Those of you that are not familiar with our story. I'm going to synopsize a little bit to give you an idea what's involved in the loss of a child and what this country does or doesn't do for its children and 1981. We had one child our only son Adam he was six years old. We had been married quite a while and I thought I was at the epitome of my career. I was a partner in the hotel management company in myself and my two partners work realizing our dream and building a 34 Million Dollar Hotel in the Bahamas. I thought that I was the epitome of the American dream. My wife had completed schooling in a reindeer decoration courses. I had a partnership in my own company and we had a beautiful fantastic intelligence six-year-old son.I was pretty naive three and a half years ago. I've lost a lot of that naivete and I'm sure that some of you here have that naivete and I hope that I can educate you so that you don't have to lose your naivete the way I lost my naivete but Adam was a pretty self-disciplined little boy. He had traveled the world with us. He knew the rules of protection to a certain extent. His behavior was brought to private school everyday picked up by my wife everyday. I coached the t-ball team that he played on. I used to come back from Germany on business to make sure I made every game and I did make every game he wasn't allowed to ride his bike in the street, even though he wanted to we felt he was too young. He wasn't allowed to go to the park across the street by himself. We are criticized for being overprotective if there was ever a protected child. It was Adam Walsh. He was our Julie was our Treasurer and that's what we live for that day.Reveille went shopping in the store that we went shopping in regularly and like a lot of children Adam was mesmerized by video and on other occasions. He had watch older boys play this free video game in the toy department in that day. He asked for Bay if he could watch them again and she said okay Adam you stay here. I'll be three miles away in the lamp Department. Should I know where that is Mommy and I'll be right here that were his last words. Were they hurt? Well, unfortunately, I think we disadvantaged are children in this country and many areas by teaching them from the minute. They can talk to unequivocally respect authority figures and we taught him well in altercation broke out between two white boys and two black boys at the video game and Adam was watching them standing behind them and a seventeen-year-old untrain part-time female security guard ordered the white boys out the store in the black boys out that door and Adam complied and obeyed. The man has confessed Adams murder on several occasions all the way hasn't been charged yet. He's a suspected mobile and serial murder along with his partner of suspected of murdering 350 women and children. He said it took him half an hour to convince Adam to get in the car that he would take him to his father Adam stood outside that door for half an hour crying. They was never told the guard went on lunch and break when she came back. She knew something was grammatically wrong. She put up the incredible ink and was told you'll find him. He's wandering around somewhere in the mall will page him while she had the presence of Mind knowing this wasn't Adams Behavior. She called the Hollywood Police never responded immediately. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt because in the last three and a half years, I've literally talked to thousands of parents who couldn't get the police involved in the case of their missing child, but maybe because we were prominent in the community maybe because I knew the mayor of the chief of police whatever they responded immediately and they weren't told for an hour and a half that Adam was ordered by the store. So they concentrated their efforts in the mall losing valuable and crucial time when I got there. I asked the sergeant uniformed policeman. What are you doing? And he said well Adam, we'll find Adam. He's probably walking home. We send a police car from the store to trace the path between here and your house and I said, wait a second. I don't think you're as organized as I'd like you to be and I know one thing for sure. I heard my wife tell you 5 minutes ago that Adam doesn't know where he is and doesn't know how to walk home. I don't think you're getting the point here. There's something dramatically wrong. This is not the normal behavior of this 6 year old boy. Well, mr. Walsh you go home. Control I said no. I'm not going to go home. First of all, I don't like your response. Secondly. I think I have reasonably Banner resources that maybe the average citizen doesn't have and I'm going to go back to the police station with you cuz I want to know what you're doing to get Adam back. They said okay. We can't stop you will be back by Nightfall light came in your van. I got desperate because we knew that there was a six-year-old boy out there somewhere and it was dark and he didn't know where he was and I start to get the strangest feeling that the search was very fragmented crime watch volunteers were coming in. No one was telling them where to look and we looked all night with some dogs and we ran around in the fields and I called Adam's name in vain and went back to the police station the next morning. And as I got in the police station a person first in the police station and said I need to speak to mr. Walsh and I said, what's the matter and they said well, we are in the city next to Hollywood, Florida Hallandale. We stopped the uniformed policeman and asked him if he had any word on Adam Walsh and he said that they were told in their morning roll call that Hill Street type of Blues roll call that Adam was suspected to have been abducted by his paternal grandparents. And I said to the sergeant sergeant said what in the hell is going on? You're his paternal grandparent his grandfather and my side is dead and his grandmother lives in Upstate New York, where could they have gotten that rumor? I'll take care of that right away. I said, wait a second. How many police agencies are there in Broward County? Florida said, they're 26. I said, can I get the phone number to those police agencies? He said Yep. They're Sheriff's Metro Police City police Town Police. I called him in an hour later. I came back to the sergeant and I said look at in most cases. I couldn't even get a policeman on the phone. But I'll tell you this 11 of the police agencies don't even know Adams missing. You told me he's in the system. He's in this teletype. And now I found out myself that 11 of the police agencies aren't looking for my son right in our own County. He says he's in the system. Mr. Walsh. So I looked at that teletype for an hour and it showed. Pieces of information about escaped felons murders headed toward Florida escape from prison and George Arizona whenever I went back to when I said, you know, you're not one of the detectives in here is look at that teletype for an hour who the hell else is looking at it. He said well, we're all looking for your son. Now. I think you've convinced us that there's Foul Play afoot here. I said how many police agencies are there in the State of Florida? He said whether about 330 Isaac. Can I get those names? He said I'll