Enabling lock screen on 'find my iPhone' to disable turning it off.

I have noticed that when you do a remote lock on an iPhone from the 'find my iPhone' app, it does not disable the phone from being turned off; completely making the app useless.  If I lose my phone and someone snatches it, they just need to turn it off and they are home free (while they jailbrake it, or whatever).  There needs to be a way that when 'find my iPhone' is enabled to request the phone to go into an emergency mode that disables use (remote lock) and disables the phone from being turned off.  If anyone knows a way to accomplish please let me know so I can activate this on my daughters phone (we had a scare a couple days ago, but it turned out to be in her locker : )).  Thanks.

Hello, Zane.
Thank you for the question.  You may need to place your device into recovery mode and process a restore as new.  Below, I have included and article that will walk you through this process.  Before you process the restore make sure to back up all media. 
iOS: How to back up
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766
iOS: Unable to update or restore
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
If you are still experiencing the issue after processing the restore as new, see the article below. 
iPhone: Hardware troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2802
Cheers,
Jason H. 

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