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Child advocates question Texas' Amber Alert policy

Advocates for missing children want Texas' Department of Public Safety to reconsider its policy for issuing Amber Alerts after the agency refused to send one out for a missing 11-year-old girl believed to have run off with a convicted felon.

States disagree greatly on Amber Alert criteria

Authorities count hundreds of Amber Alert cases across the country as success stories when they start explaining why the media-friendly and politically popular bulletins are so important.

NYC police hold man accused of taking 4 kids, mom

A man accused of abducting his wife and four young children from a Massachusetts apartment where another woman was found fatally stabbed was arrested Wednesday by police, who said the siblings and their mother were in good health.

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B.C. woman charged in murder of autistic 12 y.o. boy
Source: The Globe and Mail

A neighbor of the missing boy has been charged in his killing. The RCMP is under criticism for failing to issue an amber alert for the missing child.

Police: missing girl abducted / Padilla offers reward
Source: MyFoxOrlando

SATSUMA, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) - Leonard Padilla, the bounty hunter who for several months in 2008 had been engaged in the search for Orlando toddler Caylee Marie Anthony, is now offering a $25,000 reward for the safe return of another missing girl.

Police say reports of missing baby boy was a hoax
Source: MiamiHerald.com

Excerpt: A frantic two-day search for a six-month-old child ended Friday as a hoax -- with police arresting the 22-year-old woman who spun the tale. Meagan McCormic had told police her child, Riley Archer Buchness, had disappeared Tuesday afternoon with a nanny named Camille.

Body of child found on West Side may be Julian King :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State
Source: Chicago Sun-Times

The rampage against the family of singer Jennifer Hudson is on the brink of taking an even more tragic turn as the body of a young male child has been found in a missing vehicle.

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