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Please support the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Organization! And remember to report child abuse immediately to your local law enforcement agency. Thank you!

TO OUR VISITORS:

This letter comes from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which we are pleased to endorse. If you're not familiar with this great organization, please take a moment and read this letter.

As the nation's resource center for child protection, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) spearheads national efforts to locate and recover missing children and raises public awareness about ways to prevent child abduction, molestation, and sexual exploitation. A private, nonprofit organization established in 1984, NCMEC operates under a Congressional mandate and works in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. 

"NBC Nightly News" referred to NCMEC as a "high-tech search network." NCMEC is a vital resource for families and the approximately 17,000 law enforcement agencies throughout the United States in the search for missing children and the quest for child protection. 

Since 1984 NCMEC has handled more than 1 million calls through its national hotline 1-800-THE LOST (1-800-843-5678); trained more than 143,000 police and other professionals; and published more than 14 million publications that are distributed free of charge in single copies. NCMEC has worked with law enforcement on more than 56,000 missing child cases, resulting in the recovery of more than 37,000 children. 

NCMEC has disseminated millions of missing children's photographs, with one in seven of the children recovered as a direct result. NCMEC believes that "somebody knows where each missing child is located," and seeks to reach every home with these photographs. 

NCMEC receives thousands of leads on missing children that are forwarded to police investigators. NCMEC also operates the national child pornography tipline in conjunction with the U.S. Customs Service, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and Federal Bureau of Investigation that has produced leads resulting in many successful investigations. 

Whether a police officer needs case assistance, desperate parents are seeking help to find their child, or a citizen is asking for information on child safety, all it takes is one call, to the High-Tech Search Network of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children 1-800-THE LOST (1-800-843-5678).

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