Who Is Jaycee Dugard's 'A Stolen Life'?

While the court may not have made a decision which began the legislative process changing a law, the Amber Hagerman case is still a landmark case because it is responsible for The Amber Alert system. Because the idea to quickly find Amber via the media and broadcast agencies was successful, the idea of using the media to locate a child became more routine. It is designed to locate and retrieve a child who has been kidnapped and or missing and in possible danger. The word Amber became an acronym for America’s Missing Broadcast Emergency Response.

AMBER Alerts are issued after law enforcement determines that there has been abduction. Law enforcement must believe that the missing child is in danger of harm. An Alert can only be issued by law enforcement. Abductions by strangers are the most dangerous and are the primary mission of the Alert. AMBER Alerts are issued for children under the age of seventeen. Each state has its own age limits, but the majority uses seventeen as the cut off. Descriptive information is given of the missing child, the abductor, and the abductor’s vehicle used in the abduction. The missing child’s name is placed into the National Crisis Information Center (NCIC) system. Not only is the AMBER Alert named after Amber Hagerman, but AMBER also stands for America’s Missing Broadcast Emergency Response (Child Abduction, AMBER Alert, and Crime Control Theater).

A child being kidnapped is a parent’s worst nightmare. This happens to thousands of parents each year. For this, we have a system called, AMBER (America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response). This system has been around for almost twenty one years, saving hundreds of lives.

Imagine that the local news is on and the news reporter that was beloved by all is giving the daily scoop. The next day the reporter doesn’t show up for days which turns into weeks and is finally registered as being abducted with little to no trace of evidence as to where she disappeared too. People are infuriated and very heartbroken with this shocking news that their much-loved reporter was gone. This was the case for Jodi Huisentruit, a former KIMT news reporter who has been missing for more than 20 years and has been registered as abducted. Jodi Sue Huisentruit was born June 5th, 1968 and was raised in Long Prairie, Minnesota. She grew up with her parents Maurice Nicholas Huisentruit (Father) who died when Jodi was only 14 years old, Imogene L. "Jane" Huisentruit who died years later after Jodi went missing in 2014 from natural causes and her sister Joann. Jodi got associated with her mother more after the death of her father Maurice. When Jodi entered high school she was known

Jenifer grew up in the country in Bellingham, Washington. She lived on many acres and had many cattle. Walton grew up with a mother, father, and adopted sister named Kristin who was 6 years younger than Jenifer. Her father was an alcoholic which led him to develop lung and throat cancer. Not only was he a drunk, but he was also blind. Jenifer had a very close relationship with him but not her mother. Jenifer and Kristin's parents slowly became unhappy. When Walton was 13 her parents decided to get a divorce. The divorce effected their family tremendously. Shortly after the divorce Jenifer's sister, Kristin got in with the wrong crowd. She started using drugs and drinking alcohol. She used these substances for quite awhile. There were bumps along the road after the divorce for Kristin. When Kristin was 29 she became

revolutionized the stopping of children kidnapping in such a great way .The Amber Alert is

The AMBER alert system is very well run and has saved a lot of children from possibly life altering situations. The only change that I would make is one of informational prevention. What I mean by that is we must inform the public, not only when an AMBER alert is emitted but before so we can prevent a possible situation. I believe this starts within the home, as parents they must monitor their children’s time online to ensure they are not talking to people who they are not supposed to be talking to. While the Internet is a great tool it is also a great medium for possible predators to begin to stalk your children. Parents must be aware of who their children are speaking to online to prevent the possibility of an abduction in the future. Other precautions are very simple as well, such as being aware of where they are and setting boundaries and rules of where they could be at certain times. Another precaution could be as simple as ensuring the child has an up to date Identification card. In the home, parents should also warn the children of possible dangers from strangers and possible situations that if they are found in a difficult situation how they should react. Parents must also be informed of the truth about abductions. According to kidshealth.org most children who are reported missing have run away or are just lost. Those who are truly abducted, most are taken by a family member or someone well trusted; the other 25% are taken by strangers. Lastly, the website informs us that most kids are in their teens when they are abducted. This information is crucial to helping prevent the possible abduction and should be readily available to all families in order to prevent situations like that of Amber

She was never able to have a sixteenth birthday party. She never had the chance to get her license like every other normal teenager. She could only dream of going to her senior prom. Jaycee Dugard was merely a hostage throughout her entire childhood, and most of her young adult life. The horrendous act of being held captive for 18 years has truly changed Jaycee’s outlook on life.

