When children go missing, does the color of the skin really play a factor?

Question

I just see it on television shows CSI:Miami, Without A Trace for examples that they did more for caucasion children than latino and african children. Does this happen in real life?

Answer 1

Unfortunately in America, skin color really does play a role in the handling of missing people/children investigations. I find this fact utterly disgusting simply because race or skin color means nothing. These are children, no matter what color they are, being abducted and abused by these sickos. What's scarier is that the other people who answered your questions are saying, "human trafficking is a MAJOR business." And they're 100 percent correct. It's kind of sad that us adults can't protect (or don't have the initiative) to fight for a children and children around the globe. Our government and the worldwide government doesn't care because believe it or not, rich people and politicians (in my opinion) make child prostitution worldwide such a major organization/business.

Answer 2

Absolutely!

In general, American law enforcement tends to take the security needs of Whites far more seriously than Blacks or Latinos. We're usually viewed as "suspects" rather than as members of the public who they're sworn to protect!

As a rule, law enforcement services are a lot quicker to search for missing White children. They generally assume that missing Black or Latino kids are runaways.

Case in point - last year, two college students in New York City went missing.

A very lightskinned Venezuelan girl dissappeared, and within hours, the police were on the lookout for her. They immediately treated her case as an abduction - even though she was a party girl who was known for going out drinking by herself - and she was last seen by her friends going into a bar.

Sadly, she was murdered - but the cops caught her alleged rapist/killer within days.

Ironically enough, the alleged killer had a history of kidnapping and raping BLACK WOMEN - but the police had never seriously investigated any of those abductions and rapes - but when he attacked a lightskinned White Latina, the cops were on him within 12 hours!

Earlier in the year, a Black college student was abducted. She was a very sheltered very religious girl who didn't even have a boyfriend and never partied. But the cops treated her case like she was a runaway and told her mom to "go ask her boyfriend where she is!" The cops then kicked her mom out of the precinct.

She had been kidnapped by two serial rapists (who had raped and tortured at least one other Black woman before - but who had gone unpunished since the cops did not seriously investigate the case!).

They chained her to a chair, kept her tied up like an animal for 4 days without food, water or a chance to use the bathroom, they burned her with cigarette butts and cut her skin with a handsaw.

They only let her up from the chair when they wanted to rape or sodomize her - which they did multiple times over the 4 days of her torment (she'd actually been a virgin at the time of her kidnapping, which I'm sure made her suffering much worse!)

The abandoned building where they held her was just 2 blocks from her house - if the cops had done even a halfhearted search, they would have found her.

Eventually, the rapists murdered her, and left her body in a pile of garbage in the abandoned building which they'd used as her torture chamber.

The only reason the cops ever found her body was that a friend of the rapists caught an attack of conscience - he had been invited to join in on raping and sodomizing her, and he just couldn't do it.

A few weeks later, he was so upset at the thought of her never getting a decent burial, he went to the cops on his own, confessed his involvement, and led the dectives to her body.

As you see, there are two brands of justice in America - one for Blacks (& the darker skinned Latinos) and one for Whites (& Latinos who are percieved as "looking White").

Answer 3

Great question! I think it depends upon the abductor or whomever is controlling him/her. This is an awful fact of life, but trafficking in humans (abducting and selling them) is a HUGE business!

Some buyers want only white children, whereas others, mostly white men, like to go to Southeast Asian countries, like Thailand (the child sex-slave capital of the world!) on vacations, SPECIFICALLY to have sex with children!

Still other whites who capitalize on the sex-trade, stay right here in the U.S., where they visit brothels, serviced by forced prostitutes, mostly from Eastern Europe and Russia...but from all over the world!

Some of the biggest "consumers" are rich Arabs...DEAL with it!...and American businessmen with cushy lives, wives and their own kids!

My point is: NO kid is invulnerable to this horror, simply due to skin color! To join the many people FINALLY waking up and trying to put a stop to it, visit:

http://www.humantrafficking.org.

Also, the Center for Missing and Exploited Children can give you much info and links, so you can get e-mail updates and write to Congress on the (little) legislation they have going!

Thanks for asking this timely, yet heart-breaking question!
Also, educate any kids you know about safety rules, to decrease their chances of abduction.

Answer 4

Color has a lot to do when looking for missing children. Caucasion kids are easier to find in dim light. African-Americans are easier to find in snow.

Answer 5

The good news is that more minority children are finally getting press coverage, such as on Nancy Grace.

Answer 6

hi there yes and not just with children how often do you here about missing African American women or kids...not that often right....to me that's a problem .......

Answer 7

no its not true missing children cases are very serous to the police no matter the colour of the child.

Answer 8

NOT REALLY.