How many of you parents have a fire escape plan in place to get your kids out of the house should a fire start in your home? Just common sense to do this even though the likelihood of your home catching fire is slim to none, right?
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How many of you have a plan in place as to what to do if your child disappears and is abducted?
I bet not many of you do...I've never worked a case where the parents of a child who's disappeared haven't said to me "We never thought it would happen to US!" These days, that's a very dangerous way to think.
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Just recently I was approached by 3 separate sets of parents whose kids had nearly been abducted by a stranger - all within the same 2 week period.
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The first was a mother shopping in a store with her youngster in the seat of her shopping cart.
She was distracted by her cell phone, turned away from her child for mere seconds and that was all it took for a man to snatch her child. Luckily for her, other shoppers witnessed the abduction, chased after the abductor and got her child away from him.
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The second was a couple shopping at their local farm store with their 2 children. Their father saved them from abduction by locking them in the truck while he was loading their purchases in the bed of his truck. A man rushed his truck trying to grab his kids while he was doing this. Locking the truck prevented the abductor from getting to his children.
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In the last case, a mother let her young daughter and her cousin go bike riding in their suburban neighborhood, when they noticed a man in a car following them. Neither of the girls had cell phones to call for help. As luck would have it a woman was out walking her dog and the girls rushed to her for help. The woman phoned the mother and also noticed the same man in the car driving slowly back and forth while she was on her cell phone. That is all that saved the girls from a possible abduction.
When this man saw the woman on her cell phone while looking at him, he took off very quickly.
Unbelievably, when I asked this mother/aunt if she'd phoned police about what was almost certainly an abduction in process, she told me no, she didn't think it was important to since the girls were safe. NOT IMPORTANT?!! As a result, that potential abductor is free to attempt to abduct other children. Which he will most certainly do.
None of those parents ever dreamed a stranger would attempt to abduct their children, much less right under their noses.
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I'm going to teach you some signs to watch for that indicate abductors are at work in your area, ways you can safeguard your children and what to do if your child would disappear and you're unable to locate him/her.
YOU CANNOT TRUST LAW ENFORCEMENT! It has been cabal infiltrated and they're involved up to their wazoos with these child abductions. It will be up to you to take the appropriate steps immediately if you are to stand any chance of recovering your abducted child. This is not to say there aren't any good, honest cops out there anymore - but they're becoming few and far between. As happened in my own department, they're run out of their jobs and being replaced with felons and psychopaths. Literally. And you aren't going to know who is a good cop you can trust. Furthermore, law enforcement functions like the military. Good cops are obliged to follow the orders of their superior officers.
Signs to watch for
There are now organized rings, both foreign and domestic, working on behalf of these pedophile "pillars of the community" in snatching children for them.
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Unfortunately, these abductors are so skillful at what they do it's extremely difficult to spot an impending abduction. And they are so proficient they can snatch a child standing right next to their child in under 30 seconds. One must practice their observation skills. Most American sleepwalk their way through life so aren't very observant at all. I could arrive at an accident scene, have 12 witnesses to that accident and I'd get 24 different versions of what happened out of those 12 witnesses.
You need to be keenly observant whenever you're out in public with your kids. How many of you look at other cars when you walk through a parking lot? Or even your own car before you get back into it?
These abductor rings mark cars in the parking lots. 1F1B does indeed signal 1 female with 1 baby. The abductor trafficking ring is then watching the car for that mother and baby to return to it in order to attempt the abduction.
Check your car whenever you've parked in a public place, especially the windows. If anything looks amiss, contact authorities immediately.
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When moving through a store, again be aware. Does someone seem to be following you?
I'm not saying be paranoid. I'm saying BE ALERT TO YOUR SURROUNDINGS.
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If you find yourself in this position, head for a checkout lane, a customer service desk or the closest area where you'd have a lot of people around you. Then contact the
authorities. Never send your child to a restroom alone or allow him/her to wander around the store by themselves. Use your cell phone to try to take a photo of the suspicious person. These abductors do NOT want their photos taken for obvious reasons. A photo can be used to identify them.
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Another thing you want to watch for is suspicious vehicles around your home. These traffickers surveil the child they plan to abduct for at least 2 weeks prior to attempting the actual abduction so they can get your child's daily routine down pat and know where he/she will be at any given time. They've often been spotted not only in the neighborhood but parked at the child's school. When your kids leave the house take a quick look up and down your street so you can spot any suspicious vehicles that may be surveilling children.
