Friday 10th February 2012
How safe are your kids?
Ed Wight - 28th October 2009
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Magda: One of thousands abducted every year
Magda Czechowska was 11-years-old when last seen alive on 3rd July 2007 while on her way home from horse-riding lessons. Captured on CCTV entering a tunnel next to Kielce train station at 8.40 that evening, her half-buried corpse was discovered 4 weeks later close to the Chanza reservoir in Swietokrzyskie. She had been abducted and murdered. Next month marks the first anniversary of her disappearance and death.An average 3000 children go missing in Poland every year – roughly 250 per month or 62 per week. Some are abducted, some are murdered, others are sold into the sex-slave trade or abused; others are forcibly separated from one parent by another and some run away from abusive families; ...
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