More than 950 children owe their rescue to the Amber Alert system and 56 of those recoveries are because of wireless emergency alerts sent to public ...
An 8-year-old girl is safe after she was kidnapped while on a walk with her mother Saturday evening in Fort Worth, police say. Fort Worth police tweeted at about ...
For Amber Alerts in Texas, mobile phone users receive a text-like message if unique vehicle info like a license plate is available. Fort Worth police didn't have ...
A man kidnapped an 8-year-old girl Saturday evening as the child walked with her mom in Fort Worth, police said.The child's mother called police...
An Arizona judge's order was all it took for a SWAT team to enter a private Chandler home in March, take a child and deliver that child into the custody of the ...
Two hours, 36 minutes after an 8-year-old was kidnapped as she walked with her mother in Fort Worth, a city police detective began the process of requesting ...
The Fort Worth, Texas neighborhood of Ryan Place gathered to celebrate Sunday evening, May 19, after 8-year-old Salem Sabatka was found safely. She was ...
JEROME, Idaho — A teenage girl has been found in Arizona after police say she was kidnapped from the parking lot of a Jerome restaurant Monday evening.
A Waynesboro, Pa., man accused of kidnapping a 4-year-old girl from her bedroom April 25 told police he considered abducting other children.
A woman suspected of attempting to kidnap a 4-year-old child at a McDonald's has been arrested, Los Angeles police said.
Stephanie Moats still has not been reunited with her daughter, who was abducted from her home April 25, she said.
Ohio police are hailing an 8-year-old boy as a "hero" for saving his 10-year-old sister from an alleged attempted kidnapping. Police say the boy pulled his sister ...
She is accused of child abuse and trying to hide a baby from authorities.
The Fort Worth Police Department waited three and a half hours after the kidnapping of an 8-year-old Texas girl to publicly release a description of the suspect, ...
Round Rock Man Sentenced In Kidnapping Case - Round Rock, TX - Terry Allen Miles, 45, kidnapped two girls after their mother was found dead, and was ...
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — Nita Coburn thought she had locked her car. She wouldn't have left her great-grandchildren alone in the back seat otherwise, she said, ...
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) -- The YWCA of Northwestern Illinois announced that Elizabeth Smart would be the keynote speaker at the Women of Achievement ...
Thomas Dewald is scheduled to make his first public appearance since he was charged two weeks ago.
Elizabeth Smart, America's most famous kidnapping survivor, is now an advocate for child safety. Even so, she was reluctant to host her new Lifetime special...
ROUZERVILLE, Pa. — The investigation into Thursday's abduction of a young Franklin County girl found a few miles from her Washington Township home ...
A man who carjacked and kidnapped a father and son at gunpoint in Encinitas, as well as taking part in an extensive North County burglary spree, was ...
Officials have identified the two men killed in a wreck on Interstate 39 Monday morning.
HENDERSON COUNTY, N. C. (WLOS) - Authorities say an Asheville woman faked her own kidnapping and that of her infant child, and also threw her ...
Police have arrested a Kingsport man after he allegedly held a woman against her will for several days.
But there are some things Patterson will never take, the 13-year-old told a judge Friday. “He can't take my freedom,” she said in a statement read in court.
A student who said she was at the top of Thomas Dewald's list said it didn't seem like school officials took the incident seriously.
Police in Ontario, California warned of a sex trafficking ring brazenly drugging and abducting children in public places including movie theaters.
Boy, 7, Kidnapped With Stolen Truck - Pacific Palisades, CA - The suspect later took the child to the LAPD's Wilshire Station and the boy was reunited with his ...
On a rubbish-strewn street outside Thessaloniki station this week, Ahmed squatted by a railing, looking close to collapse.The 24-year-old from Peshawar in ...
The Saginaw Township Police Department has been running the 'Lock It or Lose It' program for nine years. This year it has a deeper meaning.
The alleged kidnapping, rape, and murder of a 10-year-old girl in the Pakistani capital has prompted protests and online outrage.
Jake Patterson of Wisconsin will spend the rest of his life behind bars for kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents. Jamie Yuccas is outside ...
Bay County public safety officers trained on Monday as the concept of combining police officers and firefighters gains popularity in the area.