give you a computer printout took 3 hours. Indian term of waiting for that computer printout I said, where is the FBI if the County police and local police don't know Adams missing, where's the national police force will an FBI agent came into the police station. He says Mr. Walsh the best we can do is Monitor this case 1981. Are policies when I returned for Tatian of the federal kidnapping statute is that there has to be proof of crossing the state line in a ransom note and I said wait a second. Nobody steals children for money. This is 1981 and who in the hell is going to tell you they're taking Adam across the state line. That's the criteria to get involved. He said yes, that's our policy holdover from the Hoover administration. I said my God, it's time you changed Edgar Hoover has been dead a long time and you're a national police organization. The only one we have is that our hands are tied. We can't get involved. Well, then I got that computer printout and I like most people in this country the average citizen. I had reasonable resource. I had my own office and I have my own office staff and I had Watts line off the staff agreed to shut down the office and call every police agency in the State of Florida. It took him two and a half days now we are into The end of the first week of the search and they come back in and they say to me two-and-a-half days later as I'm conducting the search and printing posters and teaching the Hollywood Police how to look for my son. They said John you're not going to believe this but in most places we couldn't get a policeman on the phone. We were lucky if we got a juvenile detective cuz many police agencies don't have juvenile officers if it was after 5:00. We never got a detective most of the time all we got was a woman dispatcher, but you're not going to believe this but 80% of the law enforcement Florida do not know your son is missing. I said my God this cannot be happening to me. This is America. This is the United States incredible resources. We have the space shuttle 17 billion dollar space shuttle. I've been to the Houston Space Center. They can track the growth of the toenails are the astronauts as they Circle this planet and you're telling me there's no system to find missing children that nobody's looking for my son. What is going wrong here? How could this be happening to me? Just then the complicated miserable day are County coroner came in. He was a renowned doctor also a lawyer next protest afire. Justified at many homicide trials in Los Angeles at Elvis Presley's trial after his death. He said I need to talk to mister wash and I said Doctor right? I know who you are. He said you got to consider the fact that Adam's dad and I said, no wait a second naive I said someone replace the loss of their child with this beautiful little blond articulate little boy and they're on their way to Disney World with him and I've got people going to Disney World. We're going to look for him up there. He said that's not the point. I'm making he said, you know, we have no system to exchange information on on identified dead in this country myself and a few other concern Corners have been trying for years to get a national system. We estimate we vary between four and five thousand unidentified dead in this country every year. Any given year it may be as many as 1,500 children. I said wait a second. This can't this can't be he said yes. He said I have 14 on identified dead and my Morgan Broward County one morgue and one County in one state. He said former adolescent girls, I guess to make their ages to be between about 13 the youngest 111. I've had him 6 months and no one has claimed them. I State requires I bury them but I don't want to bury him cuz I know somebody's looking for them. He said in one of the more Progressive states is it you want to know how Progressive we are. He said myself in a few other County Coroner's decided to exchange information on unidentified dead by mail. We do it on a voluntary basis every 6 months if atoms in a morgue somewhere in the State of Florida, you may have to wait 6 months if you're lucky to find out he's in the morgue. I said this is this is incredible. This cannot be happening to me. What should I do? He said you got to plead to the media. I chartered a plane. I went around the state and held up Adams picture all over the State of Florida. I said help me find this boy Ransom anything that's needed. Help me get my son back. Nobody's looking for him. When I got back to South Florida sightings of Adam started to come in week 2 of The Search. Now people thought they saw him in southern Georgia Northern Alabama panhandle of Florida and just like the movie Adam portrays. I sat on that phone for 2 days is already tect has pleaded with other detectives in other states to go out and research the sightings of this little boy and I listen time and time again, I can't get out today. I've got 35 cases of missing children. I don't have a police car have to borrow black and white we won't be able to do that. That siding is in our jurisdiction and I sat there and I thought my God what if it was their son? Is this the response of law enforcement discount? Well, damn it. I'll find my own son. I'll get on National Television. So I called every talk show that I could think of and nobody showed pictures of missing children 1981. I was turned down 15 times. Told if we do it for you will have to do it for everybody else. I said What you talkin about Lisa Boyle there are hundreds of parents who've already called as with missing children. It's not the venue TV can't do that. I called Good Morning America. They were my last chance the executive producer said Mr. Walsh, you know this morning television people are shaving their put it on their makeup. They're worrying about their mortgages in their careers. They're on their way to work. This is too Tuff Stuff. We interview celebrities. We do recipes from famous chefs. It's not the venue, but fortunately for me David Hartman was listening on the other end of the line. He said you come to New York up with John tomorrow bring a big picture of Adam and if if ABC corporate doesn't like it, I'll still put me on I said God bless you. I'll be there like in New York on that night. I was met as soon as I get off the plane by for women. Pretty desperate women three mothers with missing children in a journalist to a quitter job to work with these mothers from Child fine. We try to assist parents and missing children. I said good you need to help me and they said well, we'll do everything we can for you. But the reason we came here tonight was to get your help and I said I'm trying to get my son back. They said we need you to take us tomorrow on Good Morning America with us. We've got hundreds of pictures of missing children. We've never been successful in getting on television. No one wants to talk to us. We are those are rational screaming women wear women. No one wants to listen to us. This is way past Adam and you'll realize it. What do you find out him or not? You'll realize it's way past your son and you're a man and we need you to help us I said, I don't know if I can get you on the show at a tough time getting myself on the show and they said we're in big trouble besides that we have the only