[ctdonath2]

Code Adam was invented by Walmart but it is now an internationally recognized alert. It means “missing child”. ... As soon as the alert is heard, security staff will begin to monitor the doors and other exits. If the child is not found within 10 minutes, the police are alerted and a store search begins.

Relevant factoid: the majority of abducted children are dead within 4 hours, most of the rest within 24.

[KarlInOhio]

Relevant factoid: the majority of abducted children are dead within 4 hours, most of the rest within 24.

All abductions or just stranger abductions? I've heard that most abductions are really custody fights between parents/relatives over the child and are thus unlikely to kill the child.

[Vendome]

I was just discussing the Elizabeth Smart story and the facts you just gave are depressing.