There have been at least 20 cases of children abducted, raped and killed in the Kasur district in the last year, according to local lawyer and activist Waqas Abid.
Officials point, above all, to the case of Marc Dutroux, who abducted six girls in 1995 and 1996, murdering four, after his early release from prison for child rape.
Belgians were rocked by the case of a pedophile who abducted and killed several girls, two of whom starved to death in his dungeon.
The mother of a British child who went missing in Greece in 1991 has said the case of a girl allegedly abducted by a Roma couple has given her "fresh hope".
In 1993, it was the case of 2-year-old James Bulger, abducted and murdered by two 10-year-old boys — an episode that Tony Blair, then in the opposition, called an omen of "moral chaos" under a Conservative government.
SAN FRANCISCO — Prosecutors in the case of Jaycee Dugard, who was abducted as a girl and held against her will for 18 years, have released three snippets of journals she kept during her captivity.
It concerns the case of Levi Bellfield, the man convicted of abducting and murdering Milly Dowler.
He and Mrs. Del Ponte refused to discuss the types of crimes being investigated, but there are widely known cases of Serbian civilians abducted by members of the K.L.A.
"The Searchers" was adapted from a novel by Alan LeMay that was inspired by the case of Cynthia Ann Parker; in 1836, she was abducted at age 9 by Comanches who slaughtered her family before her eyes.
It was used in a recent high-profile case of a teacher, Jeremy Forrest,who was accused of abducting a pupil.
