By Chuck Hustmyre
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Not everyone is convinced that Brianna Wilkins left on a journey of personal growth. Her aunt, Christine Wilkins, a professor of computer applications and business technology at Clark College in Vancouver, Wash., said she thinks Brianna left home to get away from her mother.
"They have a very, very bad relationship," Christine Wilkins said. "The whole thing is her mother's responsibility. She has screwed that girl up for years to come."
Christine Wilkins, who is James Wilkins' sister, said Brianna has not contacted her father since she disappeared Jan. 11. Ms. Wilkins also disagreed strongly with Chera Walsh's assertion that her brother suggested anything to Brianna that was inappropriate or risky. "I know James would never do anything to put Brianna in danger—ever," she wrote in an email to Crime Library.
Meanwhile, police in Livingston continue to investigate Brianna's disappearance but have little to go on. Since Brianna turned 18 a little more than two weeks after she disappeared, and because there does not appear to be any evidence of foul play, police are treating her disappearance as a voluntary missing person's case rather than as an abduction or other violent crime.
Chera Walsh told Crime Library that she and Brianna's boyfriend, Montana Standish, are planning to travel to Hawaii within the next week or two, but she denied that the trip has any connection to Brianna's disappearance.
Walsh has offered a $500 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of her daughter.
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