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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 6:50 am
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The overwhelming proportion of reported abuse/abductions of young children are conducted by someone the child knows and dealt with regularly, for many hours and days at a time. The flaw in the above-mentioned statistic is in its being imprecise, for otherwise such stat is accurate and accurately goes toward showing that for the small minority of the criminally-inclined, such crimes are often at least as much about having longer windows of opportunity and/or greater means to commit crimes and trying to get away with the crime than anything else. Such assaults of young minors is far less likely to be of a fly-by-night assault sort committed by some unknown stranger than it is some person whom the child and custodial parent sees regularly.
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