In 2015 the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children assisted law enforcement with over 13,700 cases of missing children.
The entire month of May is National Missing Children's Month with May 25th designated International Missing Children's Day. Statistics in the United States and worldwide are staggering but there has been a notable expansion in the information and tips provided to law enforcement and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children http://www.missingkids.org/ncmec in the past few years. NCMEC is the leading nonprofit organization in the country working with families, family service professionals and law enforcement since being established in 1984. In 2015 the Cyber Tipline http://www.missingkids.org/cybertipline which the US Congress authorized NCMEC to oversee has received 4.4 million reports relating to child sex trafficking, child sexual molestation, apparent child abuse images and online enticement or what is currently termed "sextortion". The FBI clarifies https://www.fbi.gov/news/videos/what-is-sextortion/view sextortion as a serious felony of sexual exploitation or coercion where by images of a child or an adult are used to blackmail a victim to obtain sexual favors or money. A crime of our digital age, social media predators have become more rampant with a child's increased use of unsupervised online technology.
Raising further awareness in 2016 the NCMEC has created Rock One Sock, a campaign to remind us all that each day there is an estimated 2,185 children reported missing in the United States alone. Across the world, children are the most vulnerable to sex trafficking and sexual abuse. If you have information which may lead to the capture or conviction of child traffickers or those involved in child exploitation please contact the NCMEC or the Cyber Tipline. (video above courtesy of YouTube)
For more details regarding Rock One Sock visit the official site http://rockonesock.org/ or check out #RockONESock on Twitter.
