Child Molesters Who Abduct

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Child Molesters Who Abduct:
Summary of the Case in Point Series
School of Nursing
University of Pennsylvania

Child Molesters Who Abduct:
Summary of the Case in Point Series
March 1995
Edited by Kenneth V. Lanning and Ann Wolbert Burgess
Copyright © 1995 National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. All rights reserved.
This project was supported by Grant No. 2007-MC-CX-K001 awarded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delin-
quency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of view or opinions in this
document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S.
Department of Justice. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children®, 1-800-THE-LOST®, and CyberTipline®
are registered service marks of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

Acknowledgments
Child Molesters Who Abduct is the summary edition of the Case in Point: Training Points on
the Serial Child Molester and Abductor Program Series. The U.S. Department of Justice’s
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), National Center for
Missing & Exploited Children, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and University
of Pennsylvania School of Nursing gratefully acknowledge the contributions of those
listed below for their assistance with this series.
Lucy Berliner, M.S.W. Cynthia J. Lent
Sexual Assault Center Technical Information Specialist
Investigative Support Unit
Ann Wolbert Burgess, R.N., D.N.Sc.
FBI Academy
van Ameringen Professor of Psychiatric
Mental Health Nursing Larry Monroe
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Section Chief
Investigative Support Unit
John Campbell
FBI Academy
Former Unit Chief
Behavioral Science Unit Robert A. Prentky, Ph.D.
FBI Former Director of Research
Massachusetts Treatment Center
David Cerce, M.Ed.
Grant Project Director John B. Rabun, Jr., A.C.S.W.
Massachusetts Treatment Center Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Terri Delaney
Director of Publications Allison Ressler
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Volunteer
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Matthew J. Freeman
Former Intern Robert Ressler
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Former Supervisory Special Agent
FBI Academy
Robert O. Heck
Former Program Manager Laura Rickerson
OJJDP Volunteer
U.S. Department of Justice National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Raymond Knight, Ph.D. Michelle P. Spring
Professor of Psychology Former Publications Director
Brandeis University National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Ronald C. Laney Suzanne Stiltner
Director of the Missing and Exploited Volunteer
Children’s Program National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
OJJDP
Kathryn M. Turman
U.S. Department of Justice
Former Director of the Missing and Exploited
Kenneth V. Lanning Children’s Program
Supervisory Special Agent OJJDP
Investigative Support Unit U.S. Department of Justice
FBI Academy
We also thank National Center for Missing & Exploited Children volunteers Sheila Chapman-Panizza,
Linda Gumenick, and Suzanne Lappin for their editorial assistance with this manuscript.
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Contents
Foreword...1
Introduction...3
Method...5
Results...7
Discussion...15
Investigative Analysis and Summary of Teaching Points...17
References...31
Appendix...33
Case in Point, Number 1
Case in Point, Number 2
Case in Point, Number 3
Case in Point, Number 4
Case in Point, Number 5
Case in Point, Number 6
Case in Point, Special Edition
Case in Point, Special Edition Number 2
Case in Point, Special Edition Number 3
Case in Point, Special Edition Number 4
Case in Point, Special Edition Number 5
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Foreword
The research summarized in this publication was funded by an Interagency Agree-
ment (#88-JN-R-009) between the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention and Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was
conducted in cooperation with the National Center for Missing & Exploited
Children and through an FBI subcontract with the University of Pennsylvania,
School of Nursing. Its intended purpose was to examine and study the case histo-
ries of serial child molesters and abductors and disseminate the results to criminal
justice professionals.
Supervisory Special Agent Kenneth V. Lanning, Behavioral Science Unit, FBI
Academy, was the Primary Project Manager for this research and responsible
generally for its overall supervision and specifically for its investigative applica-
tion and teaching points.
The focus of the research was on serial child molesters with many victims, but
especially on sexually motivated child abductors. Although sexually motivated
child abductors are fewer in number, these are the child abductors whose identi-
ties are most likely to be unknown at the time of the offense.
For purposes of this research a child was defined as anyone not yet 18 years of
age at the time of the molestation or abduction. Although the sexually motivated
abduction of one such child qualified an offender for this study, the focus was on
offenders who demonstrated a pattern of preferring child victims and not select-
ing them as vulnerable substitutes for adult victims. This was not intended to be
a study of child killers and, therefore, the majority of offenders interviewed and
studied were those who abducted their child victims but did not kill them.
The goal of this Serial Child Molester and Abductor Program was to gain
insights into the backgrounds, behavior, and techniques of such offenders in
order to either prevent their crimes or identify and stop them more quickly.
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