National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

A Childhood for Every Child: Combating Child Pornography Online

Brad Smith | Posted 12.16.2009 | Impact


Brad Smith

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

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

Lisa Cohen | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living


Lisa Cohen

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.

Jaycee Dugard's Family: Left Behind

Lisa Cohen | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living


Lisa Cohen

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.

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

AP | Posted 08.16.2009 | New York


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...

Precious Doe

Amy MacKinnon | Posted 12.01.2008 | Living


Amy MacKinnon

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.

The Patron Saint For Missing Kids

Diane Dimond | Posted 10.04.2008 | Living


Diane Dimond

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.