toll-free 800 number in this country for sightings to coordinate sightings. Cuz law enforcement doesn't do it and we help parents over that toll free number and AT&T is going to shut off our phone to Mom. Could you lend us $500? Why should you don't get any state funds? No federal funds nothing. They said no we beg and borrow, please we're desperately need to keep that line open tomorrow, maybe a sighting of animal come in. I shook my head. And I said, I can't believe this I cannot believe it. I spent a lot of my adult years in Europe. Heard Europeans criticize the materialism of this country are decadence all the things that Europeans say about it and it's totally dawned on me that they were probably dead right that our priorities were in tremendous. Disarray certainly was happening to me when on Good Morning America the next morning, I showed Adams picture David Hartman ask Kristen Cole Brown the lady from Child fine. What's the extent of the exploitation of children in this country? How many missing kids are there? And I guess she figured it was her one and only chance cuz she turned away from him and she looked in this camera. I guess she figured she had the American viewing audience captive. That was watching Good Morning America. And she said how many missing children how many molested how many views we don't know because we've never kept statistics legislators law enforcement the criminal justice system is never cared enough about children to keep statistics or or take care of them. She said we give a lot of lip service in this country to our children a lot of rhetoric but do we really love our children? I don't think so. Do we really love them? I don't think so. She repeated. I was I was a stunt. I thought I made a fatal mistake. I brought this militant woman on the show. She's embarrassed me to death David Hartman didn't know how to respond to you went right to a commercial. After that break, I went behind the set and even Hartman's about six-foot-five and he hug me and said good luck and I hope you find Adam and then they told me I had an emergency phone call and went to answer the phone and David Hartman went with me and I finally talked to a detective. It was a bona fide detective and he said Mr. Walsh we found parts of your son's body floating in a canal 120 miles north of your home. We need Dental charts to identify him cuz there isn't much left. That was the day I found out in the worst way the worst day of my life. Every parent's worst nightmare the kristyn Cole Brown wasn't militant at all. She was understating the problem. She was dead right that this country doesn't think much of its children that we give it a lot of lip service to people steal children that use them in child pronography. They molest them repeatedly, they leave their bodies and field & stream's all over this country. Been called a national tragedy I said it again and I will continue to say I say it's a National Disgrace a country with the resources that we have allowing this to happen. And now with the ever-increasing reports the new awareness the three airings of Adam something about Amelia the ground that we broke in other areas children are coming forward and ever increasing numbers and Reporting physical and sexual abuse. I say it's the tip of the iceberg. It's a colossal Iceberg. We're just starting to see and I've been asked so many times. I think I have the Guinness book of records for testifying before Congress have testified nine times. I testified. I don't know how many steak but the first four times I testified I was asked the same question. What are the statistics? Mr. Walsh. Most of those kids are runaways aren't they? They come home within 48 hours or they ran away cuz they didn't get a Camaro for graduation or they don't like what they're getting in the house. But I found out differently. I said, I'll try to find out some statistics. I went to Cornell Law Library and I research day and night microfilm out of there. I went to the FBI Uniform Crime Report supposed to be the barometer of crime in the United States hit list all the categories of crimes against Americans in 1981. The FBI Uniform Crime Report did not have a category for crimes against children. I asked the FBI agent-in-charge are not children Americans are not our children citizens. He said what we keep homicides of children that we can see Handshake we love those in with homicides of adults. I said what about incest sexual molestation kidnapping physical abuse. Those are crimes. Well, we just never kept them together. Mr. Walsh. We have a tough time getting states to report every state including the state has a Uniform Crime Report of its own and I went and address the Uniform Crime Report Association. They said Mr. Walsh we've known for a long time that only one in ten crimes against children ever reported. We have a tough time getting law enforcement to report those crimes cuz it makes him look bad in their Community protect me if the mayors up for re-election and there's only one state that mandates by legislative mandate by law the crimes against children be Captain that's the state of Texas. So I went back and told the United States Senate and House Representatives. We don't keep statistics on crimes against children. They said okay will do it. So they set up an investigation oversight committee. I thought when the United States senate or congress asks you to respond yet to respond, but that a tough time getting the response. This is what they came up with a 1982. I'm going to bore you with some statistics here for a minute. These aren't definitive. These are guesstimate. This is the best they could do. Is there an absolute this is the best we have so far Health and Human Services in Washington DC reported 1.8 1800000 cases of missing children in 1982, the estimated million and a half every year since then know what happened to those kids still the same response. Most of my runaways, aren't they? Well, they asked to make between 75,000 may be as high as 300,000 different poles are starting to lean toward the higher figure now that some states have made this crime a felony between 75,000 300,000 kids are victims of non-custodial parental abduction. Legislators law enforcement District Attorney's judges 4 years of said those kids are with another parent there. Okay. Well, they fished an eight-year-old girl out of the East River in New York about it two years ago. She had a note pinned to address that I'm leaving my ex-wife the way I found her childless. We got a two year old girl back from the roll-call of Adam. She been taken at gunpoint by non-custodial Daddy from the daycare center. He hated his wife and he took this little girl around the country and they lived out of dumpsters the FBI caught him in Texas and his trick was to take cigars and he burn this little girl all over body mentioning his ex-wife's name. That's how he got even with his ex-wife the Fitzpatrick brothers were found in Wales nine and seven years old. They were in the roll-call of Adam in a school teacher and wail sought the movie in England and she called the FBI and we extradited the Fitzpatrick Brothers. They were told by Daddy that Mommy was dead and that they were wanted felons United States could never return. I talked to Fitzpatrick