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A 4-year-old girl who went missing in New Mexico nearly 62 years ago has been identified as "Little Miss Nobody," a previously unidentified girl whose remains were discovered in Arizona, police announced Tuesday. Authorities identified the victim as Sharon Lee Gallegos, who was abducted on July 21, 1960. Police said Gallegos was abducted by a man and a woman while she was playing with other children in an alley behind her grandmother's house in Alamogordo, New Mexico. According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, the couple had been stalking the girl for several days. Gallegos was dragged into...

Body identified as Sharon Lee Gallegos of New Mexico YAVAPAI COUNTY, AZ — Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office has released the identity of “Little Miss Nobody,” a young girl who remained nameless for more than six decades after her killing. The formerly nameless homicide victim whose body was found 62 years ago, was identified as Sharon Lee Gallegos of New Mexico, officials said Tuesday morning at a press conference in Prescott. Gallegos had reportedly been abducted from the alley behind her home in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 21, 1960, when she was 4 years old.

A girl dubbed “Little Miss Nobody” has been identified some 62 years after her burned body was discovered buried in a remote Arizona desert, authorities said. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office will identify the girl Tuesday during a press conference at a community college in Prescott. “The unidentified little girl who won the hearts of Yavapai County in 1960 and who occupied the minds and time of YCSO and partner for 62 years will now rightfully be given her name back and will no longer need to be referred to as Little Miss Nobody,” sheriff officials said in a statement....

PRESCOTT, ARIZONA – (March 11, 2022) – Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office and partners including the National Center for Exploited and Missing Children (NCMEC); the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUS); Othram, the laboratory that conducted the DNA analysis; and a long list of others over the years, have finally identified the little girl whose remains were found in the desert in Yavapai County in 1960. The unidentified little girl who won the hearts of Yavapai County in 1960 and who occupied the minds and time of YCSO and partners for 62 years, will now rightfully be given her name...

“Children are being targeted and sold for sex in America every day.”—John Ryan, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Children, young girls—some as young as 9 years old—are being bought and sold for sex in America. The average age for a young woman being sold for sex is now 13 years old. This is America’s dirty little secret. Sex trafficking—especially when it comes to the buying and selling of young girls—has become big business in America, the fastest growing business in organized crime and the second most-lucrative commodity traded illegally after drugs and guns. As investigative journalist Amy Fine...

This is creepy. It looks like Kaze Design made the website for Alefantis's web site for Bucks Fishg and Hunting as well as a web site for National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. I see several other sinister organizations listed among their clients at the link such as Planned Parenthood and Media Matters.

June 7, 2007ICE Operation Predator arrests of child exploiters top 10,000In four years, initiative has removed more than 5,500 child exploiters from the U.S. WASHINGTON - Just four years after the Department of Homeland Security launched Operation Predator, an initiative aimed at those who sexually exploit children, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that its arrests had topped 10,000. "Operation Predator is a great example of how our transnational partnerships and wide-ranging legal authorities can work to protect children," said Julie L. Myers, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for ICE. "In the course of this highly successful...

John Walsh and "America's Most Wanted" urge Congress to pass sex offender legislation (H.R. 3132 and S.1086) before the end of the year. Right now Congress is set to adjourn without sending a bill to the President to be signed into law. This critical legislation would strengthen current laws to protect children from predators by creating a comprehensive, national system for sex offender registration and community notification. "How many more children and other victims need to suffer before our elected officials do the right thing and pass this legislation," said John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted. "Enough is enough....

ICE investigation beginning in Atlanta leads to Minnesota Department of Homeland Security, ICE MINNEAPOLIS—As a result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents and local law enforcement agencies, a Burnsville man made an initial appearance in federal court today after being criminally charged for allegedly using prepubescent girls to produce child pornography in his basement. ICE special agents, assisted by Burnsville Police officers, arrested Bruce W. Betcher, 51, of Burnsville, Minn., yesterday morning. He was later charged by the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Minnesota with using a minor to produce sexually explicit...

FRIENDS, I NEED YOUR HELP! Our close acquaintances, which we have known for many years and were of great help to us when we moved back to California recently, are the Grandparents of little Jonathan who is the victim of a Family Abduction, by the mother. All the pertinent information is on the National Center for Missing and Expolited Children site, and his name is JONATHAN RICHARD ELLIS. If you could take a few minutes to read it, and possibly print it out and distribute it to merchants or bulletin boards in stores that you frequent, it would be greatly...

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - The Department of Homeland Security's new Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) delivered a pointed message Wednesday to any foreign national who might come to the U.S. planning to sexually exploit American children for pleasure or for profit. "For these persons, the welcome mat to our nation has been pulled," said Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. "Make no mistake, those who enter the country to harm our children commit not only a despicable act, but also a deportable crime." ICE enforcement teams put action behind their words, even before the words were publicly spoken,...