Keep a close eye on your kids whenever in public and be keenly aware of your surroundings at all times. Put your cell phone away, it's a distraction. You have voicemail for a reason and you can return calls when you and your kids are safely back home. (Unless it's a medical emergency or some other sort of dire emergency)
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The best defense is a good offense.
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Vary your child's daily routine as much as possible.
Sure, there are things not within your control to vary like sports practices and events. But vary whatever you can.
If your child walks to school, don't let them use the same route every day. Vary the route they take if possible. (Just one example) During that surveillance period these traffickers are making note of exactly what your child does when. Make that as difficult on them as possible by changing up their daily routine as much as possible. Don't give them the precise time when they have the best chance to abduct your child.
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Don't make the mistake of thinking teaching your kids "Stranger Danger" will be enough to keep them from going with a stranger! Watch the following video! You'll be stunned how many kids hopped right into the car of an actor portraying a potential abductor. Most certainly these kids' parents were stunned - as you'll see!
Prepare yourself ahead of time
The first instinct a parent will respond to when attempting to protect their child is to physically try to protect their child - in the wrong way. Please watch the video below to know how to respond in a situation where you have to physically confront an abductor/trafficker.
You and your kids take a few self defense classes. It's good exercise and will provide you with some quality time spent with your kids. Furthermore, when you're not around they'll know how to try to defend themselves against a potential abductor. These abductors normally try to strike when the parents are not around and the child is alone - although that's not always the case now days.
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Even better if you can find a class that teaches how to use the body pressure points to control a much larger adversary within seconds simply by applying pressure to specific pressure points. You can subdue a threat twice your size within 3 seconds using these pressure points. (I've done it.)
Something as simple as a container of pepper spray on your person can deter a potential abductor long enough for you and your child to escape. Use your car keys as a weapon, to gouge at the abductor's eyes. Kick, scream as loudly as possible to attract attention.
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Install security cameras around the perimeter of your home.
If you can't afford the real deal, you can purchase fake security cameras like the one at right relatively inexpensively.
As I mentioned, these traffickers do NOT want their faces or themselves on camera!
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Even the illusion they're on camera will likely make them have second thoughts in targeting your home and child.
Set up a neighborhood watch group.
Post signs like the one at left in your windows where they are easily seen from the street.
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As I said, these abducted kids are under surveillance for a full 2 weeks before an abduction is attempted. Keep an eye out for suspicious vehicles that look like they don't belong in the neighborhood and seem to be just lingering around. Note that many times the cabal will disguise these surveillance vehicles as service-type vehicles - cable installers, electricians, etc. and they will often use white vans, although not exclusively.
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What about when your child is at school? We've caught them surveilling children at schools, as was the case in the Daniel Morcombe abduction.
Make sure your school knows precisely who is authorized to pick your child up from school and who isn't. Set up a password between you and your kids that anyone trying to pick them up at school must give the child before the child gets in a vehicle with them.
Don't let your kids go out alone even if it's only to walk 1 or 2 blocks from home. Yes, this is difficult with tweens and teens...but right now they are the target abductees of choice to be trafficked as sex slaves and for black market body organ harvesting. Traveling in groups of 3 or more makes abductions next to impossible to execute. Kids that age tend to think they're infallible to begin with...but they can't afford to think "It would never happen to ME!" any more than you as parents can.
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Most kids have cell phones these days but if yours don't, get them one they can use in an emergency and install a GPS tracking app on it.
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You might also want to consider getting them a police whistle they can use to summon help. (Not a toy whistle!) Police whistles are metal, durable and very loud. You can buy one here
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Never leave your child alone in a vehicle even if it's just for a few seconds. Remember, these traffickers can abduct a child in under 60 seconds.
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Make sure your kids carry an ID card somewhere on their person. If the child is drugged or unconscious they won't be able to tell anyone who they are, their address and phone number. Include any pertinent medical alerts. Or order some temporary tattoo paper from someplace like Amazon and print out their phone number on it. Have them tattoo themselves. You carry extras with you for unexpected events or crowds.
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Avoid personalized clothing. Having a visible name enables people to ‘appear’ to know your child. Anyone could speak to them and say something like, “Oh hello *your child’s name*, your mommy asked me to find you. She’s this way, come with me and we’ll find her” You child wants to find Mommy and the stranger knows his/her name so instantly, your child trusts this stranger and goes.
