by Chelsea Hoffman
Jorely Rivera is an adorable seven-year old girl missing from the Canton, GA region. Police are searching diligently for the child, and have even begun knocking-door-to-door. This is one of many missing children being mentioned in the media among Lisa Irwin, Sky Metalwala and others. It's a shame that even with the Amber Alert protocol in place and enhanced police rights with investigations, people would be deterred from abducting or harming children. Unfortunately, that's just wishful thinking.
Little Jorely Rivera was reported missing late Friday afternoon and investigators immediately went on a door-to-door campaign to find the missing hispanic girl. She still hasn't been found and there are no new updates, but detectives say the search is expanding. Very few clues are available right now, but the missing child's last known whereabouts were around her home -- an apartment complex.
It's devastating when any child goes missing, and hopefully this young girl doesn't miss out on the publicity this case needs simply because of her ethnicity. It's been argued that there's a "missing white girl syndrome" with the media reporting mostly missing white women and children. This term has come up during the reporting of missing women Holly Bobo, Lauren Spierer and Michelle Lee Parker; but also during the disappearances of Kansas City baby Lisa Irwin versus the reporting of Jhessye Shockley, an African-American girl missing from Arizona.
Hopefully police are able to locate little Jorely Rivera soon, as she has now been missing overnight and as long as 12 hours. The first 48-hours are the most important when it comes to missing children, and knowing that they are expanding the search is just leaving a negative feeling on the entire case.
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