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MISSION: To help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation; to help find missing children; and to assist victims of abduction and sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them.

Co-founded by John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was established by Congress in 1984 through the Missing Children’s Assistance Act. NCMEC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates under a Congressional mandate and works in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in coordinating the efforts of law enforcement, social service agencies, elected officials, judges, prosecutors, educators, and the public and private sectors to combat crimes against children.

Since opening its doors, NCMEC has:
  • Played a role in the recovery of more than 107,600 children
  • Worked on more than 125,200 missing child cases
  • Handled more than 2.1 million telephone calls through its nationwide, toll-free Hotline 1-800-THE-LOST®
  • Received more than 427,300 reports about sexually exploited children on  www.cybertipline.com
  • Trained more than 220,400 law enforcement professionals
  • Distributed more than 40 million free safety publications
  • Circulated millions of photographs of missing children recovering 1 in 6 children featured in their Picture Them Home® campaign
NCMEC’S RECOVERY RATE FOR MISSING CHILDREN
HAS CLIMBED FROM 62% IN 1990, TO 96% TODAY.

NCMEC is one of the nation’s model charities:
  • 93 cents of every dollar donated goes directly to support our programs & services
  • Meets all standards of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance
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Odyssey proudly supports NCMEC and its Special Analysis Unit that works directly with the US Marshals to track down non-compliant sex offenders:

In July of 2006, Congress passed the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, which included four important provisions:
  • mandated the creation of a national sex offender registry database and website
  • made the failure to register and be compliant a federal felony
  • mandated that states make changes in their laws to create greater consistency and uniformity on a national level
  • tasked the U.S. Marshals with tracking down fugitive sex offenders
However, states have three years to become fully compliant with the new law. “States need to fully implement the new law immediately so we know where these sex offenders are, and tougher penalties will make it less desirable for them to be noncompliant,” said Ernie Allen, President and CEO of NCMEC. “We cannot allow known sex offenders to continue to take advantage of the inconsistency in reporting and tracking in many states.  States have the ability to prevent more predators from slipping through the cracks and harming more children. They need to act today.”

“We know that two-thirds of sex offenders who are in state prisons have admitted that their victims were children,” said Allen.  “And we know that sex offenders who harm children are most likely to be repeat offenders.” 

An estimated 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 10 boys will be sexually victimized in some way before they reach age 18, and only 1 in 3 will report it.

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), there are an estimated 603,000 registered sex offenders in the U.S. today. However, of that number, at least 100,000 sex offenders are noncompliant and no one knows where they are. A new Special Analysis Unit has been created by NCMEC to search databases, analyze information, and help identify and locate these fugitives, to enable the U.S. Marshal's Service to arrest them and bring them to justice.  To date, the Marshals have located more than 850 of the fugitive sex offenders.