hopetohelp
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I posted these particular disappearances for two reasons. 1) the age of the girls involved. 2) the type of MO used by the perpetrator. Most of these kids disappeared after school on the way home, or from their own home right after school when they were alone (as if their abductor followed them). A lot of the other children were grabbed on the way to or from the store. I mean, I was surprised that there weren't really any cases of children nabbed while playing at the park (which is kind of a cliche I know), or out at large events, or at shopping malls (although Florida HAS had some mother/child abductions at malls, but that's a whole 'nother story).
I was thinking that in these cases, where a child is doing something very routine, that they do every day, it's almost like someone out there is looking for the "right" victim at the "right" time. So that person watches the types of activities where they are most likely to have an opportunity to get a victim alone. They watch the kids when they walk to and from school. They sit a few blocks down from the corner grocery and watch as people come and go. They know that sooner or later one of those children is going to pass by at a time when nobody else is watching. And I think that in these cases this type of offender is non-family and most of the time he lives or works in the neighborhood (although a certain percentage seem to like to move around certain segments of the country pretty often). But I think this type of predator is more likely to be a serial predator just because of the timing of the abductions. It looks kind of like hunting behavior to me.
Usually when the family has done something to the child, I don't know why, but they always seem to tell LE that the child disappeared from their home or their car (which seems a little counterproductive to me, but then, I've heard people tell LOTS of counterproductive and everchanging stories about what's happened to their children).
And... we've seen it on the news a thousand times. "A man broke into our house and took her." "a man carjacked my car with my kids in it." (I will say that legitimately there ARE times when an offender will break into a home to abduct a child when the family is asleep. It's not as frequent, but it definitely happens). But I think in this case it is more likely to be a serial predator because of when she was taken.
Even just thinking of situations where teen neighbors have killed kids in their neighborhood. It's typically during a time when the child is outside playing, not on the walk to or from school.
