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Originally posted by DimensionalDetective
Some excellent commentary here people. Looks like I may have to delve deeper into this one.
So WHY is this being ignored by the MSM here? That in itself makes me alarmed. It appears there is a conspiracy of silence and UNDERreporting of this....My question is WHY?
Numbers as high as one or two million are routinely cited in the media. John Walsh, host of the television show America's Most Wanted, has testified before Congress about this issue, and has placed the annual total number of abducted children at more than 1.5 million, adding that "we don't have a clue what happens to over 50,000 of them," and that "this country is littered with mutilated, decapitated, raped and strangled children."
...When the numbers are analyzed more closely, however, the true scope of the "crisis" becomes clearer. In 1985 the Denver Post won a Pulitzer prize for its series of articles revealing the truth about the child abduction scare. Reporters Diana Griego and Louis Kilzer found that 95% of missing children are runaways (most of whom come home before three days) and that most of the rest are child custody disputes.
Originally posted by asmeone2
reply to post by greeneyedleo
Yeah I know. I was wondering, like other posters, what the definition of "at risk" and even "Sexual slavery" is here.
In order to solve this problem I think we will have to define what sexual slavery is.
I think it is more than a neighbor molesting a kid once or twice or even more than that (of course that is terrible too!), it is someone being kidnapped, held agains ttheir will for an extended period of time, probably also brainwashed and made to do physical labor.
Originally posted by DimensionalDetective
Hmm, not sure what to think of this one...
Russian propaganda?
I don't doubt that such operations exist, as we have some very sick people out there, but I'm not sure I believe that such a prolific, wide-scale operation could be happening right here, in modern-day, surveillance state U. S. of A...
I will leave it up to the reader to draw their own conclusions on this one I suppose...
www.russiatoday.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
Originally posted by Dutty_Rag
To be honest this isn't news. It's a sad fact that it happens on a large scale almost anywhere in the world.
I don't think it's upto the state to intervene, this is an issue of personal responsibility.
Eliminate social poverty and you will bring down crime and reduce child abuse in all its forms massively.
Maybe porn is to blame in the rise in this kind of thing. It is still mainly endemic in poorer neighbourhoods.
Stats suggest a college education means your literally hundreds of times less likely to be a peadofool. Coming from a financially secure home with a loving family means your 100 times or so less likely to be a victim.
Originally posted by groingrinder
Does anyone remember the Boys Town sex scandal where children were trading themselves to prominent Republicans for drugs? I didn't think so.
[edit on 12-9-2008 by groingrinder]