ABSTRACT
In national surveys conducted in recent years three out of four parents say they fear that their child will be kidnapped by a stranger. They harbor this anxiety, no doubt, because they keep hearing frightening statistics and stories about perverts snatching children off the street… John Walsh, father of Adam Walsh, whose abduction and murder at a shopping mall in Hollywood, Florida, got the country focused on missing children in the first place, proclaimed the country ‘littered with mutilated, decapitated, raped, and strangled children.’ 1
