On Jan. 12, 1996, 9 year old Amber Hagerman was abducted riding her bike in her Grandmother small Texas town. Amber is just a faded news story in most parts of this country; the Amber alert program was named after her. Jessica Lunsford was 9 years old when she was abducted from her own home in central Florida. The authorities found her body in a neighbor's yard. She was held captive in a closet raped and buried alive. When they unearthed her body she was clutching a stuffed purple dolphin her daddy won for her just days earlier at the county fair. 12 year old Polly Klaas was having a sleep over at her house with her 3 best friends. The girls were giggling and playing a board game called Perfect Match when Polly decided it was time to fetch her friends' sleeping bags from the living room. She opened the bedroom door and saw a heavily muscled middle-aged man who was a complete stranger. He was holding a knife and he immediately ordered, "Don't scream or I'll cut your throats " That was the last that anyone ever saw Polly alive again. 3 little girls whose lives where cut short by the monsters of this world. We will look at each case and examine the facts to get a better understanding on how these monsters operate. We will also learn about ways to protect your own children and those children around you from the monsters of our society. If you never read one book for yourself in your entire life, then read this one for your children's life.