The National Agency for Abducted Children in Sierra Leone is a non-profit community organization whose mission is to help find missing children, reduce child sexually exploited, and prevent child victimization. Since 2015 National Agency for Abducted Children in Sierra Leone (N. S/L) was formed to served as the national clearinghouse and resource center for families, victims, private organizations
, law enforcement and the public on issues relating to missing and sexually exploited children. There are many measures that have been enacted since 1991 when the Sierra Leone civil war began, to assist in the search for missing children and provision of services to exploited and at-risk children. The taking and holding of an individual against his or her will, for profit or illegal purpose, has always been viewed by society as a most serious crime deserving the harshest penalty. State criminal laws, from the beginning, have included statutes prohibiting kidnapping and nonfamily abduction. The national Government, in reaction to the country’s outrage over the infamous infant adoption just after the war in 2002, enacted the federal Abduction Act in 2010.
