For two days last week, little Mary de Caussin, 6, was ordered by her parents to stay in the family's yard in Detroit's Ecorse suburb. She was being punished for wandering away from home a few days before. Then, in midweek, her mother allowed the child her customary freedom. Mary skipped down the block to play with her friends. At dinnertime Mary's mother was frantic: Mary had disappeared.
By midnight Detroit and the towns for miles around were alive with search parties. Police loudspeakers blared down the streets, calling her name, exhorting families to search their houses for the girl....
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