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Children's
Books
Who
Is a Stranger and What Should I Do? (An
Albert Whitman Prairie Book) -- Explains how
to deal with strangers in public places, on
the telephone, and in cars, emphasizing situations
in which the best thing to do is run away
or talk to another adult.

My
Body Is Private (Albert
Whitman Concept Books)
A mother-child conversation introduces the topic of sexual abuse and ways to
keep one's body private.
Something
Happened and I'm Scared to Tell: A Book for Young
Victims of Abuse
With the help of a friendly lion, a young sexual abuse victim is able to talk
about sexual abuse and recover self-esteem. Gentle and positive approach to reassure
children.
Trouble
With Secrets --
Secrets can be a confusing issue for children which secrets should be told and
which secrets should be kept? This book helps children distinguish between hurtful
secrets and good surprises.
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Child
Victims
The U.S. Department
of Justice reports
- 800,000 children are reported missing each year.
- 200,000 children were the victims of family abductions.
- 58,000 children
were the victims of non-family abductions.
- 115 children
were the victims of “stereotypical” kidnapping
involving a person unknown to the child or slight acquaintance, who
holds the child overnight, transports the child
50 miles or more, demands ransom,
or intends to keep the child permanently.
- 43 percent of those 115, children are murdered
- 3 to 4 percent of the murders are never resolved
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
800,000
Missing Kids? Really? Overstaying
a visit with a noncustodial parent qualifies as
a family abduction. Some missing children have multiple
entries in the database due to multiple disappearances
on different occasions resulting in misleading statistics.
Out
of Sight -- A child's chances of being abducted
by a stranger are rare, and kidnapping ending
in murder is rarer. There is one child abduction murder
for every 10,000 reports of missing children, according
to the Attorney General of Washington state. Parents
feel children should be warned about "stranger
danger," but also fear scaring them and
the greatest threat to a child is a family member
or friend.
The media's
fixation with pretty white girls who become victims is
so prevalent that the concept has been coined the "The Missing
White Girl Syndrome."
Girls of a certain image receive disproportionate media
play while missing and exploited minority children never
make it beyond the local media and are soon forgotten. The
Missing Pretty Girl Syndrome. Why
do so many people seem to care so much more about
beautiful missing white girls from privileged backgrounds
than economically deprived children of all
races and backgrounds.If
you’re missing, it helps to be young,
white and female, the legendary Damsel in Distress .
National
Estimates of Children Missing Involuntarily or for
Benign Reasons Bulletin: OJJDP NISMART Series,
July 2005.
Trends
in the Murder of Juveniles: 1980–2000
America's
Children: 2007 2.09
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The
International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children
(ICMEC), launched by the U.S.-based National Center
for Missing & Exploited Children in 1998 to identify
and coordinate a global network of organizations fighting
child-sexual exploitation and abduction.
United
States Department of State Office of Children's Issues
National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children
State
-- The
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
(NCMEC) clearinghouse program provides communication
between clearinghouses, training, and technical assistance
to assist with missing-child cases. Each
state, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Canada
have state clearinghouses of missing children. The
focus for state clearinghouses are data collection,
networking, information distribution, training and
technical assistance for missing- or sexually exploited
children. State clearinghouses are located in law-enforcement
agencies with the exception of Louisiana
where it is managed as part of the Department of Social
Services.
Federal
Resources on Missing and Exploited Children: A
Directory for Law Enforcement and Other Public and
Private Agencies, Fifth Edition, May 2007
State
Missing children clearinghouses
When
Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide OJJDP
Report: May 1998
What
About Me? Coping With the Abduction of a Brother
or Sister (Guide). May 2007. NCJ 217714
Family
Resource Guide on International Parental Kidnapping,
OJJDP, January 2007, NCJ 215476. (164 pages)
The
Association of Missing and Exploited Children’s Organizations (AMECO)is
dedicated to serving nonprofit missing and exploited
children agencies throughout North America. They recruit
members who abide by strict ethical practices adopted
by the organization and who are competent in the field
of missing children at the community level. Member
organizations offer services to parents of missing,
runaway and abducted children.
National Estimates
and Characteristics 
AMBER
Alert: Best Practices Guide for Public Information Officers,
OJJDP July 2006, NCJ 212703. (16 pages).
