Kylie Johnson, mother of missing teen Phoebe Bishop, hits back at vile comments from online trolls
The mother of missing teenager Phoebe Bishop has hit back at vile social media comments, following an appeal to the public alongside police to help find her daughter.
Kylie Johnson appeared in a video appeal urging anyone who had seen a grey Hyundai ix35 - which her daughter Pheobe was reportedly travelling in before she disappeared - to contact police.
But after vile comments began appearing on the video, Ms Johnson took matters into her own hands.
In a post on her Facebook account, she hit back at the trolls who were attacking her tone and demeanour.
'I'm sorry that I'm currently an emotional wreck, trying to protect our other children from the media and the trolls, trying to continue to breathe while your world shatters around you!,' she posted on Saturday.
Ms Johnson's daughter, 17-year-old Phoebe Bishop, has been missing since May 15, when the teenager failed to board a flight at Bundaberg Airport.
After searching bushland in the regional Queensland city, police put out a video statement read by Ms Johnson over the weekend, where the mother pleads for information.
After the police statement was published online, commenters began to criticise the way Ms Johnson spoke and her demeanour.
'People wanted a statement, they got one yet still question me as a mother?,' Ms Johnson posted afterwards.
'If anyone would like to be in this position please step in and show me how to do this? Show me what a perfect parent looks like' she said, defending herself.
'Show me how to navigate this? Show me how to deal with the unknown and the uncertainty? Show me how to use perfect language and emotion in a situation that no parent ever wants to be in.'
Ms Johnson has posted daily about the search for Phoebe, and acknowledges she has left her social media accounts open to the public to maintain awareness of her missing daughter, despite rife and derogatory comments from members of the public.
'My posts aren't public to defend myself or react to negative comments. In fact negative comments also draw conversations and that's what we as a family need to bring Phee home,' she posted last week.
'Hell I will take any conversation if it has my baby walking down our driveway or calling any of us.
'So please don't be mad at the trolls. They have a role to play just like the amazing people who honestly just want our Phoebe home.'
Phoebe was last seen on May 15, travelling toward Bundaberg Airport. Her housemates told police they drove Phoebe to the airport in a grey Hyundai ix35 for her 8.30am flight. But Phoebe did not enter the airport. Police have searched their house and charged the flatmates with unrelated weapon possession charges.
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Her latest update documented the heartbreaking toll the disappearance of Pheobe is having on the family. "I don't know if life will ever be the same again? I don't know if I will ever look at the world the same way that I did before May 15th," Ms Johnson posted on Facebook on Wednesday. "What I do know is that people have information on where you are Phee and we need that reported to police." The community had rallied around the missing teen's family during the search with a "Leave the Lights On for Pheobe" campaign. Gin Gin locals posted photos on social media of their front lights switched on "to guide Pheobe home". Wood and Bromley are set to appear in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Friday. The two housemates of missing teenager Pheobe Bishop have been charged with murder, more than three weeks after the 17-year-old's "suspicious" disappearance. James Wood, 34, and Tanika Kristan Bromley, 33, were arrested in the Bundaberg area in southern Queensland late on Thursday, police said. Pheobe was last seen near Bundaberg airport about 8.30am on May 15 after booking a trip to Western Australia to see her boyfriend. CCTV footage indicated Pheobe never arrived at the airport terminal. "The remains of Pheobe Bishop have not been located to date," a police statement said on Thursday night. "Detectives continue to investigate this matter, and physical searches will continue as needed as information is provided." Wood and Bromley have also been charged with two counts each of interfering with a corpse. Wood had previously been taken into custody on Wednesday but was released several hours later without charge. The search for Pheobe was scaled back on Wednesday after police had spent weeks combing several areas of interest in southern Queensland. One of those areas was a property in Gin Gin where Pheobe had lived with Wood and Bromley. The Gin Gin property near Bundaberg and a grey Hyundai ix35, thought to have been used to take Pheobe to the airport, were declared crime scenes soon after her disappearance. The police search initially focused on Good Night Scrub national park, an hour's drive from Bundaberg airport, with homicide detectives, cadaver dogs and divers called in. Some items believed to be linked to the investigation were seized for forensic examination. The search revealed evidence might have been moved from the national park before police arrived. Wood and Bromley had earlier been charged with unrelated weapons offences. Pheobe's mum Kylie Johnson has been posting on social media almost every day pleading for information about her daughter's whereabouts. Her latest update documented the heartbreaking toll the disappearance of Pheobe is having on the family. "I don't know if life will ever be the same again? I don't know if I will ever look at the world the same way that I did before May 15th," Ms Johnson posted on Facebook on Wednesday. "What I