By the same token, don't dress your kids in red, white, black or a combination of those colors nor any kind of clothing with occult numbers on it. That's just asking for trouble.
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Be careful what you post online and monitor what your kids do online!
It's a trolling ground for pedophiles, abductors and traffickers. Don't advertise information and photos pertaining to your child, keep that private.
Also watch like a hawk what your kids are doing online. They don't know who's on the other end in an Internet chat room and sex offenders make a habit of frequenting popular kid chatrooms and passing themselves off as kids to lure your child in.
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Keep an updated file on your child including:
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Recent photo
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Identifying characteristics - height, weight, eye and hair color, age, any identifying marks like birthmarks, scars, piercings, tattoos, etc., clothes he/she was wearing at the time of disappearance.
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Your child's fingerprints - call your local law enforcement agency and ask them to fingerprint your child. There's normally no cost to do this and your child's prints will automatically be entered into the AFIS data bank law enforcement agencies use.
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The name of your child's dentist and contact info for that dentist.
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Contact information for yourself so investigators know where to get in touch with you.
Setting up a support group
This is absolutely CRITICAL! You cannot rely on police to swing into action the minute you discover your child is missing! First of all, police forces are extremely understaffed so they're likely not to swing into action immediately in trying to locate your child. They'll likely tell you "The kid probably just ran away" before even taking a missing person report.
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The first 48 hours of your child being missing are absolutely critical. Once that initial 48 hours has passed the odds of recovering your child alive drop drastically. Therefore, you will have to initiate action on your own to make the best of that initial 48 hours.
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Your support group should consist of trusted family and friends who live in your vicinity, that can swing into action on short notice.
You want to appoint specific jobs to each person in your support group:
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Someone to phone your child's friends, hospitals, etc. to attempt to locate your child's whereabouts.
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Someone to contact the media and local TV stations to get your child's face out in the public arena. The more people watching for your child, the better the odds of connecting with people that may have seen him/her. This same person can set up a page or pages on social media to alert people your child is missing and even act as a spokesperson with media outlets if need be.
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​Someone to print up missing flyers of your child and start distributing them.
Here's a template you can use.
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A person to contact and work with the National Center For Missing & Exploited Children. They can contact the center on the 24 hour hotline 800 phone number shown below and tell them you have a missing child.
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Another person can line up searchers to join the police's organized search - for example, Scouting groups like Eagle Scouts, off duty firefighters and the like. You don't want to send them out searching on their own! They could inadvertently contaminate a potential crime scene and once evidence is destroyed it's gone forever. But you can get them lined up to help search and pass those volunteers on to the investigating agency coordinating a search.
If you know a pilot that owns their own plane or helicopter, contact them and ask them to do a voluntary search from the air. They may know other pilots willing to help as well. Or phone your local airport management and request they ask for volunteer search pilots.
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As for the parents of the missing child: You're going to want to go out and physically search yourself. This is a normal parental reaction. But is it the best way to go about things for the sake of your child? No.
Parents of a missing child can't sleep, they can't eat, they can't even focus for any amount of time. This being the case, they burn themselves out very quickly and that does not help their missing child - or themselves or other children within the family.
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What I recommend is the parents switching off, taking turns physically searching for their child. One parent should remain at home as the contact for authorities and search parties, in the event the child would come home, etc. The other parent can be out physically searching. The next day, switch. The parent who stayed home the day before goes out and joins searchers, the other parent remains at home as a contact.
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Organized searches are very physically demanding and it will not help your missing child in the least if you're both burned out wrecks. Use your day manning the home to rest up as best you can and preparing to join the search party the following day.
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If you're a single parent then get a trusted family member or friend to partner up with you in doing the above.
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If you have other children at home, either see if they can stay with a family member or friend for a few days OR make them an active part of the search activities. What I found in the cases I worked is that other children in the family didn't always respond positively when suddenly the focus of all attention shifted to the missing child and they kind of got lost in the shuffle. Remember, they're going through their own anxiety and trauma in regards to their missing sibling and that needs to be addressed even if their sibling is still missing, if you don't want possible behavioral issues cropping up down the road.
