UPDATE: I should have simmered for a little while on the orginal post and I should have found the article which spawned my post. After a fellow blogger wrote and pointed to my attention that innocent chilren aren’t always found. I decided to revise my post. REVISION: I am ecstatic that the authorities found Reigh. I think the correct term inconjunction with her return should have been “unharmed”. One report I saw said she was found “ALIVE”. That is what peeved me off a little. My original point was that she was never in danger of being murdered – all the reports on her father (although very strange and maybe a fraud) indicated that he loved her unconditionally and he just wanted to be with her. Just my opinion. I feel the term “ALIVE” in this particular case was a little over dramatic.
ORIGINAL POST: I really hate the way reports were made stating that Reigh Rockefeller was found “unharmed, alive, uninjured, etc” In not one report was the dad reported to be harmful to the child. Everyone they interview said that the dad and daughter had a great relationship. In my opinion, this was just a case of a dad wanting to be with his daughter and the mother took the child away – GRANTED, the mom could have taken the child away because the father was a crook and a fraud..but the dad was never going to harm the child. That was obvious.
Our prayers are answered’
News that 7-year-old Reigh “Snooks” Storrow Mills Boss was found unharmed yesterday was greeted with joy and relief by those who know her.
“Our prayers are answered,” said the Rev. Brian Marsh, who baptized Reigh years ago at Trinity Anglican Church in Cornish, N.H., where her parents, Clark Rockefeller and Sandra L. Boss, lived before their divorce.
“I’m very, very relieved, and I know the congregation and particularly her mother will be as well,” Marsh said. “I know it has been an exhausting ordeal for her. Reigh’s a wonderful little child.”
Reigh was abducted by Rockefeller last Sunday, police said.
“We are both ecstatic,” said Stuart J.L. Gardner, lawyer for Aileen Ang, the unwitting driver of one of Rockefeller’s Boston getaway cars. “Aileen is overwhelmed with joy that the little girl has been returned to her mother safely.”
Rockefeller was arrested outside a Baltimore apartment yesterday afternoon and his precocious, tow-headed daughter was found safe inside.
Cornish Selectman John Hammond called Rockefeller’s capture “the best news I’ve heard all week.”
“My main concern is that the little girl is OK,” Hammond said. “Her father’s going to have to deal with his actions.”
Opinions differed, however, about exactly what should happen to Rockefeller, who allegedly kidnapped his daughter during a supervised visit in Boston. It was the first time he had seen Reigh since he and her mother divorced last December and Boss moved to London with their daughter.
Emily Miller, Reigh’s former babysitter in Cornish, said she hopes Rockefeller can still be involved in his daughter’s life.
“I hope Sandy can understand that was very hard for him to do as long as she was living in London,” Miller said.
“He should certainly be able to see her,” agreed Kristie Macrakis, who knew Rockefeller from a Boston discussion group called Cafe Society. Although she had long been suspicious of his affectations, Macrakis said yesterday, “I never doubted (Reigh) would survive. He never would have harmed her. Her father loved her.”
But Don MacLeay, a former neighbor of Rockefeller’s, was less than sympathetic.
“I think they should put him in jail and throw the key away,” MacLeay said. “Maybe we’ll finally find out who he really is.”
That may be so (dad being no danger to the child) but they did post an Amber Alert when Reigh first disappeared. I posted the Boston Herald on our local community blog — “found unharmed” and all — because it’s nice to know that sometimes there are happy endings to these events. A community just a handful of towns away from ours in central Vermont is still reeling from a kidnapping where the girl who disappeared — 12 years old — was found dead a week later. A relative has been charged with the kidnapping; because the charges are federal (kidnapping resulting in death) the state charges are on the back burner. My point is that I think the reason the media made a point of saying Reigh was found unharmed is that sometimes that doesn’t happen.
Comment by narnia4ever — August 4, 2008 @ 5:40 pm |
You make a very good point and I appreciate your response. I should have named the post “over dramatic”. I agree that it is wonderful they found her unharmed but I saw one post that said she was found “ALIVE”. In this particular case I think “unharmed” was the more appropriate term.
Comment by mldollaz — August 4, 2008 @ 6:21 pm |