One distraught father is banking on social media to help find his run-away daughter.
In a video posted to YouTube on December 29, Ray Wilson, who doesn’t speak but holds up flash cards, asks the Internet for help in finding his seventeen-year-old daughter Haley Faith Wilson.
Holding back tears, Wilson explains through the cards that his daughter ran away on December 26, and holds up pictures of his daughter, the car she is driving, as well as a map of possible locations where she may have run.
“I just want her to be found safe” reads a card.
The video currently sits at 200,000 views, and has collected more then 4,000 comments.
“I can also vouch for the authenticity of this story. Ray is a friend of mine, a local musician, a successful businessman, and one of the kindest men I know. His family is devastated” wrote jasonboyett in a top comment on the YouTube video, before addressing mean-spirited comments.
Haley’s science teacher posted the video to Reddit last night, writing in a comment
“I had noticed that she was acting a bit strange before the break, but I didn’t ask her about it. Now she is gone… If you know where she is and that she is safe, please let me or the Amarillo, TX police department or her father know.”
The reddit thread is currently on the front page of the social news site.
On YouTube, folks have taken to reposting the video, as well as making their own videos urging others to help find Haley.
Wilson has also taken to Twitter for help, with the hastag #FindHaley. So far the hashtag has been tweeted 381 times, according to Topsy.
On Facebook, the recently created page Help Find Haley has already been liked 1,635 times.
“I’ve seen stuff like that, that’s not as important spread like wildfire, so why couldn’t something like this,… and maybe we can find her” said Wilson to Amarillo’s KVII Pronews 7 in an interview.
“I do think social media is our best hope for finding her, it’s very powerful and moves very fast and it travels from state to state,” added Wilson.
