I would like to share with all you mother and soon to be mothers a email that was sent to me. I think it is important for you to read this and pass it on!



Forwarded from a Sam's Club employee . . .

Wanted to share something that happened today while shopping at Sam's
Club.A mother was leaning over looking for meat and turned around to
find her 4yr. old daughter was missing. I was standing there right
beside her, and she was calling her daughter with no luck.

I asked a man who worked at Sam's to announce it over the loud speaker
for Katie. He did, and let me say he immediately walked right past me
when Iasked and went to a pole where there was a phone. He made an
announcement for all the doors and gates to be locked, a code something.

So they locked all the doors at once. This took all of 3 minutes after
I asked the guy to do this. They found the little girl 5 minutes later in
a bathroom stall. Her head was half shaved, and she was dressed in
her underwear with a bag of cloth es, a razor, and wig sitting on the
floor beside her to make her look different.

Whoever this person was, took the little girl, brought her into
the bathroom, shaved half her head, and undressed her in a matter of less
than10 minutes. This makes me shake to no end. Please keep a close eye
on your kids when in big places where it's easy for you to get separated.

It only took a few minutes to do all of that-another 5 minutes and
she would have been out the door. I am still in shock that some sick
person could do this, let alone in a matter of minutes. The days are over
when our little ones could run rampant all over the place and nothing
would happen to them.

The little girl is fine. Thank God for fast workers who didn't take
any chances.

BE SURE TO FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE, SO THEY KNOW JUST HOW SICK PEOPLE
ARE OUT THERE!!! (This happened at the Sam'sWholesale Club in Omaha,
Nebraska.)

This message has be en added to the story above:

I received this e-mail from one of my friends today. Let me first tell
you that I work at the Sam's club in Lincoln, NE.The code that was spoken
of is called a 'Code Adam'. It is named after John Walsh's (host of
Americas Most Wanted) son Adam who was kidnapped and murdered many years
ago. It is used in all Sam's Clubs, Wal-marts, and Wal-mart super centers
to locate lostchildren.

This is how it works. If by some means you have been separated with
your child tell the nearest employee! The employee will page a 'Code
Adam'(missing child in the store) over the intercom system followed by
a description of the child (height, weight, hair color, age, name etc).

When that page goes out all the exits are immediately guarded,
and/or locked in some cases, also every employee will stop whatever they
are doing no matter what it is and help look for the missing child. This
will continue until the child is found.

If the child is not found within a reasonable time then the police
are notified and the store will conduct an isle by isle search. So if
ever you are separated from your child now you know what to do.

Missing children pictures hang by the exits of all Wal-martand Sam's
Club stores, please take a few minutes to look these over as you leave,
you just might have seen one of the children on them and you might be the
one to give their parents hope and give the police a new lead in finding
them.

Thank you.

Sincerely, Rudy Magee Sam's Club #6413

Even if you do not have little kids, pass this one on to everyone
you can think of. You never know who you might save by sending this email!

Please take the time and forward this to any friend who has children
& grandchildren!

Sorry that this is so long

thats scary for me to think about & i dont even have children! that makes me shiver especially as with 6 growing kids in our house we spend a lot of time at Wal-mart Sams club & Costco but i can say that my mother has never EVER taken a chance anytime one of use even me (the 14 year old) or my 16 year old brother are really allowed off in those stores by ourselfs unless we have our cell phones & she sends us to get something for her & if we arent back in as long as she thinks we should have taken she calls us so she never takes chances i always thought especially with me & my older brother she was being a little overprotective but seeing this i can gurantee to you ill be keeping a closer eye on my little siblings

i have had to call code adam at wal-mart. i was 9 months pregnant and had my 3 year old with me, she thought it was a game to run from me because i couldnt run that fast. she took off i couldnt catch her. so i had the nearest employee call code adam. they found her in less than 5 minutes. that was the worst 5 minutes of my life. a million 'what if's' went through my head. she had run all the way to the other corner of the store. she was fine, and boy did she get in trouble for that. im so relieved that she was safe and okay, but i couldnt help thinking what if. this walmart is in the process of being converted to a supercenter, so i havent been back without another adult since. and she is not allowed to be out of the cart anymore.

keep your kids close, and if you know you cant keep up with them, put them on a leash.

poor child and family. thats a horrible thing to happen and i cant believe people do that.