I have wanted many times to write in to the newspaper and express my opinion, but have refrained until now.

Never have I been so livid about an article as I am about the recent front-page announcement about the Ayla Reynolds case given by the Waterville Police Department.

How totally unprofessional. How dare they make an assumption with no solid proof and take hope away from a family?

Unless, of course, the Waterville police are not telling us all there is to know.

Even then, those who are there to protect and serve us should have been more professional than to say the little girl is probably dead, when no body has been found.

I have heard and read about numerous cases where family members have been abducted and later found alive.

Mary Jane Wellington

Albion