Maybe second only to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping in the early party of last century, the abduction and murder of Adam Walsh in South Florida in 1981 was the most infamous case of child kidnapping in US history. It was every parents' nightmare--one second their child is playing video games in a department store, the next, he's gone forever. It changed the way we look after our children, and how cops look for children when they are taken....
Mr. Walsh was not going to let the country rest after the death of his son. He continued, even through today, to make the country so aware of the dangers to children he is now an advocate to clean the streets of the USA of dangerous criminals.
Jul 27, 1981:
Adam Walsh is abducted (click here)
Adam John Walsh, age six, is abducted from a mall in Hollywood, Florida, and later found murdered. In the aftermath of the crime, Adam's father, John Walsh, became a leading victims' rights activist and host of the long-running television show America's Most Wanted....
Why does it take a monumental effort to focus on children when parents so deeply love their own and understand what the worst nightmare is that can occur. I could understand how children might be in the background of our society if parents didn't have a nightmare to losing their child(ren). But, they do.
So, what happens between the marketing to and of children and their untimely death due to social ills? What happens there? They aren't worth anything anymore?
