Question about kids

[annievh.livejournal.com]

Hey, I was watching one episode with a child abducted and they stated again that 99% of children that are abducted are killed within the first 24h. This kind of scares me, such a high statistic.

Is it true?

Comments

[cpolk.livejournal.com]

actually that other answer that you got is so wrong it's unbelieveable.

there's very, very few reasons why a stranger abducts a child.

people don't just kidnap kids off the street for lols. They do it because children are their desire objects. they take the kid, they rape and torture them, and then they kill them in order to try to escape detection so they can do it again.

it's that simple.

one thing you need to be aware of, though: true stranger abductions make up a tiny slice of the reasons why a child goes missing. this does not happen often.

[took-skye.livejournal.com]

Yeah whether it's the "I've never, ever, seen that person before in my life" stranger abductions or the more common "Yeah, I've kinda seen him around the neighborhood/he worked construction at my house for awhile/he's my brother-in-law's friend but I don't really know him that well" stranger abductions (I believe those still fall in the stranger category, but maybe "acquaintance" is more accurate) sex does tend to be the primary reason behind the abduction and, in the second case, why murder of the child might occur - the child and others who know the child (family, friends, etc) kinda know or at least could ID the kidnapper.

(The most common abductions these days, I believe, are actually custody-fight abductions but that wasn't what Criminal Minds was referring to when they mentioned the 99%/24hr stats...they referring to the two I just mentioned above.)

[cpolk.livejournal.com]

yes. most often it's the spouse who didn't get custodial rights who's doing the abducting, and the motivations are nearly always wildly different.