It was a routine drop-off for the neighborhood after-school carpool. The neighbor's nanny let the 6-year-old girl out of a car on Dumbarton Street NW in ...
The suspect lured the two victims to an RDP house in the area, locked them inside, fed them and raped them. Police in Dennilton near Groblersdal have arrested ...
Child abduction statistics suggest kids are significantly more likely to run away with someone they met online than be abducted off the street by a stranger.
Former social worker Jeanne Nutter was walking her dog, Henry, when she encountered Jayme Closs, the 13-year-old victim of a kidnapping who had escaped ...
Nellmapius learners have been encouraged to take to their education seriously and to be wary of social ills. Members of the Africa Back-to-School Campaign ...
Two children have been found safe after an Amber Alert was issued Saturday afternoon.
There have been two separate reports of parents receiving phone calls that their children have been abducted and will be killed unless they send money.
She said it's been a grueling decade in and out of police stations dealing with the same man: Tavius Woods.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Tens of thousands of kids go missing every year in the U.S., and while many return home safe, statistics show the chances a child is found ...
Authorities say a teen boy in Kentucky on Wednesday claimed to have just escaped from two kidnappers and identified himself as a child who went missing ...
A child abduction case in Wisconsin that recently made international headlines has refocused attention on school bus stop safety. The role that bus drivers may ...
BARRON, Wis. (AP) — A 21-year-old man killed a Wisconsin couple in a baffling scheme to kidnap their teenage daughter, then held the girl captive for three ...
Elizabeth Smart, who captured the nation's attention when she was abducted from her home in 2002, will speak at Oakland University at 7 p.m. on Thursday, ...
Four members of a Jewish sect have been charged with kidnapping a young brother and sister in New York state. Prosecutors say the men belong to the ...
The man accused of kidnapping and murdering a woman who got into his car thinking it was her Uber ride had activated the child locks in his backseat so the ...
Authorities contend that the 2-year-old boy needed immediate medical attention for a high fever. His parents insist that he had been feeling better before he was ...
Child abduction survivor Elizabeth Smart delivers a message of hope and healing to Pine Grove audience.
The California Highway Patrol canceled an Amber Alert that was issued in Los Angeles County on Wednesday after two kidnapped children were found safe ...
A woman grabbed a child in Georgetown on Tuesday during an alleged kidnaping offense, the D.C. police said. In a statement issued late Tuesday night, the ...
Chandler police had to force entry into a home to check on a toddler who was suffering from a potentially life-threatening fever.
When Sarah Stech-Carlson learned the details of Jayme Closs' abduction and escape from her captor, the Plymouth mother immediately told her husband, “We ...
Internet users in China have criticised Beijing police for being too lenient to a group of women who tried to snatch an 11-month-old boy from his stroller in a ...
Police need your help finding a man who they say tried to kidnap an 11-year-old girl while she was walking to school near 19th Avenue and Bell Road on April ...
LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (KABC) -- A registered sex offender was taken into police custody after allegedly trying to kidnap two small children from a park in Lake ...
Corpus Christi ISD police are investigating an attempted\u00a0kidnapping at Sanders Elementary.
Midsi Sanchez, 27, has spent the last decade advocating for missing and exploited children.
Kidnapping is a rare occurence, but it still happens to families all over the country. Here's what you need to be teaching your children. By Jill Sederstrom ...
Elizabeth Smart is speaking to Jayme Closs' neighbors in the wake of her kidnapping.
Dating apps Grindr and Tinder are to be asked to explain to the government how they protect children, after an investigation claimed minors are put at risk of ...
Many parents have been on edge since 13-year-old Hania Aguilar disappeared in Lumberton, NC. Experts say communication with your kids is critical when ...
Jayme Closs, the Wisconsin teenager missing since October, was found alive Thursday.
A woman who allegedly tried to kidnap a 6-year-old girl from a Georgetown street Tuesday was arrested Friday, authorities said. On Tuesday about 4:55 p.m., ...
CLICK HERE if you are having a problem viewing the photos on a mobile device. The future is assured for no one, but for a child who survives a harrowing ...
Guatemala's ambassador to Mexico, Nelson Olivero, was injured in a traffic accident in Mexico City, along with several others from the embassy, the Guatemalan ...
