Abduction Prevention
September 14, 2007 – 2:00 amStatistics…
The F.B.I. receives over 2,000 missing child reports every day. That is one every 43 seconds.
The increase in missing children since 1982 is up 444%.
Most abduction is done luring a child to a vehicle rather than by taking them by force. 74% were girls, 50% were 4 to 11 years old.
The statistic from the U.S. Justice Department put the chance of your child becoming missing at 1 in 42.
Justice Department statistics of kidnapped children research in America indicates that the risk of abduction by a stranger is relatively low for preschoolers, but increases through elementary school and peaks at age 15. Teenage girls are considered most vulnerable.
According to the F.B.I.’s statistics of kidnapped children in America, 24% of all kidnapping cases are stranger related, compared with 49% family related, and 27% acquaintance related.
As parents we worry everyday about our children and the dangers that surround our neighborhoods. In coming months […]
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