Originally posted by stumason
200,000 kids missing each year?
Not likely.
I read half way down the first link and, to be frank, started to get somewhat jaded by all the fantastical ideas the two guys where talking about.
I've heard them all before, mind you, but I am far from sold.
200,000 kids.....
Someone would notice....
www.missingkids.com...
The U.S. Department of Justice reports
797,500 children (younger than 18) were reported missing in a one-year period of time studied resulting in an average of 2,185 children being reported
missing each day.
203,900 children were the victims of family abductions.
58,200 children were the victims of non-family abductions.
115 children were the victims of “stereotypical” kidnapping. (These crimes involve someone the child does not know or someone of slight
acquaintance, who holds the child overnight, transports the child 50 miles or more, kills the child, demands ransom, or intends to keep the child
permanently.)
hawaii.gov...
To date two such studies have been completed. The first National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART-1)
was released in 1990, and the second, known as NISMART-2, was released in October 2002. According to NISMART-2 research, which studied the year 1999,
an estimated 797,500 children were reported missing; 58,200 children were abducted by nonfamily members; 115 children were the victims of the most
serious, long-term nonfamily abductions called "stereotypical kidnappings"; and 203,900 children were the victims of family abductions.
AT LEAST DO SOME REASERCH BEFORE YOU BASH!