NATIONAL SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY ACT OF 2004 (S. 2154) Why this bill is important: This bipartisan bill seeks to fill a gaping hole...
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Missing Children’s Directory
Custodial Interference, also known as Family Abduction, is the kind of crime that leaves scars on one of the world?s most precious beings–our children…the innocent. Often individuals believe that an abducted child must be safe and loved if he/she is with a parent. Unfortunately, this is not true in many cases. A child...
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In 2001, 840,279 missing persons (adults and children) were reported to the police and entered into the FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC). This represents the smallest number of missing persons reports since 1992 (801,358). The FBI estimates that 85-90% of missing persons are juveniles. In approximately 725,000 cases (or 2,000 per day)...
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Most teens don't talk to parents. The intimacies of their lives they share with friends. If you ask teenagers about school they say, "Fine." If you ask about friends, teachers or activities, you get the same pat answer. Usually our teens are doing fine, but this distance teens keep frustrates us. We want...
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Youths entering their adolescent years face many transitions. Physical changes occur in conjunction with a striving for personal identity and autonomy. In the runaway, however, attempts to gain independence in a mature, self-sufficient manner fail. Despite the many reasons runaways give for leaving home, runaway youth often return home, only to run away...
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First, contact your child’s friends and his/her boyfriend/girlfriend, family, your estranged spouse and his/her family, neighbors, your child’s employer, principal, teachers, coaches, counselors and extracurricular activity leaders. Find out if your child’s boyfriend/girlfriend or any other friends are missing. Check to see what, if any, of your child’s personal belongings are missing. LOOK...
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If you think the child living next door to you may be a kidnapped child or even if you think you have seen a missing child on the street, what should you do? First of all, stay calm. You want to obtain as much information as you can and you want it to...
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COURTNEY BRUMMER, Staff Writer 02/06/2005 EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a two-part series about parental abductions. In a report to the U.S. Department of Justice concerning parental abductions, Ernest Allen, president and chief operating officer of the National Center for Missing Exploited Children, addressed the question: “The kid is with a...
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COURTNEY BRUMMER, Staff Writer 02/05/2005 ========== EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a two-part series about parental abductions. The abduction of a child can be a parent’s worst nightmare. But what if the abductor is the other parent? In 2004, there were 18 cases of children who were abducted by a parent,...
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