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Alicia Kozakiewicz at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia (2015). The Center was founded in 1984, spurred by notable abductions such as the 1981 abduction and murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh from a shopping mall in Hollywood, Florida, and the 1979 abduction of six-year-old Etan Patz from New York City.
It was established in 2006 to replace the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse. [2] [3] The Child Welfare Information Gateway covers child-welfare topics, including family-centered practice, child abuse and neglect, abuse and neglect prevention, child protection ...
Hannah Elizabeth Graham (February 25, 1996 – c. September 13, 2014) was an 18-year-old second-year British-born American student at the University of Virginia who went missing on September 13, 2014. She was last seen early in the morning that day, at the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia. [6]
The NCIC database includes 21 files: 14 person files and seven property files. [6] Person files: [6] Missing Person File: Records on people—including children—who have been reported missing to law enforcement and there is a reasonable concern for their safety.
The National Child Search Assistance Act of 1990 (NCSA) [1] (42 U.S.C. 5779 (Reporting Requirement) and 42 U.S.C. 5780 (State Requirements): The NCSA requires local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to immediately enter information about abducted children into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database without requiring a waiting period.
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Alexis Tiara Murphy, 17-year-old went missing after leaving her home in Shipman reportedly headed to Lynchburg on August 3, 2013. [17] She was seen on security footage at a gas station in Lovingston, Virginia and her car was later found outside a theater off US 29 just north of Charlottesville. Her remains were discovered on private property on ...
Amid the event, a nationwide campaign against child abduction in the United States led to U.S. president Ronald Reagan signing the Missing Children Act (1982) and the Missing Children's Assistance Act (1984), that founded the national system for recording missing persons in 1982 and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in 1984 ...