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Originally Posted by RavynTuqiri
...What I do find perplexing is that this case has grabbed headline news worldwide and others, like Christian Choate from Gary, Ind...has had very little:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_884731.html
I think her and the Anthony family grabbed headlines because of their social status...not because her crime was unique (unfortunately) or overly atrocious as some child abuse / parent-child homicide cases are. |
I think this case got such intense and lasting media coverage, not because of the family's social status, but because they were setting up tents, getting involved with Child Find (I think that's the name) and pulling in 4,000 volunteers to search for their "missing" child by going on the news and begging people to help them find her.
They set themselves up for the media coverage that followed.