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caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23836311/

What a wild story. I applaud the woman for being strong.

Juregen · Joined: 30 May 2006

Atavistic · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:42 pm Post subject:

I like this part.

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I thought that number of 800,000 was also huge, so I looked up some statistics:

"The NISMART-2 estimate (based on survey-based sampling) is that 1.35 million children are lost by their caretakers every year, and about 0.79 million of these are reported to law enforcement. There is about a 1.8% chance that you will lose your child this year.

Here is a breakdown:

Episode Type Estimated Total
Nonfamily abduction.........................33,000*
Family abduction............................117,200
Runaway/Thrownaway ...................628,900
Missing involuntary, Lost, or Injured 198,300
Missing benign explanation............. 374,700

So there are the numbers.

Usually when children go missing, it is not because they are taken: it is because they run away, get kicked out, get lost, or some innocent confusion. And when they do get abducted, they are typically taken by relatives in a custody dispute.

*Of course, some children are abducted by strangers each year. The starred figure estimates children who are abducted by a nonfamily person for an hour or more. But these events are rare enough that the researchers had to make a special note that, due to the small sample size, their survey methodology cannot accurately measure the frequency. Their confidence interval for this figure is between 2,000-64,000.

To more accurately represent how many kidnappings happen every year, the NISMART researchers point us to law enforcement statistics that count children abducted overnight or subject to more serious threats. Using this definition, there were 115 kidnappings in the year of the study. So stereotypical kidnapping does happen, and it is dangerous, but it is a freakish occurrence. Getting hit by lightning is more common."

http://davidbau.com/archives/2007/02/25/kidnapping_statistics.html
I was relieved (I guess that's the word) that there are only 115 kidnappings a year when kids are in true danger. While being taken in a custody battle between parents must be upsetting, it is not the same level of seriousness as what I think of as kidnapping.

igotthisguitar · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:46 am Post subject:

Any guesses on what percentage of kids are abducted by e.g. satantic cults?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080327/ts_afp/francebelgiumbritaincrimetrial_080327174442

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

djsmnc · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

We have no clue about the particulars of the story.

Here's a woman who may be bilking child support to support a drug habit, HACKS the man's email, then goes to Korea, LIES to the school, and kidnaps her son and puts a wig on him to DECEIVE the police.

She's a HERO though, because the man had taken the boy to Korea after the courts decided he should not have custody. And we know the courts are ALWAYS right.

moosehead · Joined: 05 May 2007

She's positively a brave and courageous woman - ! Her son must be so happy - men like that are the scum of the earth - they are so abusive, so juvenile - they can't stand the fact their wives won't stand to be controlled - and make no mistake about this, his abducting the child was about control, power, nothing less.

Good to hear a good story once in a while ! thanks for posting!

igotthisguitar · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:09 pm Post subject:

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On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

In the interest of balance, here is a radio interview with a professor from my hometown uni who thinks that there is credible evidence that ritual abuse, with satanic and/or masonic overtones, is to some extent a real phenomenon. He emphasizes that this would be done by a tiny minority of deviant freemasons. Kent is also of the opinion that there were in fact tunnels found under the McMartin Day Care in California. This is a hotly contested issue among people who follow the SRA controversy.

It's a crank website, but he is not affiliated with it, and is a well-regarded scholar in the field of sociology. I remain skeptical, though.

http://tinyurl.com/yogo6o