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Victor Zambrano's Mother, Elizabeth Mendez Zambrano, Rescued in Venezuela

AP | JORGE RUEDA | Posted 11.11.2009 | Sports

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CARACAS, Venezuela — The mother of former major league pitcher Victor Zambrano was rescued after a three-day kidnapping ordeal, Venezuelan autho...

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Somer Thompson Found? Cops Find Body In Georgia Landfill

AP | RON WORD | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home

Read More: Missing Child, Jacksonville, Orange Park, Child's Body Found, Abduction, Body Found, Kidnapping, Somer Thompson, Georgia Landfill, Home News

ORANGE PARK, Fla. — Authorities say they have not identified a child's body they found Wednesday in a landfill while searching for a missing 7-y...

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Jaycee Dugard's Family: Left Behind

Lisa Cohen | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

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, 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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Elizabeth Smart To Testify In Court Against Alleged Kidnapper

People Magazine | Cathy Free | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home

Read More: JC Dugard, Brian David Mitchell, Elizabeth Smart, Crime, Kidnapper, Salt Lake City, Prophet, Elizabeth Smart Court Case, Utah, Kidnapping, Home News

Seven years since she was abducted from her Salt Lake City bedroom by knifepoint, Elizabeth Smart will be in the same room on Thursday as her alleged ...

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Baby Missing After Mother Is Stabbed By Fake Immigration Officer In Nashville, Tennessee

AP | KRISTIN M. HALL | Posted 10.01.2009 | Home

Read More: It's a Boy, Nashville, Baby Missing, Baby Yair, Crime, Tennessee, Fake Immigration Officer, Mother Stabbed, Maria Gurrolla, Sign, Yair Anthony Carillo, Kidnapping, Fake Agent, Home News

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A newborn snatched from a Nashville home was missing and his mother recovering from stab wounds she said she suffered in a st...

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Stephen Farrell, New York Times Reporter, Freed From Taliban In Raid

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

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KABUL — During the first two days of captivity, The New York Times reporter and his Afghan translator were optimistic about being released. Then...

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Jaycee Dugard Parade: South Lake Tahoe Celebrates Jaycee's Return

AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home

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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — The town where Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped 18 years ago celebrated her astounding reappearance with a parade Sund...

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Blame America (and Jesus) for the Jaycee Dugard Kidnapping

Michael Wolff | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Phillip Garrido, Michael Wolff, Jaycee Dugard, America, Kidnapping, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Josef Fritzl, Politics News

There is a great morbid curiosity about Jaycee Dugard and her imprisonment, but nobody is drawing any conclusions about what this might say about the American character.

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Jaycee Lee Dugard: Nancy Garrido Worked As Nursing Aide

Contra Costa Times | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home

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If she helped strip a young girl of her innocence and perpetrated a heinous, 18-year-long crime that has shocked the world, Nancy Garrido never showed...

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Will DJ AM Quote About PTSD Get People To Finally Listen?

Michelle Renee | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jaycee Dugard, Michelle Renee], Kidnapping, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Violent Crime, Violence, Hostage Survivor, Entertainment News, DJ AM, Ptsd, Held Hostage, Living, Entertainment News

Getting people to take notice of PTSD as it relates to youth and adults who have survived violence, abuse and trauma -- outside of those returning from combat -- has been an uphill climb.

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18 Years of Failed Parole in Dugard Kidnapping

Jane Devin | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Phillip Garrido, Law Enforcement, Sheriff Rupf, Jaycee Dugard, Rape, Kidnapping, Nancy Garrido, Crime, Parole, Politics News

The most unsettling thing about the Dugard case is the staggering number of times law enforcement failed in their duty to properly monitor a registered sex offender.

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Costra County Sheriff Warren E. Rupf Apologizes For Mistakes In Jaycee Dugard Kidnapping Case

The New York Times | MARIA NEWMAN and JESSE McKINLEY | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Phillip Garrido, Jaycee Dugard, JC Dugard, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Nancy Garrido, Warren E. Rupf, Costra County Sheriff, Crime, Rape, Jaycee Kidnapping, Jaycee Found, Kidnapping, Bay Area, Home News

Law enforcement authorities were in Phillip Garrido's house at least twice in the last three years, but never discovered that a young woman he had all...

