Alisa Maier, 4, Abducted from Missouri Neighborhood

An Amber Alert was issued for this little 4 year old girl that was taken out of her yard by a skinny 20 something man as her brother watched…

Alisa Maier Abducted (full story)

There are kids taken all the time, legally by mom’s or dads that leave a relationship for no good reason and that’s hard to deal with. I’ve had to deal with that for almost 9 years. That tears a person up inside… but, at least I know where (in general) he is… and that he’s with people that love him to death. Though I don’t have a phone number for him, an address, and haven’t been able to speak with him for years.

When I read this article above it really tore a new hole in my heart… because I now have a darling 8 month old girl that want to keep safe from harm for the rest of her life… never letting her out of my sight. And of course, that isn’t possible…

What is possible though? There are things that are not possible and there are things that are possible. When I look at this story there are three things that were possible but that didn’t happen.

1. The boy watching Alisa, the 4 year old, wasn’t old enough to be watching her – because he couldn’t protect her or get a license plate number at least – or scream at the very least.

2. The boy watching Alisa didn’t understand that a strange car driving around the neighborhood for hours means NO GOOD and parents need told immediately.

3. Every single neighborhood in the world really needs video cameras setup to record cars, license plates, and strangers walking around.

Though I cringed at the technology when I first heard about it – electronic homing devices placed under the skin of the foot or arm sound like a great idea.

What are the alternatives? Lose your child to someone that’s going to either sell her on the black market, kill her, or hold her for ransom because you couldn’t watch her every minute of the day?

If Alisa had an electronic monitoring device embedded in her foot – there’d be a little less worry and a whole lot better chance of finding her than they have right now.

Not as good, but, seems like it could work too is to have a satellite set up that 911 operators have a direct link to. When there is a child abduction the satellite zooms into the neighborhood and starts capturing everything – in high resolution. Maybe it starts covering a circle of radius around GPS coordinates based on how many seconds/minutes have passed since the abduction. In this case any 4-door dark car would be suspect – and able to be found more easily in the traffic cameras or business video cameras pointing toward the streets.

I don’t read the news often – and never watch TV – so I miss most of these things. This one hit hard…

If you have kids – what do you do to keep them safe?

Update – AMAZINGLY – she was found!

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-missing-mo-girl,0,5570742.story

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