Brothers. They were pretty happy to find out their mother was a lie. how to make a come back to United States I did a special for Westinghouse on non-custodial parental abductions not only men have to ductions or women lot of junkie prostitute mothers who don't get custody of the children steal them a lot of deranged mother's bitter for the divorce dealer, but the cases we did in this documentary were father's Great American Daddy's 5 cases we dealt with in this film oldest girl 11 youngest girl 8 years old. He's five Daddy's and then isolated incidents has took their daughters and ran around the country and turn them out as prostitutes charging as little as $20 to have sex with their own daughters. I say those children are children at Great risk, and we haven't cared for them because we slept it off and said there was a parent. Put aside those non-custodial parental abductions. We do know that in any given year in this country, maybe 5,000 do as many as nine thousand ten thousand children are murdered in this country most of them murdered in the home by abusing live-in boyfriend's relatives just dropped mommy's summer murdered by pedophiles people first sex with children summer murdered by mobile and serial murderers around the country at random racking up numbers summer murdered by child pornographers people using a child prostitution, but we know about them because they're have a tag on their toe in the morgue where they have a great. We're still bearing hundreds of unidentified dead children this country. Even though we got the missing children's bill passed because only five states have mandated by law that law enforcement take all reports of missing children regardless of the circumstances and put them into the National Crime information computer. This state has a Statewide registry, but the bill you pass was a little bit watered down. There was one little loophole in there that allowed police to make an arbitrary decision of the fate of your child if they think it's a runaway, they don't have to put it in the system. So you might spend the rest of your life looking for your child. If it's a girl 14 years older boy 15 never knowing they were buried in California or Kentucky because they aren't in the system and I'll talk about that later. But we've got the non-custodial is the known dead the unknown dead FBI estimates between 20 to 50,000 children or suspected victims of Foul Play. They're taken by a stranger not necessarily kept by a stranger. They may have only been taken by 6 out for 6 hours. 99% of that time they were molested. They never make it into the records. But where they kidnap damn. Well, they were kidnapped. Was it a stranger? Yes where they molested. Yes, fortunately someone were let off alive. But those are cases that are unsolved at the end of a given year between 20 and 50000. So let's roll in all the non-custodial the known and unknown dead in the suspected victims of Foul Play Let's Roll that off to half-a-million the big question by Congress and State legislatures are where what happened the other million kids tell runaways aren't they? 90% of them? Come home when 90% of them do come home within 48 hours, but we have proven conclusively that 85% of the children is country that run away or running away from either physical or sexual abuse at home the running from the frying pan to the fire. And the new phenomenon the throwaway child. The new estimates estimate that there are 30% of The Runaways are throwaways. Alcohol abusing drug-abusing one parent out of the house. We can't take care of you anymore. The welfare overburdened divorce mother no child support two and three and four-year-old. You're 12, you're out of the house is an excellent documentary called StreetWise is up for an Academy Award shows 11 year old girl on Street to Seattle first night. She was pushed out the car by boyfriend of mommy and her jaw broken by a pimp shows in the dark blood pouring out of her mouth little boy on the streets 3 weeks up in Seattle. Hung himself didn't want to become a child prostitute. Those are the throwaway kids. Imagine this get on the streets of Rochester tonight. Your husband kicks you out your wife kicks you out. No credit cards. No money. No checkbook. No place to go be pretty damn scared. I know you would especially if you're a woman now, imagine yourself being 11 year old child or 12 year old child out on the street. You don't want to leave the house. They told you to get out of the house and lots of kids at 10% that weren't runaways the 10% that are never found. I say no police officer including no police officer in this state has the arbitrary right to sign the death warrant of your child by making a decision that they were Runaway. Case in point John Wayne Gacy killed 33 Boys in Chicago half of them are listed as runaways. He was a longtime convicted child molester the great state of Iowa put him on probation after 8 months and he went to Chicago set himself up as a peer of the community one of the boys that killed was the son of Sergeant Robert Gilroy of the Chicago Police Department. The boy was an All-American football player 16 years old Gilroy was waiting dinner for the boy with the boys cars at the boy bought himself a Camaro keys there in the boy's girlfriend Gacy pick them up and give her a ride home. Sure the boys room KC live four blocks down the street hit him over the head with a ball peen hammer York, PA estimated torture his victims 18 hours before he killed him. Sergeant Robert Kilroy a cop couldn't convince his peers and the other members of the Chicago Police Department that his son wasn't a runaway. They said he's 16 took off. He spent his life savings every nickel he could borrow in two years looking for son. Never knowing. He was buried four blocks down the street with 32 other voice. 417 children that were murdered in Atlanta the 29 were listed by the Atlanta police every single one of them as a runaway. Why because they were black because the mothers were predominantly welfare divorced mother. Is that a reason to list a child as a runaway because they're black one of those children was Youssef Bella highly gifted student. He was 9 years old and other one's a little boys with 7 Atlanta police wrote him off Natomas missing Christine Anderson was missing from Fort Lauderdale. Just north of us miss Anderson. She was divorced said in the newspapers. I didn't get the attention the walshes got because I'm not rich like I called her up and I said zanderson, we're not rich either. I had to mortgage my ass. I borrowed has more money than you can imagine in my search for Adam, but I'll help you in any way I can she said well at the Fort Lauderdale Police have listed Christine is a runaway. She said Mr. While she was last seen in the front yard with a bikini. I she was 11 years old. She wasn't even have reached puberty. She said she was just in the front yard. Turn up to see the Fort Lauderdale Police. In a big Sergeant got me on the sign said let's talk man-to-man. Mr. Walsh. I said, oh great. I can't wait for this one. He said, you know Miss Anderson pretty promiscuous lot of boyfriends cocktail waitress divorced as his way to second half the country's divorce lot of cops are divorce lot of cops are promiscuous and not every woman can run for