Child Abduction

$15 debt might have prompted child's abduction

AKRON, Ohio -- Shauntay Jeffery spent five hours unable to do more than pray for the safe return of her 2-year-old daughter. The alleged abductor's phone call only made the wait worse.

Her daughter, Lanaysia, was outside the family's Lake Street home playing with her siblings at about 8 p.m. Monday when word reached Jeffery that the girl was taken by her aunt.

Police say the relative may have been angry over a $15 debt owed to her.

Little children with their parents light and hold candles at a vigil in the parking lot near a police command post in Tucson, Ariz., on Sunday, April 23, 2012, in honor of the missing 6-year-old Isabel Celis. The girl's disappearance has prompted a massive search with more than 150 law enforcement officers trying to figure out whether she was abducted, a police spokeswoman said Sunday. (AP Photo/ Benjie Sanders/Arizona Daily Star )

Child abductions from home rare

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Polly Klaas. Elizabeth Smart. Megan Kanka. The names are synonymous with a parent's worst nightmare: a child snatched by a stranger from the safety of her own home.

Now, police in Tucson, Ariz., are trying to determine what happened to 6-year-old Isabel Mercedes Celis. Her parents say they awoke on Saturday to find her missing. Police said a window was open with the screen pushed aside.

While officers are investigating all possibilities in her disappearance, experts say, abduction from the home is relatively rare, with just over 18 children taken each year.

Suspicion over 'entry point' in Tucson girl search

TUCSON, Ariz. — The family of a 6-year-old girl who disappeared from her bedroom was being kept away from their home in Tucson after an FBI dog search early Monday turned up information that required a follow-up, investigators said.

Women in Business give 10K to Amber Alert program

FARMINGTON -- Women in Business recently presented a $10,000 check to Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff to benefit the Utah Amber Alert Program.

The businesswomen have now raised more than $25,000 for the child abduction alert plan, according to a news release. As tax dollars are not used to support the Amber Alert, Women in Business has raised the entire budget for the program during the past four years.

Nurse accused of killing new mom lied to fiance, police say

HOUSTON -- A licensed vocational nurse shot a young mother and kidnapped her newborn son outside of a pediatrician's office near Houston after lying to her fiance about having delivered his child, authorities said.

Ogden police: Social media key in finding runaways

OGDEN -- Police in Ogden no longer think about placing photos on milk cartons to find juveniles who are missing or have run away.

Instead, they use social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to help determine their whereabouts, said Lt. Scott Conley, head of the Ogden Police Department's Selective Enforcement Division.

Elizabeth Smart speaks at the 25th Annual Conference on Child Abuse and Family Violence Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at the Davis Conference Center in Layton, Utah. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Elizabeth Smart engaged

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah woman kidnapped at knifepoint at age 14 and held captive for nine months is getting married.

Subject of Idaho Amber Alert found safe in Utah

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- Bonneville County authorities say a 10-year-old Idaho Falls girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe.

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Elizabeth Smart speaks at the 25th annual Conference on Child Abuse and Family Violence on Wednesday at the Davis Conference Center in Layton.

Smart: Child victims of abuse have options

LAYTON -- Protecting the children protects the future, says children's advocate Elizabeth Smart.

Smart spoke before 250 people Wednesday at the closing luncheon of the 24th annual Conference on Child Abuse & Family Violence at the Davis Conference Center.

(ORLIN WAGNER/The Associated Press) In this Oct. 11, 2011, file photo posters for missing baby Lisa Irwin are taped to a light pole near the Irwin home in Kansas City, Mo. The pictures on the “KIDNAPPED” flier have put an emotional face on what could have been simply just another missing person’s case. Lisa’s parents reported her missing Oct. 4.

Missing Mo. baby’s age makes her harder to find

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The reported sightings have come from as far as California, people just certain they’ve spotted the blond-haired Kansas City baby whose cherubic face has been printed on fliers and circulated on national television programs since her disappearance three weeks ago.

The parents of missing 10-month old Lisa Irwin, Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, speak during a news conference in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 5, 2011. The parents made a tearful plea for the child's safe return Wednesday, nearly two days after she disappeared, begging her abductor to drop her off someplace safe. (AP Photo/The Kansas City Star, Mike Ransdell)

Parents plead for infant's return

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-- As authorities continued to pick through wooded areas and rap on doors Wednesday, the parents of missing infant Lisa Irwin made an emotional plea for her safe return.

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