Leanna Warner's parents haven't given up hope 5-year-old will be found.

Strib (Mpls Start Tribune) ^ | June 23, 2003 | John Reinan

[Spruce]

The parents of 5-year-old Leanna Warner say they are keeping their hopes up as the search for their missing daughter enters its 10th day. ......

[Spruce]

There has been no Amber Alert as there is no direct evidence of abduction.

Let's help find Beaner!

Please visit this site and lend a hand!
Here is the link to her Page

[Brad’s Gramma]

bttt!!!!!!!!!

[ChemistCat]

The purpose of the Amber alert is to try to save lives.

I wonder if this little girl will be lost because of that standard.

Of course, some FReepers are so annoyed by the Amber alerts as they stand, even when an abduction is witnessed and caught on camera. Mustn't interrupt their sitcoms....

Prayers for this little one.

[Spruce]

[Lucy Lake]

pinging...

[Spruce]

[Lijahsbubbe]

I thought that was unbelievable when I heard on TV that no Amber Alert was issued. Hello common sense. The purpose of Amber Alert is to 'alert people' about a missing child. Now we have to have an abduction? I suppose we'll have to spend more tax dollars to change this law.

[Spruce]

[Spruce]

[Spruce]

Here is the area she was last seen.

[soccermom]

I hope they find her! I don't mean to kick the parents when they are down, but did they learn nothing from the Samantha Runion case? I wouldn't let my 6-year-old walk to a friend's house, unless he were in my sight the whole way. Most of the families on my block let their kids roam all over the place. I don't. And when the neighbor kids leave my house after playing with my kids, I stand out in our yard and watch to make sure they made it home.

[Spruce]

That's what is so disturbing. This is the Iron Range. It's like Hobbiton. Things like this just do not happen.

[revtown]

This is a sad story. But this is the 1st I've heard about it since the day after she disappeared. Granted I don't get any of the local commy rags or watch the local TV news. But I do listen to the radio. I'm in southern MN and she is from northern MN.

It is a strange story. The last she was seen was when she left for her friends house. She was reported missing 4 or 5 hours later. I never did hear if she got to her friends house or not. So did she disappear on the way to or from her friends house. Enquiring minds want to know.

[Spruce]

The family had returned from a car-trip. Leanna wanted to run to a house "A stones-throw" from her house. She hasn't been seen since.

They will not do an Amber Alert so I hope we can raise our own!

[Palladin]

It looks like a farm area. Are there old wells around there? She may have fallen into one.

[soccermom]

I'm sorry, but that excuse doesn't fly any longer. I've heard too many nightmares from small towns where this "doesn't happen".

[oprahstheantichrist]

"...nightmares from small towns where this 'doesn't happen'."

I hate to say this, but it seems that the real sicko predators prefer small to midsize towns, far from the large cities, as their victims there are far more trusting.

Anyone remember Jacob Wetterling (St. Joseph, Mn)?

[Lijahsbubbe]

God bless you Soccermom. I always did the same with my children's friends. Even when they got older, we would make sure they got in the house when dropping them off.

[TaxRelief]

Why Amber alerts cannot be issued every time someone disappears:

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FACT SHEET
2001 MISSING CHILDREN STATISTICS

· In 2001, 840,279 missing persons (adults and juveniles) were reported missing to the police and entered into the FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC). This represents the smallest number of missing persons reports since 1992 (801,358).

· The FBI estimates that 85 - 90% of missing persons are juveniles. Thus, in approximately 725,000 cases (or 2,000 per day) the disappearance of a child was serious enough that a parent called the police, the police took a report and entered it into NCIC.

· For just the fourth time in the twenty years since the passage of the Missing Children's Act in 1982, the number of missing persons reported to the police declined from the previous year. The 2001 reports were down 4.1% from 2000. The total increase since 1982 is 444% (154,341 entries in 1982 vs. 840,279 entries in 2000).

· In 1990 Congress passed the National Child Search Assistance Act, mandating an immediate police report and NCIC entry in every case. Since 1990, NCIC missing persons reports have increased 27%.


· The primary NCIC categories in which missing children reports are entered are

"Juvenile" - 651,209 cases, down 5% from 2000 (police enter most missing child cases in "Juvenile," including some nonfamily abductions where there is no evidence of foul play)

"Endangered" - 119,237 cases (adults and juveniles), a decrease of 1.2% from 2000 (defined as "missing and in the company of another person under circumstances indicating that his/her physical safety is in danger")

"Involuntary" - 28,765 cases (adults and juveniles), a decrease of 8.8% from 2000 (defined as "missing under circumstances indicating that the disappearance was not voluntary; i.e., abduction or kidnapping")

Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Crime Information Center (NCIC), Missing Person File

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Amber alerts are for *Stranger Abductions* where there is some information about the stranger--car, physical description, name, etc.

How many people would pay attention to Amber Alerts if there were 2,000 issued just for children everyday?

[trussell]

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