You can?t help but feel sorry for the child ? whatever happened it is likely to have been a terrifying experience for her?
However, I can?t help but feel that - tragic as a lost child obviously is - this is just another headline-grabbing media frenzy at a time of little other news. I can?t help but wonder how many other children have been raped/abused/died in house fires/been killed in car crashes, etcetera since the young girl went missing.
There must be dozens of grieving parents in the UK alone wondering why the death of their own child does not warrant media attention or messages of support on the Sky web site.
Yet not only does this story get more attention than any other child it also eclipses every other story in the world including the ongoing disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan, genocide in Africa, etc. Blimey, we?re even discussing it?
We?d all like a happy outcome to the story but those that send messages/positive thoughts and prayers should realise that but for the quick-witted actions of a news editor somewhere that spotted the ?story? her fate would have passed us by unnoticed ? as has the death and abuse of thousands of others since the story started and thousands more before it leaves the headlines?
