I can haz blankie?

[jadesfire]

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I think I'm starting to understand why there isn't more Criminal Minds case-fic out there. It's not really a case of being intimidated by the show's quality, although I think that's a factor. It's because you have to wade through pages of depressing statistics to give Reid one line of dialogue.

Actually, scratch out depressing. Replace it with disturbing. At the moment, I'm researching an episode tag to 3x05 "Seven Seconds" and the child abduction statistics are scary enough. You know what's worse? The acronym for one study is NISMART. National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway children.

Thrownaway. There's even a definition of it on the webpage. One thing I like about Criminal Minds is that it never plays down the horror of this, that we need a definition for it.

*shivers* Still, I'm writing the story anyway. Because there's one hell of a loose end there, and I really, really want to tie it up. Or at least draw attention to it, because I can't have been the only one to spot it.

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[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*nods* It covers that as well as not letting the kid back in the house, or throwing them out, or not looking for them when they go missing.

Just when you think you've reached the limits of what people can do to their children...

[miss-zedem.livejournal.com]

*shakes head* I can't remember which philosopher it was, but someone said that what died at Auschwitz wasn't belief in God, but the belief in the basic goodness of humanity. Reading about people's treatment of each other, especially their treatment of children, never ceases to amaze and depress me.