[ml/nj]

The fact that everyone remembers Etan now some 30 years later is testimony to the rarity of such events.

ML/NJ (Friend of the Patz family)

[AmericaUnited]

The fact that everyone remembers Etan now some 30 years later is testimony to the rarity of such events.

Exactly! Let's all cower down in our bunkers because 'X' might happen to us, regrardless of the fact that the odds of 'X' happening are 1 in 50 million. Geez!

[untrained skeptic]

The fact that everyone remembers Etan now some 30 years later is testimony to the rarity of such events.

Rarity? You have no clue.

There are nearly 2000 registered sex offenders that work or live in the area where she let her son ride home alone.

Those are the ones that have already been caught before, and that they know where they are.

My fiance works for children's services, and you would be appalled to see the stream of cases they get where children are preyed upon by family and friends of the family. They don't even get the cases where the kids are preyed upon by strangers.

The cases that result in a kid being killed usually make the papers.

The cases where the kid is molested but makes it home usually aren't because the parents don't want to embarrass their child and scar them even more.