Totally an aside, but the truth is, males are much more likely to be the victims of crimes than women, and much more likely to go missing. We don't act like that as a society - we act like our young men aren't vulnerable, but they're more vulnerable to going missing than our girls are.
Looking at missing persons sites, and unidentified remains sites, males outnumber females by about 4 to 1.
You're right -- if we're talking about victims of crimes...males are victims vs. women.
However, in cases of missing children, About 74 percent of the victims of nonfamily child abduction are girls.
I don't know if Celina was abducted by a stranger, walked away, committed suicide, or any other scenario out there.
Based on the identity of the perpetrator, there are three distinct types of kidnapping: kidnapping by a relative of the victim or "family kidnapping" (49 percent), kidnapping by an acquaintance of the victim or "acquaintance kidnapping" (27 percent), and kidnapping by a stranger to the victim or "stranger kidnapping" (24 percent).
Stranger kidnapping victimizes more females than males, occurs primarily at outdoor locations, victimizes both teenagers and school-age children, is associated with sexual assaults in the case of girl victims and robberies in the case of boy victims (although not exclusively so), and is the type of kidnapping most likely to involve the use of a firearm.
I think in this case, we're looking at some sort of abduction, whether it was a family or stranger abduction.
I'll have to wait until the presser to hone in on more info.
Thanks for letting me think out loud.
MOO
Mel
Source:
http://www.parents.com/kids/safety/stranger-safety/child-abduction-facts/