vice president United States. Some women have to be cocktail waitresses. What kind of criteria is that? Makes it? Well, you know Christine has a lot of psychological problems. I said most kids of divorce have psychological problems. Why in the hell aren't you looking for? We got a listed as a runaway. Mr. Walsh. I'm sorry. That's police. That's our policy. They found Christine Anderson Fort Lauderdale Police didn't find her bulldozer operator founder 3/4 of a mile from her ass on Earth there at a townhouse development. She was lying there raped strangled and murdered the autopsy said the bikini. She was last seen was lying next to her. She wasn't alone. There was a girl that has to make to be 11 to 13 lying next to her still having found out her identity. They never look for Christine Anderson. I say no law enforcement agency in this country has the arbitrary right to sign the death warrant of your child regardless of the circumstances. Well, those are all the missing kits now. We know the National Council on Child Abuse Prevention says that there were at least a million documented cases of physical abuse of children in the country last year. You see those cases. You're supposed to deal with them. You're mandated by law to report them. You're supposed to testify. Not everybody is a good parent. I was just out in Los Angeles a state that we're doing battle in that 27 murders of children in the city alone of Los Angeles in the first four months of calendar year 84 didn't have a department for children Henry Winkler got me out there and Dan travanty and stuff and what had happened was that 17 of these children had been removed on the advice of a pediatrician a social worker for the average salary of a social worker in this country is $13,000. The average garbage man, get $17,000 at 75 cases. The family court judges in all the 17 cases said, let's keep the family intact. The family is the basis of America Society. I dispute that. But anyway, they sent those 17 kids home. Every single one of them was murdered in the family within that 4 months two of them were boiled alive on the stove by their own parents who let them down the system let them down. It's tougher to get a driver's license than it is to be a parent that something to me made an impression on me. She said John you went to school forever. I've been in school most of my adult life to learn how to be get a degree in interior decorating. We've got this beautiful little boy. You could be a Nobel Peace Prize winner could be a juvenile delinquent. We have don't have any parenting skills. We haven't learned anything about being parents. I'm scared. I said, I'm scared to I wish I knew something but California is trying a case right now to pediatricians that are accused and charged as accessories to second-degree murder why I feel sorry for the partner, but what are the pediatrician saw this little boy four times? He was horribly physically abused and finally The little boy was murdered in the family. The partner saw the boy one time. They had an argument after the partner read about the boy's death and he said why the hell didn't you report it? He says were mandated by state law to report it. The partner said well, I know, you know, we get tied up in the courts. We lose $2,000 a day in fees if I had to go to court for this trial the head nurse overheard it Chief informed the police of that and have been charged with accessory to second-degree murder be an interesting case. So we've got the missing the physically abused children. On top of that the FBI now estimates with all the increased awareness and states that are mandating education programs like California children are coming forward and ever increasing numbers at an early age and we're victims of physical sexual abuse or incest at home that's going to impact you the pediatricians in this room because you're going to be asked to testify at the trial so you're going to have to treat these chill. Going to be asked to do a lot of things you've never done before. incredible amount of children sexual molestation. I hope we get him in an early age because my philosophy in a lot other people just to break the chain. Let's get him at six seven eight years old because usually they see them the home for years and then they become a runaway or juvenile delinquent and then they go through the system and become the mobile and serial murder. So if we don't want to treat him now they're going to visit your house or your wife later. So we need to deal with that now but the missing the physically abused in the molested children and credible figures incomprehensible to me for country with the resources. We have I'm a special advisor Washington. Now, I drive by the Vietnam memorial the Forgotten Heroes of America American public didn't think enough of our Vietnam veterans to build a memorial so they put their pennies in dollars together and built their own Memorial monument in Washington will ponder this food for thought in the same time frame that we are in Vietnam War children were murdered in this country than we lost soldiers in Vietnam, but they'll be no Memorial to those children in Washington. We have truly forgotten about them. I'm talking about changing of attitudes today changing a philosophies changing a priorities. What about the people who molest our children? About 90% of the longtime repeat offender some of you know exactly what I'm talking about the fixated pedophile who prefers sex with children 90% of them walk out of the courtroom in this country with a slap on the wrist to seek psychiatric counseling at their own will how do they beat the system? There's a lot of reasons why the system stinks the criminal codes are bad. The DA's are poorly prepared pediatricians aren't taught how to prepare good evidence many medical schools, maybe deal with it in an hour or two hours. I've had social worker after social worker in District Attorney say, I'd like to strangle at pediatrician. He blew the evidence. He could have got a semen sample. You could have taken some pictures and states were the social worker doesn't respond for 2 weeks cuz they're so overburdened pediatrician could have gotten some of that evidence. But many times a pediatrician want to push for the trial but the DL say hey my state attorney or my county attorney's up for re-election. I don't think we've got a good case here is child's only for five. I don't think they can Testify the pediatrician sing. What the hell are you talking about? We're not going to prosecute this case. We're only taken once we can win because it's election time. We have denied these crimes against children 4 years and some of you in this room know exactly what I'm talking about because of our inability within the system and all those categories to prosecute that child molester the prosecute that repeat offender. We've let him Skip and going repeat repeat repeat it again. How about a lot of dealings with those child molester those of you that saw the movie Adam? I have seen the part where they arrested a man in New Jersey who murdered a 6 year old boy, he wasn't out on probation. He was on active parole for child molestation. He been arrested 27 times when they got in his room they found out he had newspaper clippings about him all over his