By Lauren Thornton Tobin
Enterprise-Journal
A Summit woman is asking for the public’s help in finding her great- niece who lives with her.
Alinda Lang, 15, of 1078 Ward Jackson Road in Summit, has been missing from her home since Christmas night.
She is described as being 5-feet, 7-inches tall, 125 pounds with blue eyes.
“She is very charismatic and has a huge smile,” said her great-aunt and caregiver, Sharon Lang.
Sharon said she and Alinda spoke before Alinda went to bed and when Sharon went to check on Alinda mid-morning on Dec. 26, she was gone.
Sharon said she waited the standard 24 hours before filing a police report with the Pike seriff’s office.
However, after Sharon made the report, she said there was no Amber Alert issued.
“She was wearing short purple shorts and a pink T-shirt, and her hair was on top of her head,” Sharon said. “I don’t think she would have just left the house in that.”
Alinda went missing before in January of last year when she was 14 after a senior boy from McComb High School took her to Copiah County, Sharon said.
McComb police officers were in charge of the investigation and found her within days of being reported missing.
Sharon said she suffers from medical problems and is on oxygen and Alinda typically helps take care of her.
“The investigator think she ran away,” Sharon said. “But I don’t think she would just run away. She wouldn’t leave me for this long.”
Sharon said she turned Alinda’s cell phone off before she went missing and has no way to try to get in touch with her.
Sharon, who has been Alinda’s guardian since infancy, said Alinda isn’t a bad child.
“She’s not a bad child, but she hasn’t had a chance in life to function,” Sharon said. “Her mother was a drug addict and her dad, my nephew, is deceased. She is naive and doesn’t know how dangerous things can get.”
