We all are familiar with the disappearance and tragic murder of the Yale student.
Unless you read the Hartford Police Department website or somehow caught a brief mention of it at WTNH, you might not have known that a young Hartford teen went missing recently. The HPD announcement says that the girl was “missing from the Gray Lodge Facility since last week” in their September 11th press release. The 15 year old garnered no media attention (at least nothing that is searchable on their web sites, which publish most news items) from the Hartford Courant, WFSB, NBC30, or the Journal Inquirer. A broader search on Google showed the same. Only WTNH bothered. One can only speculate as to why the media can afford to devote constant coverage to one missing persons case, but not to another, especially one involving a youth. Fortunately, the HPD reported yesterday that this girl was safely returned to the Gray Lodge. Thank you to the Hartford Police Department and WTNH for giving a damn about our city’s teenagers.
