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FBI
Help Us Find
Them
National Missing Children’s Day 2016
05/23/16
Earlier this year, two young kidnap victims from Washington State were
safely recovered in Mexico after an investigation involving the FBI,
local law enforcement partners, and Mexican authorities
Fortunately, their story had a happy ending. Unfortunately, there are
still many children in the U.S. whose whereabouts are unknown. So as we
approach this year’s National Missing Children’s Day on May 25, the FBI
would like to ask the public for its help in locating any of the
victims pictured above from our Kidnapping and Missing Persons webpage.
With its partners, the FBI continues its efforts to eradicate predators
from communities and to keep children safe. Ready response teams are
stationed across the country to quickly respond to abductions. The
Bureau offers a full array of forensic tools such as DNA, trace
evidence, impression evidence, and digital forensics. And through
improved communications, law enforcement also has the ability to
quickly share information with partners throughout the world.
The FBI has several programs in place to educate both parents and
children about the dangers posed by predators—in person and online—and
to recover missing and endangered children should they be taken.
Through our Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Teams, Innocence Lost
National Initiative, Innocent Images National Initiative, annual
Operation Cross Country operation, Office for Victim Assistance, Child
Exploitation Task Forces, and numerous community outreach initiatives,
the Bureau and all of law enforcement continue to place a premium on
keeping the most vulnerable among us safe and secure.
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