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Child Abduction

Waking up to Every Parent's Worst Nightmare

By Linda Sharp

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Fear. How can we combat such a deeply ingrained component of the human psyche? What tools or information can we teach our children that may well save their lives in the future? Detective Ryan O'Connell, 30-year police veteran, advises, "You have to drill into your children the fact that NOISE is their best defense in the face of abduction. Regardless of what threat is being made at them or their loved ones, they MUST raise an alarm, cause a commotion, put the fear of being caught into the bad person."

Anecdotal research has shown that threatening to hurt the child or a loved one is the number one technique employed by abductors to buy silence. More menacing than the gun or knife they may be brandishing is the "What if" put before the child.

Public abductions happen quickly. Far too many parents have learned the lesson that in the blink of an eye, their child can be whisked away. Stores such as Wal-mart install video cameras, teach employees codes such as ADAM to be used in the case of a missing child. Yet even a lockdown code of ADAM is too little too late when no sound of distress has come from the child.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children offers these 8 safety tips for children:

  1. I always check first with my parents or the person in charge before I go anywhere or get into a car, even with someone I know.

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