XiiO ! Prounced: Ex-ee-oh!
XiiO - Learn it, and learn to listen for it. Also learn to watch for it in public places, on restroom walls etc. It's the new abucted child distress call. And of course, teach it to your kids!
We often hear kids crying in public places and even emotional outbursts often fail to attract our attention or alert us that something is seriously wrong or signal us that the child needs our help. Now we have a universal alert that cuts through language barriers and mixed messages.
Did you know that Elizabeth Smart, the 14 year old girl who was abducted in 2002 from her home in Utah, taken as a child bride (read raped) by a man who was later ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial, was spotted walking down the street with her captors and even tried to write an SOS message on a public restroom wall? "Elizabeth was here" does not have the same urgency as "Elizabeth XiiO".
Similarly, Jaycee Lee Dugard of Nevada, who was held captive for 18 years and bore two children of her abductor, was pulled into a car while walking from the school bus stop in full plain view of her step father only steps from her home!
Both girls could have been helped quickly, if only they'd known how to make a signal, or a distress alert cry.
The USA Dept of Justice currently reports that over 2,000 children are abducted each day in America alone. And that does not come close to the 27 million children (under 18) worldwide that have been abducted for sex slavery, some as young as 5 years old. Gary Haugan of the International Justice Mission says in today's world human slavery now far surpasses the 400 years of African slave trade.
Here is a video that tells more about how the EiiO distress call works, and how to get decals that you can put in public places, particularly transportation places, so abducted children know what they can do to help us help them! www.xiio.org
And while you're thinking about it, check out the abudcted kids on the Federal Department of Justice's Amber Alert site at http://www.amberalert.gov
And request immediate Wireless Amber Alerts by cellphone text message. Just sign up by leaving your cell phone number on this secure site.
And do a "quick search" at Missing Children to get informed about reported-missing children in your area.
And check out this helpful National Registry street map of the addresses of registered sex offenders in your neighborhood.
We can do much more to help the Elizabeths and Jaycees than ever before!
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