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Did you know that every 40 seconds, somewhere in the United States, a child goes missing? It’s every parent’s worst nightmare and it’s happening with terrible frequency.  Child safety is everyone’s concern.

At an event happening in Plano Texas, called the Life Print Child Safety Event, parents had the opportunity to obtain Biometric Fingerprinting and a DNA Identification Kit for their children. If you’ve never heard of it, Biometric Fingerprinting is the most recent technology innovation for fingerprinting and it’s used by the law enforcement community, federal agencies and the Military.

The advantage offered by biometric finger printing for children is that their prints are entered into the FBI database as soon as the child is reported missing and they’re immediately available to every law enforcement agency in the country.

I’m a mother. I can’t imagine anything more horrible than having my baby go missing – and my baby right now is a 200 lb 18 year old who towers over me – but I know the gut wrenching feelings and the terror this subject raises. But still I have a question about this.

Once my child is found will his fingerprints be removed from the database? Still, all this is after the fact. Its even more important that parents maintain vigilance over their young children- especially when they’re out in public situations where they can easily become distracted