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	Erika Lyn Smith BellaOnline's Missing and Exploited Children Editor

1-800-THE-LOST
The NCMEC provides two ways to help missing, abducted, or exploited children online by calling 1-800-THE-LOST or using the website's CyberTipline. Find out how you can help!

Getting Through Holidays When a Child is Missing
The holidays are difficult for parents who have a missing child. If the missing child is an only child, the parent may choose to put the holiday on hold, ignoring the holiday cheer, until there, is some news of their missing child coming home?

Haleigh Cummings 5 years old
How many children must be hurt, die or disappear before people will realize that leaving a child with a boyfriend or girlfriend whom you have not known for very long is not child safe? This week alone in the news are several cases of significant others abusing or losing a child.

Happy Endings
These articles are written (or moved) to this section when the missing child is found safe.

Have You Seen Me?
The campaign is titled “Have you seen me?" and is delivered to every mailbox across America weekly containing a picture of a missing child. Do you look at those pictures or simply toss the coupon mailer in the recycle bin?

Help Find Missing Children
What can you do to help missing children? People who want to help look for a missing child can help right from their home. Visit the missing kid’s website and read the stories of the children in your area who are missing.

How Does A Child Disappear Without A Trace
How does a child disappear without a trace? How does no one see a child abducted by a stranger just a few feet from home? How does no one recognize a child missing for years?

I Wish (In Search of the Missing Children)
“I Wish (In Search of the Missing Children)” is a music video created by a group of young artists who used their individual God given talents to create a new tool to help bring home missing children. Find out how it all began.

I Wish No Child was Missing
I wish there was no need for a website with the words missing, exploited, and children written in the same line.

If Your Child is Missing
What should you do if your child goes missing? Authorities recommend parents or caregivers search the home and surrounding area briefly and if you feel your child is not there then contact authorities.

Missing - Sandra Cantu and Adam Herrman
Sandra Cantu disappeared on March 27, after coming home from school and leaving to visit a nearby friend in the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park in Tracy, California. While Adam Herrman disappeared sometime around 1999. That is 10 years ago and no one reported him missing.

Missing Child - Trenton Duckett
Trenton Duckett is a two-year-old boy missing from Leesburg Florida. His mom, Melinda Duckett, was the last person to see him, when she tucked him into bed around 7 p.m. the night he went missing. Melinda Duckett reported her son missing two hours later. Where is Trenton Duckett?

Missing Child Guidelines
Do you know what to do if your child is missing? First, remain calm. Second, search the immediate area. Then if the child is still missing call police.

Missing Children Bittersweet Milestones
When children are missing holidays, birthdays and anniversary dates of the missing date are all bittersweet milestones.

Missing Children Photographs
Having a current photograph of a child is priceless when a child is missing or lost. Learn how to use modern technology to keep children safe on public outings. Know how and when to activate a Code Adam or missing child program.

Missing, Exploited and Murdered Children
The news this week across our nation has been sad to follow regarding missing and exploited children. Find out how to keep children safe in this evil world.

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) continues to be the national clearinghouse for information regarding missing, abducted, and exploited children. Please read my article to learn more about helping missing and exploited children in America.

NCMEC Missing Children Banner [offsite link]
This is a link from NCMEC and these are current missing children.

Photographing Children for Emergencies
A child can get lost or disapppear in minutes. It is essential to have a current picture for searchers to know who they are searching for and what your child looks like in that moment.

Recovered Children
Children here have been recovered and are safe in the arms of angels.

Searching for Missing Children
When a child disappears, unless there is direct evidence to show a child was abducted, the search must include any area a child may be able to crawl, or wiggle into and as an area is searched the areas checked should be marked with a bright colored X. Learn what to do if your child is missing.

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