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The U.S. Department of Justice reports:
800,000 Missing Kids? Really? According to a 2002 study, 797,500 people under 18 were reported missing in a one-year period. Of those cases, 203,900 were family abductions, 58,200 were nonfamily abductions, 115 were "stereotypical kidnappings," defined as "a nonfamily abduction perpetrated by a slight acquaintance or stranger in which a child is detained overnight, transported at least 50 miles, held for ransom or abducted with the intent to keep the child permanently, or killed." These include: Overstaying a visit with a noncustodial parent qualifying 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 Child Abuse and Missing Children in Texas
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 The Jacob Wetterling Foundation- Protecting Children from sexual exploitation and abduction. 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. The National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART) was mandated by the 1984 Missing Children’s Assistance Act (Pub. L. 98–473) requiring the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to conduct national studies to determine the number of children reported missing and the number of recovered missing children in a year. National estimates are based on surveys of households, juvenile residential facilities, law enforcement agencies, child profiles, demographics and circumstances of their disappearance .Andrea J. Sedlak, David Finkelhor, Heather Hammer, and Dana J. Schultz. NISMART–1 attacked the issue of a lack of standardized definition of a 'missing child' or made it impossible to estimate the number of missing children. Fifteen years later at NISMART-2 October 2002 the OJJDP presented unified estimates of the number of children missing in the US. NISMART- October 2, 2002: 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:
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
Trenton Duckett 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. Jahi Turner, 2 1/2, Missing Since 2:00 PM, April 25th, 2002, when he was last seen 2800 block Beech Street, Golden Hill Area, San Diego, California. He is a light skinned African-American approximately. 30" Tall and 30 Lbs. He was wearing a blue, Winnie the Pooh Shirt, Blue nylon cargo pants and gray Michael Jordan tennis shoes. His stepfather, Tieray Jones, 23, told authorities he left him unattended in a park to buy a soda at a nearby vending machine. The stepfather last saw Jahi playing with two boys who appeared to be with a woman. When he returned, Jahi, his playmates and the woman were gone. "He's 2 years old," the boy's mother, Tameka Jones, 18, said. "He's a really sweet child. He loves Winnie-the-Pooh." 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. June 1995, Morgan Nick vanished from a sand pile within sight of her mother during a Rookie League game at the Alma ballpark in Arkansas. May 3, 1980, pregnant Kim Swartz, 30, married to police officer Floyd "Bernie" Swartz when he was killed chasing a murder suspect. Kim gave birth to Amber. June 3, 1988 Amber, 7, disappeared from her Pinole, California yard. Amber was nowhere to be found. Three days after a stranger, Tim Bindner, came by to tell her mother that he had been searching the nearby woods for Amber. In ``Stalemate,'' forensic psychologist, John Philpin, reveals Bindner showed deception in a 1988 polygraph about the kidnapping. 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 Kari & Associates Copyright Kari Sable Burns 1994-2007 |
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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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. 
