Search widens: national campaign for Krystal

Updated November 7 2012 - 12:09am, first published July 20 2009 - 11:55am

POLICE have launched a national media campaign for a missing intellectually disabled woman who was due to give birth four weeks ago.Police believe there is the chance 24-year-old Krystal Fraser is now interstate, being harboured by friends.Yesterday marked the one-month anniversary of her disappearance.She was last seen in the maternity accommodation section at Bendigo Hospital on June 20 about 6.30pm.She was due to give birth to her first child, a son the family says she wanted to name Ryan, the following day.Compounding issues for police and her family is Krystal’s intellectual impairment.Senior Constable Jason Brady said Krystal’s bank accounts had not been touched since she vanished."As time goes on, and the longer things go on, you have to keep your mind open as to what might occur," he said.Senior Constable Brady believes Krystal may have fled interstate as she had concerns the state would take her son after his birth.Krystal’s paternal grandmother Helen Fraser spoke to The Advertiser of her worries."All I want is for Krystal to contact us," she said."We won’t interfere. She can do what she wants to do, we just want to know that shes OK."Mrs Fraser says the family learned of Krystal’s pregnancy in February, but do not know the identity of the baby’s father.“Since she got pregnant she’s been a different person . . . she wasn’t so outgoing, she used to be a very friendly girl,” she said.However, Mrs Fraser said Krystal was excited about becoming a first-time mother and had suffered no side-effects from the pregnancy.She said health professionals had expressed concern that Krystal’s extreme slim build may complicate the boy’s birth.The 24-year-old lived in a housing department unit in Pyramid Hill, and is on an invalid pension.She takes Epilum for epilepsy, but it is not known whether she has had access to the drug since she disappeared.Mrs Fraser said Krystal had failed to contact any family since she vanished.Her sister Chantel set up a Facebook page that late yesterday had almost 800 followers.Her younger brother Aaron lives in Queensland, but Helen says Krystal has not contacted him or cousins in Melbourne.“It’s unsettling. It’s depressing . . . and you think of the worst, but I’m not going there,” Mrs Fraser said.Senior Constable Brown said any friends who may be looking after Krystal had to contact police.“If (they) think they’re doing the right thing by her, they’re not,” he said.“At this stage nobody would be in any kind of trouble with police if they have been looking after her. “However, if anything was to occur to the health of her or her child, and they were involved in keeping that from authorities, then that would be investigated.”Krystal is 167cm tall, with dark hair, crooked teeth and a deep voice.Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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