Sunday, April 24, 2011

Kieshas parents ' They did not search...'

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/keisha-abrahams-mother-kristi-abrahams-and-stepfather-robert-smith-charged-by-police-with-her-murder/story-e6freuzi-1226043504734

Sympathy turns to rage over Kiesha Abrahams


"[But] the thing that upset me the most was that they never once went out and looked for her," she said.


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Sympathy turns to rage over Kiesha Abrahams
    Amy Dale and Clementine Cuneo
    From: The Daily Telegraph
    April 23, 2011 12:00AM

SHE is the woman who stood by Kristi Abrahams and Robert Smith in the dark days after Kiesha went missing.

She shielded them from unwanted attention and defended them at every opportunity.

But yesterday Alison Anderson led a vigilante group yelling abuse that chased a police vehicle carrying the charged parents.

For the past nine months, Kiesha's disappearance has consumed Ms Anderson.

She has hosted candlelight vigils in the little girl's honour, set up Facebook pages to keep her name in people's minds and fed each tiny detail she had to police, hoping it would lead to a breakthrough.

"I said from the day she went missing that I would fight for that little girl and I have done that the best I could," Ms Anderson said.

 

"[But] the thing that upset me the most was that they never once went out and looked for her," she said.
 

The arrests heralded closure for a western Sydney community desperate for answers. As police scoured under debris and fallen branches at what is alleged to be Kiesha's burial site, dozens made the lengthy trek into the bush to farewell Kiesha and pay their respects.

 

Back in Hebersham, at the white fence that has become a shrine to Kiesha, people came to pay their respects. A group had organised for a candlelight vigil to be held for Kiesha's birthday last night - no one expecting it would be the same day her remains were found.

"I think it's about time," one of the women said.

"It's Good Friday, it's her birthday and something good happened today."