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Neal Rawls, a security consultant in Palm Beach, Fla., and author of Be Alert, Be Aware, Have a Plan: The Complete Guide to Protecting Yourself Your Home, Your Family, calls the FBI statistics misleading. "OSHA reports workplace accidents better than the government tracks missing kids," he says.

Rawls contends no one can say for certain if there has been an increase or decrease in the number of missing-kids cases because everyone defines kidnapping differently. "Is luring someone into a house, and then releasing them, considered kidnapping?" he wonders. If so, consider this: One out of seven people who are sexually assaulted is a child younger than age 6, and 67 percent of sexual-assault victims are children. That, he says, indicates a problem bigger than the FBI admits.

According to Rawls, if a child is lured by a stranger and then sexually assaulted and released, the FBI downplays the crime by boasting that most of these missing kids are returned. "The FBI makes it sound insignificant if a child is not killed," he says. "The fact that these kids are returned does not mean that we don't have a monumental problem. The huge problem of sexual predators attacking children is getting swept under the rug."