National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Etan Patz, My Children, And Me

Lisa Belkin | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Free Range Kids, Parentry, Patz Arrest, Etan Patz, National Missing Children's Day, John Walsh, Atlanta Child Murders, Pedro Hernandez Arrest, Adam Walsh, Lenore Skenazy, Parents News

We are teaching them that the world is more dangerous than it actually is, that everyone and anyone is out to get them, that they need an adult close to keep them safe.

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State Dept. Drops Plan To Protect Foreign Exchange Students Despite Abuse Allegations

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR and MITCH WEISS | Posted 05.14.2012

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JACKSON, Miss. — Despite dozens of allegations of neglect and sexual abuse over the years, the U.S. State Department abandoned a plan to require...

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A Tale of Two Mothers: Casey Anthony and Jaycee Dugard

Cilla McCain | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Women, Jaycee Dugard, Child Abuse, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Casey Anthony, Caylee Anthony, Media News, Donating to Charity, Impact News

If we can be thankful for anything to do with Caylee Anthony's murder, at least she is now in a place where nobody can ever harm her again. However, there are children who at this very instant, desperately need our country's attention and swift action.

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FBI Assisting Denver Police In Search For Missing Denver Woman

Associated Press | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Kenia Monge, FBI Safe Streets Task Force, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Denver Missing Woman, Denver Police, Denver News

DENVER (AP) -- Denver police are stepping up their investigation into the disappearance of a 19-year-old woman who was last seen nearly a week ago at ...

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FBI: Woman Who Raised Stolen NY Baby Turns Herself In

AP | STEPHEN SINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ann Pettway, Stolen Baby, Carlina White, Kidnapping, 1987 Kidnapping, Nejdra Nance, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, New York News

HARTFORD, Conn. — A North Carolina woman who raised a child stolen 23 years ago from a New York hospital surrendered to authorities on a probati...

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A Plea for Somer's Family, and Some Shared Humanity

Lisa Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Child Abuse, Abduction, Somer-Thompson, After Etan, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Etan Patz, Predator, Missing Child, Missing Children, Lisa R. Cohen, Diena Thompson, Etan-Patz, Lisa-R-Cohen, Healthy Living News

The news of Somer Thompson is one of those horrible stories, made worse by the inevitable media onslaught. But, that onslaught also allows for strangers to connect in shared humanity.

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Jaycee Dugard's Family: Left Behind

Lisa Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Jaycee Dugard, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Kidnapping, After Etan, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Etan Patz, Healing, Jaycee-Lee-Dugard-Found, Child-Abduction, Missing Children, Lisa R. Cohen, Happiness, Lisa-R-Cohen, Etan-Patz, Healthy Living News

Jaycee Dugard's face is everywhere this week. I've been thinking a lot about her story, because of the similarities to the Etan Patz case, which I've spent the last five years living and breathing for the first-ever book written on it.

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A Childhood for Every Child: Combating Child Pornography Online

Brad Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Pornography, Photodna, Photo Tagging, Microsoft, Pornography Prevention, A Childhood for Every Child, Brad Smith, Technology, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Impact News

Today, Microsoft has donated to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children technology we call PhotoDNA^TM, designed to help fight the spread of graphic child pornography online.

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NJ Teen Missing 7 Years Was Buried Anonymously In NYC's Potter's Field

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) -- Family members are preparing to lay to rest a 17-year-old from New Jersey who vanished from a pool hall in 2002. DNA tests s...

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Precious Doe

Amy MacKinnon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Precious Doe, Kidnapping, Missing Children, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Healthy Living News

I first learned of Precious Doe in May 2005 while driving home from the supermarket with my own little girl safely tucked in the backseat.

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The Patron Saint For Missing Kids

Diane Dimond | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Special Ops, Missing Children, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Tradecraft, Lily Snyder, Former CIA Agent, Associaton for the Recovery of Children, Bazzel Baz, Idaho, Terrorism, Ketchum, Healthy Living News

Bazzel Baz is a former CIA agent who takes on the most impossible cases. And he doesn't charge the heartsick family of the missing a penny.

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