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- Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
- Subject: Runaways
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- Date: 31 Aug 92 14:16:42 GMT
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- From: Marv.Cotton@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Marv Cotton)
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- Date: 27 Aug 92 20:08:00
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- Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
- Subject: Runaways
- To: lindae@netcom.com
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- NGR>From: rivk@ellis.uchicago.edu (nora gayle rivkis)
- NGR>Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
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- NGR>All right; intentionally provocative question -- this newsgroup
- NGR>focuses in a fairly even fashion on the twin problems of child
- NGR>abuse and missing children. But it seems to be taken as axiomatic
- NGR>that these problems are never in conflict with each other. So what
- NGR>do you do about children who are missing of their own volition,
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- Nora, you bring up good points. We at the Heidi Search Center
- have dealt with over 500 cases of missing children and have found
- that many times when abused children runaway the parents do not
- attempt to locate them. If they do the children run away again.
- Eventually people will stop looking for them as habituals. When we
- find children and they have been abused, this determination of course
- is at times difficult to substatiate as you are obviously aware, we
- try to work with the authorities to ensure their safety, we did this a
- year ago with two girls who had been sexually abused, they are now
- away from the abusers.
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- There are many reasons for children running away, one is that they
- do not feel wanted, this may be true in the case where parents work
- and the child feels neglected, or the parents may fight, or the
- child and a parent may fight (read argue) continuously. We have
- found these reasons also. We helped find a 9 year old boy who ran
- away because he felt no one cared, when he saw that they cared
- enough to post flyers he came home.
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- Our position is that if a child is missing he/she is in danger and
- we will assist the family. If in the course of locating the child
- we find that something else is involved we contact the authorities
- and work with them to protect the child. We try to be extremely
- careful, but by law if there is any sign of abuse they are turned
- over to Hunan Resources.
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- Our biggest concern is finding missing children and we never
- turn anyone away. We have found that putting together flyers
- and having them posted brings remarkable results. We have had
- children found who were hiding in gang safe houses, vans, empty
- houses or just walking around. Convinience store clerks have
- proven very helpful in locating lost children as the children
- gravitate to that type of store. We had a case recently were to
- girls, one 12 and the other 13, ran away from home and were found
- when they went into a Stop & Go. The clerk had one of our flyers
- and recognized them. He gave them two choices, call home or he
- would call the authorities. They called home.
- I hope this answers your question.
- Marv Cotton, Heidi Search Center.
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