hollyblue
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85,000 missing kids does not mean that all 85,000 of those kids have been trafficked. Some of those children have been murdered by some predator and their bodies just haven't been found, others may have been taken by their non-custodial parent. A child who is trafficked would be a stereotypical abduction which is an abduction by a stranger where the child is transported 50 miles or way, detained overnight, held for ransom, or intended to be kept permanently or killed. There are 115 stereotypical abductions a year.
I am not denying that sex trafficking is a big problem but I believe that most of the girls who get involved in that were probably runaways who met some horrid people who basically forced/manipulated them into prostitution.
My bad. It was 38,505 children under the age 18 that had still not been located at the end of 2010 per NCIC.
Her (Rachael) initial stats on the runaways were 312,700, with only 2577 abductions involving non-custodial parents and 367 abductions by complete strangers. We have to remember that all human trafficking is not done by complete strangers all the time...as with child *advertiser censored*. It can be the parents themselves, relatives or someone in the child's or parent's environment that either could have known.