When young teenagers go missing, the police investigators assigned to their cases must first assume that they could have been either kidnapped by a human trafficker or enticed to go with one willingly without knowing what is in store for them.
More often than not the police seem to take it for granted that the young people have ran away from home, and 80% of the time that happens to be the case. It is the other 20% possibility that the investigators should pay heed to and not label all disappearances as "possible runaways".
It is exactly a year today that Maisy Odjick a 16 yr old and her friend Shannon Alexander, 17, disappeared from the Kitigan Zibi-Maniwaki area, north of Ottawa. The house where they were last known to be was locked from the outside. Left behind were their wallets, purses, clothes, electronics, identification and even medication.
These two vivacious and pretty teens have disappeared without a trace. A website has been set up for any tips or sightings.
Maisy's mother Laurie Odjick is adamant that her daughter would have never ran away. She is moreover certain that Maisy would not have left behind her most valued possessions like her camera, jewellery and family photos if she had indeed planned to run away. Maisy's mother and grandmother are both bearing the pain and uncertainty of what could have happened to this happy child. Laurie has poured out her feeling in a beautiful poem that the Ottawa Citizen has published. Shannon's father is a heartbroken man today and just wants to know the truth of what could have happened to his daughter. In his case too, the uncertainty is taking its toll.
What a sad, sad turn of events. And to think that there are countless more like these.....
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