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Featherston

We wish the people of Featherston strength and hope in the quest to find the missing 6 year old girl, Coral Burrows.

Each and every person that knows about the disappearance of a child is upset about it and some are very prone to speculate endless chains of fates. It is more right now important to focus on where the child is and to assume the child is alive.

Are the police able to use heat scanning sensors on helicopters at night? Yes they may find animals but they may also find a sleeping child, lost and alone in the wild. Proceeding in a manner consistent with the child being alive upon finding only makes sense. Focus and maximise on outcomes not get discouraged by possible demises.

If the child had met any demise, the result is done. It does not matter how long they search, the result does not change.

Day three after the disappearance is way too early for the pessimists to start to pitch in with their energy draining nonsence. Put everything you have into the search for a living girl.

It is vital those who are closest to the victim retain hope and dignity.

When a child disappears the stress created for those closest to the child is extraordinary. Out of this world.

When it becomes, within 24 hours, also subject to huge national media attention, the stress multiples with every phone call until someone calls in with news.

Let us not be victim to the surges of anguish but may the seven million eyes of the nation be sharp and on the lookout for anything that may help the police to do their job and bring the child to safety.

Operation Coral - News Update
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