Chelsea King’s family launches foundation
(CNS) – The family of slain Poway High School senior Chelsea King announced today the creation of a nonprofit agency to serve as a vehicle for their efforts to tighten laws that are supposed to protect the public from sex offenders.
The Chelsea’s Light Foundation will strive for legislative and law enforcement change in the name of the 17-year-old straight-A student, whose body was found in a shallow grave near Lake Hodges on March 2, five days after she went missing during a jogging outing in Rancho Bernardo.
A registered sex offender has been charge with sexually assaulting and murdering her.
With a “specific plan of action … defined over the coming weeks and months,’’ the organization will “work in concert with California Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher to develop a path forward, beginning with California and subsequently the nation,’’ King family spokeswoman Sara Muller Fraunces said.
Chelsea’s parents, Brent and Kelly King, issued the following statement regarding the fledgling agency:
“We know that the path to healing will be long and unsteady because Chelsea’s absence leaves such a gaping hole in our hearts, our family and our community. We will reach past our grief and focus our rage to bring about changes that will make our communities safer. Establishing the Chelsea’s Light Foundation is our first positive step in that direction. We invite global participation. As Chelsea loved to say, ‘Go big or go home.’?’’
On Saturday, an overflow crowd of more than 6,000 people packed Poway High School’s football stadium for a memorial honoring Chelsea, described by her principal as a “shining light’’ that the community must make sure is never extinguished.
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