My heart goes out to any child who is put through this as I can't imagine what a parent could possibly be thinking to do such a thing, but my heart particularly goes out to children who are abducted from their families by a stranger. They are put in an unfamiliar situation with an unfamiliar person who has no ties to them and therefore no familial feelings. They are quite literally at the mercy of their captors.

It is also heartbreaking to think about those who have been missing for so long. I try to look at people closer now when I get on a bus or go to a shopping mall, but I think that those who have been gone for so long would be very hard to recognize them and in most cases they would not even be aware that they were missing as they would believe whatever their captors told them and would be confused.

It is a very sad situation, but thank you for being there for the families and for pressing on when society sometimes forgets after the initial search for the child. Once they go on the missing child list, they seem to be forgotten.