Destiny Norton
When is a poster created in the NCMEC database? I searched today for information on Destiny Norton and found none. What is the criteria? The only criteria I could find regarding the database is:
1) Case has been entered into the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Crime Information Center (NCIC).
2) Waiver from parent, guardian, or law-enforcement agency is on file at NCMEC giving permission to disseminate photograph of missing child.
3) Posters containing photograph of abductor(s) are included only if a felony warrant has been issued for the abductor and the subject has been entered into the NCIC Wanted Person File.
An Amber Alert was issued Monday for a 5-year-old girl, Destiny Norton, last seen at her Salt Lake City house Sunday night.
"...She was last seen about 8:30 p.m. Sunday night after she reportedly had had an argument with her mother and went outside to "cool off," .
Her father noticed a suspicious man in the area. A check of court records by the Deseret Morning News found, however, that the man, a 51-year-old Bosnian national, was charged in 3rd District Court in 2002 with two counts of sexual abuse of a child, both 2nd degree felonies, and one count of sexual abuse of a minor, a class A misdemeanor. A jury acquitted the man on all charges in February 2003...."
But police worked separately from volunteers. They even asked the media to discourage volunteers from coming into the neighborhood.
Reporter: "Do you want help from the public in searching?"
Robin Snyder, Salt Lake City Police Dept.: "Not yet. We don't have an organized search effort yet, but if we do get one, we will definitely put out the word."
By 11:30 a.m. the Amber Alert was cancelled because the person they were looking for was found, said Salt Lake City police detective Robin Snyder, and the criteria for issuing an alert was no longer there. However, more than 50 city police officers along with agents from the FBI continued looking for Destiny.
By noon Monday, police were not accepting volunteers from the public to help search but said they might do that if the search area expanded. Family members, however, walked up and down the neighborhood passing out fliers with Destiny's picture.
Detailed article.
All statistics point to time being of the essence. Florida implemented the Child Abduction Response Team CART program began in early 2005 as a result of the tragic abduction of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia in Sarasota, Fla. in February 2004. It is designed to mobilize assistance quicker.
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Its day three of the search for Destiny Norton and the police still do not have any leads. I've been googling this story sense you told me about it. I pray they find her alive. Police don't believe her parents were involved. So much is not adding up here. How does a girl wearing just a black and gray striped adult T-shirt just disappear? According to a news article I read the community is now helping with the search. They've set up a website at http://www.finddestiny.net/
Police think a gass station employee saw Destiny Sunday night. They are looking for a pickup truck in which she may of been riding in.
It turned out an Amber Alert was allegedly issued for the wrong truck and driver. It hasn't been reported yet whether the person arrested for killing her is the driver of the other truck or not.
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