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ing children in America illustrates how misleading statistics are often spread in the media. Missing child advocate John Walsh, host of AmericaÆs Most Wanted, began a crusade on behalf of missing children when his own son was abducted and killed. In a congressional hearing Walsh testified that 50,000 children go missing annually in the U.S. and, as Hodges (1997) reports, ô...it became the statistic of record. Missing children advocates, the news media, members of Congress û all cited it as factö (30). Child abducti

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