THE desperate mother of missing teenager Kerrie White has revealed how she has been trying for two years to get help for her troubled family.

Tearful Madge Gill said even though she had asked for help from social services and had been designated a “family in crisis” they had received no support or guidance.

And the distraught Kirkheaton mother-of-two also revealed that she had taken Kerrie to the police station two years ago when she was chatting to a man in Birmingham on the internet when she was just 13, but was told there was nothing which could be done.

“We recognised there was a problem two years ago when Kerrie was chatting to men on the internet and told us she wanted to go into care because all her friends were in care,” said Madge, who lives with her husband Anthony and Kerrie’s 17-year-old brother Aiden.

“We asked for help then with parenting and social services said we were a family in crisis, but there’s been nothing since, no help at all.

“We’ve talked to Kerrie about the dangers of the internet. She went missing before over the Huddersfield Carnival weekend for three days, but she came back and promised not to do it again.”

Madge revealed that on the day Kerrie went missing, she had ironed her mum’s work clothes and they had chatted about the night’s evening meal.

They had also spoken at length over the summer holidays about her final GCSE year at Shelley College and how she had promised to work hard and try to get good grades.

She also revealed that a police officer had taken a phone call on Sunday evening from a girl with a Northern accent who claimed to be Kerrie and who said she was in London.

Kerrie is believed to have travelled to London to meet men she was in contact with on the social networking site MSN.

Madge said her daughter had shown interest in “bad boys” on the internet and she had told her they were no good.

Kerrie left her home address on the morning of Wednesday, August 26, and failed to return home. The last sighting of her was by her uncle at 11.58hrs at Huddersfield Train Station where she caught a train to Leeds.

She told her uncle she was travelling to Leeds then making her way down to London.

She did not have her mobile phone with her or her bank cards and had little cash with her. She is white, 5ft 2in and slim, has blue eyes and long curly brown or red hair and pierced belly button with a red bar.

She was wearing a white T-shirt with a black tiger pattern, white jeans with a black belt, a light coloured cardigan and gold sandals and was carrying a large brown bag.

Madge added: “I just want her to get in touch and say she’s safe. We love her and want her home.”

Anyone with information should call 0845 6060606 and ask for missing persons co-ordinator Pc Karen Truelove at Heckmondwike Police Station.