Child Safety

What if you could read a book, a little bit a day, for free? DailyLit has tons of books for free that can arrive in your email inbox or RSS feed reader. You set the amount of reading you want and the frequency of it's delivery.

Hopefully we can help these children in some way by raising awareness. Please help spread the word, thank you!

In India most of the children do not return. Lured away from their homes by the promise of jobs in the big city, these children are forced into exploitative situations by kidnappers masquerading as businessmen. Instead of having a better standard of living, receiving regular meals and being able to send money back to the family, many children end up in the sex trade or otherwise severely exploited.

Great news! To read the back story, please click on this link http://tinyurl.com/ct9qoa

Justin Lee Wainwright and Joshua Zohr have returned home. The teens disappeared Sunday, March 15 from their suburban Detroit homes. Following their disappearance police issued amber alerts to help locate the missing youths. The disappearances didn't attract national attention until their parents set up a website to enlist the public's support of their cause.

Haleigh's mother (Crystal Sheffield) alleges that her father, Ronald Cummings, physically abused both children as a means of punishment. In a statement to the press, Haleigh's Grandmother denied the allegations saying, "This is not the first time they've pulled this out -- it's not the first time. I don't think it's going to turn out the way they want it to. They must want custody really bad,"

Ten year old McKenna Bishop, rushing from the living room where she had been watching the television, told her mother Carol Cornell about her formerclassmate. The boy had been in her fourth grade class for two weeks at the beginning of the school year at Barranca Elementary School and then abruptly exited. Her mother called the television show, it was the first solid tip police received since the beginning of the case.

KMBC's Peggy Breit reported that the case is drawing attention to flaws in the state's Amber Alert system. Some law enforcement agencies are issuing their own alerts that the state doesn't recognize, including the one issued by Independence police. Independence asked the Missouri Highway Patrol to ask for a statewide alert, but the patrol declined, because the case didn't meet the Amber Alert guidelines, the patrol said. The guidelines include that a child was abducted and is at risk for serious harm or death. As of a year ago, law enforcement departments can call their own Amber Alerts without approval from an Amber Alert board.

You receive a direct message from someone that you follow on Twitter. It says something rather innocent and intriguing such as, "Check out this blog type website. you need to see it.." and, "Hey look at this funny blog." There may be other variants, but you get the idea. I have removed the links, but anything on the access-logins.com domain should be avoided. When you click the link you arrive at what looks like the main Twitter login page. Only it's not genuine, it's a cloned site. And if you use this cloned site to enter your login details, your username and password will be recorded and used to access your account.

After observing the success of the United States' Amber Alert system, Ireland has decided to develop their own instant alert system to help insure child safety. The system would be modeled on the Amber Alert system that has been used in the United States for the past decade. The system would involves police sending urgent bulletins to the public through the media and other agencies, seeking help in searching for a missing child.

While on holiday with her parents and twin siblings in southern Portugal, Madeleine McCann went missing from an apartment in the middle of the Praia da Luz resort. Initial investigations by the Policia Judiciaria concluded that the girl had been abducted. From that moment, Portuguese police began a nationwide manhunt. They carried out a search with sniffer dogs, examined photographs taken by vacationers, and searched the coast including area caves to see if any suspects could be identified. None were found. On June 17th, the Policia Judiciaria noted that the presence of so many people in the McCann's apartment may have destroyed all the evidence and could have proved fatal to the case.

Executive Editor of OC Family and Inland Empire Family, Kimberly Porazzo, did a wonderful video podcast about our child safety service InstantAmber. Kimberly created the video podcast following her audio podcast interview of InstantAmber CEO Matt Berman where they discuss the importantance of our service to parents.

On February 9th, 2009, Five year old Haleigh Cummings disappeared from her trailer home in the middle of the night. The next morning, dozens of law enforcement personnel combed the woods adjacent to her home, looking for any signs of the missing child. Days

A tragic end to another innocent child's life. From this, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children was born.

Learn new information regarding your children's safety as well as about updates to our services.

Great ideas for kids beds!

Polly Klaas was kidnapped at knife point from her mother's home during a slumber party in Petaluma, California on October 1, 1993.

In the thirteen years since the disappearance of Amber Hagerman, authorities have put in place a national alert system designed to disseminate information about abductees as well as their suspected abductors across the entire nation- making it far easier to locate and safely return missing children.