Missing Children

      Have you ever wondered how many children go missing each year? or even how many children get abducted each year? well did you know every 40 seconds, a child goes missing or is abducted in the United States, and approximately 840,000 children yearly are reported missing and the F.B.I. estimates between 85% through 90% of these children? While most reports of missing and/or abducted children are resolved in hours, many involve situations where a child goes missing permanently or for an extended period of time.

     Family kidnappings make up half of all reported abductions in the U.S. and family abductions re usually committed by parents and it involves a significant amount of female perpetrators when compared to other kidnapping offenses, often happening in the midst of divorce and custody battles between parents.

     When it comes to abductions most of them often occur in the street while a child is playing, riding bikes, or walking. according to research and experience from https://findthekids.org

     “Out of the half a million children that go missing every year in the United States, nearly all of them are found. That's 97.8% So, half a million children go missing, but nearly all of them are also found, but just because they're found doesn't necessarily mean everything will be alright according to nypost.com “Anywhere from 89 percent to 92 percent of those missing people are recovered every year, either alive or deceased.

 

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