Look at California's abducted children as adults

September 2, 12:42 AMSF Family ExaminerTeri Stoddard

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With the recovery of Jaycee Lee Dugard last week, after 18 years in the clutches of kidnapper rapist Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy, one has to wonder if the rest of California's non-parentally abducted children are walking among us, interacting just as casually as Dugard did while assisting Garrido's printing customers.  See Jaycee-Lee-Dugard for updates.

Anna Waters (photo one) went missing from her backyard in Half Moon Bay in 1973.  Her mother Michaele Benedict keeps positive after all these years.  "I feel it is my duty to keep on looking for as long as I can, given the facts (or non-facts, I should say) that we have. This is not a single-minded obsession; I have two other children and five grandchildren and my life has gone on, but of course the question of what happened to Anna remains our great mystery."  Benedict describes Anna's personality at 5-years-old as "generous, funny, artistic, kind and sometimes temperamental."

Take a good look at the following photos.  These are people who as children 13-years-old or younger were abducted or most likely abducted in California by strangers.  This list includes an infant boy, and a few children as young as three.  These people may not even know they were abducted.

Click each photo to go to their individual poster at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

Missing 6-yr-old 12/20/80, birthmark on right hip

Missing 5-yr-old 1/16/73, mole on cheek

5-yr-old, 4/27/74, mole on left back, cleft chin

Missing 3-yr-old, 11/2/85, birthmark on left knee

Abducted 2-month-old, 12/20/84, now 24

4-yr-old, 2/3/83, scars: nose, rib, lazy rt eyelid

Missing 7-yr-old, 6/3/88, poor hearing, now 29

Missing 11-yr-old, 9/5/77, now 43

Missing 4-yr-old, 12/27/91, now 22

Missing 13-yr-old, 1/3/1989, 5'3", now 34

Missing 7-yr-old, 12/13/86, now 30-yr-old

10-yr-old, 2/10/84, scar on tongue, now 35

Abducted at 9, 11/19/88, now 30, suspect pimpled

Missing 12-yr-old, 12/2/93, now 27, thumb tattoo

Kidnapped @ house fire at 3, 7/20/77, now 35

Kidnapped for ransom at 3, 8/23/84, now 28