Children Lost

Ranita Gatling

Instructor R. Jacobs

ENG 112-71B

June 12, 2011

Fact Claim Paper

Children Lost

Thesis Statement: Sadly, the rate of child deaths due to involvement of one or both parents has risen in recent years.

OUTLINE

Introduction

1 Hook

2 Claim

Casey Anthony

1 Background

NY Mom

Missing

DAD

Statistics

Children Lost

      This just in there are currently two hundred and ninety five children listed in the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children database that are from Virginia and went missing during this last year. In recent times whenever you turn on the television there seems to be one news station or another broadcasting a story about another child missing, found barely alive, or either having been killed by their own mother and or father. Needless to say that is 295 children to many.   Sadly, the rate of child deaths due to involvement of one or both parents has risen in recent years.

      Case in point, the overly televised murder trail of Florida mother Casey Anthony. For those people who are not familiar with this trail which is highly unlikely it is about a young mother who is accused of killing her two year old daughter Cailey. Not only is she accused of murdering her child but of using chloroform to sedate her daughter so that she could go out and party with her friends. As if this is not bad enough she is said to have then covered up the murder for over a month and only then to report Cailey missing after her mother finely tracked her down and saw that she did not know where her daughter was. Casey told the police that the nanny took Cailey only for them to later find out that the nanny in question did not exist. Officers would later find Cailey’s body a few miles from her grandparents home badly decomposed. Although this trial is still in progress it still stands to fact that children are being hurt by those who are supposed to protect him.

      Then there is the case of the New...