Within just days of the 'Amber Alert' being put into law in California, we had two young teenage girls, 15 or 16, I believe, were kidnapped at gunpoint and their b/fs made to walk from the middle of nowhere, this was late at night, midnight or so.....(I may not remember exact time?) ......anyway, they implemented the 'Amber Alert' on all the signs. It was a state employee out in the middle of nowhere who spotted their vehicle as it exited the main highway and went onto a deserted country road.
Out in the middle of nowhere, the girls were confronted by their attacker with weapons. He assaulted them and then was just minutes or seconds away from killing them when..........................in swooped LE.......it was like something out of the movies....
Anyway, IMHO, the Amber Alert should be utitilized for anyone under 18, at least. LE also needs to take more seriously when teenagers disappear. They always say it's a run-a-way and they don't know. Even if the parents say their child would never do that! LE delays, delays, delays.....
Case in point, again in California,................Amber DuBois....LE was sure she ran a way and her parents knew differently.........the parents, unfortunately where right.............but she was dead before they even missed her, within 90 minutes.
They should be broadcasting this child's picture everywhere. IF it turns out there was no foul play, so be it. But she's only 12 yo.
JMHO
fran