Amber Alerts
interrupt radio and television stations regularly scheduled
programming to
notify the public that a child has been kidnapped. Since
95% of all people in cars listen to the radio, this
is an effective way of disseminating information..The
rules of use of the Amber
Alerts vary, but the the criteria for activation
usually includes:
- A
predefined age;
- Law
enforcement believes a kidnapping occurred;
- An
agency believes the child is at high risk of
serious bodily harm.
Since the late
1970s there have been reports of children of
former members of the Children
of God, The Family, and The Family International being abducted and moved to other countries to keep them from
parents, law enforcement and child welfare from finding them.
Trenton
Duckett was two years old when he was reported
as missing by his mother, Melissa Duckett, on 8/27/06
from
his bed in the apartment he lived at with his mother
on the 1400 Block of Griffin Road in Windmere Villas,
Leesberg Florida. Trenton has his mother's Asian features
and coloring with brown hair and eyes. He was
about 30" and 30 lbs. Even
though the case was never solved, the
suspicion focused on the mother. Not long after a
grueling telephone interview by Nancy Grace show where
Grace behaved like an unleashed pit bull trying rip
a confession out of this very young mother by accusing
her of being the person her responsible. Meanwhile
Grace has the husband there and is touting this less
than devoted father and husband like a hero. Shortly
after that Melissa killed herself at her grandparents
home. Trenton
has never been found.
Rilya
Wilson should have been monitored monthly by child welfare.
Her grandmother who cared for Rilya and her 2 siblings,
believed she was in the custody of Florida's Department
of Children and Families. "They continually told
my sister and me to leave it as it is, that Rilya would be
coming home to us … but they had no idea where she was." Geralyn
Graham, 58, was charged with kidnapping Rilya and three
counts of aggravated child abuse causing great bodily harm.
Graham, is serving a three-year sentence for fraud. Roommate,
Pamela Graham, was charged with child abuse.
Evidence
of Foul Play -- Eleven-year-old Shakira Johnson did not
meet Ohio's criteria for an Amber Alert, placing her in
the category of runaway or parental abduction.
Sabrina
Aisenberg - Nov.
24, 1997, a call to 911, placed by Marlene Aisenberg reported
her 5 month old infant, Sabrina, was missing. The mother claimed
she and her husband, Steve put the infant in her crib at 11
o'clock the prior evening and awoke the next morning to find
an empty crib.
In
1966, the Beaumont
Children Jane
Nartare, 9, Arnna Kathleen, 7, and Grant Ellis, 4, disappeared from
a beach near Adelaide Australia. Their case resulted in the largest
Australian criminal investigation
in history, and remains unsolved.
Missing Ilene
Misheloff Help Bring Ilene Home
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PO Box 6166
Olympia, WA 98507
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Kari Sable 1994-2011
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 Treating
Nonoffending Parents in Child Sexual Abuse Cases:
Connections for Family Safety
Safe
Kids : A Complete Child-Safety Handbook
and Resource Guide for Parents-- With immunization against major childhood diseases widely
available, parental concerns in the nineties are focused on
safety issues. A handbook and working reference for parents
of children from birth through high school. Using positive
guidelines rather than a list of do's and don'ts, the book
will help you provide your child with a sense of security and
the ability to act and react in challenging situations. Topics
covered include school, street, transportation, recreation
and medical safety, spending time at home alone, sexual abuse
and more. Parents and children will learn how to handle the
hazards of today's complex world.
The
Abused Child in Search of Safety: Lessons from Florida --
An analysis of the current crisis in the child welfare
scene based on the author's involvement with the Florida
program which has been racked with the scandals of missing
and murdered children.
Caring
for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance
Standards: Guidelines for Out-Of-Home Child Care --
by American Academy of Pediatrics Staff , National Resource
Center for Health and Safety in Child Care US Staff , American
Public Health Association Staff , Maternal and Child Health
Bureau Staff
Child
Safety: Problem and Prevention from Preschool to Adolescence:
A Handbook for Professionals -- The past decade
has seen increased awareness of the varied vulnerability
of children to accident, abuse and assault. With its focus
on intervention and prevention, Child Safety From Preschool
to Adolescence will be especially valuable in educational
settings, but will also be useful to a wide variety of professional
areas including social work, the law, medicine and psychology.
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