SoUncool
December 31st, 2008, 10:59 AM
http://www.freep.com/article/20081230/NEWS05/81230069
Detroit, Michigan - Two severely cognitively impaired teenage girls have been missing from the residential facility where they live since Sunday night, a social worker there said Tuesday night.
Precious Lance and Emma Martin were last seen at approximately 11:30 p.m. at New Directions on East Grand Boulevard, a home run by Lutheran Child and Family Services of Michigan, according to residential counselor Dolores Burch. They have IQs of 50 and 60, similar to those of small children.
Precious, who’s originally from Pontiac, is 5-foot-3 and 130 pounds with medium-length hair. Emma, a Detroiter, is 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 125 pounds and has short black hair. Both are African American and have brown eyes.
How the girls managed to leave is unclear, according to Burch.
“Even though they’re 14 years old. they’re closer to a six- to eight-year-old in their ability to function, reason, etc., not to mention they’re both emotionally impaired and mentally impaired,” Burch explained. “One of them is being treated by her psychiatrist for depression. They may as well be an Amber Alert child. However, they don’t meet their criteria because of their age.”
Anyone with information is asked to call New Directions at 313-921-3740.
Detroit, Michigan - Two severely cognitively impaired teenage girls have been missing from the residential facility where they live since Sunday night, a social worker there said Tuesday night.
Precious Lance and Emma Martin were last seen at approximately 11:30 p.m. at New Directions on East Grand Boulevard, a home run by Lutheran Child and Family Services of Michigan, according to residential counselor Dolores Burch. They have IQs of 50 and 60, similar to those of small children.
Precious, who’s originally from Pontiac, is 5-foot-3 and 130 pounds with medium-length hair. Emma, a Detroiter, is 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 125 pounds and has short black hair. Both are African American and have brown eyes.
How the girls managed to leave is unclear, according to Burch.
“Even though they’re 14 years old. they’re closer to a six- to eight-year-old in their ability to function, reason, etc., not to mention they’re both emotionally impaired and mentally impaired,” Burch explained. “One of them is being treated by her psychiatrist for depression. They may as well be an Amber Alert child. However, they don’t meet their criteria because of their age.”
Anyone with information is asked to call New Directions at 313-921-3740.