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International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) endeavors to secure the co-operation of Governments and other authorities in locating ... all » and identifying persons missing as a result of armed conflicts, other hostilities or violations of human rights and to assist them in doing so. ICMP also supports the work of other organizations in their efforts, encourages public involvement in its activities and contributes to the development of appropriate expressions of commemoration and tribute to the missing.
ICMP was created in 1996, following the G-7 Summit, in Lyon, France, to address the issue of persons missing as a result of the different conflicts relevant to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and Republic of Serbia from 1991 to 1995.
Following the conflict in Kosovo and the crisis in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, ICMP expanded its operations to address missing persons cases from these areas. ICMP is headquartered in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also provides assistance to the authorities of Republic of Croatia, Republic of Serbia, and UN administered Kosovo.
ICMP also assists the government of Iraq and maintains contacts with other countries that have large numbers of missing persons. As a relief effort, ICMP has also assisted in the identification of victims of the 2004 tsunami in South-East Asia and 2005 Hurricane Katrina.
ICMP incorporates the use of a population-based, DNA-led system of identifications, which requires the collection and profiling of blood samples from family members with missing relatives and bone samples from exhumed mortal remains. In its laboratories, ICMP compares DNA profiles obtained from bone and blood samples to generate matching report which indicates person's identity with certainty of at least 99,95%.
For more information on ICMP, please visit www.ic-mp.org
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Police searching river garbage in missing girl case
1539 days ago :: Rank(6) :: Categories: Missing Persons News, News
Authorities are searching a river and sifting through garbage as part of their investigation into the disappearance of an 8-year-old Tracy California girl police said Thursday.
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A study conducted by the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) of 1,214 juvenile kidnappings from jurisdictions in twelve states in 1997, revealed the following information:
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Kidnapping makes up less than 2% of all violent crime against juveniles reported to police.
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Based on the identity of the perpetrator, there are three distinct type of kidnapers; kidnapping by a relative of a victim or "family kidnapping" (49%), kidnapping by an acquaintance of the victim or "acquaintance kidnapping" (27%), and kidnapping by a stranger to the victim or "stranger kidnapping" (24%).
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Family kidnapping is primarily committed by parents, involves a larger percentage of female perpetrators (43%) than other types of kidnapping offenses, occurs more frequently to children under the age of six, equally victimizes juveniles of both sexes, and most often originates in the home.
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Acquaintance kidnapping involves a high percentage of juvenile perpetrators, has the largest percentage of female and teenage victims, and is more often associated with other crimes like sexual and physical assault. Acquaintance kidnapping occurs in homes and residences, and has the highest percentage of injured victims.
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Stranger kidnapping victimizes more females than males, occurs primarily at outdoor locations, victimizes both teenagers and school-aged children, is associated with sexual assaults in the case of female victims and robberies in the case of male victims (although not exclusively so), and is the type of kidnapping most likely to involve the use of a firearm.
According to the State of Washington's Office of the Attorney General, "the murder of a child who is abducted…. is a rare event. There are estimated to be about 100 such incidents in the United States each year, less than one-half of one percent of the murders committed;" however, "74% of abducted children who are murdered are dead within 3 hours of the abduction."
In October of 2002, the United States Department of Justice released the second annual National Incident Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children. The data from this report spanned the years 1997 to 1999. When examining non-family abduction of children, key findings from the study revealed:
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During the study year, there was an estimated 115 stereotypical kidnappings, defined as abductions perpetrated by a stranger or slight acquaintance and involving a child who was transported 50 or more miles, detained overnight, held for ransom or with intent to keep the child permanently, or killed.
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In 40% of the stereotypical kidnappings, the child was killed, and in another 4%, the child was not recovered.
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There were an estimated 58,200 child victims of non-family abductions, defined more broadly to include all non-family perpetrators (friends, acquaintances, strangers) and crimes involving lesser amounts of forced movement or detention in addition to the more serious crimes entailed in stereotypical kidnappings.
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57% of the children abducted by a non-family perpetrator were missing from caretakers for at least 1 hour, and the police were contacted to help locate 21% of the abducted children.
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Teenage children were by far the most frequent victims of both stereotypical kidnappings and non-family abductions.
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Nearly half of all child victims of stereotypical kidnappings and non-family abductions were sexually assaulted by the perpetrator.
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