Another Reason Why Teenagers Need Cell Phones

I don't work for any cell phone company. Yet I keep finding more and more reasons why a girl (or a boy) needs a cell phone.

Tune in to Dateline tonight to see this story. In 2006 S. C. teenager Elizabeth Shoaf was kidnapped and placed in an underground bunker where she was held captive and sexually assaulted for 10 days. Though would-be rescuers were searching for her everywhere, the bunker was so well hidden that they couldn't find her. Because she was able to trick her kidnapper and sent a text-message to her mother, she was rescued.

Nobody should go what she went through. Here's an excerpt from her story:

I think that Vinson, the man that kidnapped me, is just stupid. He isn’t crazy because if he was, he would have killed me or done something worse.  He knew what he was doing and he got outsmarted. Not to be snobby, but he thought he could get away with kidnapping and raping me for 10 days and I, 14 years old, outsmarted him -- a 36-year-old man.

A cell phone is sometimes the next best thing to a gun.

Comments

[Angry]

I agree with you, Anne, there’s no reason why teenagers shouldn’t have a mobile (cell) phone.

But I’m afraid this article only presents an argument for why kidnappers should carry a mobile phone because if I understand it, it was his phone not hers that led to her rescue.

[Elise]

i have a 13 year old daughter, but i am waiting to get her a phone when she graduates 8th grade, she will be 14 1/2. Is that too late to get her one? should i get her one earlier?