Age Now- 17
Height-4’9″
Weight-150 lbs
Age Now-15
Height-5’2″
Weight- 230 lbs
Age-16, Height-5’3″, Weight-135 lbs
By Dan Murphy & Dennis Richmond Jr.
I want to thank my friend and new colleague at Yonkers Rising and YonkersTimes.com, Dennis Richmond Jr., for reminding me about the unreported on missing teen agers from Westchester. Dennis contrasted the excessive news coverage of the Gabby Petito, to a few black and latino teens from Westchester that he found on The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children website, missingkids.org.
We now begin an effort to highlight recent missing children in Westchester and report to our readers, in the hopes that someone will see something and say something. If anyone wants to support this effort, please email us at news@yonkerstimes.com.
Social Media Reacts to Missing Teenagers Article.
By: Dennis Richmond, Jr.
My article from October 20th, 2021, titled “77 BLACK & HISPANIC TEENS MISSING IN NEW YORK,” has garnered thousands of views online. Thousands of people liked it on Instagram, over 700 people shared it on Facebook, and people even started posting it on Twitter. I’ve gotten messages and read comments from dozens of people. One person claimed to have a connection to one teenager mentioned in the article.
The person told me that one of the people mentioned who was missing was not missing at all. They went on to say that I had upset the family and that the family might even take legal action against me. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children still has this person listed as missing. One of two things happened. The organization didn’t take the picture down and the name down, or she is still missing.
If she is not missing, then I would like to apologize to her and her family. I apologize for causing them any ill will. My goal was to bring attention to the dozens of Black and Latinx teenagers missing in New York. Her name and picture are on the website. If she’s alright, I suggest reaching out to the center and letting them know.
As of now, no one from the family has reached out to me directly. I made a post that went viral. I am using the same platforms that I did before and publicly apologizing if I offended this family.