Dealing with investigating authorities
Investigating agencies (law enforcement) have a protocol they follow when searching for a missing child and it's frustrating for the parents of a missing child, to say the least. Statistics have shown that most often, if harm comes to a child, the vast majority of the time it's at the hands of someone close to the child. So you as the parent will be the first "person of interest" the investigating agency looks at in your child's disappearance.
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As hard as this is to do, try not to take it personally and cooperate as best you can. We work outward in an ever expanding circle of people close to your child to eliminate anyone who didn't have a hand in their disappearance. We have to approach it in this manner because these abductors are very good at not leaving any evidence behind that law enforcement can use as evidence or clues to follow up on in order to find the abductor of your child - and hopefully, your child as well.
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HOWEVER...remember law enforcement agencies have been infiltrated and these trafficking and pedophile rings typically set up a "fall guy" for crimes they themselves committed. "They themselves" can also include corrupt law enforcement officials.
For this reason, NEVER EVER allow police to interrogate you without legal representation present to help protect you and your rights.
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Investigators/interrogators have all kinds of interrogation tricks they use, they can even lie to you to try to get you to confess to something you didn't do. And it's perfectly legal for them to use these tactics!
Once you tell them "I want my lawyer present" (or "lawyer up" as we called it) they cannot legally ask you another question without your attorney present. So if you're brought in for questioning (and you will be!) the first words out of your mouth to investigators is "I want my attorney present".
This will not only help protect you, it will also help prevent investigators from potentially developing tunnel vision and focusing in on you as the guilty party simply because most abductions are conducted by family members.
Know that polygraph tests are NOT admissible in court for a reason. They are not considered infallible in their results. I personally would never take a police polygraph test unless advised to by my attorney - not because I was guilty of anything but because I've been subjected to a corrupt, rigged police investigation while being railroaded out of law enforcement. That's not something you want to discover yourself being the subject of.
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The upside is that nothing gets a good, honest cop riled up more than harm potentially coming to a child.
You won't see it or probably even realize it but good, honest cops will work around the clock doing everything in their power to find your child. You won't be sleeping, eating or carrying on with life as normal - but neither will they! Believe me, they will be hell bent on finding your child.
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To you it will seem like they're doing nothing because they can't share details of the investigation with you.
And there's a very good reason they do this. There are a whole lot of nutcases out there that will falsely confess to committing a crime, there are jailed prisoners who will do the same or falsely claim to have information on your child's disappearance just to try to reduce their prison sentences...
Police will always keep details about your child's disappearance even from you so that they can nail the proper perpetrator who tells them something only the abductor could have known about your child's disappearance. It's the old adage: 3 people can keep a secret if 2 of them are dead.
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Nor do they want these details inadvertently showing up in the media and possibly tipping off the abductor, causing him to flee with or without your child! They want to nail the SOB responsible. So realize they aren't sharing investigation details with you for this reason. It's not that they aren't doing anything, although that's how it will appear to you. They will be every bit as desperate to find your child as you yourself are. Remember, they have kids of their own! Dealing with criminals day in and day out, the first thought in their minds will be "This could have been my child that disappeared." So they'll be going after your child's abductor with a vengeance.
Should I/we consult a psychic?
Of course, this is entirely up to you. But I will give you this warning: there are many self-professed psychics out there that just aren't proficient psychics and are no help whatsoever in locating a missing child.
I'm an internationally certified professional psychic and have worked with law enforcement in solving missing child cases. There are very few of us proficient enough psychically to do this and give them pertinent information beyond "The child is near water." Which is why law enforcement is so skeptical of working with psychics - at least until we've proven ourselves. Even if we're in law enforcement ourselves!
If you're intent on consulting a psychic, then look for one who has worked with law enforcement in the past.
Nor will we ask for money to help try to find your child! I've never taken one penny to work the cases I did.
All of the associated expenses to work a case came out of my own pocket. Those of us who do this for the right reasons don't care about payment. We care about finding your child! That's our priority.
And in fact, I know of more than one case in which the criminal himself/herself posed as a psychic to law enforcement in order to collect a $25,000 or more reward themselves! They didn't get away with it because they spilled details to cops that we just talked about, that only the perpetrator of the crime would know in their playing "psychic" and that investigating cops had kept to themselves.
So be very wary of consulting a psychic unless that psychic has a track record of working with investigative agencies. Under no circumstances should you trust a psychic that expects to be paid for their services, not even a nominal amount of money.
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