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Rebecca Peterson wants her children to be safe.
So on Saturday, she took two of her children, Joey, 15, and Katie, 11, to Missouri Child Identification Program (MoChip), hosted by Wheaton’s Masonic Comfort Lodge 533.
This was her first time to participate in the program, which was held at Wheaton High School.
“With all of the crime and everything in this day and time, I think that it is important, should one of the kids be taken or something, to be able to have the information to help the police be able to find them,” Peterson said.
More than 30 children were processed with MoChip. The program consists of five major components: digital photographs, digital fingerprints, child information and emergency contacts, dental bite impressions and two laminated ID cards.
After the children went through the process – which only took about 15 minutes – the parents were given the information, which was put on a CD, where they could put it into a safe spot.
“Hopefully, I would never have to use it,” Peterson said. “(It will) be put up and never used, but just in case, I would like to have it.”
Peterson said she plans on updating the information probably every other year.
“It would be important as the kids get bigger and older to update it,” she added.
According to statistics, nearly 2,000 children are reported missing or abducted each day in the United States.
Peterson said it is a great tool and she has also encouraged others to take their children to the MoChip event.
“I have been encouraging others to do this, because I think it is such an important thing with all of the crime and crimes against children, I think that it is important that every parent should have this for their kids,” she said.
Rebecca Peterson wants her children to be safe.
So on Saturday, she took two of her children, Joey, 15, and Katie, 11, to Missouri Child Identification Program (MoChip), hosted by Wheaton’s Masonic Comfort Lodge 533.
This was her first time to participate in the program, which was held at Wheaton High School.
“With all of the crime and everything in this day and time, I think that it is important, should one of the kids be taken or something, to be able to have the information to help the police be able to find them,” Peterson said.
More than 30 children were processed with MoChip. The program consists of five major components: digital photographs, digital fingerprints, child information and emergency contacts, dental bite impressions and two laminated ID cards.
After the children went through the process – which only took about 15 minutes – the parents were given the information, which was put on a CD, where they could put it into a safe spot.
“Hopefully, I would never have to use it,” Peterson said. “(It will) be put up and never used, but just in case, I would like to have it.”
Peterson said she plans on updating the information probably every other year.
“It would be important as the kids get bigger and older to update it,” she added.
According to statistics, nearly 2,000 children are reported missing or abducted each day in the United States.
Peterson said it is a great tool and she has also encouraged others to take their children to the MoChip event.
“I have been encouraging others to do this, because I think it is such an important thing with all of the crime and crimes against children, I think that it is important that every parent should have this for their kids,” she said.
