Missing and Exploited Children Site
	Erika Lyn Smith BellaOnline's Missing and Exploited Children Editor

Samuel Burnett Sentenced Sixty Years
Circuit Judge Melvyn Wiesman asked the now 8 year old on September 25 to think about what she felt would be appropriate for her attacker to receive as punishment, and to write him a letter. She did. She asked, “That he go away for 60 years…because when he gets out he won´t hurt any other person.”

The Disappearance of Shawn Hornbeck Leads to the Shawn Hornbeck Foundation
Shawn Damian Hornbeck should have been home by five. When he was not home by six his family went looking for him, and at eight Pam called the police. On that Sunday afternoon October 6, 2002, it seemed as if he disappeared without a trace.