by Cyrus Farivar
02:00 AM Aug. 03, 2005 PT
Last week, a group of Philadelphia bloggers banded together to get national media attention for a young mother who had been missing from home since the middle of July.
The group was frustrated that the disappearance of Latoyia Figueroa, 24, who is five months pregnant, did not get national press, though her case is similar to other widely covered disappearances like those of Natalee Holloway and Laci Peterson.
The bloggers argue that Holloway and Peterson, who are both white and good-looking, are more attractive to national broadcast media than someone like Figueroa, who is African-American and from a less affluent background.
Figueroa has been missing from her home in South Philadelphia since July 18. She has a 7-year-old son. Police said she was reported missing on July 21 by her family. On Tuesday, police said the search was ongoing and that no suspects have been named.
