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Sorry...new to Tapatalk...that story is out of Vancouver, not Portland.
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And, the thread is about school abductions and attempted abductions. No location cited in the header. :waitasec:
....Bold as brass, these people. A school. An apartment complex. Others right there. Each incident lasted less than a minute. Each incident has lasted my lifetime.
Here's one out of Washington that Tricia just posted in Current Events. Sounds like a runaway situation, though. Pretty bizarre.
Missing: Thirteen-year-old Puyallup, Wash., boy dropped off at school never makes it to classes
September 13, 2010 - Jennifer Mau with Guardians of the Children notified Examiner.com Monday evening that 13-year-old Ricky Wayne Broderick never showed up to his classes Monday after he was dropped off at Jason Lee Middles School in Puyallup, Wash. The boys father, Larry Broderick, is the Vice-President of The Gargoyles, a Tacoma-based organization that helps abused children.
Larry, who has been trying to find his son for the past five years, learned three weeks ago that Ricky had been placed in state custody over a month ago because his mother abandoned him, and signed him over to the state.
Larry was due in court Monday or Tuesday to gain custody of his son. Scroll down for details.
According to Larry, Ricky has no history of running away.
http://www.examiner.com/missing-persons-in-national/missing-thirteen-year-old-puyallup-wash-boy-dropped-off-at-school-never-makes-it-to-classes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/11295901
Page last updated at 13:15 GMT, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 14:15 UK
Natascha Kampusch describes abduction ordeal
Natascha Kampusch was just 10-years-old when she was abducted on her way to school in Austria.
She's 22-years-old now and still remembers the moment it happened clearly: "I saw a man standing in front of a white van. I thought about crossing the street, and then I thought, 'Don't be silly'.
"The next thing I knew he had grabbed me and bundled me into the back of the van. I thought maybe I was going to be raped, then killed."
For more than eight years, she was held captive by Wolfgang Priklopil in the windowless basement of a house in a quiet suburb of Vienna.
"It was a small narrow room underneath his garage. There was a sink, toilet and a bare light bulb. Nothing else," she said.
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Despite having several chances to escape on previous trips to shops and ski resorts, it wasn't until 2006 when she finally managed to run away, while her captor was distracted by a phone call.
He committed suicide just hours after her escape.
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more on the case:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/aug/27/austria.theobserver
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Further_details_emerge_of_Austrian__08252006.html
Of interest is that the girl's mother is accused of orchestrating the kidnap and being an accomplice in her captivity over those 8 years. But she's not accused by police or any others in authority, or even by her daughter or ex-husband (who had at one point accused his wife then later recanted). No ... she was accused by a former Presidential candidate (wth??) who filed a lawsuit in civil court to that effect. His basis for these accusations appear to be how the mother behaved after her daughter went missing. Hmmm....
From what I can gather from The Google, the lawsuit went nowhere.
I will never forget the murders of the Ernest and Alice Brendel and their 8-year-old daughter Emily in Barrington, Rhode Island by in 1991.
Christopher Hightower first killed Ernest at the Brendel's home. Then he called Emily's school, identified himself as Ernest, and said Emily was to walk home from school. The principal called the Brendel home to confirm, but there was no answer. So the principal sent Emily to the after-school program at the YMCA as usual.
Hightower went to the school to dismiss Emily. The principal refused because he wasn't listed on her records as an alternate pick up person that year. (He had been in previous years.)
Hightower drove to the YMCA and told the director of the afer-school program that he was there to pick up Emily. The program director did not release her because she didn't have any instructions from the parents to do so.
Half an hour later, Hightower called the YMCA, said he was Ernest Brendel, and told them he was giving Christopher Hightower permission to pick up Emily. He said he'd give his friend Hightower his driver's license as identification.
Hightower returned to the Y with Ernest's license. Emily was allowed to go with him. He buried her alive. He then killed her mother when she came home from work.
I lived nearby at the time and had young nieces and nephews. This case has stayed with me, almost 20 years later.
It just shows that even when schools and childcare programs have systems in place to prevent abduction, and the system is followed rigorously, a determined, persistent, sinister person can find a way around it.