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Anonymous wrote:OP here and this is what I wonder... exactly HOW prevalent was kidnapping in the 70s and 80s?

I was born in the late 80s.

I mean, the girl in question's mom had here 3 kids taken by this guy but according to her, the police treated it as NBD!? She said she eventually found 2 at an orphanage and then just what? Chalked the other one up to gone forever? Could none of the other 2 kids tell police what happened??

And then one of Sharon's friends said she couldn't believe that Sharon's mom never tried to find her because she too was taken as a child and her mom hunted her like crazy for years. I mean... what?

Did the police just not care or take kidnappings seriously if the parents were on the lower class, lower income side of life? That's how it seems.

I was honestly thinking the same thing. I wonder how I made it out of the 70's in one piece.

News flash. Poor kids still go missing with alarming frequency and no one does much.

Anonymous wrote:What I wonder is, was/is it really so easy to change your name and assume a new identity? Crazy story.

I believe it was before the internet. Also before the Government started cracking down on verifying identity in the workplace.

I know my dad worked a job under the table in the 90s. He became disabled due to a work-related accident and got SSD. He had worked for the company owner since he was a teen and the owner agreed to pay him cash a few years after getting his SSD because my mom's salary simply wasn't enough to live on. We were one of those families that made too much to qualify for any assistance, even free lunch, but didn't make enough to make sure all the utilities were on at the same time.

He got paid cash to do a light task at his old workplace, not his old fulltime job and not his old salary. Later when the accountant at the company cracked down on cash payments, the company "hired" my mom and my dad's paychecks were in her name.

Anonymous wrote:OP here and this is what I wonder... exactly HOW prevalent was kidnapping in the 70s and 80s?

I was born in the late 80s.

I mean, the girl in question's mom had here 3 kids taken by this guy but according to her, the police treated it as NBD!? She said she eventually found 2 at an orphanage and then just what? Chalked the other one up to gone forever? Could none of the other 2 kids tell police what happened??

And then one of Sharon's friends said she couldn't believe that Sharon's mom never tried to find her because she too was taken as a child and her mom hunted her like crazy for years. I mean... what?

Did the police just not care or take kidnappings seriously if the parents were on the lower class, lower income side of life? That's how it seems.

I was honestly thinking the same thing. I wonder how I made it out of the 70's in one piece.