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

[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.