National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a private and nonprofit organization. United States Congress established the organization in mid-June 1984. The chairperson of this organization is the child safety advocate Patty Wetterling, the mother of Jacob Wetterling, an eleven-year-old-boy who was murdered in Minnesota in October 1989. The NCMEC handle cases of missing or exploited children between when they're babies and young adulthood through age 20.