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 ) estimate the number of stereotypical child abductions at between 200 and 300 a year and the number of stranger abduction homicides of children at between 43 and 147 a year. Approximately half of the abducted children are teenagers. Today's facts are significantly different from yesterday's perceptions and those who exaggerated the problem, however well-intentioned, have lost credibility and damaged the reality of the problem. 6