Experts Share Perspectives on Child Abduction, Kidnapping, Abuse, and Safety

This comes after the body of the missing 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham was found was found in the Trinity River under US Highway 59.



According to the Child Crime Prevention & Safety Center, a child goes missing or is abducted in the United States every 40 seconds.


Approximately 840,000 children are reported missing each year, and the F.B.I. estimates that between 85 and 90 percent of these are children.


Family kidnappings make up half of all reported abductions in the United States. Non-family abductions include kidnappings committed by acquaintances and strangers.


Acquaintance abductions make up 27 percent of all child abductions and are committed by a disproportionately high number of juvenile offenders.