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Abduction

• According to NISMART II data, in 1999 there were 1,315,600 missing children in the US. An estimated 797,500 are reported to police. (NISMART II October 2002)

• Research indicates very young children are the most frequent victims of child fatalities. The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) data for 2002 demonstrated children younger than 12 years old accounted for 94 percent of child fatalities. (National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information 2004)

• The US Department of Justice recently reported that in a one-year period of time (1999): 1,682,900 children ran away. 203,900 children were abducted by family members, 198,300 children were involuntarily missing, lost or injured and 58,200 children were abducted by a non family perpetrator including an estimated 115 victims of stereotypical kidnappings.. (NISMART II October 2002)

• 38% of non family abducted children were abducted by a friend or long term acquaintance, 5% by a neighbor, 6% by persons of authority and 4% by a caretaker or babysitter." (NISMART II October 2002)

• Homes or yards were the origination point in only a minority of the abductions of all non family abducted children (23%) and of those who were stereotypically kidnapped (19%). Instead, streets, parks, or wooded areas and other public areas (i.e.: generally accessible spaces) were the places from which children were typically abducted." (NISMART II October 2002)

• 34% of American parents who do not know all three pieces of the following information about their children: height, weight and eye color. (Time Magazine, "Numbers" June 4, 2001)