Shannon Matthews was a 9 year old child who went missing earlier this year in Yorkshire.
The media jumped on the story. The northern town of Dewsbury rallied together to find the child. Many people feared that she was dead or even worse.
After a 20 plus day ordeal, Shannon was found alive.
This story has become frenzied and jumped upon b/c it turned out thatt Shannon’s mother, Karen Matthews basically created the whole kidnap herself. She convinced her boyfriend’s uncle to ‘kidnap’ Sharon so she could supposedly get away from her current boyfriend. But many people think that it was an elaborate plan to get loads of dosh.
Some newspapers created a reward fund norther of £20,000, a starting salary in Journalism by the way. What this woman did was indescribable. I mean, she was on TV saying she wanted her daughter back. And yet she knew where she was. It just blows my mind that a mother would put her own flesh and blood through a harrowing ordeal, where the child was kidnapped. It is mind-boggling and impossible to understand.
The bitterness of this whole tragedy is that now, a child is without its mother, all b/c of the mother, yet all the mother Karen cares about is getting her hands on ”cash…Beyonce’s latest album and a portable CD player.”
For UK people, there is a documentary Panorama did on this whole ordeal on the BBC site. It’s a must see.
@ph2072, she is a complete LOON.
She needs mental health services YESTERDAY. And her daughter will need some too – now and in the future.
@Jess, yeah, I was thinking around Conde Nast lines! I heard EA’s over there aren’t paid like journos on a local paper which would be like £11k.
@O, it has been revealed that the child had also been drugged by the psycho man who the mum told him to kidnap her.
Obviously the mother has mental health issues I think that’s just terrible. I feel so sorry for the family but especially the child. I think it will take the child a while to process this. And the mother she definitely needs mental help.
“a starting salary in Journalism by the way”
I started my first journalism job on £16k, and £11k is not unheard of!
Anyway, not the main point, but I couldn’t help but comment.