This is a branch-off of my post yesterday about the FBI's website of missing children and how they have only a small number of kids listed on there. I got some great comments on the post, including one from Votescam that mentioned the Polly Klaas foundation's website and their supposed Master List of missing Children.
The list is 15 pages long... maybe 150 kids listed total? HOW IN THE WORLD IS THIS THE MASTER LIST OF MISSING CHILDREN?
Link to the Polly Klaas Master List of Missing Children: Polly Klaas Master List of Missing Children
Who are these kids? Why are they on the list and 99.9% of missing kids are not?
One pro I can offer is that at least these kids went missing lately, unlike the FBI's list of kids, some of whom went missing in the 60's and 70's! Clearly listing kids who've gone missing recently will help more than listing kids who went missing 50 years ago.
I always use young kidnap victim Johnny Gosch as a test. He is still classified as a missing child, and you CAN IN FACT find him listed on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's Website. But he is not on the Polly Klaas website's "master list of missing children." Why?
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SurfinMindWaves ago
Have any of you experienced this in your own life? Let me tell you, NO ONE will help you find a missing child. Unless of course for some reason the media has picked it up that week to make everyone believe that they do.
My son ran away as a teenager. Once they determine they have run away, you can just go fuck yourself because obviously you are a horrible parent and this is what you deserve. Long after my son returned on his own I found out that he had visited shelters in Portland OR and the officer in charge of his case KNEW this and didn't even tell me. When I asked why she just laughed. When I contacted police in Seattle they told me that they had in fact seen him and laughed about it and made jokes about how he was dressed. He was 14 years old.
Until you experience it yourself you believe that people out there have compassion and actually care about what can be happening to children on the streets. I know better now.
3141592653 ago
that's horrible. I'm so glad your son was all right in the end.
SurfinMindWaves ago
He's alive, all right is relative. He still hasn't told me most of the horrible things that happened to him during that time. It still irks me how dismissive the entire system is about this problem. When it comes down to it parents have few rights when it comes to their children. Its just that no one realizes this until you are in the middle of it.
3141592653 ago
sending all my thoughts and support
SurfinMindWaves ago
I appreciate the thought. My son is an adult now but it makes me angry all over again when I remember what went on and the dismissive attitudes of everyone involved.
3141592653 ago
absolutely. thanks for sharing