On March 5th, 2010 my 16 year old daughter, Katey, ran away. She left a note and her cell phone. She also left a video of herself on the phone saying good-bye in which it was clear that she was under the influence of drugs. I considered publishing the video here for her friends to see but decided that she’s getting more than enough attention. (Those of you close to the situation will understand that.) She jumped out her story and a half bedroom window and ran on foot and was last seen around 4PM north of Wausau on highway 51. From the onset we suspected she was with her (I thought, EX) boyfriend. For those who did not know, Katey was recently in trouble with the county with this boy – in fact, she was almost charged with assault and she had pressed cahrges against him for the same. As various reports came in from her friends and their parents we didn’t know what to think or make of the information.
3/6/10 She was seen on Saturday by one of her girlfriends. She is in town and on the run with her “boyfriend”. They are running from house to house trying to evade the cops – not because they are looking for Katey but because they are looking for her drug-dealing, meth-head of a boyfriend. Reports from her girlfriends are that she is using drugs and has been kicked out of at least one friend’s home once the parents found that she was a runaway (sadly it sounds as if they kicked their own kid out for the offense as well).
She is apparently telling everyone that I kicked her out and took her phone because I forbade her from seeing this boy. The sad truth is I only found out on Friday after she left that she was even having anything to do with him again. Though, I certainly would have tried to keep her from seeing him — that much is true since he was hitting her when they dated several months ago. I thought she was dating another boy the last 2 months and when I called him Friday night he told he’d brokeen up with her the week before because he found out she was messing around with this other boy. At this point we believe that she has been seeing him again since early January and that she has been using drugs with him since then as well. We think that her recent medical issues may be a result of the drug use.
3/8/10 She did not attend school today which is no suprise but soon the county will issue a truancy warrant. We still do not know where she is and according to her social worker and Wisconsin law there is absolutely nothing more I can do but wait for her friends to call or e-mail me information.
IF YOU SEE KATEY CALL THE POLICE @ 715-261-1200 and tell them you want to report on the time & location of a missing person — this is the only way I will get them to help. This the last update I am going to put here until she is returned home — thanks for all of your support and the kind phone calls and e-mails. While I truly hope she gets sober enough to come to her senses (hopefully before he beats the hell out of her) there is nothing I can do until she decides to seek help. We need to take care of our other three children , we have jobs to maintain and we are in the process of moving into a new house and those plans are not going to change.
For those of you who think I’m being callous or I haven’t tried hard enough to find her you are welcome to give me the money for a private investigator to track her down and bring her in and the money for a private treatment facility that I can admit her too as a parent without her consent because short of that happening my hands are tied.
