ABDUCTIONS RATTLE A TOWN (The two girls were grabbed apparently by strangers, and there’s little comfort here that such cases are rare)
They were grabbed off the streets of Kings Park and Hauppauge in the early hours of autumn evenings when the sun still lit the sky. A teenage girl out for a jog, abducted into a car at gunpoint and raped. A child riding her bike to play with a neighbor's dog, snatched into a stranger's car. The two recent abductions in Smithtown have rattled the community's nerves. Many children, already living in a closely supervised world, are finding themselves with even fewer liberties. Parents are driving their children home. Gone are the days of playing alone outside. But statistics show stranger abductions in the county and nationwide are extremely rare.
Gone Missing: The number of cases of children reported missing:
ABDUCTED BY:
Acquaintance
Nassau - 6
Suffolk - 0
NYC - 1
State - 34
Family Member
Nassau - 16
Suffolk - 11
NYC - 41
State - 137
Stranger
Nassau - 0
Suffolk - 0
NYC - 0
State - 1
RUNAWAYS
Nassau - 851
Suffolk - 1,875
NYC - 4,778
State - 19,454
LOST
Nassau - 37
Suffolk - 9
NYC - 0
State - 330
UNKNOWN
Nassau - 126
Suffolk - 92
NYC - 9
State - 1,266
(New York)
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