Missing Or Not?
Judy Ramsook
March 25, 2006
Sometimes when I went shopping with my parents when I was a little girl, I had a habit of wandering off without telling either one of them anything because I usually returned to them before they discovered I was gone. It was only one time I was gone a little too long that they noticed I was missing, but they found me soon after. I would usually be in the music store.
Of course, on the trip home, I received a lecture or two about all the things that could have occurred to me had some bad person kidnapped me. On a similar note, missing persons reports are filed everyday it seems, but what happens when some one does run off and does not wish to be found?
Recently, when University Of Texas At San Antonio student, Naomi Fuentes’ abandoned car was found at the downtown campus parking lot, the UTSA campus police went on high alert as did persons in the rest of the city. Especially Ms. Fuentes’ family members and friends.
Flyers were made and posted all over the city, the story took up some time on the airwaves of the local radio and television news and even people who did not know Ms. Fuentes must have been wondering where could this woman have gone?
For days and weeks after the woman’s disappearance from the city people wondered. They must have wondered and asked themselves the questions, was she really kidnapped? Or did she run off with some secret lover? No one knew for certain, so the search for her continued.
It continued until a day ago when she, Ms. Fuentes contacted a relative claiming she was fine and ran off of her own free will because of personal problems.
So, if some one does not impart any information to anyone about unexpectedly running off somewhere and such an individual turns up missing and does not wish to be found, how are people who are searching high and low for her supposed to know she does not want to be found?
Ms. Fuentes had been missing for over a month since February 19th. She should have told some one then of her plans. It might have made things easier on the UTSA campus police and people in the rest of the city who were keeping a look out for any signs or traces of her.
It is a relief she is safe and well. Her family and friends must be happy to have learned that. The other good thing? At least she did not accuse any fictional or real person of kidnapping or taking her against her will.
Of course, on the trip home, I received a lecture or two about all the things that could have occurred to me had some bad person kidnapped me. On a similar note, missing persons reports are filed everyday it seems, but what happens when some one does run off and does not wish to be found?
Recently, when University Of Texas At San Antonio student, Naomi Fuentes’ abandoned car was found at the downtown campus parking lot, the UTSA campus police went on high alert as did persons in the rest of the city. Especially Ms. Fuentes’ family members and friends.
Flyers were made and posted all over the city, the story took up some time on the airwaves of the local radio and television news and even people who did not know Ms. Fuentes must have been wondering where could this woman have gone?
For days and weeks after the woman’s disappearance from the city people wondered. They must have wondered and asked themselves the questions, was she really kidnapped? Or did she run off with some secret lover? No one knew for certain, so the search for her continued.
It continued until a day ago when she, Ms. Fuentes contacted a relative claiming she was fine and ran off of her own free will because of personal problems.
So, if some one does not impart any information to anyone about unexpectedly running off somewhere and such an individual turns up missing and does not wish to be found, how are people who are searching high and low for her supposed to know she does not want to be found?
Ms. Fuentes had been missing for over a month since February 19th. She should have told some one then of her plans. It might have made things easier on the UTSA campus police and people in the rest of the city who were keeping a look out for any signs or traces of her.
It is a relief she is safe and well. Her family and friends must be happy to have learned that. The other good thing? At least she did not accuse any fictional or real person of kidnapping or taking her against her will.
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