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Show Girls Enter Autos Freely, Police j Say, But Cry Kidnaping When Caught LOS ANGELES. Cal., Sept 21. Most k Id na pings are runaways, according ac-cording to officers of the Juvenile bureau bu-reau of tho L9 Angeles police department de-partment in a statement concerning the 1200 cases of missing boys and I girls they handled In the lasl year I ""Barr.ng the nrc cose of abduc-I abduc-I tlon for financial gains or for i -I venge ' a'.l Lieutenant 11 A Mc- 1 Claln. "and tho kldnaplngs which come under the classification of sex crimes, by far the larger number of so-called kidnaping cases under our observation aro fakes "Tho youngsters aren't forced to go; they want to go. Then, when they are found, they tell their parents and the world they were kidnaped, with all the lurid spectacular details they believe will l n ake their stories complete But when we Investigate wo find they stepped i inln the autdmoblls voluntarily, j 'Stories of having b-n kidnaped I were told In connection with the minority mi-nority of the 1200 runaway cases we handled In the last year. I "Whose fault? Tim parents They I make no attempt to understand their I children's problems, are often Indifferent Indif-ferent to their whereabouts and even ojton neglect to discipline their offspring." off-spring." i |