room. He had a diary of children need molested over 20 year career. He wintered in Florida summer in New Jersey and moved up and down the East Coast. Well, they broke into a mini warehouse in Florida that he had they found clergy uniforms Boy Scout leaders uniforms child pronography torture devices, but worst of all he had cassettes I walked into the Pompano Beach Police Station 3 homicide detectives just like you see in the movies. Hope you never have to go through something like this guns on their shoulders two of them were crying. I said what chance do I have your Harden Street cops your homicide detective do of your crying what chance do I have listening to tapes? I said, you've got to you the only one that can and I found his voice around these tapes we have is murder. I listen to those tapes. I threw up about seven times two detectives walk out the room one stayed with me. Wasn't Adams voice? But I think that every legislator every judge and every policeman this country should listen to those tapes. Don't haunt me the rest of my life. I listen to what these people do to these little boys when they torture them. I just sit through Senate hearing and listen to a Baptist Minister from North Carolina was principal the high school talked about how easy it was for me was a trusted authority figure. He molested boys over a lifelong career. It was easy you put the fear of God in them never got caught for the executed a child molester by the name of Arthur good about 8 months ago. You may have remembered his press conference. He was a long time can pick convicted pedophile. He had a huge arrest record. He had been incarcerated and I think eight states for no longer than 2 months at a time and he murdered and tortured a 6 year old boy in Maryland in the great state of Maryland didn't send them to prison. They send them to a minimum psychiatric facility. They were going to cure Arthur good he walked off the ground. He didn't Escape he walked off the grounds with the Sony Walkman they gave him for treatment. Took him four days to hitchhike to Marco Beach, Florida. He got a 6 year old boy, they're inside of mice and torture murder. And this was his press conference. You might have seen it Infamous press conference is I'm a pedophile. I love children. I'm a longtime convicted pedophile. I prefer sex with children. You'll never know how many kids I've murdered at beating the system and so many states is that in this country doesn't accept our desire to have sex with children, but I'll tell you what, I don't want a last meal. I want have sex with little boy has his last words as you walk to the electric chair there two organizations. You may be familiar with maybe you are there better organized in the police NAMBLA the North American man-boy love Association. They have an office in New York in an office in California have a toll free 800 number to raise bail for child molesters. They held the National Convention Wales three years ago to the Welsh government. They have a sister Society two of them in California. The sent you a circle in San Diego has 10000 members the Renee Geass society, which has an office in Beverly Hills has eight thousand members. First slogan is sex before radar. It's too late. They all have claimed to raped a child under 8 years old. I think we have a misconception of the people who Prey Upon Our Children. It's not that guy with the hump on his back with a trench coat trying to lower your child off the playground. Let me give you the background of some NAMBLA members that were caught two years ago in New York state. They were caught in a very nice house in Upstate New York was the first time the FBI really prosecuted some NAMBLA members. They were caught with $75,000 in cash. They had 300 video cassettes hardcore child pronography little boys as young as five-years-old and forced sex acts with adults. They had a computerized mailing print out gum labels of 10,000 people with scent in $15 for book. They were stuffing in manila envelopes called how to have sex with a child out of anally penetrated little boys. Give me the background of some of those men junkies pimps. No forty-year-old University physicist from Stanford University, California. Thirty-two-year-old sociology Professor King's College, Pennsylvania. 65 year old chemist from New Jersey approved foster parent taking children from the foster care system in New Jersey and putting them in child pronography in New York. 48 year old city councilman for Marietta, Ohio 54 year old engineer from Utah 54 year-old resident alien, multi-millionaire real estate salesman with a PhD from Harvard. A 30 year old man who still at large random boys camp in Upstate New York. And the last one will you might be interested in is a thirty-six-year-old neurologist from the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City arrested previously three times for child molesting still under ologist at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center the steps with 6-month probation and a $500 fine. That's what New York State thought about child pronography safe sense change their laws dramatically. That's the attitudes toward the people who Prey Upon Our Children what's being done about the missing children's Bill the missing children's assistance act the creation of the national Center for missing and exploited children with the toll-free 800 number in about 30 staff one day alone. We got 850 calls. We're swamped President Reagan's attention to the issue. That's good. But the federal government can only go so far. We have been successful in creating the violent criminal apprehension program. I want to talk about that for a minute. But you and a half years. I've been lobbying to get money for the vicap program. Two and a half years ago when I was testifying before Congress a homicide detective by the name of Pierce Brooks caught me by the sleeve in the halls of Congress and said, I'm a homicide street cop John they're murdering our women and children and ever increasing numbers there mobile. They do it in serial. They roll from coast to coast in police don't exchange information Theodore. Bundy killed eight women in Oregon. They knew his name was Ted. They knew he drove a white Volkswagen. He went and killed 7 women in Utah and then he went to Colorado. They arrested him he escapes from jail. He says John we suspect that killed 80 more women is across the country to Winter Park police caught him for driving erratically one night. He just murdered to coeds but they didn't know that they had them 5 days before they even found out he was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. He said we need help I said, what? What are you talking about? You said we need some money. To do a study. He said there's a few FBI agents a few homicide detectives that are ready to criticize this system. Will this is the study I was successful in getting me a hundred thousand dollars from Arlen specter's Judiciary Committee that a press conference six months ago. This is what they said. Ladies particularly. I think it's something that you should consider in 1966. There were 600 on South random sexually motivated murders in this country last year. There were 4400 women alone murdered by mobile and serial murders sexually motivated. They