The remains of Jacob Wetterling, a Minnesota boy abducted from a rural road 27 years ago, have been found, the Stearns County Sheriff's Office said Saturday in a news release. ET]The remains of Jacob Wetterling, a Minnesota boy abducted from a rural road 27 years ago, have been found, his mother told Minneapolis television station KARE in a text on Saturday. The abduction of the 11-year-old boy led to the 1994 Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act, which requires states to maintain sex offender registries and guidelines. We didn't want Jacob's story to end this way," the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, a foundation that provides education on the exploitation of children, said Saturday. Since her son's kidnapping, Patty Wetterling has become an advocate for families of missing children.

Source: CNN September 03, 2016 23:26 UTC