Horrible thought...But so pertinent these days, unfortunately.

BMD'sPeanut Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:15 PM

Horrible thought...But so pertinent these days, unfortunately.

Does anyone personally know of any child (or adult for that matter) who was abducted?

AnnBrunoXO Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:16 PM

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lilmrs Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:16 PM

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thank goodness I can say no to this question.

I feel horrible for anyone who would have to live through that.

jantany26 Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:17 PM

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Omg, no.
I would never wish this on anyone, not even my worst enemy.

LADYL Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:18 PM

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NO thank God. But as a mother that is my worst fear!! That must be such a horrible thing to deal with and it's sad that you read so much of it in the paper.

RedHead Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:19 PM

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THANKFULLY NO!

Janice Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:19 PM

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yes my sister's friend. I was in 8th grade, she was in 6th grade, we both played the clarinet in band together. Her name was Jenny Odom, I don't think my sister ever fully recooped from it. She was taken when she got off the school bus, and found days later, naked and tied up in a ditch. Beaten to death. I feel sick to my stomach typing this...it was a real horror.

DebsNY Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:19 PM

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A teacher at the school i was student teaching at had a girl that was abducted as a student (when she was in 5th grade - the girl was in 7th grade when she was abducted)

It was scary that it was so close to home though. She was taken by a guy she met on the internet, and was found safe about a week later though.

Fortunatly, that's as close as i've gotten to that kind of situation.

jantany26 Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:20 PM

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Posted by Janice

yes my sister's friend. I was in 8th grade, she was in 6th grade, we both played the clarinet in band together. Her name was Jenny Odom, I don't think my sister ever fully recooped from it. She was taken when she got off the school bus, and found days later, naked and tied up in a ditch. Beaten to death. I feel sick to my stomach typing this...it was a real horror.

Omg, Jan. I'm so sorry. How sad and horrible.

BMD'sPeanut Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:20 PM

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Janice,
I'm very sorry. I got chills reading what you wrote
All these recent stories of missing children make me very sad.

Janice Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:21 PM

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jenny odom

BMD'sPeanut Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:23 PM

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I actually just looked her up.

Janice Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:26 PM

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Posted by BMD'sPeanut

Janice,
I'm very sorry. I got chills reading what you wrote
All these recent stories of missing children make me very sad.

thanks, it really is such a dark place in my sister's mind. We weren't even Jenny's family, but in high school, my sister was very depressed, and once she went to the movies with me and my friends...a guy drove up to talk to us and my sister went into hysterics telling me to run.

Janice Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:35 PM

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Posted by jantany26

Posted by Janice

yes my sister's friend. I was in 8th grade, she was in 6th grade, we both played the clarinet in band together. Her name was Jenny Odom, I don't think my sister ever fully recooped from it. She was taken when she got off the school bus, and found days later, naked and tied up in a ditch. Beaten to death. I feel sick to my stomach typing this...it was a real horror.

Omg, Jan. I'm so sorry. How sad and horrible.

thanks..I hate hearing about all these recent abduction stories.

Janice Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:46 PM

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hijacking*****

another memory that makes my stomach turn:

I use to babysit for a family, well off, great house in a country neighborhood. They had 2 little boys(age 5 and 3). They had french doors leading to their screened in porch. One night they were robbed. They were all asleep in their beds, they had a security system, but I guess not a very good one because it was cut through. They woke up the next morning to find the TV gone from their room, as well as their alarm clock from the side of their bed. They slept through it all. They ran into one of the boy's rooms, and his bedside lamp was taken as well as his piggy bank. The other little boy who was 5 had nothing taken from his room. He later told that the man told him to go back to bed.

They were so disturbed that intruders were in their little boy's rooms that they packed up and moved out within the week.

BMD'sPeanut Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:47 PM

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At least they weren't hurt.

Butterflybride Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:53 PM

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Thankfully, no.

Sasha96 Posted: Apr 25, 2005 04:55 PM

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when my cousin's wife was a child she was abducted twice (oddly enough it happens to be a coincidence). Thankfully she was not harmed either time!

dm24angel Posted: Apr 25, 2005 05:09 PM

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yes two.
My cousin when she was younger, her father stole her from her house ( parents divorced) and took her to Alabama, ( just random, he knew no-one there) and rented a house, it took then 2 weeks to find her( he told his mother where he was) and he grabbed her and ran when the police showed up, she was actually rescued by a helicopter because they were walking ( running away) for like 10 hours . She didnt talk after that for almost a year. She was 4 at the time.

and about 10 years ago my Aunts godson was on a HS field trip upstate and went missing. The still dont know what happened to him. They found his body 18 months later in a river nearby.

bxgell2 Posted: Apr 25, 2005 05:35 PM

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When my mom was my age, living in NYC, someone tried to abduct her while she was walking down the street. He pulled up in his car, got out and started pushing her into his car. She started screaming and fighting against him, so eventually he got back in his car and drove away.

It's weird... DH and I were just talking about this yesterday. I remembered that when I was about 6 years old, I was playing outside on the front lawn and some car kept driving by very slowly. Then, he stopped and called out to me to come over for something (I think he wanted to give me candy or something). I got so scared and ran back into the house and told my mom who called the police.