She may not be a blonde, fair-skinned college-coed from suburban America; But she is missing all the same. Rosby Taylor is only 17 years old and went missing no more than a day after Holly Bobo of Tennessee was dragged from her home. The teen is from Montgomery County, Maryland and was last seen by her boyfriend who has told investigators that he dropped her off near her home.
Rosby Rene Taylor is 5 feet tall and under 120 lbs. She has brown almond eyes and wavy, long black hair. She is African-American. She may or may not have facial piercings, currently. Rosby's parents are worried about her and feel that she is in danger due to her age. She is only a teenager and police have no leads on her whereabouts.
Police are asking for anyone to come forward if they have information regarding her whereabouts or safe return to her parents. Rosby Taylor is just one of the several thousand children (and adults) who are missing in America today. As the search is growing more frantic for Holly Bobo in Tennessee, it appears as though the family of Rosby Taylor are crying in silence without anyone to help. Rosby may not be the relative to a famous country-music singer. Nor may she be a shining example of the American dream; but she is a teen child who is in danger and needs to be found.
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As Chelsea said, there's just not enough information on this case. If Rosby's boyfriend dropped her off on a busy street, surely someone remembers seeing her. Were there businesses nearby with surveillance cameras?
When they cover celebrity stuff, it's like, please get back to the missing children.. So some actor is yelling "winning" and having a melt down. No matter where his kids are, there are nannies... so lets get back to finding the missing kids.
And maybe some one else can do a missing adult show....so they can be found too.
I know she does what she does because of the ratings... but it's sad when she could be helping so many more people like the Taylor Family.
http://colesville.patch.com/articles/colesville-teen-missing-since-thursday
I've done a lot of reading about missing children, though, and I've realized that the amount of media attention a missing child receives really depends on how much information the family is willing to release and how persistent the family is at keeping the case in the public eye. When Kyron Horman disappeared, his parents were reluctant to go public at first. But, when they realized that finding him wasn't going to be easy and that they had a better chance of locating him the more publicity the case received, they began taking advantage of every opportunity to publicize the case. Now, Kyron's parents are accused of being media mongers.
I read an article the other day about Asha Degree, who is black and has been missing for 11 years (she would be 20 now). Her mother stated that some people accuse her of soaking up the limelight because she still organizes events to publicize her daughter's case. Well, of course she isn't going to give up on finding her daughter!
When a family doesn't go to that extent to publicize their missing child's case, it may be that they're not willing to release much information because it could bring out something negative or embarrassing to the child and/or family. For instance, if there is a possibility the child has run away because of friction (or abuse) within the family, the family will likely want to keep the case confidential. In those cases, the family and police may have an idea of where to look for the child, so publicizing the case isn't as critical.