On the cold winter night of January 31, 2002, Joclyn Tracy was brought into this world. She was born with her head five centimeters larger than normal, but her parents Amy Shireman and Charles Tracy were still proud. Joclyn was born at a hospital in Jasper. She has eyes as dark as the night and only a little head of hair.

To begin, at age 11, Jaycee was always an introvert, Very shy. Jaycee had a very close relationship with her mom and had a step dad named Carl, who she did not get along with well at all. Phillip, a very manipulative man with psychological problems, captured Jaycee

Innocence is a role that plays a part of all human lives, but society and culture evidently show the good and the evil that this world has. Jaycee lives with her mom, baby sister, and mean stepfather, she is getting ready to go to school and starts making her way to the school bus. On her way there she gets abducted by Philip Garrido and Nancy Garrido what Jaycee doesn't know is that her life is never going to be the same. "I'm so scared. I want to go to sleep and pretend this is not happening. Why is this happening to me? Who are these people and what do they want from me?" (Dugard 11). Furthermore, showing that the Jaycee does not even know what kidnapping is all she knows is that something bad is happening to her. The beauty of life is when one can make decisions, but when free will is taken away, one can end up feeling vulnerable and worthless. Phillip has abducted Jaycee for his pleasures and manipulates her in every way possible he verbally, physically, and sexually abuses her at the age of thirteen. "I had never been subjected to any form of sexual abuse before, hadn't ever heard of the words

In reviewing your suggested app, “Security Alert,” I felt your proposal was worth considering. With forty-percent of surveyed Americans feeling unsafe walking at night, this app could aid in reducing the anxieties associated with this fear as you had pointed out in your proposition (Sadd, 2011). Furthermore, with three-fourths of surveyed parents stating that child abduction was a fear that they held and one-third of these parents admitting it was a worry that affected them frequently, this app could even further reduce anxieties (Bilich, n.d.). Consequently, decreasing the apprehension that one might feel. Therefore, this shrinking of one’s level of stress, could aid in the development of better physical and emotional health, therefore lessening the risk of developing other stress-related disorders (Nevid, 2015, p. 357). Moreover, “Security Alert” could prove to be a valuable parenting support, should an actual abduction occur, as the “Red” option would allow for faster response time as you had also pointed out. Rapid response is critical in the recovery of an abducted child, as seventy-four percent of slayings occur within the first three hours after abduction (Bilich, n.d.).

Nursing of the future builds on old technology and new innovations to continue to grow towards a common goal. Nurses are just starting to see some of the changes happening in their workplace. Laptop computers on wheels aka (Cows) have been implemented to make the recording of patient data happen at the bedside. Larry Flynn and Dave Barista (2005) reported that “Wireless networks allow nurses to continue the care to the patient and not the chart. This is where nursing informatics plays a key role in hospital based technology and implementation of such technologies.

Rhoads, Green, Lewis, and Rakes (2012) examined the perceived challenges that telehealth systems such as these may bring to nurses. One challenge is the decision on when and how long should the cameras be on. Rhoads et al. (2012) found that parents were more satisfied when they were able to watch their infants 24/7, whether

Alannah Forster, a 13 years old at the Intel developer forum explain how her new device can save million of baby’s lives. The idea of this clip is to save babies lives of getting suffocated, as a consequence of the heat. Approximately, 40 children every year die because their parent left them in the car without ventilation to avoid a heat stroke .This new device is attached to a child’s seat which will automatically be connected to the parent cell phone. This under $50 dollars clip is capable of sending automatic signals to the cell phone if you accidentally leave the baby in the car, or if the baby gets too hot. This clip alerts