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University Daily Kansan, March 10, 1983
Kidnap
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for him. Steven then was returned to his family, in Merced, Calif.
This type of deception could be prevented by the consistent use of code words between parents and their children. Dierks said a stranger who would not find right word would be identified as a foe, not a friend.
Dierks said parents of kidnapped children dealt with such feelings as guilt, pain and fear.
Parents feel guilty because they wonder whether they could have prevented the abduction, she said. No matter how rational a parent is, she said, he always thinks that if he had done something differently, the child might still be home.
Julia Patz told a 1981 U.S. Senate hearing that police treated her and her husband as suspects in the disappearance of their son, Etan. The 6-year-old boy was kidnapped May 25, 1978, while walking to a school bus that waited to pick him up one and a half blocks from his home.
This was the first time Estan had walked the last block by himself. Paty watched him safely through the first half of the block then re entered the house. She never saw him again.
"The worst fear is just not knowing what has happened to them for years and years." Dierks said. The pain of speculation is worse than knowing a child is dead, she said.
"You can rest on that," she said.
Frustration also comes from not being able to do anything substantial, she said.
In cases cited in journals, parents have continued the search for missing children long after the initial publicity died. They distributed posters, went on television and radio and constantly looked for any child resembling their lost one.
However, most of the parents eventually realized they must build new lives for themselves and care for the children they still had. But some mentioned that they then faced condemnation by outsiders who thought they were insensitive.
DIERKS SAID THE stress drained the parents emotionally and financially. Some people lose
When a child's disappearance is first reported to police, an officer is assigned to the case for a short time, but he can only investigate the cause of the crime. This does not mean what happens in other states.
New a new federal law may provide policemen with more information with which to work.
their jobs and fall into debt. The loss of a sibling and the stress on their parents also affects the remaining children.
Five months ago, President Reagan signed the Missing Children's Act, which established a national clearance house where information concerning parents could be coordinated by a computer.
BEFORE THE ESTABLISHMENT of this National Crime Information Center, police sometimes had an unidentified body in one state or another. This body was supported kubernetes in another state. Dierks said.
After 14 days, the body would be buried, while the parous would still be waiting, hoping to find someone.
How much or whether the computer coordination has improved the rate of child recoveries is not yet known because it has not been operating long enough, she said.
She said the service was available to law enforcement agencies, but that did not mandate its use. PRI bureau were notified of the center and said it was paid, but many police stations were not notified.
IF POLICE HAVE not entered the name of the child into the computer, then parents can go to the nearest FBI station and ask that their child's name be included, she said.
Lack of cooperation by the police and FBI pushed some parents to establish their own organizations to help locate missing children, Dierks said. Child Find was founded by Gloria Yerkovich, whose daughter, Joanna, was snatched by her father in 1974.
Yerkok created an agency that tries to reach children through use of posters and public service announcements that give a toll-free phone number for help. The agency register with them and it publishes a booklet
DIERKS SAID KIND. Find had located more than 300 missing children since it began in August 1980. Yerkovich feels guilty about losing a baby, said, and finding other children somehow helps.
"The national law enforcement rate for recovered children stands at about 10 percent. As many children as are recovered alive are that add up to 20 percent. It's not enough."
Kristin Cole Brown, information officer for Child Find, said, "At this point, we have about a 35 percent rate of success in finding stolen children. The majority we found alive."
"There is every possible reason for a child to be stolen, and we've got to be able to account for
with children's photographs, which they try to circulate to school teachers.
In the lodgings of one of the suspects, police found a diary of 25 homosexual rapes of boys, ages 10 and under. The police also found tape recordings of the children's screams.
Adam Walsh was snatched from his parents in a department store July 27, 1981, when his mother was about three aisles away. In August, his severed head was found.
"Strangers snatch children for a reason — money, perversion, lunacy — a reason we can't comprehend — but a reason that results in one more missing child." Brown said.
She estimated that parents were responsible for two-thirds of kidnappings.
"What we are talking about in 100,000 parental abductions a year is often a divorce, whose grounds lie in the fact that you have an abusive parent," she said. "You may have an incestuous parent; you may have a parent who has sexually abused every child in the family."
"Now, you have a parent with a history of either sexual abuse or physical violence, with possibly felony or midmeemear warrants out on him, who is the sole support of this child."
Yet police usually refuse to get involved in domestic matters. Sgt. Francis Alexander of the Lawrence Police Department said that parental kidnappings were matters for a court.
Student groups protest Kansan news coverage
By SARA KEMPIN and SUSAN STANLEY Staff Reporters
By SARA KEMPIN
About 25 sign-welding demonstrators marched in front of Flint Hall yesterday afternoon to protest the editorial policies and news coverage of the University, Dalby Kansan.
Representatives from several student groups staged the protest, which lasted about an hour and a half, because of what they called unfair and biased coverage by the Kansan of issues concerning women, minorities and student groups, such as Latin American Solidarity.
"I don't even agree with all the opinions of the people in the groups. But I don't think the Kanan seeks diversity in its editorial and news coverage," said Mark Twenhalef, Coffevillesville.
David Huet-Vaugh, Leawood freshman, said, "The Kansan wants to play a middle of the road position, especially in El Salvador. The Kansan should take a militant stand on this issue.
“It’s a far more important moral issue than what Student Senate did at its last meeting.”
RHONDA NEUGERAUER, co-coordinator of Latin American Solidarity, said members of the group participated in the demonstration prior to the event and refused to print an advertiser by the group.
She said that John Oberzan, business adviser to the Kaman, had said the advertiser was "in good spirits."
Gary M. Smith, Kurtzun, Pa., senior, said he had submitted an article about his travels in El Salvador to Praxis, an alternate newspaper put by the members of the group who were protesting.
The advertorial beated Student Senate treasurer Terry Frederick for delaying publication of a pamphlet written by members of the group.
Smith, a journalist student whose work has been published in the Kansan, spent two months in El Salvador last summer as a free-lance photographer for United Press International.
HE SAID PRAXIS had disagreed with his article because it did not support the guerrillas. The newspaper refused to print the article in either its January or February issue, he said.
The Kansan is not a propaganda rag," he said. "They have no gripe against the Kansan. They need to clean their own house before they start cleaning up the neighborhood."
Rebecca Chaney, Kansas editor, said, "It's a given in this business that not all letters to the editor can be run. If someone is concerned about a letter to the editor, I'd encourage them to call me. I have never been contacted by Stu Shafer."
SHAFER SUGGESTED that the Kansas begin news writing stories about more controversial subjects, such as an investigation of the murder of a teacher and back of minority faculty members at the University.
He said he thought the Kanman was too concerned about printing something that might be misplaced.
James Rovaris, Topena junior, said that the kansan did not adequately cover issues concerned with child abuse.
"After Tony Brown lectured during Black History Month the front page picture was of a chemistry professor doing magic tricks with chemicals," he said.
"I BELIEVE THAT Tony Brown is one of the most influential blacks today. The article about his lecture was one-half the size of the article about the chemistry professor."
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