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- From: Peggy.Mcbride@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Peggy Mcbride)
- Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
- Subject: Re: Poll Message
- Message-ID: <725373274.6@fquest.FidoNet>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 02:04:00 GMT
- Sender: Fredgate@fquest.FidoNet.Org
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- MC> Hi Peggy, I guess you know by now that what happened to you is not the
- MC>exemption, but the rule. The police are so inundated with calls that
- MC>many of them do not take action on runaways. I am glad that you were
- MC>able to get action and hopefully the PD is putting this info into NCIC.
- MC> We have found that flyers work extremely well in finding these
- MC>children. We place the statement "It is not against the law to be a
- MC>runaway, but it is a felony to HARBOR a Runaway". You would be
- MC>surprised on how fast their friends disassociate themselves from these
- MC>children. We had four gang members arrested for harboring when the
- MC>police saw our flyer in their safe house. That was proof enough that
- MC>they had knowledge.
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- I know it is still the rule that most police departments, when it
- involves teenagers, still think they are all runaways, and nothing to
- worry about. I guess one is never too old to learn, <grin>, I had no
- idea it was a felony to harbor a runaway, I will have to remmeber that!
- I knew there had to be a law against it, but assumed it was a civil
- infarction, nothing more. Thanks for the info.
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- * SLMR 2.1 * We all live in a yellow subroutine.
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