1 child goes missing every 5 hours in SA

schumi

schumi

Honorary Master
Joined
Mar 26, 2010
Messages
25,095
Reaction score
2,032
Location
Durban
Cape Town - A child goes missing every five hours in South Africa, according to the Missing Persons Bureau. Wednesday is International Missing Children’s Day, which represents an opportunity to raise awareness and funds to reunite more children with their families and caregivers.

A total of 265 missing children were reported to non-profit organisation Missing Children SA last year, 200 of whom were found. However, 6 percent of these children were found dead.

In the Western Cape, 175 children were reported missing to the organisation, of whom 92 were found.

Rose MacKinnon, national co-ordinator at Missing Children SA, said although the numbers were high, the organisation was managing well on limited resources.
Click to expand...

More at:http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/1-child-goes-missing-every-5-hours-in-sa-2025560
 
...and people still wonder why I am so paranoid about my children's safety.
 
So if they get 265 reports in a year, how do they extrapolate every 5 hours, which amounts to 1752 a year?
 
stricken said:
So if they get 265 reports in a year, how do they extrapolate every 5 hours, which amounts to 1752 a year?
Click to expand...

From there website it seems the 265 figure is the number that that particular organization deals with and the figure in the headline is from 2013 police stats , poor journalism it seems
 
Well, last week there was an incident at Key West where a little girl was riding on a bicycle that you can hire there. And then she stopped suddenly. her mother went to ask her whats wrong. She said a 'oom' was taking fotos of her. The parents went to confront the 'oom' and they found fotographs of all the girls who were playing there at the time. He was arrested.
 
freddster said:
Well, last week there was an incident at Key West where a little girl was riding on a bicycle that you can hire there. And then she stopped suddenly. her mother went to ask her whats wrong. She said a 'oom' was taking fotos of her. The parents went to confront the 'oom' and they found fotographs of all the girls who were playing there at the time. He was arrested.
Click to expand...

I wonder what the charge was...
 
supersunbird said:
I wonder what the charge was...
Click to expand...

No idea, ther eisn't a law but this falls under privacy. And no one in their right mind will just go and take photos of some stranger's children. But you need to look at the intention in this case. Will follow up, will be interesting. And this wasn't photography as in a DSLR or like. Photos were taken randomly of the girls with a cellphone. I guess(and hope) taking a look at the numbers on the phone may bring up something fishy. But then we're dealing with SAPS here.
 
supersunbird said:
I wonder what the charge was...
Click to expand...

The photographer would be violating your child's right to privacy, as well as your own.
You can use that to stop distribution of the photograph because the photographer's action is a tort, or behavior that justifies a lawsuit.
The center might also have a claim for trespassing.
If there are bylaws against loitering, the city can use those (although I think loitering applies to areas around places that sell alcohol?).
 
A total of 265 missing children were reported to non-profit organisation Missing Children SA last year, 200 of whom were found. However, 6 percent of these children were found dead.
Click to expand...
If this was the UK with 16 children missing...............
And we don't even know about it? Third world country my @ss more like 5th world.
 
When parents let their kids play on the side of a motorway, is this really a surprising statistic?
 
freddster said:
Well, last week there was an incident at Key West where a little girl was riding on a bicycle that you can hire there. And then she stopped suddenly. her mother went to ask her whats wrong. She said a 'oom' was taking fotos of her. The parents went to confront the 'oom' and they found fotographs of all the girls who were playing there at the time. He was arrested.
Click to expand...
I would have told the parents to **ck off if it was a public place.

freddster said:
No idea, ther eisn't a law but this falls under privacy.
Click to expand...
Is it a public place?

LazyLion said:
The photographer would be violating your child's right to privacy, as well as your own.
Click to expand...
Is it a public place? Don't go out in public if you don't want to end up in other people's photographs.

McT said:
...and people still wonder why I am so paranoid about my children's safety.
Click to expand...
Naturally because this overall figure is completely useless for making a risk assessment.
 
LazyLion said:
The photographer would be violating your child's right to privacy, as well as your own.
You can use that to stop distribution of the photograph because the photographer's action is a tort, or behavior that justifies a lawsuit.
The center might also have a claim for trespassing.
If there are bylaws against loitering, the city can use those (although I think loitering applies to areas around places that sell alcohol?).
Click to expand...

Nope. Not true. If you are in public, you cannot be private. Anyone can take a picture of you at any time. It is what they do with it AFTERWARDS that is important.
 
noxibox said:
I would have told the parents to **ck off if it was a public place.


Is it a public place?


Is it a public place? Don't go out in public if you don't want to end up in other people's photographs.


Naturally because this overall figure is completely useless for making a risk assessment.
Click to expand...

Shopping centre play area, not public. So would you accept it if a person just come around to a play area at a shopping centre and start taking pictures specifically of your children? I'd throw , not even toys, I'd throw the photographer around
 
LazyLion said:
The photographer would be violating your child's right to privacy, as well as your own.
You can use that to stop distribution of the photograph because the photographer's action is a tort, or behavior that justifies a lawsuit.
The center might also have a claim for trespassing.
If there are bylaws against loitering, the city can use those (although I think loitering applies to areas around places that sell alcohol?).
Click to expand...

Loitering? Since when have there ever been bylaws against loitering in SA? Our SAP would not even know what you were talking about if you reported "loitering".
 
zophas said:
Loitering? Since when have there ever been bylaws against loitering in SA? Our SAP would not even know what you were talking about if you reported "loitering".
Click to expand...
Google for "loitering South Africa" and you will have your answer.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X