estimate there are 35 at large right now that have probably killed more than six or seven women and children. Those are some of the things we're cheating on the federal level, but the real battle that I've learned is on the state level. This is a country of 50 little feudal Kingdom Minnesota. Might as well be Switzerland North Carolina. Might as well be Sweden New York. Might as well be Austria, cuz the quality of children's lives is far superior in some states than others law is permanent effects social change permanently. It forces agencies that don't want to respond to responded and empowers others that want to deal with a problem with the money is in the power to do it. We have a packet called selected State legislation. A guide for Effective state laws to protect children children's legislation moves very very slowly through the process. I go over a couple of the sample pieces of legislation in here. I wish I had more time but I don't protecting the privacy of the child prohibiting the media from using the child's name in any type of sexual assault of a of a woman or a child in every state in the nation. It's against the law for the media to use the name of the juvenile delinquent. Only three states have mandated that the media cannot use the name of your wife or girlfriend or your child. Imagine getting over that trauma. If you ever can going to the criminal justice system and then have the media reporting when you go back to work and everybody at work knows that you were raped 15 times by the motorcycle gang and sodomized 10. No one needs to know the name of the rape victim. Background checks to people who work with children. I brought some newspaper Clips. I was in Illinois yesterday testifying before that bill. They had a substitute teacher arrested. He had 10,000 photographs of children these molested in the last 20 years little girls Underpants kept in plastic bags with their names in the date of the assault on them and a principal was relieved of his position in Illinois yesterday for sexually molesting children. Now the majority of people who work with children are wonderful, they're good people but I say we should guarantee the civil liberties of our children in every state in this nation there at least 50 occupations that are mandated to have a state and federal background check in 49 states. You can't be a doctor. You can't be a lawyer. You can't be a policeman. You cannot work at a par Mutual racetrack. You cannot be a groom at a racetrack. You cannot rub down a horse without a state and federal background check to show up you were previously convicted child molester, but in this state and many other states, you can be a convicted child molester or child murder and Work in a daycare center or we're going to school Florida had 300 sexual assaults of children by school teachers in a two year. And we did background checks and pass the bill. We had 37 convicted felons teaching school in the Florida school system. One of them was a child murderer that served 11 years in Illinois and came and got a license in Florida. We need to guarantee the rights of those children. I think it was summed up very well by a schoolteacher who testified with me on behalf of the legislation in Florida when the teachers union opposed it he says it's not a violation of civil liberties there at least 50 occupations that are mandated to do it cuz I'm proud to be a teacher. He says I'm proud I went to school all my life to be in this profession is I think we should release our own profession, but we don't so I'm testifying on behalf of this lot and he said I'll tell you why I'm testifying on behalf of it. I'm high school teacher. I teach Special Ed. I have a 6 year old daughter. I damn well want to know the background of that man who's teaching that little girl if he can survive a background check japonee can go into 2 million other. You can be a state legislator, but it shouldn't be a school teacher. I think you summed it up pretty well. Treatment of the child in the courtroom. This is something that you're going to experience those of you that our pediatricians. I'm sure you will we treat our children barbarically in the courtroom. We have 25 states that have barbaric are archaic laws that allow a judge to disqualify a child as a witness making you the only witness in many cases you knowing that child could be a good witness but a judge who doesn't have to attend seminars like you do or education programs who sat on that bench for 15 years and doesn't know what the hell he's doing disqualifies that child in the federal courtroom civil and criminal every witness is presumed to be competent in federal court rooms. You can be a pathological liar and a convicted murderer but long as an adult you can testify in any courtroom in this country. We should let the jury decide whether the child should testify or not. And we hold our children up for ever in the criminal justice system. We surveyed 20 cases of sexual assaults in 20 States. They were continued an average of 251 times. I could go on and on about the legislation. About the lack of response of Minnesota what you've done good what you haven't done. Now your years behind other states. I know a lot of you are from other states, but the point I'm making is that we haven't enfranchised our children with the rights that we shouldn't I always talked about this this country is based its lawn English law those of you ladies that have been through the system know what I'm talkin about English law is chattel. You could bullwhip. Are you going to whip your wife and your child as long as the rod wasn't any bigger than your thumb? I think it's time to change that status. whatever Your response today to this presentation and I wish I had longer to talk about it because I feel that you have a very important role to play in the way of Education. I personally feel and I have heard many pediatrician say that the medical colleges haven't prepared them. I have an article here. Given to me by one of the people. I spoke to Today medical interview of sexually abused children by a couple of pediatrician sing Physicians are failing to recognize cases of sexual abuse scene in their own practices. We can say this with confidence because in our community in which excellent pediatricians practice a high standard of care more than 90% of victims brought to us have not been recognized as victims by their own doctor recognition that sexual involvement with children by adults as common as indicated by retrospective studies of young adults can make Physicians more open to the possibility of extra family or sexual abuse or incest and more willing to explore the area pediatricians. Another Physicians must acknowledge that they have professional responsibilities to the children now coming forward to reveal the epidemic level of sexual abuse the number of reports of sexual abuse to Child Protection agencies in some areas is doubling. Annually. This will impact you when you leave this area. I think the medical colleges have done a bad job. I was at a seminar where they were 50 pediatricians. There were a pediatrician question them about the way they gather evidence for crimes against children. I was appalled at the responses. So where the rest of the people in the room? Lyford pediatrician