The town I came from didn't have any significant crimes against kids. A few were abused by their own parents and one was sexually assaulted by a relative. By and large though, it was a pretty vanilla town where "family values" actually meant something more than a political meme. People valued family, including their neighborhoods, the schools, the kids. A handful of kids were rotten to the core and we felt bad for the parents. That's pretty standard in most suburbs though. We had no one go missing, there were two murder incidents in a 30-year span (one was murder-suicide of his own family, the other was a guy who shot and killed the bartender after some kind of previous argument). A couple of months where there were house burglaries and car break-ins, but they caught the guys who were doing it and that stopped.
It's a great town. An idyllic New England suburb.
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