Glendene Grant has asked me to publicise the case of her missing daughter, Jessica Foster, who was Jessie Smiling 2 last seen in March 2006 in North Las Vegas when she was 21.

She said:

“We need to have everyone know who Jessie Foster is. We need to find her and bring her home. We need to make people aware of Jessie and that she is missing, and that her case is being investigated as a kidnapping/human trafficking case by the ATLAS Task Force (an intelligence committee of investigators). And we need to let people know that we have a reward we keep building, and we need to raise money to do a lot of this.”

Jessie was last known to be with her boyfriend in their North Las Vegas home when she was talking to her older sister on the telephone on the 28th of March, regarding them going to their step-sister’s wedding reception in Calgary, Alberta on the 29th of April.

Jessie’s disappearance has been highlighted extensively by the American media, and comparisons made with disappearances of other young women. Her parents hired an investigator and discovered that the straight-A student travelled from Calgary to the USA with a man she met at a reggae party who promised to pay for her trip. Jessie ended up working as a prostitute.

Her heartbroken mother is determined to continue with her search until she discovers the truth about what happened to Jessie. She hopes and believes she is still alive, forced into the frightening life of human trafficking.

In memory of those who are still missing.