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The body of the 11-year-old girl whose abduction was caught on videotape
was recovered early Friday. CLICK
HERE
A report on the Today Show Friday morning revealed that even kids
who are taught not to approach strangers can be lured near a car.
Even if you've taught your children and grandchildren how to keep
themselves safe, please do it again. (And again and again.) Visit
the "Is your child safe" quiz from our online Child Protection
Guide at CLICK
HERE. Then visit the site that the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement established to help protect child safety at CLICK
HERE
In
addition to the abduction case, the body of a 14-year-old student
who had been stabbed was found in a Florida middle school bathroom
last week. (CLICK
HERE) If that wasn't bad enough news, a 10-year-old Florida
girl was raped by two boys in her elementary school bathroom. CLICK
HERE The age of the principal attacker, a 12-year-old boy, and
the victim, 10, may seem extraordinary to many. In fact, the average
victim of child sexual assault is a 9-year-old girl, and the average
attacker is a boy just under 13. In many ways, this is quite a typical
case of non-pedophile child sexual assault.
The Bush Administration is claiming substantial progress in its
ongoing war against the international sexual slavery trade of both
women and children, including the recent sentencing of the leader
of a Texas sex-slave ring to 23 years in federal prison. CLICK
HERE Some Administration critics argue that while the Administration
has been aggressively pursuing the activity within our borders,
we have not yet brought enough pressure on the rest of world to
end this trade.
The Big Brothers and Big Sisters insurance crisis (see CLICK
HERE, story 10) may now be leading the group to shut down some
chapters rather than stop pairing gay mentors with same-sex children.
CLICK
HERE
Finally, the Los Angeles Times reports that a psychologist warned
officials last summer that he believed a 12-year-old boy he was
treating had been molested Michael Jackson. CLICK
HERE
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