UPDATE: It was reported at noon today that Krystal has been found. Nine News Sydney tweeted:
#BREAKING: Missing 14 yo school girl Krystal Muhieddine has been found safe & well in country Victoria
More to come.
Last Friday fourteen-year old Krystal Muhieddine snuck out to see a movie. Her parents found out she had been lying about who she was with.
They were, as parents are often, a little bit angry with their daughter.
A week later she is missing.
Now her parents aren’t angry at all they are frantic with worry.
Krystal Muhieddine, from Hunters Hill in Sydney’s north is a typical fourteen-year old girl living half in an adult world and stuck half in childhood.
She has three sisters who love her dearly.
She has devoted parents.
She still sleeps with her teddy bear.
Her heartbroken parents, Wally and Suzanne pleaded yesterday for her to come home, or for anyone with information to come forward.
Mrs Muhieddine last saw her daughter at 5.30am on Tuesday, sitting in the passenger seat of a silver hatchback with red P-plates as it sped off from outside their house in Mount Street, Hunters Hill.
“Someone was waiting for her. She’s never dated anyone. She’s never had a boyfriend. She’s never been anywhere without me dropping her off.” she told the Sydney Morning Herald.
She took a bag with her – a small green backpack, and a small amount of money.
Top Comments
Glad she's been found but reading this article and seeing the parents on the Today show, well, therein lies the problem... "She's just a baby". Well really she's not. Parents of Krystal, I am a mother too, give her the opportunity for you to trust that she knows how to be... Give her the opportunity to grow up
She doesn't know how to be. She ran away with a stranger. Whoever took her was old enough to drive a car, at least two years older with a fourteen year old.
She is not old enough to understand complicated relationships or understand the danger she was in. Thank goodness she is safe but it could have turned out far worse. Her parents were right to be careful and treat her like a child, because she is!
I agree 100%, too many parents think like that, treating her like a baby... And the comment about not dating at that age... Its like asking her to sneak around with someone you've never met band get knocked up! The number of girls that age that I've seen sexually active is extremely high!! Parents are foolishly neive and live in a magic bubble thinking their kids are ignorant, innocent to everything and think they do nothing wrong. When I was in college, and that's been a number of years ago (its way worse now!), it was VERY COMMON to see girls that age and younger not only being sexually active with kids their own age but ACTIVELY HUNTING and catching college guys and guys in their 20's + that they wanted to date and have sex with. Most of these girls knew how to dress and apply makeup so that they looked much older so that unless they slipped up in their speach or topics you had no clue as to how young they were! Parents need to wake up. Kids need freedom to grow and learn but they also need monitored constantly and need their parents keeping them active in sports orother projects aand programs so their time is used in a positive manner helping them to grow into great young adults. This requires family, friends and neighbors working together to make it happen. You can't give a void as cellphone and use it as va babysitter! Hell, honestly there's no reason why kids should have cellphones anyway, we never did send we were better for it! ( and most of us wish we didn't have them now;)
Glad she has been found