Just wanted to go back in time to highlight the dreams of this bright-eyed girl who took a detour in life and lost her way home. Wonder if any of Judy's former classmates might remember something that could help find her?
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http://archive.longislandpress.com/2011/08/18/still-looking-for-judy-judith-erin-odonnell/2/
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A young girl with a beautiful smile and blue eyes, Judy was outgoing, friendly and talented. She was on the gymnastics team and the swim team. She wrote poetry and was picked multiple times to enter her work in writing competitions.
Her middle school yearbook page reads, Hi! Im Judy ODonnell. Im 14 years old
Im the middle child
I have braces (I hate them). I really love animals
I like to dance, play music and sing and help people solve their problems.
But the next year Judy began drinking, experimenting with drugs and taking risks that were out of character for her, according to friends and family.
I remember how she used to hitchhike, says Rebecca Schermerhorn, Judys childhood friend. I told her I didnt like it and that I didnt think it was safe to do.
Judy was very trusting, and very friendly and chatty with people she had just met.
During this same time, Maureen says a priest and guidance counselor at Oswego Catholic High School where Judy attendedwho years later admitted to having a sexual relationship with a student whom he had gotten drunk, and was the subject of a $20 million lawsuit filed against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse, according to published news reportscalled home and said 15-year-old Judy needed to be picked up, that she was at the convent and she was drunk.
Judys friend Rebecca has also come forward with information regarding a rape Judy had told her happened while she was hitchhiking.
Something happened, I dont know what, says Maureen, who is sure that someone hurt her sister. Something happened along the line and it turned her from a spirited youth to a troubled youth.