Amber Alert -Search For Missing 7 Year Old Boston Girl Moves To New York

to whomever recommended this OP, thank you.

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one of my children. It was one of the nightmares that played over and over in my head through out my divorce.

I am sending her thoughts of hope.

Thanks for posting this.


NYer DUer ... keep an eye out for this lovely little girl please!

Father may be trying to flee with daughter on yacht

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/07/amber_alert_can.html

The father accused of abducting his 7-year-old daughter during a supervised visit Sunday in the Back Bay was last seen at 7:30 p.m. at Grand Central Terminal in New York City, police said this afternoon.

Authorities fear that Clark Rockefeller may be trying to flee with his daughter, Reigh, on a 72-foot yacht that he recently purchased and had docked on Long Island. The Coast Guard is searching for the boat, which is named "Serenity" or "Serendipity."

The FBI has also joined authorities in New York and Boston as they search for Rockefeller, who is listed as a director of the prestigious Algonquin Club of Boston.

"We are definitely concerned for her safety," said Boston Police Superintendent Bruce Holloway at press conference this afternoon.

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Authorities asked anyone with information to call 617-343-4328.

:kick:

If so, he's got the resources to go somewhere well beyond the reach of the law.

There are some Rockefeller's living in MA, I dated one back in the 80's but he lived in a regular clapboard house, had served in the Navy, was an electrical engineer and rebuilt Audi's as a hobby. He said he was a distant relative to THE Rockefeller's. Had the same sort of look as this girl's father though... reddish hair.

The headline for this article in the search engine is:

Boston police chase high-society kidnapping case - BostonHerald.com
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1109520&srvc=rss

It's not the same headline as on the page though:
Kidnap case turns to NY and boat

After listening to the video at the link, it sounds like a normal run of the mill custodial kidnapping. I thought Amber Alerts were supposed to be reserved for kidnappings where the kids were believed to be in danger, and not just custody battles gone awry.

The Amber Alert was canceled this morning in Massachusetts when
authorities learned that Rockefeller was spotted in New York City.

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The father accused of abducting his 7-year-old daughter during a supervised visit Sunday in the Back Bay was last seen at 7:30 p.m. at Grand Central Terminal in New York City, police said this afternoon.

Authorities fear that Clark Rockefeller may be trying to flee with his daughter, Reigh, on a 72-foot yacht that he recently purchased and had docked on Long Island. The Coast Guard is searching for the boat, which is named "Serenity" or "Serendipity."

Clark Rockefeller has a warrant out for his arrest for custodial kidnapping,
assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Apparently the state worker grabbed onto the van and tried to hang on as it sped away. He was injured as he fell off. The problem is, the worker himself verified that someone else was driving. The driver, and not the father, is guilty of battery.

And when it comes down to it, I doubt those charges would stick against the driver either. The worker grabbed the vehicle himself and refused to let go.

Sounds like they're trying to make a big deal out of a noncustodial snatch. They are never good things, but wasting Amber alerts on this kind of stuff just desensitizes the population to them. The Amber Alert system was designed only to help retrieve kids who are kidnapped and are in imminent danger. Based on the info released so far, that doesn't sound like it's the case here.

Non-custodial parents on the run don't always make the safest of choices and don't always have good intentions either.

We have heard how many times that the parent took them and then killed them? Several times in the last few years that I can think of. Once is too much, isn't it? It's a case of "I will hurt my ex-mate in a way that they will never forget, just like they hurt me" and it's the kids that pay the ultimate price.

...and ripping her from her mother, who has full, legal, custody?

Why was he in supervised visits? My ex didn't need supervision to visit with our kids
and he lived out of state also. You don't know all the facts and maybe this man has
emotional problems or something else that the public isn't aware of but the police know about.

I just believe that the AA system needs to be protected from abuse. There are people pushing to use it for everything from runaways to missing adults. If that happens, it's effectiveness will be reduced to that of a milk carton. People will start ignoring it.

But, if you would rather insert conjecture...how do you know that he wasn't saving his child from an abusive monster of a mother who simply had the funds to hire a shark of a lawyer? You don't. And neither do I. All we can do is base our opinions on the information they give us, and that information pretty clearly shows that this shouldn't have gone to an AA. It's a little irritating, that's all.

Case closed.

Right now, New York police have issued a "missing child alert," which is one step below an Amber Alert.

http://wbztv.com/local/amber.alert.Reigh.2.781137.html

:dunce:

they know little of him, maybe he made up rockefeller as the last name, who knows...isn't it a coincidence that the first Rockefeller business venture was a business called Clark & Rockefeller?

This is from the NY Times *snip*

In telephone interviews on Monday, Amy Fitch and Michele Hiltzik, senior archivists at the Rockefeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., which maintains the records of the Rockefeller family associated with Standard Oil, philanthropy and politics, said there was no indication that Clark Rockefeller was a descendant of William Avery Rockefeller, the father of John D. Rockefeller Sr. and William Rockefeller.
(John D. Rockefeller Sr., the oil tycoon, and his son John D. Jr., the philanthropist, made the Rockefeller name famous. The five sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr. — John D. III, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop and David — continued to extend the family’s name. Nelson A. Rockefeller was governor of New York and vice president of the United States under President Gerald R. Ford. Winthrop was governor of Arkansas. David, the only one of the five brothers still living, was head of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and has been a major fixture in New York life for decades.)
In 2004, The Valley News, in Lebanon, N.H., reported that Mr. Rockefeller refused to confirm whether or not he was related, directly or otherwise, to the famed Rockefeller family. “Maybe I am, maybe I’m not; it’s not something that I would either confirm or deny,” Clark Rockefeller responded, according to the paper. “I just don’t want anything to do with the whole question.”
The newspaper was trying to determine Clark Rockefeller’s lineage after he reportedly wrote a $110,000 check

Rockefeller, who is listed as a director of the prestigious Algonquin Club of Boston.

There must be other Rockefeller families in the world besides this one but my
understanding is that a lot of that family are mum about their family ties due
to people trying to harass them, beg them or black mail them for money.