That was something I was having trouble getting my head around.
What the hell a 17 year old was doing on the other side of the world sleeping over at her boyfriend's, who sounds like the type I would let my daughter near.
I have a 17 year old daughter.
I may be sort of okay about letting her go away to university at the other end of the country when she is 18 but only if she stays in a living situation that I have checked out in person before hand.
Seems Emily had been in trouble with police and in bad company.
This is probably the first reference I found after seeing UK news on Sky TV soon after she was found:
Kiwi teen's mystery UK death By Michael Dickison
5:30 AM Monday May 9, 2011
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10724318The news seems to have broken soon after the father began his new job with the Beacon
New managing editor joins the BeaconWednesday, 02 March 2011
see
http://www.whakatanebeacon.co.nz/cms/news/2012/04/art100011531.phpnot a good start in a new job for him.
Trouble is there is very little that can be done to keep our kids totally safe.
All a parent can do is to let them loose on the sea of life and hope they have a fovourable wind in their sails.