Pheobe Bishop’s mum shares blunt message as she is targeted by cruel trolls after issuing another public plea for help to find her missing daughter

• Pheobe Bishop was last seen 17 days ago
• Her grief-stricken mum appealed for information
• READ MORE: Five key questions that must be answered in the hunt for Pheobe 

By CHARLOTTE MCINTYRE FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 07:33 BST, 1 June 2025 | Updated: 07:55 BST, 1 June 2025

The mum of missing teenager Pheobe Bishop has furiously hit back after her public plea for help to find her daughter was ripped apart by trolls. 

Kylie Johnson begged the public to come forward with information in a video appeal shared by Queensland Police on Saturday, more than two weeks after Pheobe was last seen leaving a home in Gin Gin, Bundaberg, on the morning of May 15.

Pheobe shared the rundown property with housemates James Wood and Tanika Bromley who have since been charged with unrelated weapons offences.  

No charges have been laid over Pheobe’s disappearance and Daily Mail Australia does not suggest Bromley and Wood were involved in her disappearance. 

‘This investigation will not be over for me until we find Pheobe,’ Ms Johnson said during the two-minute clip.

‘I still hold hope that Pheobe will come home but I have to consider the possibility that she also won’t.

‘If the worst-case scenario has happened, I at least need to know where she’s resting. I need to know where Pheobe is.’

Trolls criticised the grieving mother’s statement with many accusing her of not being genuine. As a result, she shared a furious post on Facebook.  

Pheobe Bishop’s mum Kylie Johnson has furiously hit out at trolls as the search for her missing daughter continues

Ms Johnson gave a statement in partnership with Queensland Police to urge the public to come forward with any information 

‘People wanted a statement, they got one yet still question me as a mother,’ her post read. 

‘I’m sorry that I’m currently an emotional wreck, trying to protect our other children from the media and the trolls, trying to continue to breathe while your world shatters around you!

‘If anyone would like to be in this position please step in and show me how to do this.

‘Show me what a perfect parent looks like? Show me how to navigate this? Show me how to deal with the unknown and the uncertainty? 

‘Show me how to use perfect language and emotion in a situation that NO parent ever wants to be in?’

In the video appeal, Ms Johnson thanked the police and the community for their ongoing support over the last fortnight. 

She described her daughter as a ‘beautiful, loving, kind person’ and desperately urged anyone with any information to come forward. 

Ms Johnson told critics she was an ’emotional wreck’ and her main focus was doing everything she could to bring her daughter home 

Pheobe’s mother admitted she fears her daughter may not be alive

This isn’t the first time Ms Johnson has taken to social media to address the awful backlash she’s received from some members of the public. 

On Tuesday, the teen’s mother shared an emotional message to Facebook in which she said she was ‘finding it hard to get out of bed’.

‘To find the strength to put one foot in front of the other and know what to do, what to think or what to say,’ she continued.

‘People have judgements, accusations and continue (to) say untruths.

‘I’m not going to correct you or be investing what little strength I have to be correcting these statements or people. We as a family are just trying to go through the motions of waiting for Phee to come home.’

The post was quickly inundated with messages of support with friends and followers of the case urging Ms Johnson to ignore the trolls. 

Pheobe’s housemates have told detectives they drove her to Bundaberg Airport on May 15 for an 8.30am flight to Brisbane and then on to Perth, where she planned to meet up with her boyfriend.

No CCTV of her at the airport has been found.

Police launched a search for the teenager in a nearby bushland area, scouring it for several days with cadaver dogs – but on Wednesday, cops confirmed they had suspended the search.

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Pheobe Bishop’s mum shares blunt message as she is targeted by cruel trolls after issuing another public plea for help to find her missing daughter

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