More Tech tragedy. VA Tech student Morgan Harrington disappeared from a Metallica concert in Charlottesville Saturday night and has not been seen since. News sources earlier today reported that she had called her friends that she had gotten locked outside the John Paul Jones Arena. Her purse, cell phone and id were found in the parking lot. Her car was there also. Her time of disappearance was about 8:45 pm.
Harrington’s father, Dan Harrington of Roanoke reported her missing when she failed to meet him for a math tutoring session. He appealed to anyone who might know of his daughter’s whereabouts to please contact police.
Tech has had more than its share of tragic events in recent years. All of us hope that Morgan comes home safe and sound. Her father seems to feel she would not have just disappeared without calling home.
Where were the campus police? Are there no security guards at events like this? Why are all doors locked? Did her friends try to find her or let her back in?
Too many bad things are happening to young people.
Oh, no, not again.
How agonizing for parents. I think about Natalie Holloway’s disappearance in Cancun a few years back. These unresolved disappearances have to be pure torture for families.
One of my daughters is about that age.
It is a bit premature to be calling Morgan’s absence a tragedy, however. Missing could mean anything on a broad spectrum of events; so let’s pray for a positive outcome and not immediately assume the worst.
It really must be a parent’s worst nightmare. It also seems that bad things keep happening to Virginia’s college students, especially the Tech ones.
On this we agree J.Tyler, lets pray for a positive outcome, her safe return. I think I will make my kids become shut-ins!
J Tyler is right about not assuming the worst. I truly hope she did something careless and irresponsible and is sitting on a beach somewhere drinking a margarita and smoking a joint and thumbing her nose at the math test she missed.
Society is to blame here. We are sooooo concerned about rights, as in the right to use foul lyrics in songs, make video games based purely on violence, movies based on violence and perversion, and at the same time show more concern for criminal’s rights than the victim’s. Guess where that all lands you. It takes two mountains of evidence to convict a criminal these days, and even then that might not be enough. We’ve run out of prison space as it is, and yet we keep allowing more to cross over into our midsts. You can’t let your child out of your sight for even a minute. We need to deal with the people that commit acts of abduction just like sheriff Joe deals with illegal aliens. The hell with this bleeding heart liberal anything goes mentality, it’s time to get back on track and understand that crime isn’t a ‘right’, and if something seems wrong then it probably is.
I was all ready to agree with you, SA, until you brought Sheriff Joe into the mix.
I do think we have som esociety ills that make abductions moer prevalent. I know there are more people than when I was a kid but I don’t believe that many people did such horrific things to each other.
The violence in both music and video games has to be a problem. All sorts of mentally ill people wander around loose. Back in the day they institutionalized people or kept them locked in the attic. Reform was needed but have we gone too far in the other direction?
And shouldn’t a 20 year old be able to go to a concert alone? Did they ever catch the 29 killer?
i think alamo is a little over the line. civil rights have helped many people, just because a few criminals with some brains used there rights to cheat the justice system doesnt mean that those rights are to blame for him being set loose.
the fact is, our justice system is faulty and every one knows it. but for now its the best we have, we cant change it. what we can change is to start respecting every ones basic rights. as for this young girl… i hope she really is just lost on the beach.