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Search results for "kidnapped" ...
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The Stolen Child
This is a story of the disappearance of Misty Copsey; currently it remains a cold-case left unsolved. A fall afternoon in 1992, the day Misty never came home from the county fair. This series sheds “new light on an investigation plagued by police blunders”. It also “uncovered the malignant impact of an intrusive bystander’s obsession and exposed the foibles of small-town cops whose missteps and misstatements went unchallenged for two decades”.
Tags: police; law enforcement; kidnapped; Diane Smith; Puyallup; police department; runaway; vanish; abduction; evidence; investigation
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Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
This fourteen-part investigative series revealed how a prostitution and human trafficking ring could flourish in rural Iowa towns. The series also details the story of one 13-year-old runaway Minnesota girl was entrapped in the ring and was forced into prostitution. A ring operator, who was being beaten by her live-in boyfriend, helped rescue the girl from prostitution and helped her make her way to safety. Law enforcement officials first missed opportunities to help this girl and break the ring. But they finally solved who was behind the ring and assisted in a dozen human trafficking convictions.
Tags: human trafficking; sex abuse; prostitution; kidnapping; court hearings; Iowa; sex workers
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Whose Children Are They?
"Focus on Children, a Utah-based adoption agency, is accused by the U.S. government of tricking Samoan parents into giving up their children for adoption and falsely telling American parents they are orphans." The reporter traveled to Samoa to track down families that were affected; she found adoption agency recruiters exploited the families' religious faith, as well as bribed them with cars.
Tags: foreign relations; adoption; kidnapping; Latter Day Saints
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Against Their Will, Human Trafficking
Focusing on human trafficking among American teenagers. These teens are "seduced or kidnapped into a life of forced prostitution." Trafficking not only happened in the lower socio-economic or immigrant communities. CBS also examines "sex slavery in wealthy white communities." Finally They look at solutions.
Tags: human trafficking; sex slaves; sex slavery; Department of Health and Human Services; prostitution; kidnapping; runaways; Abolitionist church movement; NGO
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Teens and Strangers
Children are taught to avoid strangers and dangerous situations, and should have these lessons ingrained by the time they are teenagers. The Early Show drove around in a van, attempting to lure teenagers - including students at Princeton University- into the car to find out just how well those lessons are learned, and how easy or difficult it would be to get a teenager to exhibit poor judgment. Using cover stories including being a film crew seeking young people for a commercial, and posing as a police officer, the show lured people into the van.
Tags: abduction; kidnapping; strangers; lure; The Early Show
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The Sex Murder Files
A in Fresno that was facing charges of kidnapping was believed to be the suspect of the slayings of 10 prostitutes and a pimp in LA since 1985. Pelesik was the first journalist to tie all of the clues together as various law enforcement agencies have been investiating the case off and on.
Tags: police; serial killer; unsolved; prostituion; sex
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Information War
This group of stories from The New York Times focuses on how the United States government, in the name of a war on terror, has quietly been changing long-held information practices.
Tags: National Security Agency; corruption; illegal spying; kidnapping; torture; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
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Justice at War
After analyzing the Army Court-Martial Management Information system database it was found that soldiers who broke military rules were more likely to face charges than those who violated civilian law. These violations were mainly aimed at Iraqi civilians and included robbing , kidnaping and killing them. Also it was found that the Army's recruitment has enlisted men of questionable background. Some of these men would not be hired by other law enforcement groups such as the police, due to their criminal records.
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Jenkins Photo Proof of Kidnapping?
The web report address the practice in North Korea of kidnapping citizens of other Asian nations and holding them against their will in North Korea. The story focuses on the case of a Thai woman.
Tags: North Korea; espionage; Thailand; Anocha Panjoy; Kidnapping; Robert Jenkins
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Missing: Children at Risk
This yearlong investigation looked at mistakes police, the federal government and the national news media make in reporting missing children. Among the findings were that many police departments violate federal law by not immediately reporting missing children to state authorities, and that the National Child Search Assistance Act, passed by Congress in 1990, is largely ignored.
Tags: state government; federal government; children; kidnapping; amber alert; education; National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; National Child Search Assistance Act