Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site princeton.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!alonso From: alonso@princeton.UUCP (Rafael Alonso) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Missing Children Message-ID: <1089@princeton.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 14:41:13 EDT Article-I.D.: princeto.1089 Posted: Fri Aug 16 14:41:13 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 04:25:10 EDT References: <11019@rochester.UUCP> Organization: Princeton University EECS Dept Lines: 19 > From: Emil Rainero> Does anyone have any figures on the number of missing children each year? From U.S. News and World Report (8/19/85): Statistics are aproximate. Missing children: 1.1 - 1.5 million per year Runaways (between 13 and 19 years old): ~90% of all missing children Runaways returning home voluntarily within a week: 70% Kidnapped by noncustodial parent: 100,000 per year Kidnapped by nonfamily members: 4,000 - 7,000 per year Kidnapped by total strangers: ~1,000 per year Long term missing: 200,000 Other points made in the article: - Children abducted by strangers are seldom recovered alive after 48 hours. - Trailways will give free tickets to returning runaways. - Many of the children abducted by a parent are abused by that parent.