Are your children really safe at the mall? Inside Edition found stories of a series of men who were busted for exposing themselves at shopping centers across the ...
Police say a 16-year-old gang member shot toward children Saturday during a kidnapping and robbery of a 15-year-old acquaintance.
A grandmother and grandfather have landed in Spokane County Jail after allegedly kidnapping their three grandchildren and hiding them for more than a year ...
A 2-year-old girl with autism who was abducted in the Bronx has been found safe and a suspect is in custody after an Amber Alert was issued, authorities say.
The true crime documentary, Abducted in Plain Sight, which recently appeared on Netflix, initially seems to be a nightmarish but otherwise unremarkable ...
A South Carolina college student was killed last weekend by a man posing as a ride-share driver, the police said. Across the country, women have reported ...
Two children escaped from two separate attempted kidnappings this week on Chicago's South Side, police said.
Law enforcement has issued a child abduction alert Saturday for three children. The Texas Department of Public Safety issued an Amber Alert Saturday for three ...
Elizabeth Smart has given birth to a baby girl! The child safety activist and kidnapping survivor announced the birth of her third child with husband Matthew ...
Their toddler had a fever. A doctor told them to go to the ER. The parents said their child was feeling better. Soon, DCS and cops were at their door.
Rosalynn McGinnis was just 10 years old when the abuse began. Only two years later, she was kidnapped and held captive for nearly 20 years before good ...
I don't know when I will be able to see my children again. I don't know where they are or if they're OK,” says Bart Critser, who was awarded custody.
Law enforcement agencies from all over Central Louisiana gathered for special training to combat kidnapping.
What the Michael Jackson sex abuse documentary Leaving Neverland shares in common with Abducted in Plain Sight, the documentary about Jan Broberg, and ...
Wanda Barzee helped steal Smart from her bedroom in Salt Lake City in 2002, when she was just 14, and hold her captive for 9 months.
Lifetime has announced it's producing a 90-minute special, "Smart Justice: The Jayme Closs Case," which will air April 27 and feature interviews by Elizabeth ...
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman who used to operate a popular YouTube channel featuring children has been indicted on charges that she kidnapped five ...
MARICOPA, AZ — Two brothers arrested in an extreme child abuse case in Maricopa won't be charged in the case that involved their biological mother, who ...
A Ugandan government official said on Wednesday that a total of eight people were in custody over the kidnapping of an American tourist and her guide, and he ...
Skylar Williams, 20, was abducted Monday morning at gunpoint from the Mansfield campus by the father of her child, Ty'rell Pounds, 24. Pounds was killed by ...
More details have been released in the kidnapping and homicide of University of South Carolina student who was reported missing Friday.
A man accused of stabbing his wife and abducting their 5-year-old child – generating an Amber Alert in Washington and Idaho – was located Tuesday in the ...
Indian police have arrested 16 people after two men became the latest victims of hysteria over WhatsApp rumours of child kidnappers. The men had stopped to ...
What does this mean for the fight for life? Family Research Council president Tony Perkins weighs in.
A mother of a 13-year-old girl reported to the San Ramon Police Department on Friday that a man attempted to kidnap her daughter.
When my client told me her abusive ex-boyfriend had shown up after a long absence, beaten her and kidnapped their children, I assumed the police would ...
A man who allegedly kidnapped a woman and her child in New Hampshire, drove them to Vermont and sexually assaulted the woman in a hotel room in front of ...
The Henry County Police Department said the 1-year-old who was kidnapped has been found safe. Authorities issued an Amber Alert to help locate Bryson M.
An Elsmere man who kidnapped a 4-year-old girl from her home in Pike Creek, then raped her and threw her into a pond to drown has been sentenced to life ...
News of an attempted child abduction in Phoenix has parents wondering how they can protect their kids.
The United States has named Russia in a list of nearly three dozen countries where it warned its citizens risk being kidnapped across the globe. As of Tuesday ...
The proliferation of ride-sharing services has some parents using Uber and Lyft to taxi their children around, however, it's against the policy of both companies.
In the span of five months, one man tried to entice at least 19 Iowa kids and sexually abused two of them, according to state investigators.