I made a mistake by posting that I was leaving the Lindsey Baum Search Center on my facebook! I did say why but I guess some people took it wrong.
Some of you on here write on other forms so I thought I would clear up any misunderstanding on why I am not at the Lindsey Search Center as the director.
But first let me explain a few things.
I am the one who contacted MB when Lindsey went missing she was distraught to say the least, I contacted her because I had just got back from California looking for my niece Amber Dubois, I had been going through this for almost 5 months and was trained to help by LRC and offered my help to a very distraught mom. I helped set up a center for Lindsey so we could get the people we needed to help search for her.
Usually when a group such as the Laura Recovery Center comes in to help a family they are there for about 1 week to train and give the necessary help in putting the center together. By the time LRC leaves or any group leaves the people they have trained have the tools they need to keep a center going. No one from a group such as LRC stays for as long as the center is open. It is just not possible. I did because I live close enough that I could do that, I chose to stay and help and search. I was not representing the LRC at that point; I was representing the Lindsey Baum search center which at this point is an entity of its own. I know that for those of you who have not had to go through this it is hard to understand. I chose to leave and help another family who has asked for help. I left the Lindsey center knowing that everyone there is well trained, determined to keep the center going. They are there because they choose to be because all of them including myself have a deep compassion and love for a little lost girl named Lindsey.
Please understand that the people running the center are wonderful people, they are very much in control of the center, and they know how to run it and what they are doing. Please give them the respect they so deserve.
I am not saying anyone on here has wrote or said anything about me leaving and the search center, but I am hoping that those of you who write on other forms will post this to those forms so that everyone can get a better understanding on what groups like LRC are there to do.
Also everyone at the center knows I will not stay away forever I will still be popping in once in awhile for as long as I can.
Thank You,
Linda Walkup