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Halloween is next week! 🎃👻🐈‍⬛

As kids conjure up their costumes and get ready to haunt the neighborhood with trick-or-treating fun, it’s important to make sure they stay safe.

Follow these faBOOlous safety tips from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to ensure a fun and safe Halloween for everyone. https://www.missingkids.org/blog/2024/halloween-safety-tips-beware-of-the-tricks

Halloween is next week and everyone is ready for a night of excitement, scary fun, and lots of treats! 🎃

As children from all over are full of anticipation, it’s important for parents to keep their little ones safe this by following these safety tips: https://missingkids.org/blog/2022/spook-tacular-halloween-safet-tips

EMPOWER CHILDREN!
ACTION is crucial in potential abductions.

83% of children who escaped their would-be abductors took proactive steps by running, yelling, kicking, or pulling away.

Set up a safety plan for your kids: http://missingkids.org/education/kids

70% of children who escaped their would-be abductors did something proactive. They ran away, yelled, kicked, or pulled away.

https://missingkids.org/education/kidsmartz

Police: Man wanted for assaulting, trying to abduct two 12-year-old girls in Virginia Police are looking for a man who is wanted after allegedly grabbing two 12-year-old girls while they were walking to school.

Who would steal a baby?. And why? NCMEC wanted to better understand this rare and unique crime and analyzed these 19 open cases and 535 other non-family infant abductions that were solved or closed over the same time.

Who Would Steal a Baby? Who Would Steal a Baby? Patricia Davis 11-25-2019 Kindness was their M.O. The women befriended new moms – one in a hospital lobby, another at a train station, a third at a carnival – and could not have been nicer. The strangers fawned over the babies and offered to watch them to give the new mom...

Teaching children about abduction safety is important.

Read our KidSmartz tip sheet: https://bit.ly/2YJ3OJS

PD: Man tries to sn**ch two young kids from Scottsdale mom home alone "He stated at one point, he used the mother and one child as a human shield to shield himself from the people that were following him," according to Andrew Rizzo's

Do you know a fifth grader who likes to create art? The 2020 National Missing Children's Day Poster Contest is open to submissions! Michigan State Police is encouraging children to enter, but all 50 states can compete!

MSP Seeking Participants For National Missing Children’s Day Poster Contest The Michigan State Police Missing Children’s Clearinghouse invites fifth grade students statewide to participate in the 2020 National Missing Children’s Day Poster Contest.