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They are rare because most people aren't letting their young kid walk around unsupervised.  If you look at most cases of children being kidnapped, raped, or found dead by a stranger most were when the kid was out playing alone unsupervised.  There is no way a 5 year old is going to fight off an adult.   [/quote]

Well obviously most cases of children being ubducted by a stranger were when the kid was playing alone.  But being 5 or 10 or 50 years old won't change that fact.  People (kids or adults) aren't generally abducted when they are around lots of other people.  But that tells you NOTHING about the risk or frequency of stranger abduction.  (All squares are rectangles, but not all rectanbles are squares)

Here are some useful facts from https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-missing-children/2013/05/10/efee398c-b8b4-11e2-aa9e-a02b765ff0ea_story.html
 (facts are good.  Use them.)

- children taken by strangers or slight acquaintances represent only one-hundredth of 1 percent of all missing children.
- That trend is supported by FBI statistics showing fewer missing persons of all ages — down 31 percent between 1997 and 2011. The numbers of homicides, sexual assaults and almost all other crimes against children have been dropping, too.
- we do know that children are vastly more likely to come to harm and even be abducted by people they know than by people they don’t. We’d do much better to teach them the signs of people (strangers or not) who are behaving badly: touching them inappropriately, being overly personal, trying to get them alone, acting drunk, provoking others or recklessly wielding weapons. We need to help children practice refusal skills, disengagement skills and how to summon help. We need some new prevention mantras.[/quote]

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