On 09/17/09 01:51, Warp wrote:
>>          As for the number, 100 is too few. In my small town of about 100,000,
>> we have a bunch of cases each year. According to:
>
>>
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2810#1
>
>> it's more like 250,000. The number that are reported missing is over
>> 750,000.
>
>    I think that the article I read was referring to the 115 which get killed
> each year by their kidnappers.
>
>    I wonder how many of those abduction reports are caused by panicking
> parents, without the child having been really abducted. I wonder that if
> they call the next day to the police to say "we are sorry, it was false
> alarm", if it still is counted in the statistics of abduction reports.

 >
 >    My suspicion is that those numbers are greatly inflated by a (mostly
 > false) moral panic in the US.
 >

	I doubt it. As I said, the "great" concern is more a media myth than in 
reality. And as Darren pointed out, most of the kidnappings are within 
the family (say, after a divorce), which makes sense.

	In any case, the numbers I gave for 1999 indicate that over 15000 
abducted kids were sexually assaulted - I doubt those were made up.

	And yes, the number of confirmed dead is on the order of 100. But if 
you're a parent, death isn't the only concern. Being kidnapped for a few 
days is bad enough.

-- 
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