do know is that people have information on where you are Phee and we need that reported to police." The community had rallied around the missing teen's family during the search with a "Leave the Lights On for Pheobe" campaign. Gin Gin locals posted photos on social media of their front lights switched on "to guide Pheobe home". Wood and Bromley are set to appear in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Friday. The two housemates of missing teenager Pheobe Bishop have been charged with murder, more than three weeks after the 17-year-old's "suspicious" disappearance. James Wood, 34, and Tanika Kristan Bromley, 33, were arrested in the Bundaberg area in southern Queensland late on Thursday, police said. Pheobe was last seen near Bundaberg airport about 8.30am on May 15 after booking a trip to Western Australia to see her boyfriend. CCTV footage indicated Pheobe never arrived at the airport terminal. "The remains of Pheobe Bishop have not been located to date," a police statement said on Thursday night. "Detectives continue to investigate this matter, and physical searches will continue as needed as information is provided." Wood and Bromley have also been charged with two counts each of interfering with a corpse. Wood had previously been taken into custody on Wednesday but was released several hours later without charge. The search for Pheobe was scaled back on Wednesday after police had spent weeks combing several areas of interest in southern Queensland. One of those areas was a property in Gin Gin where Pheobe had lived with Wood and Bromley. The Gin Gin property near Bundaberg and a grey Hyundai ix35, thought to have been used to take Pheobe to the airport, were declared crime scenes soon after her disappearance. The police search initially focused on Good Night Scrub national park, an hour's drive from Bundaberg airport, with homicide detectives, cadaver dogs and divers called in. Some items believed to be linked to the investigation were seized for forensic examination. The search revealed evidence might have been moved from the national park before police arrived. Wood and Bromley had earlier been charged with unrelated weapons offences. Pheobe's mum Kylie Johnson has been posting on social media almost every day pleading for information about her daughter's whereabouts. Her latest update documented the heartbreaking toll the disappearance of Pheobe is having on the family. "I don't know if life will ever be the same again? I don't know if I will ever look at the world the same way that I did before May 15th," Ms Johnson posted on Facebook on Wednesday. "What I do know is that people have information on where you are Phee and we need that reported to police." The community had rallied around the missing teen's family during the search with a "Leave the Lights On for Pheobe" campaign. Gin Gin locals posted photos on social media of their front lights switched on "to guide Pheobe home". Wood and Bromley are set to appear in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Friday. The two housemates of missing teenager Pheobe Bishop have been charged with murder, more than three weeks after the 17-year-old's "suspicious" disappearance. James Wood, 34, and Tanika Kristan Bromley, 33, were arrested in the Bundaberg area in southern Queensland late on Thursday, police said. Pheobe was last seen near Bundaberg airport about 8.30am on May 15 after booking a trip to Western Australia to see her boyfriend. CCTV footage indicated Pheobe never arrived at the airport terminal. "The remains of Pheobe Bishop have not been located to date," a police statement said on Thursday night. "Detectives continue to investigate this matter, and physical searches will continue as needed as information is provided." Wood and Bromley have also been charged with two counts each of interfering with a corpse. Wood had previously been taken into custody on Wednesday but was released several hours later without charge. The search for Pheobe was scaled back on Wednesday after police had spent weeks combing several areas of interest in southern Queensland. One of those areas was a property in Gin Gin where Pheobe had lived with Wood and Bromley. The Gin Gin property near Bundaberg and a grey Hyundai ix35, thought to have been used to take Pheobe to the airport, were declared crime scenes soon after her disappearance. The police search initially focused on Good Night Scrub national park, an hour's drive from Bundaberg airport, with homicide detectives, cadaver dogs and divers called in. Some items believed to be linked to the investigation were seized for forensic examination. The search revealed evidence might have been moved from the national park before police arrived. Wood and Bromley had earlier been charged with unrelated weapons offences. Pheobe's mum Kylie Johnson has been posting on social media almost every day pleading for information about her daughter's whereabouts. Her latest update documented the heartbreaking toll the disappearance of Pheobe is having on the family. "I don't know if life will ever be the same again? I don't know if I will ever look at the world the same way that I did before May 15th," Ms Johnson posted on Facebook on Wednesday. "What I do know is that people have information on where you are Phee and we need that reported to police." The community had rallied around the missing teen's family during the search with a "Leave the Lights On for Pheobe" campaign. Gin Gin locals posted photos on social media of their front lights switched on "to guide Pheobe home". Wood and Bromley are set to appear in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Friday.
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