JASSMYN CARR - 15 yo - Jamaica/ Queens/ NYC NY

As she wiped away tears, grieving mom Erica Carr made another
impassioned plea on Friday, asking for the public’s help in locating her
missing 15-year-old adopted daughter, Jassmyn, who disappeared more
than two months ago.


“It’s been a complete nightmare,” Carr said at a press
conference at Assemblyman Bill Scarborough’s office, where she was
joined by the lawmaker, along with former City Councilman Archie Spigner
and several runaway children advocates. “When she went missing I was
terrified.”



Jassmyn had run away twice before, taking clothes with her each time,
unlike this last incident. Her mother believes it may have been a
last-minute decision, since she did go to classes that day — she attends
the High School for Community Leadership, one of the new academies at
Jamaica High — and even remarked in a conversation that morning that it
would be silly for her to run away again.
In her journal, which
she gave her mother permission to read, she said that the reason she had
run away before is because she didn’t trust herself to make good
decisions. “Because she said when she is questioned, right away she
always lies, and she doesn’t know why,” Carr recalled of the journal
entries.
Jassmyn has medical mental health issues, which led to
some inappropriate behavior later on in her life, and caused her to get
into trouble at school. Her biological mother is a career prostitute,
now serving jail time in Virginia for theft, according to Carr.
“She’s
always had counseling and psychiatrists — always — ever since she came
to me,” Carr said. “She was born addicted to crack. ... and was
malnourished when I got her, and they thought she was mute. So, she’s
always had problems.”
Carr believes Jassmyn may have run away to
Virginia to be with her mother and other family there. She also could
have been trying to avoid continuing her mental health counseling or
been afraid of getting into further trouble due to her problems at
school.
“Come home, I love you no matter what,” Carr pleaded. “My love is unconditional.”
Carr
said she has received a lackluster response from the 103rd Precinct and
added that officers never went to Jassmyn’s school or tried to
interview her fellow students.
“They just actually told me that I
needed to accept the fact that it’s nearly impossible to find someone
who doesn’t want to be found,” Carr said.
Joe Mazzilli, of the
Runaway Assistance Program, whose staff consists of experienced former
police detectives, said a major part of the problem in finding missing
runaways is that groups like his do not have the subpoena power that is
necessary to obtain critical information from organizations like Safe
Horizon and Covenant House, which could be harboring missing youths.
He
is advocating to get Patricia’s Law, which has been enacted in New
Jersey, passed in New York. It mandates, among other things, that law
enforcement disclose information about certain missing person
investigations to parents and groups working on their behalf, as long as
it would not adversely affect efforts to locate the person or to
prosecute anyone in connection with the case. It would apply in
instances where the subject is 13 to 21.
“We get so many cases a
week and many of them could be solved in a day or two if we had subpoena
power, because they’re all on the Internet,” Mazzilli said. “They’re
using Twitter and everything else. And you want to catch the kid early
before something happens.”
Carr worries that because Jassmyn is
attractive and mature-looking for her age, she might become the victim
of a sexual predator.
“As we all know, a runaway child is a
missing person. No doubt about it,” Mazzilli said. “And a lot of them
end up exploited and dead. ... It can be changed through legislation
that could really help the families get information.”
The teen was
last seen on Jan. 13 at 8:45 a.m. near Merrick Boulevard and 108th
Avenue in Jamaica. Jassmyn was wearing a white blouse, black pants, gray
and purple high top sneakers and a red Old Navy pea coat with large
black buttons. She has brown eyes, is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs
175 pounds.
Jassmyn’s disappearance is classified as that of an endangered runaway and listed as case number USNY15740 on missingkids.com,
the website of the National Center for Missing & Exploited
Children. Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call
911 or the Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit at (212) 694-7781.
http://www.qchron.com/editions/eastern/mom-pleads-for-safe-return-of-missing-child/article_51cd93e2-645c-5685-92de-151cc4b447cc.html

Police searching for missing Jamaica teen

Monday, April 9th, 2012 5:16 PM EDT


Police are asking for the public’s help locating Jassmyn Carr, 15, of Jamaica.

Police are asking for the public’s help locating a missing Jamaica teen.

Jassmyn Carr, 15, has not been seen since Friday, January 13 at her Merrick Boulevard home.

She is described as 5-feet-8-inches tall, 175 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information in regard to this missing person is asked to
call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit
their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at
WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES)
then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confidential.
http://queenscourier.com/2012/police-searching-for-missing-jamaica-teen/

Jassmyn Carr
Jassmyn,
17, is a runaway. She has been missing since Jan. 13, 2012 and was last
seen wearing a white blouse, black pants, gray and purple high top
sneakers and a red Old Navy pea coat with large black buttons. Jassmyn,
from Queens, New York originally, may be traveling to Virginia

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