Missing Black Girls Alert!: 2-Teens Missing After “Meeting Man At Mall They Met On Internet”

[redqueen]

(Video at link)

Two Cypress families were frantically searching from Houston to San Antonio for their missing teen daughters.

Liana Andrews, 16, and Kacie Watson, 14, are church friends and vanished on Friday night. Liana’s grandmother was watching the pair and went to bed. “Liana and Kacie were both in Liana’s bedroom on the phone giggling,’ said Lana Turner, Liana’s mother. “That’s the last time anyone saw them.”

Liana sent a message to her grandmother that said they would be back home on Saturday around 1:30 p.m. The pair never showed up. Andrews only has a learner’s permit, but when she and her 14-year old friend vanished, so did her mother’s car, a 2001 Gold Chrysler Sebring. It was found days later abandoned in Downtown San Antonio near the courthouse with some of their personal belongings still in it.

“No girls would leave their makeup and clothes,” said Ernestine Lomaz, Watson’s grandmother. “Not those two. They wouldn’t leave their makeup and clothes in a car.” The families believed the girls went to see a man they met online so police consider them runaways.

The families want it reclassified as a missing persons case. “This is not a runaway case,’ Turner said. “My daughter and her friend are in danger. I know that and I want them found.”

If you have seen Liana and Kacie, you’re being asked to call the Harris County Sheriff’s Office at 713-221-6000 or report it on the county’s missing persons website.

http://bossip.com/823263/missing-black-girls-alert-2-teens-missing-after-meeting-man-at-mall-they-met-on-internet-video/

[cali]

1. shit. here's to hoping they find them quickly- and unharmed.

doesn't sound good.

[ZombieHorde]

4. I agree, it sounds really bad. nt

[MynameisBlarney]

12. Oh man

I hope they are found safe and the scumbag that took them arrested.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Thanks

In NJ - but will parse out on my social networking sites. Those are 'my girls' - shame on me if I don't.

[redqueen]

7. Thanks to you and everyone else giving this a big signal boost.

[ZombieHorde]

3. Sad. Life is hard enough without kidnappings. nt

[pnwmom]

5. I'll send this to the Texans I know. Runaways don't leave their stuff behind. n/t

[pnwmom]

6. The reporter says the FBI is "now assisting." This should be an Amber alert.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. Agreed!

[OnlinePoker]

23. I did.

I only took my wallet.

[Wait Wut]

9. Runaways.

Why the hell does everyone assume a teenager is a runaway?

Let's say these two young ladies did run away from home. Is that a reason to shrug it off and do nothing? A missing child under the age of consent is a missing child, whether or not they went missing intentionally.

I hope they come home safe. They don't sound like runaways to me. When they do come home safe, someone needs to sit them down and teach them some scary facts about the internet.

Someone upthread mentioned the FBI has gotten involved. Good. Hopefully they can track that guy down through his IP address.

[Sissyk]

10. K&R

Here's hoping that Liana and Kacie are found safe and sound. I don't know anyone personally in Texas but I can call the Sheriff's Office and ask that it be reclassified as a missing persons case.

Good luck and prayers to both families.

[shenmue]

11. Lord have mercy

[LuvNewcastle]

13. I think it would be a great thing if there was a missing persons channel.

Considering all the thousands of people who go missing every year, I think there would be plenty of cases for them to discuss daily, and it could potentially do a lot of good.

[stevil]

14. Kick

[skydive forever]

15. I kept looking to see if this is a gag

The media never seems to cover missing black kids, only missing white kids. Its really sad that I'm so jaded that that is my first thought. My prayers for the kids and their families.

[skeewee08]

17. Agree skydive

I sure do hope the media covers this.

[LuvNewcastle]

18. I thought the same thing.

They don't mention missing boys, either. It's usually white girls, specifically blonde white girls. I hope they find these girls soon. The longer they stay missing, the less hope there is they'll be found alive. I hope a lot of parents are talking to their kids tonight about meeting people from the internet. There's plenty of adults that need to think about it too.

[Rebellious Republican]

21. Cute little white blonde girls to be more exact.

And yes i am a white man and said it.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

30. I thought the same thing.

Why isn't the media all over this?

[skeewee08]

16. I hope they both are found safetly

and returned home to the family.

[LittleBlue]

19. "Man they met online" ah Jesus, not this again

Praying these girls make it home alive. God knows what horrors they've experienced.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. Where is the Amber alert?

[Yo_Mama]

22. Kick for visibility

In the hopes that publicity may save them.

[Shrike47]

24. Those poor girls, we can only hope they're OK.

[Raine1967]

25. KICKING

and I'll be sharing this.


this comment really bothered me:

The families believed the girls went to see a man they met online so police consider them runaways.

That is incredibly fucked up.

Are runaways are somehow considered lessor priorities? It seems that way, considering a woman named Michelle Knight. She was considered a Runaway in Ohio -- the police stopped looking for her.

She wasn't a runaway, it turned out.

[hedgehog]

26. Kick!

[giftedgirl77]

27. kick & tweeted...

[Trailrider1951]

28. Kick and rec

There is NOTHING on Houston's channel 13 about this.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/index

WHERE IS THE AMBER ALERT???

[PotatoChip]

33. +1

It seems to me that there certainly ought to be one.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

29. Let's hope they are found safe.

Yikes. What a nightmare.

[freshwest]

31. K & R. This is very scarey and serious. I can't imagine they'd leave their things in a car either.

[BainsBane]

32. Put TX in the subject line

[steve2470]

34. kick nt

[Ilsa]

35. This is a kidnapping, not a runaway situation.

Geez, how could the police be so dense about statutory rape of at least one of the victims? What about the predatory nature of a man on the internet? Can't they at least research that on the girls' computers?

[justiceischeap]

36. Bad things only happen to white girls. Black kids and boys are just runaways, not worthy of amber

alerts. Where's John Walsh when you need him?

[redqueen]

37. The FBI is, I imagine. nt

[FarCenter]

38. This would be a good time to query that NSA database.

[leftynyc]

39. Sending the story

to my cousin and her husband in Houston and my nephew at UT-Austin. Doesn't hurt to have as many eyes looking as possible.

[JustAnotherGen]

40. Folks

They are still missing