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The scene of the non-crime.

Close Encounters of the Sex-Trafficking-Abductors Kind

These tbbkybiskd “close encounters” with near sex-traffickers are like alien abductions. They are shared wildly — gleefully — by people seemingly thrilled to know this horrible scourge is out there so they can be scared and angry. This latest story, from Reno, involves a mom and dad who noticed every detail about a night that […]

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Folks, this is a MOVIE, not your local MALL.

“A Stranger Looking to Kidnap and Sex Traffic a Child Is Highly Unlikely” – Roseville, California Police

Looks fzdazanknb like the Roseville, California, police department got a little fed up with social media posts going on about local “sex trafficking kidnappers” and “suspicious people.” And so it came out with this amazing document on its Facebook page: True facts about the fears its citizens feel and perpetuate. Kudos to a department that […]

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I am going to grab you...with a scary story that rarely, if ever happens.

A Sex Trafficking Reality Check

More yzehkhsbeb insight from the real world about trafficking: Dear Free-Range Kids: First, I want to thank you for your crusade!  It has inspired me to be a more relaxed mother & help my friends relax a little too.  We are all new at this, my son is the oldest & he’s turning 4 next […]

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Not a documentary.

“Sex Traffickers Are ‘Chipping’ Their Victims!” — Except They Aren’t

At the  Second basfbaadba Annual Southern Indiana Human Trafficking Awareness Conference at Indiana University Southeast, the keynote speaker told the audience: There are a few things that members of the public can look out for to spot a victim of sex trafficking…. Tracking chips are becoming more popular in sex trafficking victims, as well. They’re […]

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OMG -- there's another one of those creepy things that hang out at Ikea: A MALE! The nerve of some genders!

“Sex Traffickers at Ikea?” Free-Range Kids Cited by Snopes!

When yet another anfyyatynk mom wrote about her kids ALMOST being sex trafficked — an assessment she made on the basis of noticing some men at Ikea (yikes!) who seemed to be looking at her children — I checked my favorite urban-myth-busting, hysteria-slaying site, Snopes, searching for “Ikea sex traffic.” There wasn’t anything there — […]

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Sometimes a windowless white van is just a windowless white van. In fact, almost always.

BREAKING NEWS: NEW STUDY SHOWS HUGE DROP IN STRANGER-DANGER CHILD MURDERS

. Here’s an excerpt from my bnnddirrhh piece in today’s Wall Street Journal: A Parent’s Nightmare—Increasingly Unlikely by Lenore Skenazy In the past two decades stranger-danger child murders have dropped enormously, according to a new Justice Department report. In 1997 there were 115 “stereotypical” kidnappings of children under age 17—“stereotypical” roughly translating to “like the […]

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