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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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 PDF File 2.09 mb

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.

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Treating Nonoffending Parents in Child Sexual Abuse Cases: Connections for Family Safety

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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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