Phylicia Moore--Keeping her "ALIVE" on the Internet

by Michelle Says So | June 6, 2007 at 02:17 pm
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With no mainstream media headlines, yet gaining strength on the internet is the horrifying story of an 18-year old New Jersey girl named Phylicia Moore. You won't see her story on Greta van Susteren, Nancy Grace, or the myriad of other mass media pundits on the cable news.

Why?

Some say it's because Phylicia was a black girl and deemed not "newsworthy". The infamous term "Missing White Woman Syndrome" keeping popping up as debate. Some say it's because she isn't missing person and therefore the case is not active. Some with no heart at all say it is just irrelevant to the news and to them.

FACE IT. IT IS NEWS. A beautiful young woman with a with promising future was stymied in the prime of her life while doing good deeds. Her mother, Lola Moore said, "She was stolen from us. That's the way we feel, like she was stolen from us."

I don't see this story in color.  I see the story as a probable murder and an immediate and incompetent police investigation.  I see the story as a family torn apart as their daughter graduates and heads to Ghana on a goodwill tour with her school to help children with AIDS yet never to return.  I see the story as a mystery as Phylicia leaves the pool area of her hotel at 10:30 p.m., apparently heading for her room only to be found 11 hours later face down in the pool with her clothes on, her swimsuit underneath and no shoes.  Did she ever make it to her room?

The Moore family has so many questions that have not been answered.  The Ghanaian officials never formally interviewed her fellow students or chaperones before the group continued on with their tour.  Moore's father stated, "I feel it's important that in order to solve this, everybody should be interviewed, not just a few people...that goes for the people connected to the hotel, any visitors, all the students and chaperones.  Then they will most likely get a handle on what happened to my daughter.  But to just let it go for a month like this, that's no good." 

Let's remember its been almost TWO MONTHS now.

The Police found no evidence of foul play; however, the medical examiners never completed a toxicology test.  The Moore family had an independent autopsy done in the United States which found that Phylicia was not in the water for very long before she was found.

Evidently there are two different scenarios and stories going on...and they don't jive.  

Bring in the FBI!

But wait! Under international law, the FBI can't formally get involved until it receives an "ok" from the Ghanaian government.

The family and the FBI never got that "ok" until NOW.  With the help of New Jersey Representative Steve Rothman, the U.S. ambassador to Ghana told the Moore family that an FBI legal attache assigned to Lagos, Nigeria will travel to Ghana this week to work with the task force formed by the Ghanaian government to solve this mystery. 

Is ANYONE safe traveling outside the United States anymore?  Will the Moore family receive the answers they deserve or will they be tossed aside like other Americans murdered abroad?

Only time will tell...Is Phylicia Moore's death important?  Maybe not to some, but A LOT to many, many others.  She deserves justice so her family can be at peace and so she may REST IN PEACE. 

 

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ricknight
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at 14:06 on June 7th, 2007

Michelle, This story deserves more coverage -> Good stuff.

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Michelle Says So

I HOPE it gets around.  I am going to keep updating this as I find out answers.

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at 11:51 on June 8th, 2007

Michelle Says So, I like this story. It's good stuff, lets get the word out.

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irezistabe1328

thank you for writing about her because i went to school with her and she was a very nice person and did not deserve to die

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Michelle Says So

I am extremely sorry to hear about your terrible loss.  If you hear of any updates, please feel free to email me at michellesaysso@yahoo.com.  The mainstream media doesn't report on her anymore, and she deserves just as much attention as anyone.  It's a crime I refuse to forget.

God bless you and her wonderful friends and family.  

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