On September 5, 1982, Noreen Gosch's son Johnny was delivering his Des Moines Register Sunday edition paper, when two men approached him. He was thrown into a vehicle and kidnapped. To find her son, Noreen has fought a long hard battle, and with the help of many others, has helped make the world a safer place for children. Noreen founded The Johnny Gosch Foundation, a month after the kidnapping and developed a program called In Defense of Children. She has presented more than seven hundred speeches all over the United States, reaching thousands of people. She wrote the Johnny Gosch Bill which was passed into law in Iowa on July 1, 1984.