This poor girl - what could have happened to her. does her employer no more than they are sharing?
The company sounds questionable at best! Here is a comment from one parent about it:
my son left central oregon with this company on a road crew. he called me two to three times a week for the first month he was gone and the stories he told me were horrible. even their most basic needs were not being met, they didn't get paid but their money was sent away to somewhere. they were starving and sleeping in tents in a campground...big difference from the phoenix inn where they stayed originally while "in trianing" in bend oregon prior to hitting the road. last call i got he made from a strangers borrowed cell phone and the call was cut short because "someone had seen him" and i have not been able to locate him or have heard absolutely nothing from his since that call on july 3 of 2008. our family is actively seeking my son as are other families in our area who had children leave on that recruiting bus. the local police and sheriff departments refuse to file missing persons reports because they are adults who left on their own accord and are not at risk to anyone or themselves and have no known medical problems that require medication. we are at out wits end on where to turn with this. finally the site "parentwatch" is helping with some of the basics that we couldn't locate on our own such as just the company name. the kids were told that it was atlantic publications international which is non existent. which makes me wonder just how much bull they have told these kids and what they are actually doing to them and with the money collected for the magazines i'm now reading have been ordered and payed for but never delivered as well as other kids horror stories about the road crews, long hours, lack of basic necessities and their escapes. more people need to be aware and many need help
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/atlantic-circulation-inc-c147051.html
Another teen murdered after going to work for Atlantic Circulation:
Missing teen found dead in Memphis
LEBANON - Catherine Barbour of Lebanon received devastating news this week: Her 19-year-old daughter, missing since November, had been found dead in Memphis, Tenn.
Tracy Onawa Jones, 19, formerly of Albany, went missing on Nov. 15 from a truck stop near Galloway, Ark., outside of Little Rock. She had been working since late June for Pennsylvania-based Atlantic Circulation, Inc., which solicits magazine subscriptions door-to-door.
http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/article_1327f204-0a2a-5116-a3dc-43a4af82ccdb.html
The article is gone, but I did find this blurb:Temple Daily Telegram (10/28/2000):
http://www.temple-telegram.com/archives/2000/n1028.htm
* Three teen-agers hired by Atlantic Circulation of Mountville, Pa., to sell magazine subscriptions were stranded in Temple, TX after being left without money or transportation. The three say they were promised $20 a day during their training, which was rarely paid, and told that the company would provide a bus ticket home if they decided to quit. They decided to quit Atlantic Circulation but, but the company failed to come through with a bus ticket.
And this:
As of May 6, 2009:
Over 300 Documented High Profile Criminal Felony Cases
With 86 Documented Deaths
http://www.travelingsalescrews.info/
And this from Inside Edition:An Inside Edition investigation has found that many young people are being exploited by a nationwide scheme of magazine sales that rip off consumers, endanger the youngsters, and has made the owner of one sales company fabulously wealthy.
http://www.travelingsalescrews.info...- EXPLOITED YOUNGSTERS SELLING MAGAZINES.html
So you have teens and young adults going door to door selling magazine subscriptions that people may never get, in strange places far away from home. All for a whopping $20 a day and the promise of a bus ticket home, which is pretty worthless if you've been murdered. Why is this still going on?