say I just couldn't overcome the social worker. The cop was a jerk. I just had to turn my back I said you could have gone to supervisor you could have saved one little life. You could have gone that extra step. You could have made that statement stuck your neck out your protected by immunity by law in every state. You need to get better involved. But whatever you take away from today. I hope you understand. I'm not advocating the repeal of all our personal freedoms Big Brother Society vigilante Society. I'm hoping that at some point we can guarantee the personal freedoms of those little people that I'm talking about today cuz we haven't done that some of what you heard today- surprised you some of it might a shock to some of you seen it first, and I've talked to some of you today and you're appalled by and you gave the normal reaction. Whatever your reaction I beseech you don't assume it couldn't happen to you and don't go with a normal reaction because the people who have preyed upon our children, this country have counted on this society's aversion to the problem in the tendency of people to turn their heads in disgust. We can no longer Turner afford to Turner ads and discuss the exploitation of our women and children has reached epidemic proportions. And what's been accomplished so far is very little a few federal laws. Some states have reacted very well, but the things that I'm talking about the real need the education and schools and medical colleges the proactive stance the weariness the prevention the removal of these individuals from society that hasn't happened yet. Our priorities have to change your priorities this Society a society that can put a spacecraft on the moon should be able to protect us women and children in the problem Knows No Boundaries those myths about it being Lowell lower-income people. Yes. It happened to those mothers in Atlanta, but it happened to me and it happened. X Senator Charles Percy of the United States Senate whose daughter was abducted and raped and murdered from his own home exploitation is everyone's nightmare. It doesn't know any socio-economic boundaries the FBI Uniform Crime Report that I keep talking about the barometer crime in the United States stated that in 1980 to 40 million Americans were the victim of a violent crime. Will there's 200 million plus Americans. That's a quarter of the population. That's one in four in this room, but it really isn't take these men out of here because the majority of those victims are women and children and have a personal philosophy and feeling I've been battling many legislators men judges men District Attorney's men police officers for the last three and a half years. If these crimes were happening in the epidemic proportions that they are two women and children if they were happening to me. I think we would have seen things changed a long time ago. And that'll philosophy. I have heard it from doctors. What can I do? The legislators have to change things the police have got to change and upgrade their status. Yeah, that's true. But that philosophy the days will change things is Ludacris cuz I learned the hardest way where the days you when I can. Only Medical Professional your citizens taxpayers concerned citizen. We can change things. I've interviewed hundreds of molested children raped survived abduction physical abuse incest breaks my heart in a way it feels maybe cuz it makes me angry because I see them so many of them. I just address the women against rape in New Jersey 7000 rape victims from the ages of 6 months to a t talk about anger talk about angry heart destroyed brokenhearted women that have been let down by the whole system. But every one of those children I interviewed said the same thing to me, they believe mommy daddy Mr. TV superhero Mister policeman would save them in their hour of Terror and nobody did. I got a new daughter. She's two and a half. I mention that I have a brand new Sun. God has blessed us with a little four month old son. I fear for my daughter even more because Newsweek says that same Article 1 and 4 girls will be molested by age 18 1 and 10 boys. So Meghan's odds are twice as bad as atoms were and that wasn't the only child murdered in this country. Yes, they made a movie about us, but he's just one of tens of thousands of children that have been murdered in this country since 1981. It's the worst nightmare parent can face. But I believe that people forget who the real victims are. I believe the criminal justice system the legislators the law enforcement agencies in some cases the medical profession cuz I have heard these adults pontificate back and forth deciding the fate of a child eagle problems Turf battles time and time again, I'm asking you remember who the real victims are who you're supposed to be protecting who were supposed to be protecting. I've been asked to give the perspective of the victim. I'm not the real victim the real victim isn't here that little boy is somewhere better than here. I know he's saying don't forget me not the victim. I'm just heartbroken father Left Behind trying not to forget who the victim was. So I speak to you in today with great urgency because every minute that you don't get the necessary input that you don't Lobby your legislators in this state cuz you've got a short time before this legislature goes out. The past of meaningful laws that might make your job easier certainly will protect your children every minute that these attitudes this education particularly. These laws aren't passed and proactive. The Henry Lee Lucas is the Theodore Bundy the artist tools the mobile and serial murderers the pedophiles that have beat the system 20 40 times. They're out there adding new women and children to their list. We always react in this Society after the rape after the molestation will try to treat the victim after the nightmare. We need to take a proactive stance. This is 1985 here. This isn't 1955. It's not like you grew up the Eisenhower study that was done six months ago said this is the most violent Society in the history of this world the most violent civilized society that crimes against women and children. This country are three times greater than the closest capitalistic democracy to the United States. And no matter how protected you might think your environment might be. You might be a professional you might live out in the suburbs. You might have a big gate around your house in a TV monitor, but your wife's got to go out for grocery Sunday or you ladies have got to go into a mall. You got to let your children go out someday. That's when they're going to be at risk. Next victim might be you or your loved one. It took an incredible coward to murder six year old boy incredibly sick coward the rape a woman to molest a child, but I believe we would be bigger, and I have seen adults display their cowardice in dealing with children and children's problems. I believe we're bigger cowards if we don't do something however big or small. I think it's time that we collectively you and I Bruzek, Kristen Cole Brown was wrong. I think it's time to end the rhetoric. I think it's time to end the lip service and may be proven wrong and prove once and for all that. We really do love our women in our children. I thank you for have