<center><font size="1" color="#ff0000">LAST EDITED ON Aug-07-02 AT 11:02 AM (EST)</font></center><p>Those figures are off.<P><BR><a href="http://www.disabledofficers.homestead.com/Children.html";>http://www.disabledofficers.homestead.com/Children.html<;/a><P>Law enforcement knows of an estimated 3,200 - 4,600 short-term non-family abductions each year. Of these , its estimated that from 200-300 are steriotypical kidnappings where a child is gone overnight , is killed , is transported a distance of 50 miles or more , or where the perpetrator intends to keep the child permanetly. FBI data shows an estimated 43 to 147 stranger abduction homicides of children annually between 1976 and 1987.<BR>