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-businessskeleton- t1_j9mlo4i wrote

So the family hadn't called the police.... Community members did. It seems that the family didn't give a shit about where he was. Weird

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TechnicalVault t1_j9o8n71 wrote

Yep! Despite what most people believe most abduction/missing child cases are not stranger danger, they're a parental abduction. Typically it's a custody battle though sometimes it's them avoiding a child protection investigation. I suspect that child is not now going to be going back to their parents but rather to a CPS foster family.

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squigster037 t1_j9og321 wrote

125 kids/yr abducted in the 'stranger danger' scenario in the USA. 80% are rescued.

Statistically, stranger danger is a myth.

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swheels125 t1_j9ohwkv wrote

25 kids per year not being rescued doesn’t make it sound like a myth at all

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greenearrow t1_j9op1cg wrote

This is one of those things where the odds are infinitesimal, but the result of being unlucky are absolutely catastrophic. It happens to very few people. When it happens, your life is over. You will spend the rest of your life looking for and longing for your child to come home. And of course it isn’t just your life that became awful, and the things you may imagine are happening to your child could be exaggerated or wishful thinking, and how will you know?

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trelium06 t1_j9oovmz wrote

Out of millions upon millions of kids?

I bet more kids die from choking than are kidnapped by strangers each year, but I’m too lazy to look it up

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Eternal_210C8A t1_j9orxcv wrote

Assuming the above stat (125 kids kidnapped by strangers/year) is correct, then kids are more likely to be murdered by their parents than kidnapped by strangers.

Edit: According to this article, about ~350 people under 21 are kidnapped by strangers every year.

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Goddess_Peorth t1_j9skywl wrote

It's weird to use "under 21," because that mixes in violence against young-adult women, where the abduction is either domestic violence or human trafficking (forced sex work)

Seems like different types of crimes/risks than "stranger danger" child abductions.

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ItsCalledDayTwa t1_j9or4ow wrote

That's like winning a million dollars in the lottery.

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swheels125 t1_j9ovd5c wrote

Just because there are statistically more likely scenarios doesn’t make something a myth. It’s not a myth to win the lottery despite very few actually winning compared to the amount of people that play.

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ItsCalledDayTwa t1_j9owwt0 wrote

I think you're taking it too literally.

Stranger danger was a thing that was drilled into the heads of kids in the 80s and 90s about vans pulling up and nabbing children, but that entire thing was massively out of proportion to reality and probably did more damage to society than it helped. It's closer to mythology than it is an actual danger faced by kids.

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squigster037 t1_j9piafi wrote

Yep. This is my point.
Strangers aren't your enemy, are not dangerous. There's a strong likelihood that any stranger you asked for help would not harm you, and is, likely to help you.

The immediate recoil and fear of someone you don't know has allowed wedges to be driven into our society, and I feel it's broken our culture up.

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pzerr t1_j9rci6n wrote

In fact it is advisable for a child to approach any adult, male or female, if they feel threatened or are in need of help.

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TheFrogWife t1_j9mlnqf wrote

Sounds like his family was hiding him.

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Nibblerrama t1_j9pbjkb wrote

Seems like parents/family hiding him from CPS.

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dreadedgrin t1_j9n1n5t wrote

…because he’s Asian/ Pacific Islander?

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alexefi t1_j9n45st wrote

I think he reffering to other story, where family pretended that their kid got carried away by ballon, but in reality he was hiding in the attic

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thatfreshjive t1_j9mpva6 wrote

Over a dozen children were shot last weekend. Who the fuck cares about a baby that was found 8 months later? Live in reality people.

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InsomniaticWanderer t1_j9n3646 wrote

It's possible to care about both you know.

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thatfreshjive t1_j9qosh8 wrote

That sooo wasn't my point, and I don't understand why you folks think I was personally attacking you.

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Ok_Store_1983 t1_j9mz35d wrote

I think alot of people would want to know a little kid was found safe after 8 months. Too many times they either get found dead or never get found at all.

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thatfreshjive t1_j9qomfu wrote

And too many times, the death of children is packaged into a larger story. Forgotten individually, and instead become a statistic. Were you following this story closely for the last year? Why?

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East_Living7198 t1_j9nduor wrote

Awww sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays. Don’t be jelly, somebody cares about you too lil boo boo bear.

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thatfreshjive t1_j9qo8b3 wrote

Literally just commenting on the whitewashing of news.

Don't understand where all these personal attacks are coming from. You all seem really satisfied with yourselves, so whatever.

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Hoards-His-Loot t1_j9px7ts wrote

Who the fuck is only capable of caring about one thing at a time? You are fucking mentally deficient and seriously need to consider getting some help you smooth brained fucking moron.

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thatfreshjive t1_j9qvpat wrote

I like where you're coming from though. Read some of your comments. Good thoughts.

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thatfreshjive t1_j9qdvbp wrote

I care about more than most - but everyone should feel uncomfortable about the realities we're ignoring.

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