MASPAL
LETTER TO THE PEOPLE
MASPAL has received
multiple inquiries from the public. The following is a short version of who
MASPAL is and what we are about for anyone who might be interested in endorsing
our program.
MASPAL has been created to meet a need for education in regards to the issues surrounding stranger abductions and sexual offenses against children.
“Parents and non parents alike are frightened by the alarming rate of abductions and sexual abuse taking place. While there is no quick & easy solution - we all need to come together and work as diligently as possible to protect our children and improve our global society."
-Linda Sharp - Columnist and Mother at ParenthoodWeb.com
When we take into account the rate of recidivism among these particular offenders and the fact that, although most offended children do not grow up to offend, some do grow up to become offenders. It is apparently a learned behavior. Then, taking into account that every pedophile will molest far more than one child in his or her lifetime, we begin to realize that child sexual offenders propagate child sexual offenders. In this context, without some sort of intervention, child sexual abusers will increase (and are increasing) exponentially. We have a growing problem in this country.
In the year 2000, there were 2,100 children per day reported missing. In the year 2001, there were 2,000 per day. Approximately one tenth of those children abducted are stranger abductions. This amounts to approximately 200 children per day being abducted by strangers in the United States. America’s Most Wanted concludes that ninety percent of the stranger abductions are for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
If the average county across the Nation reports three (3) cases per week of alleged sexual offenses against children, then there are over all, including those abducted by strangers, approximately one half million children per year being abducted, murdered, or in some way affected by sexual crimes perpetrated by sexual offenders in the United States today.
The general population
needs to focus on protecting our children from predators. Children need to
be educated in order to learn tactics so that they can protect themselves.
If we are truly concerned about prevention, however, there is a need to focus
on the sex offenders.
One only has to look at the number of offenders, including violent predators, that are on parole without supervision in our neighborhoods in each state, and study the rate of recidivism connected to these crimes, to realize that we have a growing problem. When we look at the facts before us, we would be in denial if we did not expect more sexually exploited, abducted, and murdered children.
The focus of MASPAL is prevention and is three fold. We are here to provide education for the general public, support for victims and their families, and to further new prospects for prevention of child abductions and sexual crimes against children.
MASPAL is here to stay and we are here to say,
"OUR CHILDREN
ARE OUR MOST IMPORTANT NATURAL RESOURCE!"
