Kid-Safe Communities is committed to:
- Providing educational resources to families and communities to facilitate creating a safe, and family-
friendly environment for children to grow and develop. - Exposing the tactics used by predators who would seek to harm children.
- Working with law enforcement, churches, schools, business leaders, and goverment leadership to help create model "Kid-Safe" communities.
SOBERING STATISTICS
- 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 6 boys will be molested before their 18th birthday.
- 90% of sexual assaults against children are committed by someone the victim knew.
- The typical sexual predator will assault 117 times before being caught.
- The re-
arrest rate for convicted child molesters is 52%
- In 80% of all non-
family abductions, the first contact occurs within a quarter mile of the child’s home.
- A child is reported missing every 40 seconds, and one in four of these are abducted and molested.
Source: Dept of Justice, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
