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Child Abduction

Tips for Parents

By Gwen Morrison

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  • Write a detailed description of what your child was wearing and the personal items he had at the time of disappearance. Include all marks, scars and mannerisms that may help in finding your child.
  • Make a list of friends, acquaintances and anyone else who might have information on the whereabouts of your child. Advise law enforcement of anyone who moved in or out of the neighborhood in the last year.
  • Provide most recent photographs of your child in both black and white and color. Make extra copies for the media, the NCMEC, law enforcement agency and other nonprofit organizations. (NCMEC will help with photo distribution.)
  • Find the telephone number of your state missing children's clearinghouse and contact them to find out how they can help.
  • Ask law enforcement to organize a search.
  • Ask law enforcement how to contact media.
  • Designate one person to answer your telephone. Keep a notebook by the phone for jotting down information as it comes in.
  • During the second 24 hours, talk to law enforcement about the steps that are being taken to find your child.
  • Expand your list of friends who may have seen your child during or following abduction.
  • Ask your law enforcement agency to request that NCMEC issue a broadcast fax to law enforcement agencies all over the country.
  • Schedule press releases and media events.
  • Have a second telephone line installed with call forwarding, caller ID and call waiting. Ask law enforcements to install a trap-and-trace feature on your phone.
  • Obtain medical and dental records from your child's doctors, and give them to law enforcement.
    • New Technology Helps in Recovering Missing Children

    David Shapiro, director of corporate relations for the NCMEC in Alexandria, Va., tells parents to call the police as soon as they realize that their child is missing and then call the NCMEC. "Parents should have a current, quality, portrait-style picture of their child along with physical descriptive information," he says.


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