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The most recent statistics I could find:

Approximately 203,900 children were abducted in 1999 by family members.

Approximately 58,200 non-family abductions occurred in 1999.

Non-family abductors are as likely to be known by the family as to be strangers.

Only 115 of these abductions were the most serious type involving a child taken by a stranger and kept for ransom, held overnight, or killed.

http://www.family.org/cforum/fosi/pornography/facts/a0026315.cfm

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Thank you for getting the statistics.

Great, what a relief. / sarcasm

Here's an idea. Stop hurling insults at parents who choose not to play the statistics game with their children.

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"...Only 115 of these abductions were the most serious type involving a child taken by a stranger and kept for ransom, held overnight, or killed...."


Doesn't include rape. Over 2 per state per year. Doesn't account for the (nowadays small) number of kids found unaccompanied by an adult...

Worse than I thought.

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Only 115 of these abductions were the most serious type involving a child taken by a stranger and kept for ransom, held overnight, or killed.

So if the kid was raped and released on the same day, s/he wouldn't count as being in the "most serious type" group?