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But younger are perceived to be more vulnerable. Teenage runaways simply are not news in the same way as are abductions, particularly abductions by strangers. Forty-three reports were also studied.

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• Children less 12 represented only a sixth of all cases reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the last five years.
• National media attention can be even more powerful, especially cases where police fear a kidnapper has crossed state lines with a child.
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