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Carl Probyn: Jaycee Lee Dugard's Stepfather Talks About Her Return (PICTURES)

Posted 09.28.2009 | Home

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MSNBC interviewed Jaycee Lee Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn Friday morning. 18 years after watching his stepdaughter's abduction, Probyn recounts ...

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Jaycee Lee Dugard Reappears After 18 Years; Sex Offender, Wife Arrested

Posted 09.27.2009 | Home

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By JULIET WILLIAMS and SAMANTHA YOUNG, Associated Press UPDATE PLACERVILLE, Calif. - The father of a man suspected of kidnapping a girl 18 years ag...

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Lassissi Afolabi: Togo Man Admits To Smuggling Girls, Forcing Them To Work At Hair Braiding Salons

AP | Posted 08.26.2009 | World

Read More: Kidnapping, Lassissi Afolabi, Hair Braiding Salons, Togo, Forced Labor, Human Trafficking, World News

NEWARK, N.J. — A man from the West African nation Togo has admitted his role in the smuggling of dozens of girls and women who were forced to wo...

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The Harrowing Journey North with Rebecca Cammisa's Which Way Home

Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

Read More: South America, Immigration Reform, Smuggling, Rape, Undocumented Immigrants, Kidnapping, Central America, Illegal Immigrants, Trains, Mexico, Honduras, Immigration, Immigrants, Guatemala, World News

"Many people think that migrants just easily appear at the U.S. border," said Camissa. "But the tough journey begins at the Mexico-Guatemala border."

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Hostage Diplomacy

Carne Ross | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Diplomacy, Bill Clinton, Kidnapping, Hostages, Terrorism, Terrorist, Obama, Diplomacy, Western Sahara, North Korea, World News

Clinton's trip to North Korea sends a clear message: hostage-taking gets results. Tehran, Hizbollah, Pyongyang and other violent groups across the world will be taking notes.

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Voices for Justice: Blog Talk Radio's New Show!

Michelle Bart | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Blogtalkradio, Michelle Bart, Caylee Anthony, Abduction, Shelley Shaffer, Kidnapping, Matt Berman, Autopsy, Casey, Instantamber, Living News

Are you prepared when time matters most? Join us as Matt Berman, founder/CEO of InstantAmber joins us in answering your calls on keeping the family safe.

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Taliban Buys Children To Serve As Suicide Bombers: Report

Washington Times | Click the Photo to Enlarge. | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

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Taliban Buys Children To Serve As Suicide Bombers: Report

Washington Times | Click the Photo to Enlarge. | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

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Why We Joined the Media Blackout on Kidnapping of NYT Reporter

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Reporters, Journalistic Ethics, Taliban, Kidnapping, Journalism, The New York Times, David Rohde, Media News

In the months after we found out about the kidnapping, I witnessed the most amazing press blackout on a major event that I have ever seen. I wonder how strongly this non-reporting will be criticized in the weeks to come.

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After Trauma, Iraqi Refugees Look for Healing

Catholic Relief Services | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Violence, Iraqi Refugees, Baghdad, Iraq, Lebanon, Kidnapping, Trauma, War, Jordan, Amman, Beirut, World News

For thousands of Iraqis, kidnapping is a nightmare they cannot wake up from. Between 2004 and 2007, hundreds of children and adults were abducted, tortured and often killed.

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Huckaby: Abuser Was Abused?

Deborah King | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living

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As upsetting and shocking as the circumstances of the child's death are, it doesn't mean Huckaby is crazy. Emotionally traumatized, with no functional way to release her pain and anger, yes.

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John Solecki, American Kidnapped In Pakistan, Threatened With Death

AP | ABDUL SATTAR | Posted 03.16.2009 | World

QUETTA, Pakistan — Kidnappers threatened on Friday to kill an American employee of the United Nations within 72 hours and issued a grainy video ...

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Good Riddance Gitmo!

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo, US Foreign Policy, Afghanistan, Barack Obama Guantanamo, Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, Kidnapping, Crime, Criminal Justice System, Incarceration Rates, Freedom, Criminal Justice, Detainees, Politics News

Stuff? Is that what waterboarding is? Just stuff? How about putting hoods over people's heads and making them pile on each other naked like they did at Abu Ghraib? Is that also just stuff?

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