A wave of kidnappings, forced conversions and forced marriages of young Christian girls in Egypt has Christian families living in fear. The missing girls were ‘probably taken to be forcefully married and converted to Islam.’ Among those missing is Amal Shaky, 19, kidnapped on her way to Cairo University. When she did not come home or answer her phone they searched the campus. No one had seen her. Shaky's family went to the police, who suggested her father had killed his daughter and thrown away the body. After harassing the father, the officer refused to file a report and asked for a few hours to investigate the matter. More than forty days have passed since she was kidnapped, and ‘the matter is ‘under investigation’. The most recent figures available reveal that from 2011 to 2014 there were 72 cases of kidnappings, extortion and related violence against Coptic Christians.