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Parental abductions increasing "June was just horrendous," said Barbara Snider, case administrator for the Oakvilleâ€"based Child Find Ontario. She said of the 10 registered missing children in June alone, eight were parental abductions. It is this increasing problem of By DIANE HART Special to the Beaver For people in the heartwrenching business of locating abducted children, June was a terrible month. Turner said the government is already working *hand in glove" with police departments about missâ€" ing children and was on hand to demonstrate some of the latest technology involved in locating abducted children. ‘"We have to maintain the confidentiality and the integrity of personal government records. We just can‘t hand them over to the police," he commented. ‘‘For one thing, the Income Tax Act prohibits this (dipping into confidential files). And for another, I don‘t think we should," said Turner to reporters outâ€" side the conference. Child Find Ontario estimates 84% of all missing children are attributed to parental abductors. There were 378 cases of parental abductions versus just 70 stranger abductions last vear. ipping into private confidential governâ€" ment records to locate parental abductors is no way to help the growing problem of missing children, according to federal Revenue Minister Garth Turner. Speaking at the Child Find Ontario conference in Oakville Saturday, the Revenue Minister rejected any suggestion of using confidential records such as income tax records to better locate parental abducâ€" tors. By DIANE HART Special to the Beaver open to locate abductors Contfidential papers not BUSINESS DIPLOMA Executive Secretary Oakville‘s Business School 338â€"6600 WomeEnt‘s Active LureEstver CopEction 184 Lakeshore Rd. E., Oakville 845â€"5582 389 Pearl St., Burlington 639â€"1372 Rockport At the Saturday conference in Oakville group of about 100 in attendance heard a sev. member panel discuss everything from crimi (See ‘Separation . . . * page 14) parental abductions that has the nonâ€"profit charitaâ€" ble organization so keen to make people aware of the widespread problem of parental abduction. "It is, right now, as we look at our 10th anniversary ... the most significant changes have been in the rate of parental abductions," said Snider. "And if we recover just one child, it‘s been cess," he commented to reporters later. More than 200 abducted children have been recovered since the program began seven years ago. As well, the government sponsors a Missing Treasures program and uses the Primary Automated Lookout System (PALS) in all airports. "As a result of Project Return, 3,600 Revenue Canada inspectors are on full alert," he said, adding they also work closely with Child Find Ontario and Operation Go Home. Since the federal program, Project Return was iniâ€" tiated in 1986, many customs official have been trained; computers have been installed which link up with the RCMP, police, international bodies such as Interpol and External Affairs ... all geared to target abductors and runaways. "Inspectors have all the information about that child at their fingertips," said Turner, who says the government believes in "border proofing" kids. He called the problem of missing children "extremely perilous" and said the problem is reachâ€" ing endemic proportions. "We all feel a sense of shared responsibility for any missing child," he said. The handâ€"held data base operated by CD ROM can hold up to 100,000 files of information and is an immediate reference tool for any border inspector who suspects an abduction. Information could be anything from the physical description of the child. ~FOCUS HE OAKV WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1993 a sevenâ€" criminal A SUC & services va 842.â€"2366 Federal revenue minister Garth Turner and Sue | handâ€"held CD ROM computer. with television sc on up to 100,000 missing children. The piece 0 explained at Child Find‘s conference on Saturday berships are ht ary from locati 474 Iroquois Shore Road r and Sue Mole from Customs Canada look at a elevision screen, capable of storing information The piece of equipment was demonstrated and PAGE 13 Hopedale Mall Monda 3CT Saturda *Sund: to by Riziero Vertolli) ak