United States Missing Child Statistics
- A child goes missing every 40 seconds in the U.S.,over 2,100 per day
- 800,000 children go missing each year
- 90% are juveniles
- 50% are 4-11 years old
- Strangers commit 53% of child abductions that end tragically
- Kidnapping statistics in America also show that it generally takes a parent 2-4 hours to provide complete information [recent photos and general information about their child] to law enforcement agencies
- Another 500,000 go missing without ever being reported!
** (Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrown away Children, October 2002)
If those statistics aren’t scary when it comes to the safety of our children I don’t know what is! From the moment our children are born we as parents naturally
