NCMEC - The National Center for Missing and Exploited "CASH"

Missing Children

by John Edward Gill

John Walsh doesn't know that Tinze Lucinda Huels is alive and well.

He also doesn't know that Alexia Reale is deceased and her remains destroyed.

Walsh, host of Fox TV's "America's Most Wanted," claims a stranger abducted Huels in 1984 when she was 17 and lived with her husband and two small children in Tampa, Florida.

Along with officials of his National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (National Center) in Alexandria, Virginia, Walsh claims Huels is still missing, her case open, unsolved, and classified as a Stranger, or Non-Family, Abduction (NFA). (snip)

Huels disappeared on the evening of October 27, 1984, saying she was going to do laundry.

Reale, eight, vanished on June 1, 1997, from Sacramento, California. She's also classified as an NFA.

The National Center is a non-profit, non-law enforcement agency funded with $8 million annually from the federal government and approximately $8 million or more from private donations. Founded by Walsh in April, 1984, with a White House Rose Garden ceremony hosted by then-President Reagan, the National Center classified Huels as an NFA although there was no evidence someone grabbed her.

In 1997, it also classified Reale as an NFA, although again without proof.

But, as with every missing child, Walsh and his National Center never investigated Huels' and Reale's disappearances.

Such sloppiness and indifference about missing children makes child abduction seem much larger than it is. After all, the National Center started because Walsh and many others claimed in 1981 that there were 50,000 stranger abductions of children each year. While a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning articles in The Denver Post pointed out that the 50,000 figure was false, the Justice Department still funded the National Center. It did so, also, without an incident study to determine exactly how many children really were missing, whether as runaways, family abductions, or stranger abductions

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