Just had something to say...

I wrote a story & posted it on my blog with some newspaper articles about Donald Vaz and his older brother Lima, back in October 2008, and yesterday I got an anonymous (you gotta love anonymous) comment, to which I replied, but it caused me to do a lot of thinking last night and now I have something to say about this.

First off, here is the address to the story in my blog: http://jessiefoster.blogspot.com/2008/10/donald-vazwhat-do-you-think.html - you can read what she commented on.
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Second of all, here is here comment:
Anonymous said...I am really sorry to hear about Jessica. No one should have to go through this, however I have been involved in the prostitution industry for many years and have to disagree with some of your views. Do I think Donald Vaz had anything to do with your daughters disappearence? No I do not. I have known Donald since he was a child and even though he lives a lifestyle doesnt make him a murder. I would suspect that her pimp in Vegas, which I have lived and worked has something to do with it. She wanted to be with him, working for him and I truly believe was not forced into anything. Pimps are not with you when you go on calls, when you are turning tricks, therefore to say they are forcing you when if you really wanted to leave you could ever night when you leave home to go to work. It was just a choice she made. I really hope they get answers to your many unanswered questions so that you may have peace - February 11, 2009 2:18 PM
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Thirdly, this is my response to her comment:
Jessie'sMomGlendene said...I appreciate your message very much. I never once said that Donald Vaz was a murderer...I actually think that Jessie is still alive, at least I hope & pray she is. If you know something we don't, remember we have a $50,000 reward.
I also agree that the pimp has something to do with Jessie's disappearance, but we do not know to what extent.
I think that you, having made the choice to 'be involved in the prostitution industry' you do not understand the difference. Even if these girls are alone, they do not feel safe, not safe enough to run away, especially if they were told that something bad will happened to their sisters, or their mother or someone dear to them. The girls feel that they are better off dealing with the likes of these people, rather than having their families at risk.
Again, I appreciate your message to me, and please know that we want and need Jessie back very much and if you are able to help us, please do. Thank you, Jessie's mom Glendene - http://www.jessiefoster.ca - February 11, 2009 2:34 PM
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And finally, this is what I want to say:
I am so sad that even Anonymous (sadder that she chose to stay anonymous, but that is totally her choice, of which I respect), who at one point in her life, decided to CHOOSE to be a prostitute. I do not have a problem with that, as a matter of fact, it is something else that is sad but very much a reality...when I woman chooses that lifestyle, but in many cases was left with very few choices, and that was one that helped her situation at that particular time, no matter what it may have been.

I also want to say that if she has known Donald Vaz since he was a child, then she also knows that him and his brother have spent time pimping - there are articles showing this is true, as Lima Vaz has been arrested and spent time in jail for this offense. She also knows that Donald tries to talk women into taking trips to the USA and tries to talk them into driving cars from Canada to the USA, for purposes unknown to me...but all I can say, is it does not sound good.

If you have known Donald Vaz since he was a child, you know that he packed up his wife and all the children and moved to Las Vegas...then when their marriage fell apart, the mom moved back with the kids and married someone else (forgive me if I got the time-frame confused...she may have remarried in Las Vegas, I am not positive at this time).

If you have known Donald Vaz since he was a child you know that he and his wife lost a child to death when it was just an infant....HOW DID THIS NOT CHANGE HIM? HOW DOES HE NOT KNOW HOW A PARENT FEELS ABOUT THEIR CHILDREN? Donald, I hope to God no one does anything to your children or stepchildren (even your ex-stepchildren), they do not deserve it - JUST LIKE JESSIE DID NOT DESERVE THIS!!

So, with all of that being said...she was looking at Jessie through her own eyes. Through the eyes of someone who chose to live that lifestyle. Through the eyes of someone who was not beaten (as Jessie was...there are hospital records to back this up), who was not brainwashed (as we believe Jessie was...knowing my daughter as I do, as her her sisters and her friends all do, we know that Jessie was not the type of person to simply disregard her family and carry on a wonderful life leaving us as we are now...broken, sad and determined to get Jessie back. Leaving us to believe she was probably told we would be harmed if she did not do as told).

I have seen this before. People who are so sad for what we are going through. Who pray for Jessie to be found, one way or the other. People who's hearts are totally in the right place...but, and this is an important BUT...they seem to end their kindhearted messages with comments like: IT'S TOO BAD SHE GOT INVOLVED IN PROSTITUTION or IT'S TOO BAD SHE WAS BLINDED BY THE GLITTER & GLITZ OF VEGAS or WHEN YOU BECOME INVOLVED IN THIS LIFESTYLE, THIS STUFF HAPPENS or, and here is the big one...IF SHE WANTED TO, SHE COULD HAVE RUN AWAY WHEN THEY WERE NOT WITH HER!!!

"Here we go again", is usually my first thought, or "oh my God...I totally thought they understood, but they completely didn't". You see, if they did, if they REALLY understood the concept of human trafficking, brainwashing, drugging - no one, I repeat NO ONE would say those things...they would not even think them.

So, that is what I had to say on this topic. Jessie's mom Glendene
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Feb. 13, 2009: Something about that comment left by Anonymous the other day that just kept eating at me and so I re-read it yet again - now I see it. She said this "She wanted to be with him, working for him and I truly believe was not forced into anything." and what I want to know is why she sounds so knowedgable about Jessie's 'wanting to be with Peter Todd'. HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS, Ms. Anonymous? You do know more than you are saying, don't you?
Remember there is a $50,000 reward!