Missing Baptist minister’s wife found working in NY
July 31st, 2007The wife of an Alabama minister missing for more than four months has been located by police unharmed and working under an alias at a fast-food restaurant in New York state, authorities said Monday.
Louisiana police located Mary Byrne Smith alive and well in New York state on Friday. The 30-year-old kindergarten teacher had been working under an assumed name at a fast-food restaurant.
“We know it’s her,” Bossier City Police Chief Mike Halphen said at a press conference Monday. “She did not want us to disclose the reasons why she left, and she did not want us to disclose where she is living.”
Weird stuff.
I don’t find this terribly surprising, given the amount of pressure that many pastors’ wives live under. Hopefully they can work things out and this family can be put back together.
I hope things can be worked out and she will return home to her family. I can’t imagine the pressure one would feel by the concern that you would have over the children left behind. I guess if you can walk away from one problem, you can another. I don’t mean for this to be mean, but how you can turn the love for your children off and walk away from them is difficult for me to understand.