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A Family Resource Guide on International Parental Kidnapping 2nd Edition
The report provides practical advice about preventing international kidnapping and increasing the chances that children who are kidnapped or wrongfully retained will be returned. It offers descriptions and assessments of civil and criminal remedies, explains applicable laws, identifies public and private resources, and identifies strategies to help parents recover their children or reestablish meaningful contact with them in another country. Important developments since 2002 are covered. 158 page pdf file and print copies are available too ++++++++++ In Florida, Kids in State Care Down; kids Missing from Child Welfare Up
While the number of children in Florida’s child welfare system is down, the number of kids missing has skyrocketed to 652, most of them runaway teens and youngsters snatched from foster care by their biological parents. ++++++++++ What Happens to Children Kidnapped by Their Parents?
For people who spent their childhoods hiding out with a distraught parent, taking on new identifies, the hardest part comes when the child is recovered and so-called normal life resumes. ++++++++++ Who Watches Out for the Kids?
NBC staged an abduction of a young child on a busy street and watched to see what would happen. Watch this brief video and pay attention to your own reaction. I was both chagrined and gratified.
++++++++++ Hurricane Aftermath – Are Children Missing or Displaced? More than 2,000 children reported missing after Hurricane Katrina remain unaccounted for since the storm hit six weeks ago. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children cannot say how many are actually missing, are with other relatives or have been reunited but not reported to the agency. The NCMEC has found half the youth reported missing, according to the most recent totals. Of the 4,638 reported missing after Katrina, 2,154 have not been reunited with their families. ++++++++++ Using the Patriot Act to Find an Abducted Teen
Ten minutes between dinner and dessert is the time it took for Alicia Kozakiewicz to vanish on New Years Day, 2002 in Pittsburgh. The search for her marked the first use of the Patriot Act in western Pennsylvania. Her abductor was found through information released under the Act and she was located before any serious harm came to her. ++++++++++ Change in Parental Warnings to Their Children – No More ‘Stranger Danger’
The Jacob Wetterling Foundation says that stranger danger is far overrated because abductors and abusers are known to the parent or child more than 80% of the time. Instead, children should be tutored to identify adults, even if strangers, who might be able to help them – any mother with children or a sales clerk, for instance. They should also be taught to resist, to fight back, to be loud and to be rude if necessary.
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AMBER Alert Criteria in a Pocket Card Law enforcement recommended criteria for declaring an AMBER Alert and NCIC Entry Process and Criteria information are available on this downloadable pocket-sized card. ++++++++++ National Estimates of Children Missing Involuntarily or for Benign Reasons This latest NISMART (National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children) Bulletin provides information on the numbers and characteristics of two groups not often recognized in the literature on missing children – children involuntarily missing because they were lost or injured and those missing because of a benign explanation such as a miscommunication or mistaken expectation. Children missing under these circumstances constituted 43% of all missing children reported to authorities – the second largest category after those classified as runaway/thrownaway. 12 pages. Downloadable pdf file. ++++++++++ Amber Alert Resources Here are some new publications from the Amber Alert web site: ++++++++++ |
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