AMBER ALERT-KENNEWICK/RICHLAND WASHINGTON

KomoTV (ABC) ^ | 2/5/03

[HairOfTheDog]

RICHLAND - Benton County and Kennewick police have issued an Amber alert for a missing 5-year-old girl.

Police say she may have been abducted about 8 p.m. Tuesday from her home in Kennewick.

Police chief Marc Harden of Kennewick says the girl was playing in a bedroom, came out and asked her mother if she could go to the store with her grandmother's boyfriend.

The boyfriend returned and the mother asked where the daughter was. The chief says the boyfriend said the little girl was not with him.

Maynard says investigators have ruled out a custody dispute. They have searched the neighborhood without finding a trace of the girl.

Sofia Juarez is Hispanic with black hair and brown eyes. She was wearing blue overalls, a red shirt and white tennis shoes. She is missing four of her top front teeth.

More than 100 people are searching for the girl. It's her fifth birthday today.

Anyone with information should contact Kennewick Police at (509) 628-0303 or 800-841-7953.

[HairOfTheDog]

Posting this thread for spunky, who posted it on another thread...

AMBER ALERT-KENNEWICK WASHINGTON
Kennewick Police/Kennewick School District
School Alert
Endangered/Missing Child

Sofia Lucerno Juarez
5 years old
White/Hispanic female
Approximately 3 feet tall
33 pounds
Long black hair to the middle of her back.
Brown eyes
Last seen wearing Blue overalls, red long sleeve shirt, violet colored
socks and white Converse shoes. Sofia was also wearing gold hoop earrings
and has a small mole under her left eye. Sofia is missing four of her top front teeth.

Sofia was last seen playing with her brother in their bedroom. The child walked out of the bedroom on Tuesday February 4, 2003 sometime between 8:15 PM and 9:15 PM and has not been seen since.

If you see or have seen Sofia, or have any information contact Kennewick Police Department at 911 immediately, or Crime Stoppers at (509) 586-8477/(888) 571-6566 anonymously.

Kennewick Police Department
03-03571
MRB 02/05/03

29 posted on 02/05/2003 5:26 PM PST by Spunky

[cmsgop]

She is a Cutie! Bring her home ...BUMP!!!!

[Chad Fairbanks]

Is this near the Hartford reactor???? ;0)

[HairOfTheDog]

Ping your Washington lists one of you?

[HairOfTheDog]

It sure is Chad! I hope a hundred people correct you!

[Chad Fairbanks]

Me too... if it'll help get the word out :0)

[connectthedots]

Is this near the Hartford reactor???? ;0)

No, but it is not too far from the Hanford reactor.

[Chad Fairbanks]

(Ya had to be there)

[MinuteGal]

"The grandmother's boyfriend...."

Hmmmmm.

Leni

[Maedhros]

I've said it before; I'll say it again: yawn.

The frequency of these Amber alerts is amazing and does nothing but makes them more irrelevant. So many of these alerts are unjustified hoaxes that the important ones are meaningless.

Furthermore, what's the deal with crimes involving children? Are they somehow more important? Are they just more shocking? Should Tom Ridge raise the terrorism threat level because of this?

Flame away.

[HairOfTheDog]

Why would I get heated over that? - You think I care that much that you are bored? Whatever.

[chnsmok]

HANFORD! 98 to go. Prayers for Sofia.

[Maedhros]

Dude. As if.

[HairOfTheDog]

Look. I don't even live near Kennewick.... I live 300 miles away, but a poster on another thread asked me to post this for him as a favor.

I had no idea it would bother you, I should have asked you for permission. < /patronizing >

*Miss* HairOfTheDog

[Txslady]

Ever lost a child?

[cyncooper]

Furthermore, what's the deal with crimes involving children? Are they somehow more important? Are they just more shocking?

Perhaps it has to do with the concept of SELF-SUFFIENCY?

[HairOfTheDog]

Egads Chad.... I am getting a bunch of snide remarks about a missing kid thread. Who woulda thunk it.