Missing Teenager Serena Beakhurst

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AIBU to feel sadly that the media and perhaps society as a whole are only interested in white middle class females who go missing..
compare the search for Joanna Yeats with the almost total lack of media coverage for 14 year old Serena Beakhurst

yanbu
some case get a lot more attention than others.
really sad imo

I've joined the FB group so that I can share it with others. What a pretty young woman. I hope she turns up safe and sound.

God how awful. Her poor family. It's when I see this happening that I HATE the media. If you're white and middle class you're MISSING! If you're not white and you're working class....well....you're not important.

Instead of this hysteria can anyone cite examples? I would like evidence of like for like cases that favour a white person over anyone else.

In the UK.

What I found interesting was every headline on the news referred to 'architect jo...' so as to enforce the idea that she was a respectable woman... The media really use labels to shape our minds!

you'll find examples here

You're any colour, any class and you've disappeared on a freezing December night, totally out of character, leaving your coat, purse and car-keys behind.... you've PROBABLY BEEN MURDERED....

Shannon Matthews' family obviously had the money, education and contacts.... yes...

I say again: the police have not described Serena as a runaway.

Talk about a flawed article. For a start the Damilola Taylor case, which was full of police bias and shoddy detective work cannot be compared to the Soham murders, the children were missing. The Payne family weren't middle class either.

There was a very attractive girl from Wales missing last Christmas at the same time as Casper Flagg, he got much more coverage.

uk example for FeministParent

whatever
who cares about anything except this child returning safe and sound.
I hope she is safe

Second coming, I saw his picture up in the newsagents on Piccadilly gardens. Sad that he's not been found yet. Doesn't look good, does it? :(

maryz I agree with both of your above comments.
My DD started running away at 14. The first couple of times the police were extremly helpful, after that they did not give the matter a great deal of attention.
I actually used to approach police on the beat, and ask if they had a description of my DD, and if they did not I would give them hell would ask why not.
Looking back its surprising that I didnt get arrested myself!!!

I now always look very closely at photos of missing children/teenagers because (1) I owe it to their parents and (2) I live quite close to Brighton which I believe some young people consider quite 'cool'.

There is a white 19 year old boy missing in wales- his name is joe hughes- been missing since 28th december- not much media coverage there either is there - infact the police have now stopped searching till they get more info i hope he turns up safe

i suppose the fact is people go missing daily and only when the police believe that it is suspicious do the media get involved - sad but true - i hope this girl turns up ok too - very sad for the family :(

YANBU I hadn't heard of this girl at all and she's been missing for almost 1 month! Shame on the media and police for showing lack ot interest / attention. She's a very pretty girl. Hope she is found safe soon x

i heard about this girl via twitter, so if you can retweet and join the facebook group it will raise the profile

i wonder if mn could have a role in publicising missing persons, esp young people

i can only imagine the horror of feeling that nothing is being done to help find your missing child.

i heard about this girl via twitter, so if you can retweet and join the facebook group it will raise the profile

i wonder if mn could have a role in publicising missing persons, esp young people

i can only imagine the horror of feeling that nothing is being done to help find your missing child.

Again I agree with posters that it was Joanna
Yeats circumstances that provoked such a massive media coverage, how many people disappear leaving their coat keys and mobile
still in their flat, it was that which captured the public imagination as quite frankly it sounded like an Agatha Christie or Midsomer Murder plot, do you really think that if Serena Beakhurst had disappeared in the same circumstances that no-one would have turned a hair as she is mixed race, or there would have been the hue and cry over Joanna if she had just not come home?

And its not only Ethnic missing people who are ignored I remember quite a few years back when one white pretty middleclass girl went missing and it was all over the papers at the same time a white girl with mental disability issues (I think she had Downs) was also missing and it didnt make the headlines until she was found dead.

I am sorry I cant see this as another
example of white racist Britain but only as an example of two girls going missing but in different circumstances.

And yes I hope they find her safe and well.

i heard about this girl via twitter, so if you can retweet and join the facebook group it will raise the profile

i wonder if mn could have a role in publicising missing persons, esp young people

i can only imagine the horror of feeling that nothing is being done to help find your missing child.

Jo Yeates is not middle class, she is from a working class family.

Are you now deemed middle class if you have a good job and a degree?

I too feel there is more to this story than meets the eyes, otherwise it would have received huge media coverage.