Seeing this thread has brought back some memories for me. Whe I was 6 years old, I remember playing outside in front of my house and a car pulled up
by the curb. There was a man sitting in the back seat looking in front of him. I didn't see his face, as he was facing away.
The driver was also a man and he waved his hand at me to come to the car. He then told me that my father had instructed him to pick me up, so that I
could meet some friends of his.
Of course, even as a 6 year old boy, my parents had said countless times that I wasn't supposed to listen to, or go with strangers, so I ran back
into the house.
Yesterday I came across the website of the National Centre for Missing & Exploited children:
www.missingkids.org...
I think about how close I came to being possbily abducted whilst looking at the postings on that website, and consider myself extremely lucky.
I feel terrible for those children who may never get a chance to make contributions to the world.
Anyway, I found this link on statistics on missing juveniles in Australia as that is where I am from:
www.missingpersons.gov.au...
What I found especially disturbing, is when you add up the missing male and female juveniles for the year 1998/99, it adds up to 14861.
Let me remind you, that the population count in Australia is approx. 20 million.
The population count in the US is approx. 300 million. (Even if this figure is innacurate to 20-30 million plus or minus, it still demonstrates a high
ratio of missing juveniles in Australia.
I believe that their might be links to what is going on in both countries. As to what those links might be, I couldn't say for certain, but I guess
that's what we are here for. I hope soon we all can find out what really is going on and do something about it.
Above all of this, let's remember that one child missing, is one child too much.