I won't say you didn't see an Amber Alert, GulfCoastKAT, but I'm pretty certain no Amber Alert was issued. Keiosha was determined "missing" on July 23 by the Duson Police Department.
Duson Police Now Calling a Runaway Teen A Missing Person
07/23/2012 06:06 PM by Jenise Fernandez
http://www.katc.com/full-coverage/disappearance-of-keiosha-felix-s/
I receive notification of AA's by e-mail. When I opened the thread on July 26, I had not seen one and didn't find one in a search. Unfortunately, Keiosha's disappearance does not appear to fit the criteria for the AA guidelines.
For an AMBER Alert to be effective in recovering a missing child, the law enforcement agency must have enough information to believe that an immediate broadcast to the public will enhance the efforts of law enforcement to locate the child and apprehend the suspect. This element requires as much descriptive information as possible about the abducted child and the abduction, as well as descriptive information about the suspect and the suspect’s vehicle. Issuing alerts in the absence of significant information that an abduction has occurred could lead to abuse of the system and ultimately weaken its effectiveness.
http://www.amberalert.gov/guidelines.htm
AA's are intended to locate an abducted child before the suspect has a chance to do harm. LE is also required to first confirm an abduction took place, and in this case I don't think they can. Keiosha has been missing since April, and suspects have been arrested. One man is charged with rape and second degree kidnapping. His brother has been charged with simple kidnapping. LE must have probable cause to charge them, which means they have a pretty good idea what happened, but their knowledge doesn't include a typical abduction.
Apparently, the rape occurred before Keiosha went missing, according to what's been reported about the aunt's failure to report it, and several witnesses told Lt. Credeur they were aware Wilkerson raped KF.
Credeur wrote that he had talked to several witnesses who had all stated that Wilkerson, Andrus’ boyfriend, had raped Keiosha Felix.
http://theadvocate.com/home/3449378-125/two-more-people-arrested-in
So if all these people knew she was raped, it must have occurred prior to her disappearance. It's also reported that KF was last seen leaving her aunt's house in Duson, apparently by her own will. So where do the kidnapping charges come in? LE won't elaborate at all about that aspect. If the kidnapping is directly tied into the rape, and the whole incident occurred at some point before Keiosha disappeared, then a later abduction might be unrelated, and LE doesn't have a clue about why or how she disappeared.
So what the hell did they do to Keiosha that all these family members were involved and lied to protect themselves? What state of mind was she in when she left? Was she angry, crying, telling others what they did to her and threatening to tell the police? And who actually saw her leave her aunt's house? Did she leave at all? Alive? :furious:
Now Lt. Credeur, whom the family has grown to trust, has been kicked off the case without explanation by a relative of one of the arrestees, KF's aunt and gf of the rapist. WTH gives in the Duson Police Dept? On a positive note, multiple agencies are investigating, including the FBI and the Louisiana State Police.
The case is now being investigated by the FBI, New Orleans Division, Lafayette Resident Agency, State Police, Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office and the Duson Police Department, according to a news release about the reward.
http://theadvocate.com/news/police/3778904-123/reward-offered-in-search-for
The shenanigans going on within the DPD won't stop the other LEA's from doing their jobs. I do believe, however, that LE would do well to be more forthcoming about the facts in this case. What premise are they working on? Stranger abduction? Or not?