May every honest, decent persons thoughts be with the family of April. What they are going through is a horror beyond imagining and we can only pray for the Divine's comfort to bless them and hold them by the hand as they face this terrible thing.
It is sad to reflect that too often our newspapers are sold on the back of one family's suffering. Too often we hear of a child disappearing, never to be seen again.
What we don't hear about are the adults who go missing each year. That's right. Adults!
Missing People is a charity that is run solely for the missing people who we don't read about in the papers. The great majority of them are adults. There appears to be no common age range and no common year for disappearances. They happen apparently randomly and steal away sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, grandfathers and grandmothers.
For example Joseph Reid went missing from Northumberland on the 30th of August this year. He was sixty-nine when he disappeared and his whereabouts remain a mystery.
An old man disappearing is not a story the newspapers can make a sensation out of so he is ignored but he is a human being. He has friends and family now worried sick about him. These people matter as much as a child and deserve to be found. They all, adults and children a like, deserve to be found.
www.missingpeople.org.uk
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