From the report:
(Talking about the total number of ESTIMATED 1,315,600)
“Of all caretaker missing children, nearly one-half (48 percent) were missing because of a runaway/thrownaway episode. More than one-fourth (28 percent) became missing as a result of benign explanation circumstances (miscommunications or misunderstandings between child and caretaker). Children who were missing because they became lost or injured accounted for 15 percent of all caretaker missing children. Less than one-tenth (9 percent) of caretaker missing children were abducted by family members, and only 3 percent were abducted by non-family perpetrators.
“Close to 3 percent of caretaker missing children were abducted
by a non-family perpetrator; among these, an extremely small number (90) were victims of stereotypical kidnapping.”
So, 3% of 1,315,600 is 39468. That’s like 108 per day.
And this counts all those that were detained on site, or by overzealous dates and what not. As hard as I have dug through these numbers, I can’t make any clear conclusions based on them regarding the number of children actually molested or exploited by anyone in a given year in these United States. Basically, this is not the thrust of this research, and one cannot extract that data from it.
It’s an apples and oranges comparison folks. Using these numbers as a basis for anything but demographic research is muddle-headed.
-Your Peachy pal
(oh, and you can keep your ad-hominems to yourself, DDC)
