One For The Good Guys

One For The Good Guys - They found Elizabeth Smart. Alive.

I'm stunned. While they say that most kids who are abducted are eventually returned relatively safely, and last summer's "epidemic of stranger abductions" was largely a media creation (stranger abduction is actually the statistical wane), I also remember icy ball that formed in the pit of my stomach last summer when Danielle Van Dam and Samantha Runnion were kidnapped and murdered at the same time as Smart's abduction.

So her return today - safe and relatively sound - struck me as a major miracle, even though objectively speaking it's more the rule than the exception; a fact that I"m sure means nothing to the parents involved.

They say people that kidnap and/or molest children have a particularly bad time in prison. Shucks.