Posted by Barry Jantz at 12:00 am on Mar 07, 2010 Comments Off on Sunday California…Let’s Not Decide the Safety of Our Chelsea Kings on a 5-2 Vote
Last Tuesday, thousands from throughout the state
andnation were saddened to hear the news that the body of
missing 17-year-old Poway High School student Chelsea King had been
found after a frenzied five day search. Those from Poway and
the rest of San Diego County were particularly stunned. Many
of us had been glued to the story, while holding out hope that she
might be found alive, even though a sexual predator had been
arrested in the case.
The community at large, many
coming out by the thousands to search for Chelsea, grabbed on to
the hope that whatever rape- and murder-related evidence the
Sheriff’s Department had in its possession might somehow be wrong,
lacking an actual body.
The photos of Chelsea on the news and on storefront windows
throughout the county represented the picture of all our children,
any one of them out for an afternoon run on a nice, lake shore
trail in a relatively safe community, only not to return home.
We all gasped to learn that this terrible act was… Read More