In many cases, after one of the parents is awarded custody, the other one will abduct the child. A more sinister type of abduction is when a sex trafficker baits and grooms a child for the purpose of sex trafficking. In many cases, sex trafficking abductions start online on a social media platform.
Sex traffickers like to target young teens that are easily persuaded by attention and gifts. A pleasant, charming person will approach the victim and get to know them personally. They will even meet up a few times for something fun and exciting. When the victim is ripe and ready for the picking, the trafficker will then force them into prostitution. Unfortunately, many of the teens that fall into the sex trafficking trap are convinced that it is their own decision and that they are being treated with the utmost kindness.
Another reason why people abduct children is so that they can extort money from their parents. The abductors promise they will return the child safe and sound if the parents give them a certain amount of money.
They will require that you have certified copies of your most recent court orders regarding custody. Immediately notify the District Attorney's Office-Bureau of Investigation at during normal business hours.
For addition assistance, you may wish to call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at The Bureau of Investigation of the District Attorney's Office has the responsibility for locating and recovering children who have been taken or are being detained in violation of a custody order.
This includes children who are in San Mateo County or in any other county or state or even in foreign countries. As long as you are a resident of San Mateo County, we can help. From time to time, we can also assist parents from other states or countries when their child ren is abducted into San Mateo County.
Almost all kids kidnapped by strangers are taken by men, and about two thirds of stranger abductions involve female children.
Most abducted kids are in their teens. Kids are rarely abducted from school grounds. Ways to Prevent Abductions About 2, missing-children reports are filed each day in the U. It's also wise to: Make sure custody documents are in order. Have ID-like photos taken of your kids every 6 months and have them fingerprinted. Many local police departments sponsor fingerprinting programs. Keep your kids' medical and dental records up to date. Make online safety a priority. The Internet is a great tool, but it's also a place for predators to stalk kids.
Be aware of your kids' Internet activities and chat room "friends," and remind them never to give out personal information.
Avoid posting identifying information or photos of your kids online. Set boundaries about the places your kids go. Based on past data and records, child kidnappings are mostly done by another parent, a family member or someone that the child is familiar with. On the top of the list, you have estranged parents, family, and relatives, or a person that the child knows, like a teacher or a neighbor.
Here are some other categories of people who are very likely to abduct children:. Many people think child kidnapping rates have gone up in the US in recent years. The reason behind it is that we see such cases a lot on the news and the internet.
Cases of child abduction are sensationalized by the media and they easily grab our attention. They are reported and covered in detail and we end up thinking that it happens all too often.
Out of which 30, were juveniles under the age of 18 years. The total number of missing juvenile cases reported throughout was , cases. A majority of them were solved. Either the perpetrator was found or it was not an abduction at all and the child was found.
This could be when children running away, get lost or simply misinformation to parents about their whereabouts. The horrifying cases of stranger kidnapping and sexually assaulting children that we hear in the news, is not that common.
It only accounted for to cases in the past few years in the US.
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