Sunday, August 19, 2012

Amber Alerts

I recently added the Amber Alerts ticker to this site because I feel this is one of the very important, yet overlooked service that is in place today. On average, 2,185 children under the age of 18 are reported missing each day. That'smore than 797,500 children per year. Of those, almost  204,000 about 25 percent, were family abductions. An estimated 58,200 were abducted by someone other than a family member. Of those, 115 were taken by strangers and kept for a period or killed. At least 322 children had been recovered safely through the AMBER Alert program. 

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