Yesterday I was watching a local crime-fighting TV program. The host was telling the story of a young girl who had been misled by a 'friend' of hers. Her mother had requested the host's help to locate her because she was now missing. On top of that, when the young "friend" who had led her astray was questioned by the police, she said she did not know where the young girl was. They had no choice but to release her.
When I heard about the 'boldfaceness' (audacity) of this little girl in telling such a lie to the police of all people, I was so mad that I told my aunt that if I was that missing girl's mother, she would have gotten a good beating from me. She would have told me quick enough where my child was. Of course I didn't mean it, but I could have felt the helplessness of that poor mother as she wept and asked for her daughter to come home.
I had a few questions on my mind about the matter.
1. I couldn't understand how a young girl could take it into her mind to do such a thing as to 'kidnap' another young girl?Was she crazy, demon-possessed, or just plain 'bad?'
2. Where was that young wrongdoer's parents? I wondered how she came to be how she was. It was said that she ran away from home. This made me wonder what was the condition of her home that made her want to run away. Of course, her waywardness may not be her parents' fault! Some children just have a mind of their own and do what they want, no matter what the parents try to do. But it still makes me wonder.
3. Where is that young girl being held right now? How is she feeling? Her mother said that she was a girl always at home, only going out with her brother. I could imagine that she is regretting that she had gone to meet that so-called 'friend' of hers.
4. Who is with her? What is being done to her right now? If she has been harmed in anyway, somebody will be charged.
As I write this blog, I heard that a man related to the wrongdoer returned the poor girl to her home an hour after the show was aired. Thank God that she was returned home alive! But I don't know what (if anything) was done to her while she was with the man. Hopefully I should know by tomorrow.
But this reminds me of an event in the Bible, about Amnon, another son of David, king of Israel. This Amnon "fell in love" with Tamar, one of his half-sisters, born of the mother of Absalom. |Yes, the same Absalom that rebelled from his father, David). Amnon was so infatuated with the beautiful young woman that he fell sick. But he had a friend, a cousin of his named Jonadab, who advised him to do an ugly deed that brought havoc into his family's lives. I will tell you about this biblical event, tie it into this girl's story, and give some pointers tomorrow about parents, their children and their children's friends. As the saying (from my country) goes, "Friends can carry you, but they can't bring you back."
"Amnon had a friend named Jonadab son of Shimeah, David's brother. Jonadab was a very clever man." 2 Samuel 13 verse 3 (New Century Version)
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