHEF JANE SUED THE POLICE....AND PETALUMA was never the same. Do people make mistakes, yes? Do people have the right to expect the police to care? yes-- and could this have ended better--
definitely!
What did we learn? The events that happened changed the lives of every single person, that knew her, loved her, and even heard of her. Chef Jane could not live in her house ever again, she was murdered that night too.
From this debacle of Polly, her father fought hard to make LAWS on sharing information about missing teens, and it is to protect the child. Police no longer hold onto missing teen reports in one city, they must share and they must tell all neighboring cities, and from that day forward, we realized, that people do break in houses, and take innocent girls right out of their beds. It made us all, start thinking of crime in a whole new way.
Polly never did anything to deserve it, she was a perfect child, and more than beautiful and sweet she was young. Her life is one that will never be forgotten, but as you might like to know, that MYSPACE knows nothing about it. They dont share information about missing children, they not only dont care to help the parents they enable any child to find other teens and runaway. My experience with my missing child, is that they make up stories, and even contradict what they say to the police. They make a choice they can be heros, but they silenced me, but not talking to me. I have effectively no parental control over my child on myspace as soon as I reported my child missing, even though they told me they would help me if I did.
I can report my credit card stolen and have the people who use it arrested, and put in jail, but I cant ask MYSPACE to help me find my missing child who uses myspace everyday...
Its a law that you cannot abuse or exploit children, but children can post naked photos of themselves, contact adults and sell their soul online--and MYSPACE doesnt stop this.
Frontline television is more effective in catching child molesters on myspace than the Police.
My next door neighbor turned out to be a molester-- and we live across the street from a elementary school.
What do we need to know before we stand up and pull the plug on the demise of the mind --any-ones mind, this web space is not free speech, this is not me trying to be right wing self-righteous, this is me-- one person-- just like Chef Jane, will you call me crazy and wait for death? I sure hope not.
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