Police "Don't Care" About Missing Girl

Posted: 2008-07-20 21:27:31

AP/WBBM

CHICAGO -- The family of a teenage girl missing since January is urging the Chicago Police Department to increase their investigation into her disappearance.

The family says police believe Yasmin Acree ran away from home. But the girl's mother, Rose Starnes, says there are many reasons her daughter wouldn't run away, including her excitement about starting her first job.

During a gathering outside a police district headquarters Wednesday, the Reverend Marshall Hatch said the missing girl's case is not getting the attention it deserves because she is an African-American honor student from the West Side.

Grand-Central Commander Joseph Salemme is calling the family's criticism insulting.

Starnes said she last saw her daughter January 14 as she left to visit grandchildren in Elgin. When she returned home, she found the locks cut on two gates, and door to the basement forced open.

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