15 year old school girl missing

A 15 year old school girl named Lauren from Essex has been missing for 3 days, after a man phoned her school pretending to be her dad. Her mum, Hayley, believes she has run away with a group of older men. The teenager told her mum she was going to stay with a friend but hasn't been seen since. Her mum believes that the older men are giving her alcohol so she can't look after herself. 

Mrs canon said: 'there are some who are older than lauren and some who were in their early 20's'.

'It has come out now that she has a life for herself that our family don't know about and friends who are completely oblivious to it. It is very worrying.'

Mrs Cannon said Lauren ran away when she asked for the mother's number of a friend she had claimed to have been with the night before. Her mum said this is nothing like her, she's expected to do well in her gcse's, there's been no bad behaviour to lead up to this and everyone who knows her would say she has a good heart. 

I believe it's important for these stories to be spread across the media not just to help find the missing girl but for the awareness to other teenage girls. It also shows how tradgedies like this can happen to the most ordinary of people, as she was just a typical girl prepared to sit her gcse's, like most teenagers are.