From news broadcasts all over the country, on Tuesday, October 27, 2009, mourners said their goodbyes to a 7-year old girl whose body was found in a landfill after she disappeared while walking home from school. The killer has still not been found, but hopeful will be apprehended soon. She was known to many as "a society hugger". Her name was Somer.
Prior to this final day of rest, the society held fundraising events to raise monies for Somer's burial and also helped many families safe their child from the same occurrence. This is what induced a serious reality check within me and for the lives of our youth over the U.S. They were given the chance to unblemished fingerprinting kits enthusiastically endorsed by the Fbi and National Sheriff's Association, for their own children to keep in the home. The fingerprinting would allow for a more detailed and immediate identification for their children in this similar situation and others. The program was created by the American Football Coaches connection and is known as the National Child Identification Program.
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According to U.S statistics, each year, more than 800,000 children go missing, that's 1 child every 40 seconds. When the Afca began this program less than 2 percent of families had their child's fingerprints on file. Their inkless fingerprinting kits in case,granted to the families, allowed for many parents to have this needful information and way to have updated identification of their children on hand to keep in the home. In case of an emergency, the parents can give this card to authorities to sustain in the exertion of locating or identifying a child. Here are two scenarios to explain:
Scenario #1: Rebecca, age 11 is abducted by her father, who is divorcing her mother. She is taken from Phoenix, Az to Atlanta, Ga. Five years has passed and Rebecca's mom still doesn't know where she is. On Rebecca's 16th birthday, she goes to the Dept. Of Motor Vehicles to get her driver's license where they scan her fingerprints. The Dmv database automatically sends Rebecca's information to the National Crimes information center and the fingerprint match the narrative of a missing child in Arizona and within days the police reunites Rebecca with her mother.
Scenario #2: Marcus, age 14, runs away from home in Detroit. After 6 months he is arrested for shoplifting groceries and fingerprinted in Chicago, Il. When his fingerprints are sent to the National Crimes information Center, it is shown that he is a runaway. Detroit police are notified and Marcus is reunited with his parents.
We may not be able to safe our children from every obstacle life brings, but we can learn to use the preventive resources we do have.
If You Have Children, opening This narrative is Going to Induce a Serious Reality Check
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